New-York tribune., 1895-10-18
courage Of Its convictions is withered and use'
less.
yEwyERsEY ELIMINATING FRAUD.

The registration In NeW~Iersey gives Sho"s
reason to expect Republican success Attention
was called some time ago to the fact mat the
enormous frauds by which Democratic maJori-
ties had been manufactured to order IN HUDSON
, County and in some cities would DE pre'eh'eu
this year at least In the main. ana that II 'he
fraudulent vote there cast had been as large us
was believed its prevention would make great
difference with Democratic chances. hepuo-
licans have claimed, and official Investigations
connected with the conviction OF about seventy
Democratic election officers gave PROOF, tha' the
lists in Hudson County alone were frauduieh'iy
inflated to the extent Of about 5000 Names ana
similar frauds in registration were disclosed IN
Newark and other cities.
A refreshingly ignorant but Jealous Democrat,
observing the low registration this year in cities
makes haste TO infer that the Republicans VIII
be beaten by the personal registration law Tor
cities which they enacted Upon examination
of returns the registration being completed, 1t is
found that there has indeed been large de-
crcase but that II Is almost wholly In Demo
cratic wards Of the cities In Jersey city the
total registration this year Is 3l3S.' against
Al 967 names upon last years poll list ana the
decrease Of over 10000 Is mainly IN the waros
and voting precincts which the old gang OF plum
derers used to control In the Republican wards
the registration is larger than elsewhere Now
decrease of g. even 10, per cent OF the vote III
a large city, when no Congressman are 10 pe
chosen and upon the first trial OF personal
registration law, would not be surprising. But
decrease Of more than quarter in the number
registered goes far to sustain the claim that the
old lists in Jersey City were padded by the
fraudulent addition Of about 5000 names.
The registration in Newark this year IS 4l,Slo,
and IS o. 1O6 less than the number on the old list,
and here again the decrease is mainly IN the
Democratic wards 1t Is only 18 per cent. against
over % per cent in Jersey City, but is large
enough TO indicate that the old lists were bur
dened with several thousand names carried there
for purposes of fraud In the strong Republican
warls the registration is highly encouraging, and
while Democratic managers profess to believe
that the loss in Democratic wards is more ap-
parent than real, because the registration there
is about equal to the actual vote last fall, they
fail to mention that the refusal Of many Thousand
Democrats to vote last fall was one Of the causes
of an amazing Republican majority. In Pa'er-
con the registration Is 17.7Gl, about 5000 less
than last year, and again the decline is mainly
in Democratic wards, where it is about - per
cent, against III per cent III hcpuDh'hh ""i"''
In the Eighth, Democratic stronghold, only
400 names are registered. against 1,o43 last
spring. In Camden the registration is 14,o2l,
and the decrease is 1922 which Is not much
more than might naturally occur in an election
not calling out full vote But again the de-
crease appears to be largely in Democratic pre-
cIncts. In Trenton, on the other hand the regis
tration this year Is actually 1196 larger than
last year. and even Democrats express the BELIEF
that the Republicans have the best OF it.
In the few cities where Democrats have manu-
factured their majortics in times past the regis
tration Is about a third of the entire registra-
tion in the State, and the decrease in number
registered this year is 24.j00. 1t is full allow
ance to suppose that 10 per cent decrease may
be due to Indifference of voters in year not OF
Congressional or Presidential elections, but there
would still remain decrease Of 1l.50O votes due
to purging of the registration lists. II the Dem
ocrats are to that extent deprived Of power to
manufacture fraudulent votes by means OF re-
peatcrs that change alone would suffice 10 over
come the ma ajortics they usually had in elections
| prior to the panic But he knows little of the
tempcr of wage-earners in New.IcrSey who fails
to realize that the Democratic party will meet
a loss Of many thousand votes because Of lis
National policy, as 1t did last year.