Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1880-11-20
OUR NEW YORK LETTER.
4 True History Of the Election in Ne'c
York. Cheated bu the Republicans,
aud Sold out by False Friends.
NEw YORK, November 9, 1880.


have been engrossed in the work of the cam
paign. do so now with heavy heart, for
il is my deliberate opinion, after what have
seen in New York, that free ballot in the
United States no longer exists.
1t is self-eyident proposition in political
arithmetic that when one party polls an c
Enormously increased vote which is not ac-
counted for by the growth of the population,
it must be accounted for by corresponding
falling off in the vote of the other party. III
the tidal wave of 1910 Harrison got an abb
normally large vote compared with the
Wing vote OF 1886, but he got 1t mt the eX-
pense OF the Democratic vote OF Martin van
Buren, In the tidal wave of 1874 the Dem
ocrats got an extraordinarily large vote com
pared with the Democratic vote OF 1917, but
they got it at the expense OF the Republican
vote and the Republicans lost the House OF
Representatives But in this election there
was no Republican tidal wave, no loss IN the
city of New York of Democratic votes, but
Il healthy, satisfactory growth, Tor the enor-
nous vote here Of 10000 for Illden IN 10
has been increased to l25O00 for Hancoch
in 1880 These figures speak for themselves
and show the magnificent work done Tor
Hancock & English by Tammany Hail.
But while the Democrats worked so splen-
didiv. the Republicans stuffed the ballot
box with at least 5000 to $4,000 fraudulent
votes. The evidences of this fact are over
whelming. The colouizers came from the
District of Coiumbia, Vermont, New Hamp-
shire. and the Southern States and Cuba,
the last two localities sending their recruits
in the shape of negroes vino have along with
the white repeaters disappeared since the
election Is it any wonder that the large
Republican vote in this city for Hayes OF
-. 600 in 1876 should by this flight OF the
locusts of Egypt have been swollen to the
number of ST 900 for Garfcldin 1880? When
a party of $4,000 springs up $4,000 beyond
its legitimate strength as could be ma'he-
matically proven if Congress Institutes an
investigation. while the other party not on
lv holds its own but goes forward from IL
GEO to l25,000 at the same time, there Is but
one way to explain the problem, absurd Is
it is on its face, and that is by denouncing
il rs 4 cheat and fraud.
There is another fact to be considered in
this election which cannot be bllnked or lg-
nored by any one who really seeks for sat
islactorv explanation of the actual causes
which operated 20 effect the result. There
is faction fight in this city and state when
rs | wrote YOU little less than two years ago
March 1879 has been going on for over i
half century. 1t began under the auspices
of Martin Van Buren, and the old Albany
Regency in the days Of Andrew JACKSON
Ii first took the form of war upon John G.
Calhoun. Van Buren, precipitated that
great historical collision between Jackson
and Calhoun which has exercised 50 mighty
an influence ON the dcstinie> OF this | mon.
At length the South which had raised Van
Buren, to the Presidency would no longer
submit to his intriguing domination and
his relentless persecution of It's lilustn0us
philosophical statesman, Mr.. Calhoun. HE
Democratic party dared to nominate anoth-
er man for President in lS4S. the sterling
Lewis Cass. The result WAS that Van Buren,
bolted. formed coalition with Gcrit smith,
who later on helped to send John Brown
TO Harpcr's Ferry and with Joshua K. cid
dings and the Massachu>ctt, abOlluonlsts.-
Mr.. Van Buren, aided 10y his then active
Young livutenauts Samuel J. II'dcn, luclus
Robinson and Preston King who had bolt
ed and arrayed themselves against the Dem
ocratic party with their chiei, succeeded not
only in defeating Cass and Butler but IN lay
ing the foundations of the Republican par
". Robinson and King went over bag and
baggage but Tilden only went over nall
way. He became Free Soil Democrat
From that day to this there has been no
real union between the Free Soil Democrats
and those VINO sustained Lewis Ca :, Frank
lin Pierce and James Buchanan. Nniie the
latter class have sometimes sustained the
former. rs witness Tammany Hail support
of the Democratic Standard-beIr,r- in 1868,
1872 and 1875, Seymour, Greeley and Ill
den although Seymour Wa not Free SOIL
Democracy, the partislnsot Van Durcn, who
since his death have been le! by Mr. Ilidcn,
have never In single instance sustained
Democrats of the other school. /. Is now
an open secret that their bitter opposition
this year 81 Senators Bayard and Thurman
and Mr.. Hendricks defeated them all, Is Is
shown hy the course of Mr.. Tidcn's person
al organ. the New York SIN, in regard to
thos. Democrats. Had Gen. Hancock APP
pear,l % De a, much I'm the way as the 9TH
crs he. too woull have found the Sn Is Bit
tcrly opposed To- him from the start rs to the
three Other candidates have named. On
the BIRD of January, 1850, the following sig
niicant words were used 10y Mr.. Dana in his
N't4: We suspect if a Kelly candidate for
President Is nominated over Mr.. Tildcn, a
kick from Mr.. Tilden VIII be felt by the De-
mocratic party like the shock of gllyanic
battery On the 18th of October, 1880, six
DAYS after the Democratic defeat in Indiana
the same Mr. Dana i'm the same Sim pub
lished am editorial which he wrote in the
house OF Samuel j. T.idcn and submitted u
that gentleman revision before it, publica-
ton. IN which he declared thlt the failure
20 r,nominat, Tildcn had caused that defeat
in Indiana and was likely t. cause Han
cocks defeat In November. This MIR. DANA
who seemed a angry as he was the day he
put Jefferson Davis I'm irons at 70. trcS> Mon
roe. snecrcd al Gen. Hancock in that cdito-
rial as q man who weighed 80 pounds but
was very tar from being a lildcn. By sin
gular train OF circumstances the interior
counties of this State, where Mr.. Tilden's
friends control the Democratic organization
and in which that gentleman received ma
ioritics In 1876. have now in almost every
ease gone Republican by decisive majoritie>
In those which have not done 50 the Han
cock vote has Shrunken down to ridiculous
proportions rs compared with the vote of
four years ago. Thus the county of Che
mung where Lucius Robinson lives and
which gave Tilden 55l majority over Hayes,
now gives Hancock only 10 majority over
Garfield. Smith Weeds county the Iilden
man ofthe cyphcr dispatches has increased
Hayes majority of 500 TO 1000 Tor Garfield.
Kings County in which Brooklyn is situa-
ted, and which is controlled by Iilden men.
gave IiidpD 10 Geo majority in 1876 and