New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-11-13
HOLDING BACK RETURNS.
HILLS PLOT TO STEAL THE SENATE.

THE CRIME BECOMES MORE APPARENT EVERY
pAY-pEFYING THE PEOPLES WILL.
,Br TELEGRAPH TO THE TRIBusEI
Albany, Nov. 12.-The' Democrats who hold
office in the big white granite State Capitol are
declaring, with every token of believing what
they say that the Democratic party will have
majority in the State Senate. The election returns
declare that eighteen p publican Senators ond
fourteen Democratic Senators have been elected.
but that does not matter to these positive gentle
men. They say, with remarkable frankness, that
Gilbert A. Deane, Republican, will not get oil
the votes cast for him in the XVIII District, anu
that therefore the certificate of election Will DC
granted to Edward B. Osborne, Democrat, who at
the present moment is some eighty-one votes De-
hind Mr. Deane on the total Of the votes cast
for the two candidates. With equal candor they
say that Franklin ID. Sherwood, Republican, VIII
not get a certificate of election in the AAVllth
District on an alleged ground of being ineilgl-
BILE, and that therefore the certificate of election
will be granted to Charles E. Weker. the Demo
cratic candidate for Senator. who received
some 1000 votes less than Mr.. Sherwood.
Then again. the Democrats say, no certificate
Of election will BE granted to Rufus
T.. Peck, the Republican candidate Tor
Senator in the XVIII District. because in two
election districts of his district the Repubhcan
ballots were accidentally interchanged There Is
no pretence that the Republicans who lost these
ballots for Mr.. Peck did not intend to vote Tor
him but they committed the sad error OF voting
ballots which were wrongly numbered. Ana Tor
this trivial reason the Democratic leaders would
deprive the voters Of Onondaga ana Cortlano
Counties of their choice as Senator and confer
the certificate of election upon w. w. Nichols.
the Democratic candidate for Senator, VINO re-,
celved several hundred votes less than MI Peck'
Lastly, the Democrats In the Troy and Rensselaer,
district think that by some manipulation OF the eec
ton returns they can bring about the giving Oh the
election certificate to Michael F. Collins Democrat
who received 60 less votes for Senator than did
John II. Derby, the Republican candidate.
The Democrat who is inspiring this attempt to
veto the will of the people is David B. HILL He it
was who sent Isaac ii. Maynard the Deputy At
torney- General to Poushkeepsie yesterday to take
part in the election struggle there over Mr. Deanes
certificate. What business have the Governor OF
the State and the Deputy Attorney-General
meddling with election contests? The office OF
the Attorney General is being conducted in singu-
lar manner nowadays. The Acknowledgement
himself, Charles +. Tabor, although member OF
the State Board Of CanvasseS, took part IN an
eectioneering effort of the Democratic leaders TO
prevent the election of Mr.. Sherwood as Senator.
and now he permits Mr.. Maynard to leave his Of
fetal duties and mingle in the fray over Mr..
Deane's certificates mattT that may come
eventually before Attorney-General Tabor
himself, as a member of the State Board of Can
vaSsers
To-day, in Troy, the peculiar tactics Of David
B. Hill were again made plain The Democratic
Board Of Supervisors of Rensselaer, County met.
but refused to canvass the election returns under
the pretence that the returns of three districts In
Troy are missing. These returns are in the hands
of Democratic inspectors who refuse to sign them
or to surrender them. Evidently they have orders
from the Democratic chiefs to refrain from hand
ing in the returns. Even if these returns are not
canvassed, Mr.. Derby, the Republican candidate
for Senator, has 800 plurality. Why this delay
by the Democratic Board of Supervisors in canvass
ing the returns? The Republicans suspect that
there is a Democratic plot to alter the returns.
There are two sets vi returns, Of which is sent
to the County Clerk and the other TO the members
of the Board of Supervisors Each member of the
Board Of Supervisors submits the election re-
turns of his own town or ward TO the Board OF
Supervisors The returns in the office Of County
Clerk Conway, of Rensselaer, County, when COM
pared with those of the County Clerk of Washing
ton County, show that John NJ. Derby.
the Republican candidate for Senator has go
plurality over Michael r. Collins, the Democratic
candidate for Senator. 1t may be added that
the newspapers Of the district. Democratic and
Republican, which collected the election returns
give this same result Of GO plurality for Derby,
and yet the Democrats of Troy are Boosting that
the certificate Of election will be given to Collins
What swindling operation is on foot now?
But what has Roswell p Flower to say about
these efforts Of David B. Hill TO count in Demo
cratic Legislature Mr. Flower is a church member
Does he think Mr.. Hills actions strictly in tie
line Of Christian work? "The Troy Times, the
leading Republican newspaper of Northern New
York, thus speaks edtorially tonight upon the
situation in that Senate District:
Tho fact is estabishcd-no one doubts Tit is In
disputable, that John II: Derby, Republican. has a
Michael F. Collins, Democrat: yet through juggling
processes If not by direct manipulatiOns, it Is at
tempted 70 wipe out the majority and confer rapre
sentative power upon the minority Is it possible
that respectable and honest men OF the Democratic
majority in the Board Of Supervisors can be led by
partisan passion to do themselves great wrong by
conscnting to this trampiing Of law under foot this
proposed notification Of The popular WILL this prac
believe It. There is honorable reputation that should
stand before party demands, however urgent There
is law, with its oath bound obligations There is tho
security Of persons and property which the abnegaton
partsanslp be permitted to have expression by nul
lfying the rule Of the majority Good citizenship
swsTs. MOI Democrats and Republicans alike Who th
respect law end dctest audaciOus crime with its ar
oompanying train Of terrible evils, emphatcally alt
ATTEMPTING FRAUD IN ORANGE COUNTY.
Mlddletown, n. Y, Nov. ~ (speciaD.-Thc Board OF
anvassers OF Orange County has been in session since
Tuesday. Some of the returns have been found de-