The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-02-10
THE METHODS OF THE SOUTH
ADOPTED IN NEW YORK.

In order to steal the New York Senate,
Ex-Governor Hill and fellow Democratic
conspirators resorted to the worst methods
of the Southern political banditti who an
nually burlesque by fraud, or dismantle
and rife by fraud the ballot-box
In the proceedings for contempt of court
against the Democratic clerk of Duchess
county, through whose aid the Democrats
were able to claim there was only the
fraudulent election return from that county
before the state board of canvassers, and SO
enable the board to disregard the decision
OF the court OF appeals, the Democratic
secretary of state was Called as a witness.
In the care of the secretary of state the
election returns from the different coun-
ties are deposited and he is responsible for
their safe keeping. This man swore that
he permitted the Democratic clerk of
Duchess county to take from his table
package, which had just arrived in the
mail and which was unopened, on the un-
supported claim that he had mailed it and
that court had enjoined it. He showed
no order from the court giving him a right
to the package, and offered no proof that
the package was the one he had mailed,
and yet the secretary of state permitted
this county clerk to carry it away on his
own unsupported authority. This pack
age contained the corrected returns from
Duchess county, made out according to
the decision of the supreme court, and
which the court of appeals decided ought
to be considered by the state board of
canvassers.
The secretary of state had no more
right to allow this return to go out of his
possession than he had to permit the
archives of his office to be carried of, but
he knew that if this package containing
the correct election returns from Dutchess
county remained in his possession it
would embarrass the Democratic board of
canvassers.
So to get rid of it, as he declared under
oath in court, he allowed man utterly
without authority to search his mail. alb
stract this return and leave his office.
This Democratic secretary of state replied
as follows to the questions of Judge
Cullen:
"Dld you assume that this document, which
you permitted Mr.. Emans to take from your Of
fee, was the Duchess county returns which in
course OF law should be hled In your officer
ayes, sir; suppose they were"
"And you allowed them to SO ont of your pos
session.
ayes, sir; Mr. Emsns went to the table where
the mail was and TOOK them. saying he was
going TO keep them, subject TO the future action
OF the court, and made no attempt to prevent
him"
'Dld Emans show you any order restraining
him from forwarding these corrected returns?'
''No he did not"
"Aud without his showing you any order OF
the court YOU allowed him 10 take those docu-
ments away"
"les, sir"
The Galveston (Tex.) Ncles, the leading
Democratic journal OF that state, de-
nounces this conspiracy to steal the New
York Senate as follows:
Whoever prevented the true certificate from
reaching the state board imposed the false one
as the only one before the board. Such mode
OF saving the necessity Of openly antagonizing
the courts may be termed artistic, but then
SO is hallctbox stufliug in comparison
with forgery aud perjury. These mat-
tiers are understood as To their principle. The
law may ee broken with wink as well as with
a command 10 subordinate. A governor
speaks through his appointments, removals and
pardons as we'll rs through his messages and
proclama.ions Mr.. Hi has made himself
leading representative o. an idea, which is sim
ply to beat tie opposite party sad capture the
spells by some means.