Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1880-07-23

The Wallace Investigation Committee las
been examining L. :. Commissioner John J.
Davenport. in the hope of cliciiing some
facts in regard TO the enforcement of the
United States election laws in the oo-nnicr-
cial metropolis, ont Of which Democratic
capital might be made. Nr. Davenport S
testimony. thus far, however, has been any
thing but what his investigators wanted.
On Friday and Saturday Mr.. Davenport de-
scrbed the means 10y which great Democratic
majorities were rolled up iii New t'rA IN
1866 and 1868. lie testified that thousand
of fraudulent applicants for naturaiiia' in
were vouched for by three or four iadiyidu
ais, before Democratic JUDGES WHO must
have known that the men wrTi commit
ting fiat perjury Many of the applicants
who appeared in person were not r,llir'L
TO rive any account Of Themselves whatever.
Immense numbers of certificates were is:ilrd
TO persons who had made No applications at
all. Thousands were signed by the JUDI
and clerks of the courts, with blanks left for
the names of the persons who were TO he H.a'l
citizens, and these were hawkcd ahnu' TIE
country, for sale at IL each. Aliens w'i'
naturalized within one month after l.e'.'H
at Castle Garden Certificates were gran 81
10 thousands who had never declared il'r
intention 10 become citizens. Not cErn a
prelcncc Of complying with the letter af
spirit Of the law was made by the courts ;'';.'
engaged in this fraudulent business.
Mr. Davenport showed that in iSi;S Jul
Barnard and McCunn naturalizcd GEO pr
sons in one day, consuming only five hours
in the work, In the month Of October these
two Judges granted 81 AZ certificate.
Judge McCunn subsequently, admitted tl,at
he naturalized two persons in a minute, and
Jude Barnard worked even more rapidly.
Other Judges stated that it required 10 min
utes to do the business properly for each in
dividual In many cases There was no re-
nunciaiion OF ALLEGIANCE 10 foreign powers.
In all. about O., 600 friuduieat Votes Ncrr
manufactured 10y The New lorl. city courts.
In lllt tllN anu 'philN VI W. WI IN
Democrats secured GD.5jI majority in 1865
through the process Of bogus naturalization
mainly With an honest We The Hc!uhli
cans would have carried the State by q ma
ioritv IF not less than 30, 900. Mr.. Davcn-
port went before the committee armed Will
papers to suhstaniiltc his statements. and
rave his testimony with calmnrs7 and pre-
cision which seriously disturbed tn cqnl-
nimity of Senator's Wallace and Mcdonald
who attempted To- BULLDOG liiia. but without
SUCCESS ON one occasion NCD1naid sad
You have insinuatrd TINT .l1i,c ':rrnard
and Judge McCunn acted rD;!Ulcn'!Y." Il
which Davenport replied Il don't iaSia""t
ANYTHING Of the kind: mg tt'g d'd' Ans
subsequently b" said that hs. charged lhoe'
Judges with issuing in.udI,cnt naturalization
papers without having cNiln:utd the licrson'
applying in court, and without rraminin.
witnesses.
! In view of the howl made by the New
York HorM aud other Democratic papers
! over johnny DavcHrorl's iron cascS. - th'
portion of Mr.. Davcnporis testimony in rcla
iion 10 arrests Of persons found attempting
TO vote on fraudulent naturalization paper
! becomes of interest. Probably there are many
readers of the IIoyH who honestly bclicvt
that thousands of good citizens AMI homes
voters, whose only crime was that iiiey de
/ sired to vote the Democratic iicln', wcr'
seized by Mr. Davenport and his nini"m
anil confined for indefinite periods III ''iror
cages which hal been made by the hundred