New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-05-20

the Supreme Courts decision In Noycs's favor ana
the very next dav Rice called meeting OF tie State
BOARD FOR December g. and in defiance OF that
decision as well as in defiance Of his promise 10 Mr.
Sutherland he and the rest issued certificate 10
blackwell II is on this certificate that Rockwell took
his seat a scat that he holds to-day IN defiance OF
the Judgment Of every court in this State from
the lowest to the highest.
This was the beginning of Frank Rices eX-
perence as an election thief, but 1t must DC
owned that he has improved on it since. After
robbng the files of his office OF an election return
sent there in pursuance OF the statutes ana OF
tie order OF the Supreme Court: after entering
into criminal conspiracy to prevent any judicial
process whatever from having its lawful effect;
after defyng the decisions OF the Court of Appeals
in two cases; after disregarding that courts In
structons in one case and its positive directions
in another: after violating his plghted faith cX-
pressed in stipulation, Frank Rice was in u
moral condition Of which the alteration of census
records for political ends was natural and easy
result.
The figures gave in a dispatch last week show
ing the extent to which the returns were altered
were merely illustrative / showed that in the
roll from the Twentieth Election District OF
the lid Assembly District of Ncw-York City ~
changes were made, and in the roll from the
Twenty-fr Election District d20 changes were
made. These changes were not comparatively great.
find that in the roll from the First Election
District from the Hid Assembly District sol
changes were made in the WITH Assembly District
altogether 1925 changes were made, and the
record by election districts shows Isl IN the
Sixth, / 50 in the Eighth, 200 in the Ninth, 2o1
in the Twelfth, $50 in the Thirteenth, 1858 III
the Fourteenth 225 in the Fifteenth, and "a
in the Seventeenth. In the With Assembly DISTRICT
ASIA changes were made, o,4 being made In one
roll-that from the Xth District In that district
Rice reported to the Legislature the eNistcnce OF
1877 aliens, whereas, in fact, the roll from That
district showed the existence Of OIL
These are sp cimens OF the fraud. me more
it is investigated the larger it grows 1t begins
TO look as II the two clerks of the Census Bureau
who told me that as many as $4,000 changes
had been made in the entire state had made
safe and conservative estimate. There can be
and six ASS Nblymen were deliberately stolen
for the Democratic party by this one trand
Another Assemblyman was stolen by the arbitrary
addition to the population of Brooklyn of 20,
$50, while the effect OF the false and forced
Notifications, extending over the records OF about
twenty counties, resorte1 70 by Bencdict's orders
on the last night Of the computation IN order to
save time cannot be calculated al all. On that
night aliens and citizens were stolen right and
left inst suited the taste and convenience OF
the clerks engaged in cocrcng an agreement IN
sets of figures which by honest arithmetic could
not be made 10 agree The political results OF
this fraud will probably never be known:
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