The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1889-07-17
Some Evidences Of Democratic COrrup.
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Give the Democratic party of New York
State half chance and 1t will always de-
clare itself on the side of fraud and cor
ruption in elections as against honesty
The same charge might be brought against
the Democratic party all over the conn
try, but the average New York Democrat
can give the others points in election
villainy. hree prominent illustrations
of this tendency have recently occurred
First. there was the Governors open and
unblushing veto of the Saxton bill to Sc
cure electoral reform, which needs no
comment. The second case concerns
election outrages which have no parallel
outside of NaZoo or Conway County. In
April last, Mt the local election in Water
vliet, Albany County. the pol ing place in
the Eleventh District of the town was in
vaded by a squad Of Democratic police
men from Albany. sent there by the Dem
ocratic machine in the latter city Ev-
erything was quiet at the precinct. but
the Democratic thugs deliberately drove
out the Republican officials and turned
the ballot-boXes over TO the Democratic
inspectors, who allowed the Republican
candidate for Supervisor but eighty seven
votes, and some thirty other Republicans
but forty six votes each. thus carrying
the election for the Democrats. Two
hundred and seven citizens of Watervliet
Mt once came forward and made affidavit
that they voted for the Republican can
didates, and upon the strength of this
sworn testimony the Grand Jury of AL
bany County was asked to indict the men
who committed the assault and stole the
suffrage. That Grand Jury, composed of
Democrats selected by Democratic
Sheriff at the bidding of the boss of the
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before them unchallenged in any way,
failed to find any indictment against the
political desperadoes! A more brazen
and shameless defiance of popular rights
and the will Of the majority has never
occurred In this country, not even in the
worst negro-hunting sections of the cot
ton States. 1t even rouses that peaceful
and conservative old paper, the Albany
Erening journal, to declare If Grand
Juries won't protet the rights of voters in
Albany County .fre0rms iriH."
The political outrage in Albany Coun-
ty, however. is not whit more exasper-
ating than the conduct of he Democratic
District Attorney in New York City, Col.
Fellows, who. while running for the Office
which he now di' graces, was personally
Endorsed by Grover Cleveland and his
election asked for. In January last the
him definite charges that six prominent
politicians in New York had been guilty
of bribing voters, accompanied by posi-
tive evidence. IL took two months be-
fore they could induce him to secure
an indictment, and there the prosecu-
ton hangs. Nearly four months have
passed, and the District Attorney has
not taken and refuses TO take, step to
bring them to trial. Disappointed, dis
gusted, and disheartened, the club has
addressed an open letter to Grover Cleye-
lands friend, in which it says: while YOU
have seen ft TO prosecute with energy
obscure criminals for offenses either pet
ty in themselves or involving no large
public question-whiley YOU have actively
interposed the machinery of your Office mt
the instance of great moneyed intere its
you have allowed to 60 unpunis ed a
crime that undermines the foundation of
our State" With a Demo ratio Governor
trampling upon every effort to secure hon
est elections, Democratic Sheriff and
machine boss in Albany corrupting JUS
tice OF its source, and preventing the
punishment of suffrage thieves, and n
Democratic District Attorney in the me-
tropolis obstructing the course of justice
deli lerately and for the purpose of pro-
tecting political bribers and scalau ags,
one need not go further to establish the
perfect identity of the Democratic party
In New York with every form of political
corruption and dishonesty. II has sunk