The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1876-07-21
SHAM REFORmER rnLDEN
GreeIey's Letter of E1POsdRI0-
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| O60n IoIOrLners 1HaL IL 10 say IN
has always been hard at work at.
tempting to reform the Democratic
party into power, and he never hest
tated as to the means he employed
In 1868 he was chairman of the New
York State Democratic committee, and
as great reformer he issued the fol.
lowing circular, which was sent out
on the eve off the election:
Private and strickIy CONFIDENTIAL
Rooms OF DEMOCRATIC STATE CON-
| October q, 1858.
"AiY DEAR SIR-Please at once to
communicate with some reliable per-
son, in three or four principal tOWns
and in each city of your county, and
request him Expenses duly arranged
for at this end) to telegraph to William
NJ. Tweed, Tammany Hall, at the
minute of closing the polls, not wait
for the count, such persons estimate
of the vote.
"Let the telegraph be as follows:
"This town will show q Democratic
gain Cor lOss) over last year of (num-
ber) or this one if sufficiently GER
tain: This town will give Republic
can Cor Democratic) majority Of
There is, of course, an important
object to be attained by simulta-
neOus transmission at the hour of clos
ing the polls, but not longer waiting
Opportunity can be taken of the usual
half hour lull in the telegraghic COM
munications oyer lines before actual
results begin to be declared and be-
fore the Associated Press absorb the
telegraph with returns and interior
faro VAyif airif
give orders to watch carefully the
count. Very truly yours,
SAMUEL j. TITDEN, Chr'm,"
The important object to be attain
ed" was to add enough votes In the
city ballot boxes to counterfeit adj
verse majorities in the country. That
this was done United States Senator
CoRkling atterward said. was an 'Open
secret" In a public speech, the sena-
tor alleged that ''thirty thousand
fraudulent votes were falsely added to
the count in New York and Brooklyn
alone," and that the Tilden and Tweed
candidates for governor held that of
flee by being "counted in" He ought
to have said "by being reformed in"
In 1869 Horace Greeley pu blished
the following letter, which needs no
explanation:
LETTER TO A POLITICIAN.
''To Samuel j; 7TLien. Chairman Democratic
State COMMITTEES:
Sir-You hold a most responsible
and influential position in the cOun-
ellis of a greG party. You could make
that party content itself with the poll
ing of legal votes if you only would
In our late constitutional convention !
tried to erect some fresh barriers
against election frauds did you? Tbs
very little that was enabled to effec
in this direction 1 shall try to have
ratified by the people at our ensuing
iAg election. VIII you?
Mr.. Tilden, you cannot escape re
sponsibility by saying, with the guilty
Macbeth:
''Thou canst not say did it; never shak'
Thy CORY locks at meP'
for you were, at least, q passive &C.
complete in the gigantic frauds of las
November. Your name was used
without public protest on your part
in circulars sOwn broadcast over the
State, whereof the manifest intent was
to make assurance doubly sure tina
the frauds here perpetrated should no
be overborne by the honest vote of the
rural districts. And you, not merely
by silence, but by positive assumption
have covered these frauds with the
mantle of your respectability. On
the principle that the receiver is as
bad as the thief you are as deeply
implicated in them to-day as were
Tweed, O'Brien and Oakley Hall.
And though our city has since large
ly increased its population, the lower
wards were quite as populOus, then
(1S4O) as they are to-day, several OF
ssNow, look at the vote of four OF
these wards in 1910, and 1868, respec-
lively:
Four G5e:idsRf bssi G0 ESD isSs
Van Burens maJerlGy, 726; HofE-
mans majority, 17,443.
"Mr. 1ilden, you know what this
contrast attests. Right well do you
comprehend the means whereby the
vote of 1868 was thus swelied out OF
proportions. There are not 1900
legal voters living in those wards to
day, though they gave Hoffman IT,
443 majority. Had the day been of av-
erage length, it would have been
swelled to at least 10000. There was
nothing but time needed to make 1OO,-
900, if so many had been wanted and
paid for. Now Mr.. Tilden, call on
you to put stop to this business.
You have but to walk into the sheriffs,
the mayors and the supervisors Off
ces in the city hall park, and say that
there must be no more of it; say il so
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it so that there shall be no doubt that
you mean it, and we shall have a toler-
ably fair election once more.
"Will you do it? If we Republicans
are swindled again as we were swiadled
last tall, you and such as you win be- re-
sponsible to God and man for the out
rage. "Yours, HORACE GREELEY.
NEW YORK, Oct. 20, 1862"
The reform movement inaugurated
by Samuel j. Tilden and Boss Tweed
swindled the Republican party out OF
the electoral vote of New York. and
Reformed in" q Democratic COVER
nor. If Tilden had not been q Ere
former the Republicans would have
carried New York.
~ 10 OOhoCAluS " AACRuOAaCouS W 10.
member that since that time congress
has passed law providing for q sup
eryision of the ballet box in presiden-
tial elections and that Little Johnny
Davenport has worked the matter
down to so fine point in New York
that such t'Reform'' measures as thai
so successfully pushed by Samuel J
Tilden and VIM. II. Tweed, in 1863
are no longer possible. In 1879 New
York went Republican by 8 majority
of s., 455. Tilden and Tweed had ere.
formed inn a Democratic majority Of
even 10000 in 1868. Again, il
1874, the national law not being
in force in state elections, Tilder
alone was a candidate for Governor,
and, of course, as general manager,
reformed I'M a majority of 5O,317.
In the coming presidential election
the Tilden-Tweed style or reform il
ballot-box stuffing will be interferet
with by the United States law. There
| fore we exDect the RaDuhlicana 4.