New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-08-15

UoAAOt UVA n NOW 4VE3s AA0 SSSS9e ~
publican majority in the State was over
come BY . ftsudulent majority in New
York city. How IL was prepared and nan
aged is shown BY tie following copy Of Mr..
Tilden's fanoas circalAr: ssae .oH
[Priyste and strictly conhdentsl,l
aa s0o.s o. D'4'c,A1'' SctossS estos = 'ssa
M DEAR S1R-Please at once to commu-
nicate with some reliable person, IN three
OF four principal towns and in each city Of
your comfy, and request him (expepses
duly arrsn ged for this endl TO telegraph to
william NJ. Tweedy TAmmany HsIl, 1t the
minute Of closing the polls. not waiting for
the count, each persOn's estimats OF the
vote. tEs ~.
Let the telegraph be q follows:
This town will show . Democratic gain
Tor lose) over last year Of tnumber); or this
ONE if sufficiently certain: This town will
give Republican Tor Democrstic) major.
ity of -.
There il, Of course. an important object
to be attained by simultaneous transmits
sion ct the hour Of closing tho polls, but no
Of Ire usual half .honr iuil in the telegraphic
communications over lines before actual
results begin to be declared. and before the
Ass0cisted Press absOrbs the telegraph
with returns ana interf. res with indi
vidual messages, and give orders to watch
carefully the count. - 80
SAMUEL j. T1lDEN, Chairman.
O. MR.. aREELEY's OPINION OF TILDEN.
The following extract from . letter of
Horace Greeley, the candidate Of the De-
mocracy in, 1872, to Mr.. Tilden, the can
didate of the Same bsrty in 1876, is chsrac-
tsrized BY the Louisville Coarier-Journal -
. squib from . foolish letter: fE X
To saEuel J. TNdsp, Chairman Democratic State
sn-Yoa and / ~ growing old. We
came here young from the country, and
have lived and struggled side By eide iof
ssds:tly in many politicai struggles, aiwsys
on different sides. y" On one
very important point, however, your bitter
ness e. apartisaa Nas impelled you to ignore
end come short Of your duties - citizen
and profeosed upholder Of governneent BY
the people, and for this declaration i here
arraign you. I ailude 70 tho preservation
Of the purity of thu ballot box.
/ can imagine how . mnn nsy shut hie
eyes to many things which he deems it con-
venieat not 70 know: hut l must speak Of
what you must know, however you may
wish Or beek to be ignorant Of it, The
matter to which call your sttentlon 10
vital to the very existence of free, popular
government. Whenever it shall be geneEs
ally understood that the results Of eloc.
tiOns are not determined by the ballots OF
legal voters, bat by frauds in voting or
frauds in counting, then the event of
avowed unequiyocal desp0tism must be
near Ut hands Between the rule Of an en-
per0r and the rule OF . clique OF ballot box
suffers, every intelGgent man must prefer
the former - less rapaci0as and more re.
sponsible. When honest citizens shall
avoid the polls, asking, "What is the
fxed;" the days Of the republic will be num-
bered. Between rulerswho prohibits vo-
ting altogether and the gang who make it
sham BY filing the ball0tboxes with ille-
gal votes, or misc0unting those actually
cast, the sway Of the former is every way
preferable. You hold .
counsels Of Q great party. You could make
that party content with polling legal votes
if you only would. In our late Constitu-
tionsl Convention ] tried to erect some
fresh barriers against election frauds. Did
you3 The very little that was enabled to
effect in this direction shall have ratified
by tho people ut our ensuing election. Will
yOus Mr. Tlden, you can not escape res
possibility by saying, with the guilty
Macbeth:
Those CORY Jocks at me-"
For you were 1t least passive accomplice
in the giant frauds of last November.
Your nsme was used, without public pro-
test ON your part, in circulars sowed broad
cast over the State, whereof the manifest
intent was to make assurance dOubly
sure" that the frauds here perpetrated
should not be overborne by the honest vote
OF the rural districts And you, not merely
covered those frauds with the mantle OF
your responsibility.
On tho principle that ''the receiver il -
bad - the thi6f," you arc - deeply impli-
cated in them to-day - though your name
wss Tweed, OBrien, Or Oakley Hall.
Mr.. Nlden, you and were ardent psrtici-
pante in the struggle Of lS40, wherein Mar
tin Van Buren was ousted from the Presl-
dency by General Harrison. You know how
thOr0ughly absorbed our city was in that
contest, wherein every man, woman ana
child took . deep and lively interest. Our
elections were then held throughout three
days. There was q registration freshly en-
acted which blacklegs had not yet learned
to cifcumvent, the right Of suffrage was as
| widely diffused as it now is, and no one ever
complained that single legal voter was I'M
able then to poll his vote. And, though
our city has largely increased its popoula-
tion, the lower wards were quite as popu-
lous then as they are to'Gay-several OF
| them more 90. They were full Of boarding
| houses crowded with clerks and mechanics;
many Of these covered sites since given up
to great warehouses and manufactures;
their denizens have since moved up town,
over to Brooklyn, or out on some of the
railroads that lead into the open country.
Practically the lower wards arebe1ng gften
up to commerce, and no longer shelter by
night the multitudes who thronged their
streets by day.
Now look at the vote of four of these
wards in 1910 and 1868, respectively: