New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-10-31
DEMOCRATIC ROTTENNESS.
RANK TILLANI tNMAShED'
1.-THE BROOKLYN EAGLES" SlARILlN" la
POSTURE.
yUGE REGISTRATION FRAUDS IN hIN"'
COUNTY.
THE LEADING DEMOCRATIC JOURNAL 1'D
AER,IGNs ITS OWN PARTY-A FLAHLLSo
AND sCATIING CONFIRMATION
1rronn The BROOKLYN Eagle, oct 'VJ

From The Brooklyn Eagle. oct 'O'
rhere are several thousand Illegal votes ''is-
tered The location of them is Indicate" ..,S.'
, 4, -, ahpormal increase of the registration
=, 1909 over that of other years mere /" '"e ~
World any assault on the person ol INV "
on any member of his family "he'"' 49,, n
fatally or not. is punishable by ue"''' III go =,
public the people are the governments
Tho king the ballot is every free man SceP'ei anu
:, ' -, Ill, 90 tho majority is the supreme law.
p,oudulent registration signifies iiaudueht SUI
frage Fraudulent suffrage is an at'acN ~" "'' o'
sovereign or king which Americans "'"'N
II would not be overpunished II 1t "ds Pu'''s"'u
with death THE Eagle wouu pe e"'"V'' WINS
,o have the law condemn to death those VINO reg
,s.or uogalv and vote Illegally, and those VINO get
them TO do So The Eagle would be eh'rcl!
willing to have this law carried out 10 'e le,'e,'
Murder is the slaughter only OF an huiV'"u"i'
prroudulant registration and fraudulent voting IN
voIve the murder Of the Government Muruele's
of individuals certainly Ho' i'o'S O''"'"' '
murderers of the Governme"
The Democratic party Is in power her" All '"e
judiciary belong to that party. Inc piS'rlct-A'.oi-
nav and his assistants are Democrats. ON onlclais
rssts the execution Of the laws. Among the laws
,bosa execution rests on them are the Election
,or.s Those laws provide for truthful regis
,rotion a truthful vote and truthful count The
violation of those laws or the omission TO enforce
than, il the highest kind Of moral treason ana
.bould be regarded the highest form OF legal
.roaso, II also involves the greatest possible per-
Ndv 70 democracy. which means government by
,he neonle and the highest possible danger. peril
and disgrace to the city. the Nation and the State
DEMOCRATIC RESPONSIBILITY.
IN the Democratic machine here rests the sus-
,c,on of pernitng If not of procuring, this fraud
,snt registration This suspicion Is due 10 the re-
fusaI of Democratic justices and. 1t Is said OF the
Democratic prosecutors. to issue warrants lot 'he
arrest Of persons charged with or suspected or
fraudulent registration. with the intention or
fraudulent voting. The complaints have been made
by representatives Of the opposition VINO are men
Of substance. seriousness responsibility ana lesa
knowledge. They have been refused warrants
which would deprive man of his vote VINO IL
entitled to cast it, but which would subject 10
examination the right Of justly suspected parties
10 vote and which would prevent many unawfuily
registered persons from trying TO commit the crime
of fraudulent voting. The justices have taken
their attitude by refusing to move until and unless
the Distrct-Attorneys Office has done So
This is a travesty on justice. This is an outrage
on right This is a blot the Democratic party.
This is a defiance Of public sentiment 1nis Is an
insult and injury TO every hOnes' c'tlzeh. vi
course there is redress. The higher courts nave
been appealed to. These higher courts have not
yet been machined into obedience 10 lawiessncss
or into disregard of the claims of decency equity
and public security. The appeal to them we
believe will not be in vain. The argument whicn
the necessity of appeal TO them furnishes Tor
the preservation of the judiciary from machine
influence can be let unfold itself upon the minus
of voters, in passing.
A REWARD OFFERED-wIL TIE DEMOCRATIC
MACHINE CO-OPERATEf
There are other signs Of movement lot an
honest election noticeable A respectable ana re-
sponsible non-par,isan committee offers a reward
to-day for evidence that will lead to the arrest
6 ,,la an
is printed in this paper. 1t will be shame II
this offer is not supplemented in good laith by
the machine organization of the Democratic party
That organization should lose no time In taxing
the initiative against fraudulent votes. Inc laws
are in their hands The election board is in their
hands Two of the fou- on it belong to them
by appointment and affinity. At least one more
Jacob Worth. belongs to them just as absolutely
for other causes. The three are a majority OF the
four They control the appointment assignment
of the election officials in each voting district NO
fraudulent registration has taken place without
the active procurement or the connivance OF eiec
ton district officers under the control Of the board
which is under the control of the Democratic
machine.
At the basis of this fraudulent registration must
be the kind Of naturalization which has been going
on here THE Eagle" has been told that Italians
have been naturazed directly from off shipboard
here This is an exaggeration Some Of them ap~
near 10 have been on shore at least two three
days The illustration. however. shows the raw
ness illiteracy and rottenness Of the stuff In
jected by legal machinery into the body polite.
Much of it is stuff that neither read, write
nor speak the English language which knows moth
Ing Of our country. its laws or constitution and
which is sworn into citizenship in blocks OF five or
ten, without knowing the value or significance or
the oath itself. let alone of the trust which II I'M
plies The shame and danger of this are manifest
The ability Of the people to cope with 1t Is not
10
certainly find the officers OF the law with them,
and not against them. so far, however, the con-
trary has been the case.
ASTOUNDING vILLANY At GEAvEsEND.
Look at the situation down at Gravesend, COM
monty called Coney Island. In summer II is pop
ulous. In chill autumn or winter the numbers
there few. The census credits Gravesend with
population Of s.4Is. Supposing each sex should
be equally represented. that would mean 4.209
males and 4.2O9 females. children. aliens dis
franchsed criminals and all clases included. There
are however registered in Gravesend 6,2l persons
claiming to be voters. 1908 more persons than
there males in the town This is simply villany.
The boast is that 1t will be successful villany. and
that IT will be sustained all the way from Dis
trct-Attorney Rdgway up to Governor Roswell
i. Flower on the ground that they have political
interest in II which Will OverDear their public duty.
This may do them injustice. but the injustice is
done them by their political associates.
The Eagle warns oHlcais high or low, against
frauds in this election. The people terribly
aroused Whether they elect Boody or whether
they elect Schieren. the man who is chosen will
go in by fair election and by fair count and not
by the false declaration Of unfair count Fraud
can well be abandoned. for 1t will not be sub
mitted to- The law here preserves the ballots and
the poll lists intact for year after election. A
false result be attacked by a repoll OF citizens
in any affected district in the courts under oath.
No man afford to be frauduently seated. and
candidate defeated by fraud will submit to the
result. Neither will his party. They say, 1T will
be worth a mans life TO go down TO Gravesend to
stand at the voting places and to take down the
numbers OF those who vote there for the purpose
Of seeing that more votes counted than are
actually cast" Report has 1t that the habit there
Is to put In nearly many machine ballots as
there names on the criminal registration list.
irrespective Of whether they are cast by persons