, 1876-04-25


cAuLF1ELDs MARES NEST.
Now TINT tho evidence begins to como ont
in tho matter of tho corruption in which
BARNEY CAu1r1ELp recently captured tho
President, md which he has spread abroad
with so much circumstantia1ity aud oxaggera-
tion through the Democratic newspapers, tho
real merits Of tho matter appear and show
tl,at it hinges upon tho fact that Repub-
licau Administration rucarthed the most
atsocious corruptions tho country has ever
ktpwn.
Glo story Of tho corruption may bo briefly
told, and will bo of interest. In 1868, Presi-
dent GRANT was in the very height Of ha
popularity, md tho Republican party moro
powerful than it Ind ever boon before. It
had conlmendcd itself to the whole country
by its suppression Of the Rebellion, by ita
work OF reconstruction, and by tho passage
Of the constitutional amendments, md yet,
to tho utter astonishment of tho nation,
GRANT was defeated in Now York
by $4,000 majority. The country districts
haa given him the overwhelming minority of
so, ,00O, enough to overcome SEYnoun's ma
jority in New York City, if there had been
m honest vote, including Brooklyn also with
its majority Of 13,o00 and yet it was mot in
tho city with n Democratic majority of
81 600, thus giving tho election to SEYMOUR,
although the Republicans had cast tho largest
vote TINT had ever before boon given for
my of their candidates. It became apparent
to Congress that GRANT Lad carried tho State
by thirty or forty thousand majority m d,
,x&Hr ~ Ia ft,,kSr
passed q Inv TO prevent ballot-box stut1ing
and fraudulent voting BY appointing Deputy
h1azshals to supervise the voting in oil lnrge
! cities where they might bo sent. Tha law
| wns framed in tho interests Of honesty IN d
! the purity Of elections, and against revoln-
ton, FOR ballot-bo1 stufang is as clearly
| revolutionary 0s coup d6h1t. Tho
object of tho law, therefore, was good, aud
the expenditures uudor it were warranted
aud lawful. In carrying ont tic provisions
Of the law in New York City, on Supervisor
DAyEspoHr's methods, during tile years from
| 1871 to 1871, there wero expended at the
highest estimate $50, 900, SO that the Treas-
ury WIZ; drained by these dreadful conspirators
y tho rate Of 50, 75o n year! This is tho
wholo Bum u1ltl substance Of tho mares nest
which BARNEY CAuLI1ELp las discovered,
and about which ,o is making such hull
labaloo This ia the ntrociouS infamy Of
which the Now York World says, iu burst
of pnthos anl boah:
Tho must melancholy which ii has fallen
to our lot lny befors ths ulc hardly excepting
assassination 0f President LINCOLN. Is that which
publish this norntn rectfng the political snd moral
suicide Of preuidcnt GRANT. Not bELKNAr's i
crime ensslops tho Administration and tie Isapub-
lican party In 30 hlack an lutan1y.
4 few mora election figures will throw nd.
ditional light upon this matter. at the next
election Mr.. kEnsAN, now United Status
Senator, null one OF tho 1uost popular met
iu Now York, rnu for Govcrnor on the Demo-
cratic ticket ngainsi Gen. Dtx. KEENAN, 70.
!, ceivul 77.9l5 votes, nnd DIX 5G.2'O; maiori
ty for HERMAN, 3l,aa225. This WIS tho ut
1noHt the Democracy could do, with the
strongest and most popular mau in tho StAtt
OIL their ticket. -Four years before, the Dam
ocrats l,al returned los,3lG votes, to 1888!
for tic Republicans. Thu comparison show
tint in four ycArs, notwithstanding til
natural increase Of the voting population
, tho Democratic voto Ind shrunk from 108, 81
to 77,3l5, or 80. .fOl votcs, which IL juat tl
number of fraudulent votes that were stoppe<
by tho law. The Nopublican vote in tsos
4 four yeats meanwhile increased from 47.S3
, to 5G,2a0, showing natnral and health
. purity growth. The whole cost Ut stop
ping this atrocious swindlu WAS not muc
II over u cent? yotu. It WINS triilin
D amount, hut it WIS eGectunl, md tue DENT
d crats have not recovered thoir majority {
d ba]lotbox stutfing days, since, Mt tho elccslo
: Inst full, tho united Democratic and Libcr
i. vote for D1oELow WIS only 79.274, again
49,Gl4 for SEWARD, Republican. They In
the united vote Of all tho factions. Ta,nsnan,
d nnti-Tammany. and Liberal, and yot failed
u poll ono-Aalf tho voto that WIS cast for SE
ii MouR. DAyxAronrs work OF registration t
or blocks, as explained il his testimony priutt
ss in The Tribune Ut yesterday, struck fat
:, blow at the TwE1D Hing. which. after stea
Ii ing tho property Of tho city, then deliberate
g. stolo tho vote. The TWEED Ring haye be.
J. compelled to deliver up thu stolen propert
10 They hive also been compelled To t.isgorf
II, tue vote, aud this is Just wheru the sht
ID pinches nAAsEY CauLs1E,.p, his Co,n,n!tte
y, Tho New York World, uud tho Ds,noc1a
or generally.
al It il the occasion Of a second very J;s1r
II ind lugubrious vail that tAis money v