New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-03-27

NR. WALLACE AGAIN
The Wallace Investigating Committee has re-
snmcd orerations in Newly ork, and Is hard Mt
work. inquiriug about the enforcement OF the
United States election laws and the methods of
Commissioner Davenport. Ii IS well known
that the abuses which led TO the enactment OF
thesa laws were OF two sorts: first, there was
the virtual Acknowledgement Of colored voters
in the south and next there was the enormous
MULTIPLICATION Of fraudulent ballots in tho
Democratic cities of the North. The falsitica-
ton of the suffrage in NewYork reached Its
cnlmiration under Tweed IN 1868 when the
infamous McCunn ran his historic natural
ization miN,' and the electoral votes
of the State were stolen, party by false
counting. partly by stuihps Che boxes with
the purchased ballots of ignorant and
rufianly ahens, ILLEGALLY admitted TO clti-
zenship through Tammany'5 wholesale voter
factory. Mr. Davenport, activity and acute
ness brought me Of tie perpetrators OF these
crimes 10 Justice, and checked the out'a9es
which they were yearly committing upon the
lawful voters and ~ a consequence, he has
been pursued with an unsleeping and malignant
2 al by the Democratic managers, whose ma
iorities he has 50 considerably reduced. Mr.
Wallace begins tire attack this time by call for
gtatistic, Of The native and nGturaliZcd voters
Of the metropolis
Naturalization is a subject in which Ar. Wal
lace may be considered an expert. The cele-
bratcd PENNSYLVANIA device OF soaking newly
forged naturalization papers in coffee 10 give
them an appearance Of age. vill always be asso-
ciated with the fam of mi, statesman. He was
-. oil gFr faF -
local machine men Of Pennsylvania m 1867
Offering SO much apiece for every Dcmocfahc
vote they could get into the boxes over and
above the standard vote OF the district. Inc
price WAS 80 liberal that car-lOads OF railway
loborers were brought into the state. shuntcd
off at various polling places, and supplied with
n9pers. Stained 10 correspond with their 0sten-
sible date The facts all came out IN LeglslI-
tive inquiry which led to the sudden retirement
of nj least one eminent Demo rat from the
State House. aud Coffce-P Pot Wallace became
n national celebrity. We can think OF no one
capab.e of denouncing Federal interference
| with naturaiza' ION mills IN e strain OF l0lter
patriotism and stronger feeling than Mr.. Wal
! lace. To select him IA the chief investigator Of
! Commissioner Davenport was a magnificent
| idea Nobody knows better what a boon the
! green lrishman is to the Democratic party, or
what mischief NAV be caused by impertinent
interference with his liberty of voting.
The statistical information elected by Mr..
Wallace on Thursday is interesting 10 our side
quite as well as TO lis. Mr.. Boese, clerk of tho
Superior Court, presented some figures and estt-
mates from which it appears that the number
! of persons in this city emitted 10 vote is about
245, OOO of whom only $4,000 are native citi-
! z,ns The 10000 naturazed citizens are
! about equally divided between Irishmen and
! Germans Now, while 1t is no doubt true that
a very large proportion of the foreign born
voters are excellent citizens, 1t If notorious that
| the weed Ring derived IT. chief support from
foreigners of the lower class, and that every
corrupt organization which has ever endIn-
cered the prosperity and good name of the
! city. degraded the suffrage and plundered the
| treasury has relied upon this same troublesome
! element 1t is a matter not of conjecture but of
ascrrtained fact, that for several years. while
the Ring was in power tie Democratic mana
GERS in this city had regular system Of Great
INC Democratic voters out Of the very worst
material, 10y issuing false naturalization papers,
upon perjured affidavit 8; and that they intro
duced into the body polite in this WY Il con-
stitueucy large enough to 0verwhelm honest
citizens. Mr. Davenport has collected proof of
the most extrao binary frauds, the Individual
instances Of which he has knowledge amount
ing, we believe, TO some thousands. Senator
Hoar stated in the session yesterday that he
had knowledge OF the Issue of no fewer than
10000 blank cert fc ties TO one PARTY, with the
initials OF the judge forged. Papers were manu-
featured with the most reckless rrodlgality
They were transferred from hand TO hand, 81
that one certificate served many reporters
They were granted by the bale to immigrants
who had not resided The requis t. time III the
country, and had not declared their intent on to
become citizens. They were given-especially
in judge McCunn's COurt-withOut thu inquiry
/ presc .ibed by law, and without the foims nee
essaly to give them validity, being simply
handed over the railing to any man who pre-.
scented ticket from Tammany Hall. Thou
sands of these false papers are still III use. AnC
il seems to be the mission oil Coifee-POt Wal
lace o prevent the United States COMMISSIONS
from any further interference with the Demo
crate gentlemen who hold them.
When his Committee have paid sufficient Mt
tention to the subject of iree-and-easy voting