New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-02-27

,ur ~ Du.chess of Whatever obligation the union
| tchct scheme implied The minute the crime was
consummacd they announced their Intention OF ru'"s
= e,,irht ticket I'm every town. II i, highly significant
NJ the fact that the Democrats secretly acAo"lcuHo
their infamy aud realize the entire pFopFe'y oi ."o
| action taken bv the Republicans in repudihuhs uc
scheme that single whine Oh pro'cS'
has been heard. In every town but one tho hcP""'
can decision to nominate straight Ticket mas bcep car
rcd out The exception is Dover, ana IL i III c'c''
| way an unfortunate exception.
one OF the most barcaccd OF the frauds pcpctia'cl
ny Uinchleys Spartans was done In connection With
hc returns from Dover. Then, too, the town - now
Represented by a Republican who might nave been IT,
elected II is also the home OF u!e Nepubhodh cau''S
Congressman Ke;chum and Assembyman Wheeler anu
il produces ANYTHING but good Impression 10 see
Democrat going into the Bo,rd Of supervisors without
. contest in town where their influence IS supreme
ON the perfectly un,cnablc ground Of the Old time ar
rangcmcnt The fear Is that the arrangement Il com
partivcly recent However this blundcr was maze, or
whoever Is responsible for II, 1t gives the Democrats
one new scat and II renders the necessity for strong
effort in the other towns all the more pressing
Tho Republicans obtained n good start In The race
for Supervisors last fall The members for Pough
keop.ic CITY we're elected then. In the present Board
pou-hkcepsc Ia, four Democrats and two Republicans
I'm the next IL Will be represented by one Democrat ana
i've Republicans. so much u already Accomplished
and II the vote Tuesday shall be relatively that OF
Republicans in DutchcSs) the political numbers VIII
he exactly rcyer.cdinstcad u eighteen Democrats ana
eight Republicans there will be eighteen Republicans
and eight Democrats
The Republican nominations are decidedly good
Men Of high standing have bern placed before the PEG
pic In every town. Especially Is this the case IN the
towns where TIC quad marked Democrats are run
Ming These men are Lawrence J. Rappclie, OF East
FshklII; David T.. IIowau Of Hyde Park; Townsend
Cole Of Lagrange Irving u. COusc, u Milan T.
Wright Vail Of Pleasant Valley; Francis Myers OF
poughkcepsc Town, Edward Sturgis. Of Red HOOK, ana
smith Knapp, Of stanford Knapp was The man VIII"
Immediately after the steal WAS Overwhelmingly beaten
by the stakeholder, Of the First National BANK oil sah
ford In coutc, for w election the board oi drc0r
Ir Knapp was told that man who couldn't b. trusted
10 count votes wouldn't be trusted, at least by the
owners Of that bank. to count collars. All th,so
,camps Of course want 10 bc "vindicated' They arr
Generally speaking the stronger members oil the spartan
band aud those who have behind them normal Demo
cratic majontcs. Where the Spartans were Of no
account or where the chances were naturally against
them they were set aside and new men put up Cole
Couse Myers and Knapp not di,tinctvcy Onen-
,lve Their part I'm the steal was not especially POM
ncnt 1t Is TO be said for most OF these fellows, a. S
they now saying, IN a sneahinS sort oil way LOT
themselves that they only did what their highest
party leader commanded They all throw the blanc
ON Maynard, chiefly. lie came down here they say
and told Us II was all hight, and that the Governor
said il was right lie Deputy Attorney -Gcner' oi
the state, the very man who was supposed To hh""
all about the law Of IT, and liill was II lawyer, too
How could set up ourselves against thcmI' 10
certain class OF minds this argument II good Tic hc
pubucans heard much Of II while the fraud was going
on They would say to a Democratic supervisor:
.why. man, I've known You all my hiel never
thought you'd do n thing like this! You pretend 10 be
a Christian and an honest man; how on earth do You
defend yonrsclf!' And, Invariably they would get
this answer: What I'm doing Is all right. 1t Is
according to law. Mr.. Maynard says so, and guess
he knows what he's talking about' THIS must be
brought the mind Of every voter III ths stae
before he casts his ballot next November.
Uowatt Vail and sturgs, however, can make no snch
plea They did their rascally work with dclberation
and zeal. They knew they were perpctrntins an
utterly gross and shameful crime. Howatt was inc
chairman Of the board, Vail the man thn did the talk
ing and stureIs the vile creator OF the "qund 'mark'
fraud Sturgs Is no chicken In that kind OF business,
either In the good Did days when Tweed tossed thou
sand dollar bills stolen from the treasury OF New ork
CITY, about the Legislature, Stnres was member OF
IT, and his ayes and noes always sounded tweed
way eturgfs and Iiincklcy got hold Of one of the
election nspec In sturgs's town. about two weeks
after the election, and operated on his ignorance TO
get him to attach Of the quad marked ballots TO
his returns and 10 write 1t the words There were
thirty one ballots voted like this" Then, when sur9is
exhibited that at the meeting OF Tie board there
was a ring drawn arOdnd the quad mark by lead
pencil which of course had the ballot been voted that
way would have been lden flying mark. And that
precious Old rascal t1cd 10 pretend tnnt the pencil
there when the return the morning dIcr
election! The fschOOd palpablc that lie began
10 hedge almost Immediately, ana said he didn't nave
his specs on" when he inst got the rrtun and he
didn't know who had made the pencil mark. when
IL was pat there. but the Inspector, Dcm0crt who
mus unlawluy, though innOccnty, nXcd up the
turn la, sworn that 1t wasn't there when lac
dcrcd the paper liinclley and stuiss In llntkcys
lack ONCE Two weeks after election day
sturgis's town, Red Hook, has normal Democratic
majority Of $50, and he has money enough to make
hot fight. The candidate opposed TO him. Clinton +.
Rockefeller, Is an excellent ana popular man. and
he enterains a lively hope OF success. Pleasant Val
ley Wallis town, and Hyde Park, where lIOwatt Is
running are also normally Democratic but II Will be
straDg. If they are not both defeated. Z. W. H. Ar
mold who Is opposing iiOwat. Is clever and popular
young lawyer rIe las personally received assurances
OF support from nj least hundred Democrats, and lie
Is making canvass OF great cmcIcnc': opposed 10
Vail is Edward Drake strong candidate wei known
and cordially liked by the people. Inc Republicans
are conducting their canvass la the night spirit by an
appeal 10 Jus Ice common honesty and c0ilmonscnsc.
The facts the Democratic crime are inly understood
by the people and II 1t Is not cohuemncu " Vote 81
Overw hclmng force, the reason VIII be plan. Mcn
who would steal votes for another would buy them
quickly enough for Themselves ana eVrry resource OF
the whole Hill l. being acVcy ana most IN
ccnOusly worked 20 re- elect these quad married. cand
dates. Put. relying that sense Oh nsht ana duy
which out so generally, so quietly, but SO
strongly In the votes OF country people tAc Repub-
cans are confident 81 vic DRY which will restore the
county's good name and cNtingnlsh the gang whom
Hlrs Kind Of politics has brought INTO sucn sn"neii
promipence. u. ". u.