New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1876-11-03

fraudulent voting that was contemplated there.
Nothing else has been much talked about by the
Republicans nothing else, / believe, has had an
equal effect in stirring up the indignation OF the
great mass of honest voters 1t some days after
attention had been called to the facts, and even
after the first exposures made before the people
began fully to realize what gigantic frauds in the
vote of New-York this year might mean, but as the
conviction spread among them that it was impossi-
bic III this way for the popular will, legally
expressed, to be made Intellectual it made
them angrier than any waving of the bloody shirt
has done. In my conversations with Republicans,
since the danger that they might be cheated out of
fairly earned victory by frauds i'll New-lork be-
came apparent, think have seen more of that de-
termined spirit which was manifested in the North
when Sumter fired upon than at any previous
time since the close of the war; certainly since the
adoption of the constitutional amendments. No
body has seemed to know just what was to be done
in such an event. but there has been a general,
deep-seated feeling that the people ought not and
would not submit to anything of the kind.
The reports received during the past day or two
of the measures taken by the United States Com
missioner to detect frauds and prevent illegal voting
in the city has had the effect to reassure the Re-
publicans of the country districts, but the scare
which they have had has certainly been beneficial
crease in the Republican vote throughout the State
than there are fraudulent votes cast and counted In
New-York | shall be greatly disappointed.
heard to-day. from Democratic source. new
explanation and, indeed, almost the only explana-
ton from similar quarter, of the increased regis
tratiOn. Nv informant said that the Repubhcans
here thought that much of the increase referred to
was due to the registration of business men who
usually neglect TO vote and that they therefore,
would secure on election day larger proportion
than usual of the gains thus indicated. This, he
thought was a mistake The increase, he said, was
mostly due to the general registration of mem
bers of labor unions and similar organizations OF
unskilled workmen. Those who compose these
societies he added, naturally support the Demo
cratic ticket, but in former years there have been
thousands of them who have never registered or
voted This year every one of these organizations
has been looked after and the name Of almost every
legally qualified voter in them has been entered on
the poll-books l simply repeat this as one OF the
stories originating in Ncw-lork, suppose, 10y which
the Democrats explain the large registration.
heard today from two sources of what looks like
an attempt to cOlonze illegal voters in some OF the
villages and smaller cities of the interior of the
State. In one case five tTamps have appeared III
small village within few days, and although they
appear to be very destitute and without visible
means of support, they have taken up their abode
In clearinghouse and act as though they in
tended TO remain for the present As there are still
two days of registration in the interior cities and
towns. it is conectured by Republicans that their
mission is to register and vote for Tilden. Some
Republicans also have suspicion that the Demo
cratic managers in NewYork, having been prevented
from using the majority of their repeaters and illegal
voters there have sent them out into the country in
small squads, hoping that in this way they may be
more successful 4. I.W