The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1876-08-18


wrest Pennsylvania from its Republican
majority by similar frauds and yillainy !;
and at the October election. tof 1863 at the
command of Tweed 6 Co., New York was
emptied Of its blacklegs, repeaters, ruff
ans. rouglls. and thieves en- route TO PENN
sylvania. where, aided by similar s.vil-
lainso from Baltimore, they piled their
devilish yocations. Says Phihdelphia
dispatch to the Tribune: ..1'Ilea election
yesterday was more like conflict i'm the
field of battle!'' Says the Tribune of Oc-
tober ID, 1868:
''Coul1 not our Philadelphia friends con-
trive to have an election every day In the
week and every week in the year? We do
not know how they might relish it, but we
know how we should. Nobody 9cas robbed
yesterday in Neac York: nobody acds assault-
ed ; ao60dy had has pocket picked The no.
lice had iittle or aaotttnq to do. The police
courts ,re1e idle. Ii might be pretty rough
on Philadelphia, but we should like to
make a permanent transfer of those inter-
esting clasSes Democratic reformers1 of
our population who OH yesterday helped to
give variety, it not attr,ctiveness. to their
election. Don't send them back to-day,
and you love u.s.
nISs " HAT WIS " DC from
men who employed such agents and agen-
cies? Nevertheless. Mr.. Greeley labored
earnestly TO defeat the conspirators-to
eircumvent their ''villainy.' Again and
again he renewed his demands, his appeals
for fair election, for the freedom aud
purity of the ballot-box. In the Tribune
of October 90, 1868, he urges:
The greatest calamity that could beflll
this country would be the election OF ITo-
ratio Seymour. Next to that would be
the election of John Il. Hoffman. The
triumph OF Hoffman means the transfer To
Albany of the worst ring OF political
thieves that ever preyed npon a people:
the election to the Governors chair of Il
man who is the creature of Tammanr
Hall; the surrender of this great State to
the most degrading Influences The CITY
of New York is the worst governed city in
the country. Eagabonds administer ius-
ice !; rowdies are among its members to
Congress ignorant and greedy iobbers are
It's representatives III the City Councils and
the State Legislature and this great city
with its wealth. its majesty, its renowIl,
ITS vast resources. its royal strength and
beauty. its ever growing enterprise, and its
sublimelv magnificent fIltlIre-this metrnp-
oils of the Western World is now leased
ont to knaves and adventurers like to a
GCiIC4lGiE Ut pGIltiI2 Inc election
OF Hoffman means the extension of this
shameful misrllle-the election of Girls
"oid an earnest attempt to destroy 1t -
But all in vain Mr.. Greelpy's expos
ures and appeals were alike treated with
the contempt born of long impunity in
crime. Hoffman. on the day of election,
in mere british defiance, issued a procIa-
nation, asserting that the cry of fr1nd was
a blind of the Republicans, and offered a
reward for its detection. The election was
held, stupendeons frauds of every vile
character were boldly perpetrated, and
through them the State was counted for
Seymour and Hoffman. TO make '.assur-
ance doubiy sure i'll order 70 stuff the
ballot-boAes intelligently in other words,
in order to ascertain with accuracy the
precise number of fraudulent votes neces-
sary to destroy the Republican majority in
the State. the following circular over Til |
den's signature was a few days before the |
election secretly circulated among the con- |
spiritors throughout the State:
tPrivate and strictly confidential
Rooms OF DEMOCRATIC STATE CON-
MITTEE. October 27, 1868. |
MY DEAR SIR Please at once to COM |
municate with some reliable person, in |
three or four principal towns and in each |
city OF your county. and request him lex
penseS duly arranged for at this en,ll to |
telegraph to WIN. NJ. Tweed. Tammany |
Hall. at tile minute of closing the polls not |
waiting for the count, such PERSONS esti- |
mate of the vote. Let the telegraph be as !
follows |
This town will show Democratic gain |
Tor IOSSl list 1f (t1r., h..,- |
this one is sufficiently certain: This town |
VIII give Republican tor Democraticl |
majority of-.''
There is. Of course, an important obiec, to |
TO be attained By simultaneous trdsasnltssfoa
at the ho1a. of closing the polls, but mt Ion0e.
tcatttng. Opportunity can be taken OF the |
usual balt-hour lull in the telegra phic com |
over lines before actual results |
begin to be declared. and before the Asso- |
ciated Press absorb the telegraph with re- /
turns and interfere with individual mes |
sages. and give orders to watch carefully |
the count.
Very truly. Yours, |
SAMUEL J. TILDEN, Chairman
Thus over thirty thousand bogns votes
were fraudulently counted for Seymour and
Hoffman. Grant and Griswold who had
clear majority of twenty thousand OF the
legal votes cast, were cheated out of the
State, and fraudulent majority of near
ten thousand proclaimed for Seymour.
"A cloud of Witnesses - ssmountait.s of
testimony" before the Congressional COM
nittee whichlnyestigated the frauds demon
'trate this. And thus, through the agency OF
Fiitien, the frauds of Tweed & Co., was
transferred to Albany the worst ring of
political thieves that ever preyed upon a
people c''-''tle State surrendered to The
most degrading influences 20
Such result was disheartening-the
triumph of systematic perjury and fraud
he prostration, through gigantic villainy,
of an intelligent and patriotic majority at
,he feet Of rascally minority-ignorant,
corrupt, vicious, and traitorous. But Mr..
3reeiey, indefatigable and ever earnest in
lis laboFs for the publication of the ballot
box. for its rescue from pollution by Til
len and Tweed's ''stuffing'' and s.repeat-
ng" ruffians, addressed, at the following
election in the fall of 1890 two oy1sa,, - nj