Daily Republican., 1879-07-23
TiIden's TrooAa.

Tilden's FrssAs.
The New York "Timss," Of Monday,
July 2lst, renders IN impcrtant service
to the country by exposing some more
of the frauds Of the Tildsn party IN
1875, by which the States Of New York,
Connecticut and New Jersey were car
ried, and an attempt made to carry
Louisiana and Florida for the sage Of
Gramercy row. 1t is shown that the
highest maximum vote that has ever
been brought out at any Presidential
election since 1928 was IS per cent. OF
the whole vote. Owing to the ordinary
and inevitable occurrences which lead
men hither and thither and prevent
men from going to the polls, fifteen
voters out of every hundred remain
away from the polls, or do not vote. AT
all elections other than Presidential the
per centage of absenteeism il much
larger, but under the greatest escit.-
ment and the most vigorous canvassdng
the vote cannot exceed IS out of every
100. In 1876, however, the vote in
Connecticut was ss.2per cent. in New
York, 95.2 per cent. in New Jersey,
Los 7 per cent. in South Carolina, 81 .6
per cent. in Louisiana SO per cent,
and in Florida, 1924 per cent. Accord.
ing to the election returns only five
qualified voters out Of every hundred
remained away from the polls in New
York :; only l.3 in New Jersey, and only
one in Louisiana, while in Florida the
vote returned exceeded the whole vot.
ing population by "a per cent.
The inevitable conclusion reached
after perusal Of those figures, is that
in all the States named, Tild-n's vote
was largely increased b. fraud, that
they were pprpetrated in pursuance Of
carefully devised scheme by which
the repeating, the ballot box stuffing
and the false counting were SO distriOu-
ted as not to excite suspicion. By ad-
ding few votes in each district the
end was easily accomplished. This
carefully prepared review shows clearly,
that at least fifty electoral votes in the
Northern States are carried by fraud tor
Tilden, eight in the South, and an at
tempt mad. in the South TO carry twelve
more, and that had an honest vote been
polled the electoral vote would have
stood 24' for Hayes and l26 tor Tild-n,
instead of 1855 for Hayes and lS4 for Til
den as was reported. The figures show
that the Democratic party especially in
the North did not draw their votes from
the Republicans, but they had an in
creased vote out of all proportion to the
increase of population. That this iu-
crease was an honest, legitimate one is
grossly improbable and in some instan-
ces physically impossible. The Phila
delphia "Press'' says this. is very
much like the Baltimore plan of carry
ing elections against the popular will.
There, certain precincts are 'assess-
ed" for q certain number of votes, and
the ward managers must furnish them.
One of the chief manipuiators of the
frauds of 1873 was obliged to leave tn.
city. lie turned up in New York in
the spring of 1876 in the employ Of Mr..
Tilden. For awhile he was connected
with the bureau of literary 'nincom-
poop'," but as the campaign progressed
he was entrusted with more Important
work, and just before the October elrc-
lions he had his headquarters Success
sively at Cincinnati, indianapolis and
Louisville. The Times intimates |
that Mr.. Tild-n himself might have
been the directing mind in this vast
against the popular will
This may or may not be the fact, but it
Is at least certain that he surrounded |
himself with men who We're capable of
into execution a system of
'raud such as gave him the States of
New York, New Jersey and Connecticut.
We would call attention to a synopsis
If the "Times" article in another part
# to-dav's nanpr