The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-07-30
DETACHABLE DISCLOSURES.

There has been a very audible silence |
on the part of Democratic Journals in
relation to the Credit Mobilier and De
Golyer roorbacks since the developments
of the infamous naturalization frauds in
Ncs York, in 1868, which Mr.. Daven-
port Is bringing to light before the Wal
lace committee. This gentlemen was en-
ployed by the Union League Club of
New York To make certain Investigations
in relation TO the election of 1868, in
which the Democratic majority in the
city was 10000, sufficient TO overcome
large Republican majority in the rest of
the state, with 10000 votes to spare, and
discovered that between 10000 and 20,
600 bogus naturalization papers were is
sued in that single year, chiefly 10y the
Democratic Judges Barnard and Nc
Cum. who turned out voters at the rate
of five hundred an hour.
In October, 1868, Ohc month before
the elcction) over 1000 naturalization
papers purportcd To issue from the Su-
prcmc and superior courts every one,
with IA few inconsiderablc exceptions,
bearing the name of Barnard or Me
Cunn. On the 10Th OF October the num-
Der reached the extraordinary figure of
1899, whereas, according to the tesii-
mony of Judge Brady and his colleagues,
the utmost that two judges could have
accomplished during the time these
courts sat ON the 10th OF October (ahOut
five hours each} was the naturalization
of 100 or 100 men.
Further search shows that there was
| M reasonable proportion between the
number of administrations and the pre-
limInary declarations of intention. The
| experience of the courts since 1865
proves that about half of those natural
lied are on the record as declaring their
| intention to become citizens, the rest be
ing men who came 10 this country un.
der age, or who served in the army, and
are therefore not Obliged 60 file a declar-
alton. Mr.. Davenport obtained the af
fldavits of one thousand men who nc
knowlcdged thai they had been natural
lied as minors, although they were ovel
age, many of them from forty TO sixty
years old, when they landed and exam
ination of the court records for the pas
twenty-five years shows that the nun
| Der of natuTaliZaiions has run from . so
to 10000 a year, being highest of cours,
in years of political excitement. Ever
in 1867, when the frauds began tn b
heavy, 1t was only 1880. But in lS6
/ II went up to 10000 or more. Probabl,
: nobody will ever know the exact figures
: because no record was made on tn
} books, but tits ascertained that Barnard
= court had 80 900 blanks, and used all e,
I cept 1 500 OF them.
/. To prosecute this infamous work PR
e fessional witnesses were employed, {
e whom there were about one hundreC
e They were kept in a room adjoining Ii
1 count, and in one month they signed fC
4 10000. Ten of them appeared for no LEI
Y than s,245 persons. One named Go
; gave his address on thirteen differeI
t streets, but always at the same humble
# "A.
r, The completely of the Democrat
l. committee in these transactions was n
Y torious. The principal part of the bus
'e ness was carried on at the party hea
1t quarters, the system was organized theI
the witnesses were supplied, the judg
is were managed, and the aliens who we