New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-12-03
SUPPORTING RoBBkRY BY FALSEHOoD.

The impudence of the defenders OF the Hill
conspiracy to steal tho State is as unbounded as
their mendacity 1t is amazing that even the
most brazen of falsiliers should venture so to
peryert the facts and 50 to distOrt the clear and
manifest truths of the case. The inscriptions
advocates and associates of the thieves who have
tried to rob the voters OF this state OF the re-
suits of their balotng assert that 1t Is the uov-
errors duty to see that the secret ballot is kept
secret that the count is honest and the returns
regular. In what line of the Constitution or OF
the Statutes of the State Of New-lork is the
Governor constituted a Returning Board OF that
sort? Yet perhaps there might be no serious
complaint in the State, of Governor Hll's uslfpa-
ton of authority which does not legally belong
TO him, if his object were, in truth, to see that
the count is honest and that the returns are
regular A man whose whole public career has
been full of the vlest trickery, who has shown
himself to be absolutely without self-respect or
conscience, where a personal advantage is to be
gained, this mans object in persuading Boards
of County Canvassers to throw out ballots which
have been legally cast and are legal in every
sense, this mans purpose is " to see that the
count is honest and the returns are regular
What an insolent defiance of public sentiment,
of reason and of justice
Governor Hills apologists make the lying as
sertion that the Republicans have been stealing
one third of the seats in both houses OF the Legs
lature for five years. Let us see the slightest
shred of proof to sustain this falsehood. They
pirate about fairly elected Legislators" in whose
favor in reality were cast only minority
of the votes that went into the ballot
box. They scatter ntruths daily in the most
astounding manner about the balloting and the
counting of votes in Duchess County. When
they say that Republicans purpOsely marked for
identification ballots, whose single marking was
in reality the accidental slipping OF the print
ers' EN- quad, they expect to deceive decent
people by outrageous Misrepresentation and d.
rect falsehood These ballots were not pur-
poseIy marked for identification, and any person
who says they were simply does not tell the
truth. 1t has been plain ever since Election
Day that Hill and his gang proposed to get pos
session of the Legislature by the foulest lies.
The Mot has been before all mems eyes since
Hill and his corrupt accomplices began claiming
the Legislature to which they were not emitted
The Governors efforts by resort to detestaple
devices and practices to carry out his conspiracy
are fragrant and notorious. His action in trans
porting Justice of the Supreme Court from this
city to Syracuse where he is not needed except
to serve the Governors indefensible purposes Is
not defended, or apologzed for by any fair-
minded or honorable person in the State.
The Hill fabric of mendacity and insolence IS
based largely on the constant repetition OF the
falsehood that Republicans are responsible 1or
the failure to rcapbortion this State The original
failures to reapportion were due to the vetoes OF
Governor Hill, when the Republicans passed
perfectly proper bill for the taking of the census
The Democrats made up their minds at the last
session, when they had control of the Assem-
bly,, to stand by the thieves of the canal nng'
and to prevent any exposure of their depreda-
tons upon the taxpayers. In doing this they
deliberately determined to sacrifice the reappor-
tionment Of the State. 1t is their own fauie
let them stew in their own juice