New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-11-10
THE CONTROL OF THE LEGISLATURE.

THE CONTROL OF THE LEGISLATURE
The course of events since Election Day must
have convinced intelligent people that certain
Democratic leaders have made up their minds
to steal the control of the Legislature away from
the Republicans-if they can. The Senate is
composed of 80 members, and IS OF the Re
publican candidates received plurality OF all
the votes cast in their respective districts but
little circumstance like that does not induce
such men as Murphy of Troy, Croker Of New
York, and Governor Hill to Ielnqush the idea
of capturing the Senate. Not at all. Politicians
of their unscrupulous school stand ever ready to
mt M lob on the ballot-6ox. They have put
ND one now. They find that in four OF the dis
tricts the plurality given for the Republican
Senatorial nominee is small. Here lies the OPP
portunty for fraud, and we may be sure they
will push it vigorously. If rascals can be bn6ed
into changing a few votes--it will not be neces-
sary to change many-or if the State Board OF
Canvassers can be coerced into withholding one
or two certificates, why, then Tammany meth
DDS will prevail, and enough Republicans will
be counted out to make the Senate Democratic.
Now, if our Republican friends are visilant In
the close districts this vile conspiracy against
the will of the people will fail. To-day the
Boards of Supervisors of all the counties will
proceed to canvass the votes cast last Tuesday.
1t is to be assumed in the circumstances that
their proceedings will be subjected to an I'M
usually strict scrutiny. The Republicans of
New York lost their State ticket last week, and
bow to the will of the majority-as Republicans
always do But, while thus bowling, they ex-
pect Democrats to bow to the popular verdict
which gave the Senate to their opponents And
while we are sure that the reputable members
of the Democracy will frOwn down upon any
and al attempts to falsfy the Senatorial re-
turns, there is warrant for suspecting the very
wu.st o. Tammany Hall and those who train
with it. Troy, where the chairman of the DEM
ocratic Committee resides, has become notorious
the State over in connection with glazing cleo
ton frauds. The evidence taken in contested
election case in 1890 showed that the year be-
fore Troy was practically at the mercy OF scoun-
dlels upon Election Day. Repeaters went from
poll to poll voting as often as they pleased and
"when the Republican inspectors'-this was In
| evidence" refused the fraudulent votes and put
! their hands over the ballot-boxes the Demo-
cratic inspectors pushed their hands away and
| admitted the votes" An infamous state OF
| things, and yet the chairman of the Democratic
| Committee, who is now backing the plot to steal
the Senate, is rightly to be held responsible
for the disgrace of Troy, since he has only to
raise his finger to put an end to it.
The poiticsl situation to-day is 50 clear that
it is impossible to make a mistake. On the
one side stand the Republicans, simply demand
ing that the decision of the baot-box giving
them the Senate be respected. On the other
side stand the Tammany Ring and its Cocoon
spirators plotting to increase their power and
influence by selling the Senate in defiance of
justice and fair play. And yet it is claimed in
some quarters that this dominant element of the
Democracy of NewYork was handled too Sc
yerely during the recent canvass by the Repub-
licln press