Year: 1868

There was no more resOlute, persistent,
gallant effort made for GRANT ana CoLtAA
anywhere than in this City. We had several
working clubs in each Ward and Assembly
| District, and we held local and mass meetings
incessantly, at which there was abundance
of good speaking, Music, and pyrotechnics
Our parades and professions may have been
| surpassed in numbers, but IN nothing eise'
And our vote was nearly equal to our highest
| expectatiOns. Here Is RECORD Oh VIII" We
| have n right to be proud


1856. Vote of this city for Fremont 1871


1850. Vote OF this city for Lincoln .33.2oo


1864. Vote of this city for Lincoln. 30,Sst


gsaS. Vote of this city for Grant. .37.77s


-Ours has lbeen steady. honest, healthy
growth. in defiance of enormous patronage,
robbery and corruption. There are not less
than Ten Thousand persons residing here VINO
live in ease and luxury oh the plumber OF our
taxpayers and of the strangers who from time
TO time come among us. The proiesslohhi
gamblers are numerous, able, INSCRIPTIONS
body. and they are fully aware that the impu-
nifty they enjoy i'll plucking their dnpes oil
Millions per annum depends on the unarimlty
and efficiency OF the support they regn-
larly give to the Democratic ticket. Our
rumsellers are about Six Thousand in number
directly controlling Mt least thrice that number
of voters; and at least Seventeen Thousand
of these regularly vote and work for the party
that they know TO be most favorable to their
traffic. So the John Aliens, Kit Burns, and all
keepers of haunts of infamous and dem0fal-
izipg resort. are Democrats by instinct, and
vote accordingly. There are not so few rs
I i'm
who hate and oppose the Republican party
because they deem it less tolerant OF vice and
immortality than its antagonist, while they
prefer TO live and thrive by pursuits which
promise gain to their ministers, while they
debauch and destroy their yotaries. The Re-
publican party must become more complalsant
toward Vice and Wrong if it would make 1t
self popular with the governing class In our
City.


Yet. in defiance of that class, its instructive
dread and it's implacable hate, we are nearly
or quite twO-fifths of the Legal Voters here,
though we were hardly one-fourth in 1856.
From the smallest beginnings, the Republican
party have steadily grown, until majority OF
our native born and very considerable minority
| of our Adopted Citizens are now its earnest
|
business men generally clear majority are
Republicans, and so of our engineers,
builders, and other captains of industry.
All we need is an honest vote every
legal voter casting only one, and no one else
casting any-and we shall soon be strong enough
to constrain our local masters to govern
less recklessly and far less cOrruptly. But
fraudulent voting, unless stoutly resisted and
cxtirpated, will very soon prove the ruin, not
merely of the Republican party, but of the
Republic itself Honest men will refuse to vote
year after year, if they see that their votes are
nullified by those of " repeaters," so that they
might as well cast them into the fire as into
the ballot-box. Now is the time to resolve
decisyely that this species of swindling, which
complicates fraud with treason, shall be stopped
forever.