Year: 1870

ton living in some rotten borough State,
which has been manufactured for partisan
purposes. 1t Is a wicked thing to try to
eheat her OF her Just power in the House
of Representatives. 1t is


BASE THING


for any of her citizens to be parties to this
1oul attempt. 1t Is monstrous thing that
men dare come before you and ask you to
give them your votes, for the reason they
are wronging your State, and doing what
they can to disgrace it in the estimation
of the world. Will you choose such men
to represent you in the councils of the
State and nation? 1t is said that advan-
tages are gained at the polls by repeating
votes. If this is done, it must be shown
IN the aggregate of the vote, otherwise
nothing could be gained by this practice
Some OF those who make these charges tell
you how cheating is done at elections
They know too much for the good of their
regulations. 1t is true that Corruption is
creeping into our canvasses. How can it
be otherwise when nearly fifty thousand
men who hold places under the govern
ment are forced to give a per centage of
their pay to make up fund for partisan
purposes? Of this you may be sure. The
men who are thus wronged by the rob-
berry OF their superiors at Washington
VIII take care to rob from the public more
than enough to make good their losses
Inc census returns throughout our land
VIII not show its full population. In ev-
cry city and town there are complaints
and proof that the work has been badly
done. believe that the census takers
were paid the same sum for each person
enumerated that was given in 1860. The
change IN all values has been so great that
thls would not pay man for looking up
carefully the names of those who might
De away from home, or who lived in OBJ
scure or lnconVenlent places They could
with prott take the names of those they
could easily reach, all beyond that would
De at loss to them. The census takers in
the city Of New York had not only a mon
eyed interest in doing the work careless
~, but also strong political reasons. Their
party interest called for small popula-
tons IN Democratic districts. Their par-
ty leaders desired this result. You see
Tor yourselves with what pleasure they
speak OF the fact that the city appears to
tall short of that growth and prosperity
winch all expected and every right-min-
ded man desired.


THE ENROLMENT OF 1864.


Those who have tried to fasten the
charge of fraud upon the Democratic par
ty OF the State of New York have not
only failed IN this, but they have unwit-
ungly unmasked a monstrous wrong of
which they themselves have been guilty.
Ihls question about the population of n.
York and Brooklyn, and Of. Democratic
districts IS not a new one. 1t agitated
TINS State few years since, and was the
subject OF bitter controversy. In their
haste to denounce others, in their zeal to
draw false conclusions from the census re-
turns, they forget that they are bringing
forth proof that they themselves were
guilty OF crimes of ten-fold deeper dye
than those they untruly charge upon 9th
ers. During the war an enrolment was
made of those who were liable to do mill
tarry duty. The government never did an
act more grave, more solemn, or one
which called for more unquestionable fair
ness than this. This sacredness of its pur-
pose, the preservation of the Union, sho'd
have invested 1t with a species of sancity.
1t was measure which touched the lives
OF our people, the happiness of their homes
and which was to carry death and mourn
ing into so many family circles. 1t was
to be great lottery for life, and the tho't
that there should be fraud, falsehood and
fraud and injustice in its conduct shocks
every mind that is not dead to Justice and
to mercy. But when this enrolment was
made, it was to be SO unequal and parti-
san, that, with others, I deemed it a duty
to look into it. 1 will give you few of
the results of that scrutiny. 1 beg every
man within the sound of my voice to recall
to his mind the statements which were
made IN the controversy which grew out
of that subject. ask you all, without
regard to your political views, to read
again what was said at that time In polit-
lcal speeches and in political journals. 1t
was found under this enrolment, when q
call was made for 800, 900 men, that nine
Democratic Congressional Districts, which,
at that time, gave 10000 votes, were
called upon to furnish more than 10000
men, while sixteen Republican districts,
with vote of more than $4,000, were
charged with but 10000. The districts
mostly in the cities of New York and
Brooklyn. The first nine Congressional
districts, which comprise these-cities and
that time rated at 1918, ,949, were called
O4A ia AOs 4OO 4ACA4J hA44C Ald5SdCuu6eIIS
with ten Congressional districts and pop-
ulation then rated at 1870 had to
furnish only 1926. At the same time
the quotasSof Vermont and New Hanp-
shire, with population of 64l, III, with
six Congressional districts, gave only z
099 men, while two districts in the city of
New York, with population of only 283-
229, were called upon for 1923. 1 ask
you to notice some startling facts about
the Sixth Congressional district of New
York. You have, in the New York Trib-
une and IN other papers, statements which
show that IN many wards in this district
the vote Is unduly large in comparison
with census returns. These statements
are put forth as clear proofs Of election
frauds. Now, if the census returns Of
these wards are not false, the Republican
party and its leaders have been guilty Of


THE PoULEsr FRAUD


ever practiced on a people. By the CEN
sus return there are only lis, 200 people
IN the Congressional district, showing a
falling off of moIe than 5000 since 1860
the only district in the city in which it
is claimed there is loss of population
This Democratic district. Now, in the
enrolment of 1864, there was charged
aSalnsL LnlS QlSLT1cL more Inan OO,OUU men
as liable to military duty, when in the
county of Oneida, which is said to have
about the same population, only $3.50
were enrolled. More men were enrolled
in the Sixth district as liable to military
duty than in any other district in this
State or nation, nearly three times as
many as were claimed OF any Republican
district of this State, although many Of
them exceeded it in numbers by the een+
sus returns There could not have been
80, 900 men liable to enrolment in this dis
triet unless it had population of about
100000. When this was pointed out by
me, it was said in answer, not only that
the district had large population, but it
was rapidly increasing in numbers. Those
who are parading the census returns to
show how small the population OF this
district is, then demanded that this ENROLL
ment should be enforced at the point of
the bayonet. At length the ease was 50
gross that adjustment was forced, and the
enrolment cut down to 10000 men. Now,
this implied a population Of nearly 200
900 men in the district. ask you to look