New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-02-15

rights and excluding from the pOiis' 1ne
great "outrage" perpetrated by Supervisor
| Davenport consisted in arresting men VINO
claimed the right to vote on naturalization
certificates issued in 1868, when ne
claimed were fraudulent. The contention Oh
Democratic Senators and members OF COn-
qress and the Democratic leaders in TINS CITY
was that those men did have the right to VOte'
and that it was a crime against free govern
ment to hinder them. The following Is MI
Patrick G offs account of the origin OF the pa
ners ON which the right was claimed:
WAS engaged ia obtaining naturalization certin-
Gates from the Superior and Supreme Courts I'D Ne"
York In 1868 obtained between s,OOO anu lV'ooO
CERT In the OF various people, 1Here "ei
several others engaged in the same busness' a''"
among them were John Gallagher, Charles DouS"e'''
John Dougherty, Thomas Craig, James SlcO"oc'
Charles Mccarthy John McGnnls, Patrick MeCanorty'
John Moran James Gof. John Duffy. Marin DonheUy'
Roger Quinn, Michael Kinney, Patrick Reilly JANIS
Collins Michael Marrow, jeremiah Corey, fnIp
Cooney and Henry Jacobs Lists OF names were lur'
uished to INC daily. There wcro eighteen OF twenty
clerks in the basement OF the city Hall, who were unuer
salary and I divided the names l mad among theui'
They filled out the blank applications. putting W. any
address There residences written opposite INC
names on the lists furnished me- and the residences put
in the applications fictitious. Tie CLERKS "roe IN
ms name as witness for the persons nanei
This testimony has been long time coming
but the fact that it was in existence
NAV account for the suddenness Win
which the Congressional investigators ceaSed
thcir inonirie, at certain point. Mr.
eff gives very vivid picture OF the
urocpss by which Democratic voters were maze
in 1865 The wonder that Ncw-fork gave
iIDIato Seymour her electoral vote and eiected
John Il. Hoffman Governor that year ceases
after reading this suacinct account OF the pro-
cess by which the Democratic vote was SWelleu'
In general way these things have Deen
known for a long time, but tins Is the
first time the particulars OF the fraud
have been brought out under oath. 1t il over
twelve years since these frauds were COM
mittcd. and it will be claimed, of course, that
they are fairly outlawcd by some sort of I'M
written statute of limitations. Bat ii should
not be forgotten that they were not
done in a corner; that the business was
on SO large scale that it must have
been known to n majority OF TIE party
leaders in this city; that the same men are
still leaders, and that no longer than two
Years agO-wth the Iul knowledge that they
must have had Of the fraudulent character OF
those certifcates-they insisted upon their
being received as genuine and upon perpetu-
ating the fraud III tho interest of the Demo-
cratic party.
Politics are not now absorbing attention.
and very likely these discussions will not now
receive the consideration their importance
deserves But honest citizens who are liable
mt any time hereafter to he called upon to
vote TO nut or keep In power the party that was
guilty of those stupcndous frauds will do
well to stick pin here and remember not
only that the frauds were of Democratic origin,
hut that long after they were exposed the
patty insisted on avainG itself OF thcm