New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-09-24

MIR. Landers in the State election Is Vooe
which tends to make Mr.. English Vice-Presi-
dent, and if the Greenback voters OF Indiana
have to choose between Mr.. Porter and Messrs.
English and Landers they will certainly hesl-
tate long before they help the trickster ana
the usurer. The Republicans ought to carry
Indiana, and are working with energy ana
hope. The chances of success are decidedly
better than many of their friends at the East
suppose.
DOES HE INCLUDE COLLEGE STUDEN1S'
In his letter of acceptance General Hancock
says-and our Democratic friends keep 1t
standing in the columns of their newspapers,
and never tire of quoting 1t, as though 1t were
an original discovery by their candidate
at is only by full vote, free ballot and
:" fair count that the people can rue in fact, as
"required by the theory of our Government"
1t is noble sentiment. The chief objection
to its being received as genuine Democratic
doctrine is the fact that in the States where
the party is strongest it is made solid by the
suppression of legal votes, bullying aud ter
rorism at the baOtbOx and shameless fraud
in the count But General HancOcks friends
say this is not so, or that it is an exaggera-
ton but, leaving that out, what General
Hancock means is demand for full vote
and free ballot here in New-YOrk, where
the Democrats maintain that Federal super
vision has hindered the fulness of the vote
and freedom of the ballot, and de-
prived thousands of Democrats of the
privilege of voting. The complaint
is that Democrats are hindered from voting.
How Simply as burglars are hindered from
overwhelmingly legal enactment IL is
nothing less than tue strlctness of the law
against dishonest voting that is complained of.
Is there no need of any law on this subject
Is there 10 justification for the strictness OF
its provisions Let the confessions of Demo-
Gratis themselves concerning the stupendous
frauds in this city in 1868 answer the ques-
ton.
But they say the Supervisors law works
hardship, and that the fear of it deters many
from going to the polls and General Han
cock-puttng into his letter of acceptance the
cry which Mr.. Fernando Wood started, and
Mr.. Samuel Cox seconded, in Congress, and
which their followers have been yelling in
chorus ever since-says we must have full
"yoter and 'free ballot" Well, say we do.
At Yale College, in NewHaven, there are
age and entitled to VOTE pursuing their studies
They are probably not less intelligent than the
average Democratic voter il this city who
is in danger of losing his vote through
fear of the Federal Supervisor No doubt they
understand our institutions and comprehend
our politics as thoroughly as the naturalized
persons who are the special care of Tammany
Hall. Is not Z" full vote, free ballot and fair
"count" of these young men as essential to
| the rule of the people, as required by the
st theory of our Government" as the full vote,
"free ballot and fair count" of the class Of
men in this city who may be deferred from
voting by wholesome dread of legal penal
ties9 Ii is not pretended that there is the
slightest danger that any of these students
| would vote illegally or more than once. 1t
cannot be pretended that they should not vote
ut all. But Democratic Board of Selectmen
invariably rejects the application of these
students to vote and by all means possible
endeayors to disfranchise them. Is this the
| sort of "full vote and free ballot" that General
| Hancock means "a full vote and free ballot"
of every thief, shoulder hitter and repeater in
the slums, without challenge or question, but
a stern and rigorous repression OF the votes of
colleges and professional schools 7
Is there no significance in the fact that
Democrats, with an instructive dread of the
educated and intelligent vote, invariably try
to disfranchise iii Or that from some natural
instinct they are as Jealous to throw open
the ballot-box to the slums as they are to
close it to the better class We read that out
of about $50 students at'Yale, Garfield and
Arthur battalion numbering 600 has been Or
eanized Possibly this accounts for The I'M
| Willingness of Democratic officials to extend
to them the full vote and free ballot" We
read also that in Brooklyn. Newark and other
places the denizens of the low wards, the dis
| reputable neighbOrhOOds, the slums, illustrate
their politics by attacking with stones and
bricks passing Republican professions. This,
TOO may account for Democratic sOlicitude
for n full vote and free ballot of this class
of citizens.
And yet we may have misiudged General
Hancock. He may have meant all he
said in advocacy of full vote
land free ballot" 1t is not impossible
that he would be willing to extend it to the
Yale students. If so. nothing can be easier
than for him to say so. He seems to be just
now in communicative mood. His kilograms
of congratulation and explanation are being
scattered about from Plaisted in Maine to
Pulitzer in Missouri /; he might easily telegraph
the Ncw-Haven Democratic officials on this
subject. If he should tell them that in his
Judgment "full vote and free ballot" ought
to include students who are voters no doubt
they would lay ASIDE their prejudices and adj
NIT them. Or General Hancock may prefer
to write u letter on the subject for publica-
ton If so, the columns of The TRIBUNE are
open to him. And we can assure him that on
no subject could his deliverances havA more