The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-10-24
The New York Constitutional Amend
ments-YieWs of Citizen SchWah.

New YoRR, Oct. 13.-It was stated in some of
she m2rnlng % napepf rs tn tha citizen Juseo sehWab
the United states had presented hims If at the
meeting Of ,eitizsns held at Steinway Hall at
night with his beard dyed dark color and
Mr.. schwab was interviewed this afternoon at
his saloon on First street, where he was Oand
behind the bar walking the fl Dor in a meditatise
mo d.
He stated that he attended the meeting.
but was moi. disguised. He denies that h. went
np. We went there, said he, for the purpose Of
having 2 hearing. We, " re forbidden to. circa-
late or di-rb lie circulars either in the hall nr
on the street. The, meeting was fzze. We
were in he majority and when we left. they
were speaking to emIty b nches.
We vted down the charm an. but they claimed
the majority they refused rs q hsari g. be-
cause they knew our hr9um mt was stronger
than theirs; we II intended proposing our reso-
easy for tn Sc men to holt a meeting; they
have money 10 pay for hall, advertising, etc.
We are Door: we have no money. but these men
have no hackers.
Most of the, men who. signed, the call for the
meeting ought to be indicted; the criminals
were on the platform last night. and honest
men when hey opened their mouths to speak
were hustled out and arrested. Among those
alluded to by Mr.. schwab as having been ar
rested were live communists who were sem
fenced to-day to three months imprisonment:
others were sent to Ludlow. The remaining
three were discharged.
The resolutions OF the party Represented by
SchWab affirm. anon other things, that those
W shing the right to vote to be restricted to
property holders and direct taxpayers ara the
very persons who. by rIupt Vaccinations,
escape the payment of tag s: his heaps. the
entire burden Of taxation on the laboring class
that own no property and struggle for PROS
parity.
It can be plainlv seen in the record raf the
ring trials and the confession Of Tweed and
others that the laborng c3as that is the people
in general, had no part in the frauds pat forth
as a pret xt for their disfranchisement, but
rather contributed m"re 10 the downfall of
the perpetrators in the election in 1872 The
resolution denounced svery attempt to limit the
franchise as revolutionary and as abolical
conspiracy against republican forms Of govern
ment and crime against popular liberty.
They aim that ttss boring class, who indi-
rectly pay all th5 taxes. are entil led to every
light appertainjng TO citizenship, and thai the
property holders fire totally incapable of sup
press ing them, because the co ruptionists are
recruited exclusively out Of their ranks. and
corruption is chiefly practised By their class.
Therefore the resolution soiemnly protests
againsf the proposed amendments to the state
constitution. By wricf seven ejghths of the
laboring voter! in twerdy- three cite and towns
OF this State via be deprived Of the franchise
and pledge their support in the coming cleo
Il ms only to those candidates giving assurances
that they will labor against the adoption OF the
amendments. 2. and that they will represent tho
cause Of the. entire people.