Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 March 1894 — A Belated Discovery. [ARTICLE]

A Belated Discovery.

Indianapolis Journal. There are some things which make i one very weary, and one of those things which -may be said to “tire" the intelligent citizen is the holy horror of New York too-goods and I Tammany deserters expressed at the ■ discovery of the ballot box frauds committed by Tammany last fall. A few nights ago Representative Dunphy, who has just thrown off his allegiance to Tammany, but who yet i holds his seat by the grace of Boss ' Croker, related at a meeting in New I York city a few facts regarding I Tammany’s frauds last fall. He I said: Tammany registered 13.000 men in ■ the second assembly district last I year when the district contained only I 8,000 legal voters. More than 13,000 i men were voted so that the. workers might be sure that none would be lost in the final count. Before the election I saw long lines of men waiting to register. “Who are they?" I asked. “They are the tin soldiers,” one of the politicians answered, ‘ ’ who are paid to register.” “How much do they get?” “The price was sl. but there are so many of them now that we get four for a quarter.” On election day I found two polling places where the ballots were prepared and handed cut in a hallway, and another where only one booth was in use, and in the back of that' there was a slit in the canvas through which the willing voter found a pair of hands protruding : which prepared his ballot for him. j At another place I saw one man come out of the booth and fall into j line three times and vote each time. “Oh, that’s nothing,” said one of the watchers, when I spoke of it. “He voted seven or eight times before you came.” Representative Dunphy ta’ked as if this were a new discovery, and yet the same thing, in one form or another, has been going on since 1868, Only in a less degree was the same fraud perpetrated in 1892. The Second Assembly District gave Maynard, Dem.. 11,046 and Bartlett. Rep.. 1,351 in November, 1893. while in 1892 it gave Cleveland 9,130 ai d Harrison 2,224. There was a total pf 11,742 votes polled in the Second District in 1892 by 8,000 voters and 18,928 by the same 8.000 in 1893. In the district, in 1892, the candidates for President other than Mr. Cleveland received 2,376 votes. Deduct these from the 8,000 which is the whole number of voters In the district, and there were 5,624 left to vote for Mr. Cleveland, supposing that every man voted. These zealous 5,624 Democrats gave Mr.

Cleveland 9,130 votes—-1,130 *mor< than there were voters in the district, or 3,506 more than 5,624 Democrats having a right to vote for one candidate in one day. Why did not Mr. Dunphy make this discovery regarding the vote for 1892? Because he and Mr. Cleveland were elected by such frauds. And now the Cleveland organs like the Times and New York Evening Post and the truly good men about the office of Harper’s Weekly listen with seeming astonishment to the story of Representative Dunphy, and exclaim: “My, but how wicked !” And yet just such frauds elected Mr. Cleveland in 1884 and created “the great popular revolt against protection in 1892.” Still, these highly moral "journals and those who worshiped the Consecrated One with them in 1892 pretend that Dunphy’s discovery was the first hint they had ever had of this thirty-years’-old ballotbox fraud of Tammany.