Year: 1870

ana an Honest Vote.


The republicans assure us that In this city
we are going to have an honest election, and
law and order, too, through the enforcement
of the city registration law and the new elec-
tion laws Of Congress. The Republican State
Committee, however, advise what they appa-
rently consider the necessity Of . vigilant
lookout for ''frauds of every description" in
all the other cities, towns and parts of the
State where there is no registration law. This
committee say that, ''having been foiled in
their attempts to repeat the gigantic frauds
hitherto practised in the city of New York,
the corruptionists of Tammany Hall have
now turned their attention to places outside
the city, and will make bold and desperate
attempt to carry the election by the corrupt
use Of money, the colonization of repeaters
and the employment of fraudulent naturaliza-
ton papers distributed broadcast throughout
the State;" and the committee further say
that they have facts which confirm this in
formation.


This charge, however, like all the other
partisan charges on both sides on the verge
Of political election, must be taken
with liberal allowance of salt. From
present indications the Tammany demo-
cracy will hardly be shaken in the
city and will hold their ground throughout the
State. 1t requires great national issue and
general revival among the republicans Of the
country districts to bring them all out. They
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city, and in the hope of some valuable assist
ance from ''the Young Democracy" they are
working here like beavers; but the ''Young
Democracy are very uncertain and have
been, day by day, growing


Small by degrees ana beautifully less,


while the Tammany republicans are evidently
going for Hoffman and Hall. Nor does it ap-
pear that ''the great commotlon" in this city
has caused any very hopeful revival among
the republicans Of the interior and distant bor-
heartened and demoralzed for the last two or
three years that it win probably take still an
other year or two to get them all into line
again. Fenton and his faction could not be
expected to work with any great zeal just yet
for Thomas Murphy; we are rather apprehen-
sive that in his behalf they are very lukewarm,
though he is good fellow and generous boy
from 'the ould sod" In short, looking at
the results of the October elections,
we look for short State vote and decided
democratic victory, as usual on short vote,
in our November election; and whether Hof'-
man is reelected by fifty. sixty or seventy-fve
thousand majority, it will make no material
diff.1ence. We expect that he will substan-
TALLY hold his own, and that his party will
still hold both branches Of the Legislature and
gain several members of Congress. We ex-
pect these results, too, more from republican
apathy in the State than from democratic ac-
tivity. Tammany has the inside track, and
her supporters are encouraged and confident;
the republicans Of the State are still disheart-
ened by their defeats since 1867, and lack the
spirit required for success. With another
campaign or two under the active leadership
of General Grant they may recover their lost
ground; but the task is evidently too heavy
for single fight under General Woodford,
though he fights like veteran soldier of the
Plains for the scalps Of the 'sbig Indians"