Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 December 1887 — An Election In .Yew York. [ARTICLE]

An Election In .Yew York.

Hunchetls of millions for Europe. not a dfilar -of surplus for; —p-f) Irffttsiitv, i - .tit* *ih:11o of tlif j Cleveland \ Ci.icßgo got the Cofivontion. | Chitsgo don tv. ant the era in. If it did it would find a way to g; t it Hurrah for Cl*tea-go. “ ■ Fif tyjaiilions surplus in tiroTraS?' ury is worae in the wes of Cleveland than two hundred, millions ,>:-nt to Europe, to pry for the iuevita’de excess.iff imports over exports, when his free, trade schemas are aLipted. L ... TiHI *ir.iilioiiA of gold in the Treasury; .every year is §nch n dreadful bug-.. 1-esr ia the .eyes-of- C-tevelaml and - bis party generally, that they pro- • pt.se to reurody tiie .ninth-r. In h loptvug a policy that will cause l: least twice that sum 1 > '.be periuancrotiy sent cat of tiro emioliy every year, to,puy the. bulutwe of. trade against us. Bemocratfb editors object vig<rously when some of the tulminat.ous of the Chicago Times are »rooted as the aitermices of n DeinvTcralie pafier, bat they we very fofid as quoting tiie Chicngo New? and its Indianapolis nnmes-.be and icoble echo, as Re.publie.in paper.-, whereas they arc much less properly classed as Republican organs, than is the Times ranked among the Democratic papers. The Joliet, li!., Republic ami . .Apes that it is now decided, that the Elgin, Joliet, & Eastern By., Hi# new line now building eastward into Indiana, from Jolie will not strike Valparaiso oi Crow: point, .bat will pass to the north of those towns and Steer for LnForte Valpiiriaso and Crown Point adopt . td the the Doufbpn like policy, oi refusing a tax for tins road, and when it is everlastingly too hit; will discover the magnitude oi their mistake. nAwtaw ii ■■ i mill Brooks ton has a new paper c;Vll•ectThe.Magnet, and its method oh force a circulation, L. file LVo. Trench, of tro .Reporter soinewhaß as may b seen from theappended paragraph: Jf (■<?<!{'(■ has suspeudet utter a brief Wonrisii of pt inp. ecT" Tt seems that Rensselaer ct'nj-1 m - up:.">rt th.rcp } tjijwj . .. i; ;g, - imd ' cAtli'd -i:A> ph ‘ i ;i;/ t* 'take Lit paper by s:-nJiug i; .;,at,,onztnl through theraiTil, nTny'- : *l-0 il p " CHiil.l ilfiVy ■'7 tpj; ffjl 11 • p-.- Til is W J.;» Vi. >p- - onuv-! a e.te,-k ~f I>tms?. jo tl a -ah *y-v-- paid (iiiaftcjaijy. i nstui Jrous *». the revenues bj

taking off tlie duty on wool, which yields a revenue of only four or five millions a year, [hut he says j nothing about taking off the 'duty lon sugar which yields a revenue of fifty or sixty millions. But then, you know,’ wool growing is a i northern industry, and its center !is the Republican ‘state of Ohio, ; while lire sugar is all ‘ produced iii the South, main v in Louisiana, i Cleveland is a monumental fraud, and those who are sloppiug j over with their nauseating gush j ovet the greet ‘ ‘eowage’ ’ -and “statesmanship” shown in his attack on the tariff, are either fools tliemselves, or else tljey imagine dill.other people are.

■ Cleveland occupies an office in whicli he is morally an usurper. An office to .which lie was not honestly elected. The vote of the .South was made solid for him through the power of fraud, force and intimidation; while the slender majority by which the scale was turned in his favor in, the state' of Now York, and, through that, in the Ration, was obtained through tiie means of bribery ami fraud, reduced to a scientific system. Some of the methods by which the democ'ratic majority in New York City is kept up to any desired figure are esphtiued in anafticle in the current number of the North American Ueview, one of the very oldest and most reliable and thoroughly ncinpnrtisnn publications in the count)y. We.append herewith extracts -from tire article montiouod, and only add to these introductory ivnva-ks, that President Cleveland, himself, in open and scandalous contempt of hiS. own p: t:\ions pr.'lenti ns of ft politcn 1 reformer' '‘contributed n thou.-niiU dlillars to tTie cnrniptlbn fund so lavishly expended in the manner described below: The p ills were opened at fi a. m. [ had been assigned by the “Citi■■iseiiSf- - Committee,-’- —whiidi- —had charge of Mr. Nicoil's canvass, to look alter a number of election Aiistricts in the western part of the eiiy. I was therefore, not confined to a single district, but had ample oppoitunify to observe whet was voing.mi ail over til at portion of --W York i Veiich elertiou distriris lufor'e the. pollu re opei-t -i. ’At all of t hem i,»rgcnumber M ! eison-- w. ivit,.:.negft‘-v--d, an--*, tot '.iK-.l a im.e CNhiidiiig some distance in.ni the. p place. .My crr iusiiy was, al once exeiteil to see who the neahuis citizens were who were so anxious to exercise the “priceless boon of citizenship*’ that they lmd risen ■almost before daybreak in order to avail themselves di tini privilege. On approaching T saw thab Ihey heid-their haihits tightly clenched in their liglii hands, which - were elevated awriglit 'angles with botl -te», and that they tonic good earto keep them in this position until the.'p tiis opened. In a: saw minutes the voting begun. As soon is each man voted he passed out hid: filed iuUi the side door of a o:o-. room located nemo by. J en owed and saw a wefl-kiiown warts ' hee’ei” (.whom 1 did not know, but whose name -was familiar to me as soon as I heard it) pass' if five dolh r till into each voter's hatuls with no" efforts of concealment. The whole transnetion from first to last fimrquite tlieHir of a ■oiumon business transnetion. The ptdja hatl not an hour when a’voter appr. ;v,:!u-d andtskvd me fbr shine Ndcoll bnlic.ts. *'l do got vote.here,” he said, “I ut ip above in the-—election district if the assembly district There re no Nicoil ballots t*t be had there. He is sold out. TheTrviug Hall worker has been bought up: the Nicoil worker (a paid colored man) has diappeaml, and the t Republican is issuing ballots with Fellows’s name on them.” Many of the voters did nut ex-, amine the ballots furnished, them•ly th -ir party workor» r but deposit d tham without inspection. The core intelligent bpened them ami saw the fraud, but few took the trouble to go to another .pollTvg place t;) prtreurs proper osSlott, when they found that none were t oe obtained in the v.einny. . On-*.even went so far as'to threat eii my life w hen he t\.:i:;-d tl.at : i'jtOie.Ld to remain ttrenmgd ifirulsli NiCOli baHOIS to I-h-we wfn. wftt;t-d them, Tty?v>r:-iTnTtelh i T7ngf -erJßuaifMniT: Mt of .taxAenting- m.. roughs fl ora tsfotvibh the handsnf « Kiooil Votei. I the police were “iuwr.hiimhoye,*', refuseil to i-uteofePAu ;md stefeegi to dt44*e cxHMjider;uht.» |

from the whole affair, i Later in The day bribery was openly practiced. One instance was so flagrant that i determined to challenge the voter. An attempt was made .to pull me nut of the polling place by force, but the approval of the police did not exteud to this, and I i&as allowed to vpmaiD. The man was evidently afraid of perjuring himself, and at first refuseil to take the , oath, but the “gang” backed him up ami insisted; so lie swore himself l through. This was the uniform experience | ] met with in going from one elec-! ! tion district to another The price for votes varied from two to | five dollars, but in two instances i , heard of ns much as tea dollars ! having been given for a vote, b’loui personal observation, aiid from statements of friends whose experience agreed with mine, there can ho no doubt that about a quarter of a million of dollars a. as spent in this city for iilcijal purposes, —an average of three haudreddob” lurs for bach election district. Police .Commissioner Stephen IT French, ceitainly not a novice or a silk-stocking in election experience, recently said: “if as much liiomy is spent in the next Presidential election as was spent on this last one they can elect almost any candidate that is put up.”