New-York daily tribune., 1843-11-15
OF xESTucgY.
How and Why.


discussion on our own side. Assuredly, II Mr.
Van Buren can thereupon induce his party IN ON
ar States to believe that he has something like
10000 majority in this State, and so ensure NE
nomination, we ought not to dispel the illusion
When the canvass is made, it will appear that his
party has not a majority Of the whole vote cast IN
the State, even under the circumstances thal eA-
isted. Yet let it 90 that the Fayorite Soh 10
all.powerful here-for the present.
But some of the Wing journals have chosen 10
aiscuss the causes of this result, and lmpute blame
,o tbose who saw fit last summer to recommend
that we should make no regular contest this Fall.
Very good-we are in that boat. We did believe,
and do now believe. that wiser course was open
to us--that we might have staked less and won
vastly more We believed and said that our true
course was to carry all the decidedly Wing coun-
ties and make guerilla contest in the rest run
ming stump candidates, voting partly for Calhoun
men, Radicals, or whatever section of our oppo-
nents should happen to be in revolt against the
regulars and SO defacing and breaking down par.
~ hnes as much as possible preparatory to the
great struggle of 1914.
Take our City for example: If we had here
nominated or brought out as independents can
ddates for Senator and County Officers, letting
the Assembly 60 according to circumstances
does any man doubt that we should have elected
our men by thousands, and sent an Regency
Delegation 10 Albany We do not care what
they might be called-Calhoun men, Natives
or what you please-they would have been quite
az good as so many Wings for all practical ends
without involving us IN any responsibility for
their acts, and the moral influence of victory
would have been ours; the depression of total
defeat in their citadel would have weighed On our
opponents all over the country. Our candidates.
those we did run-would inevitably have been the
highest on the poll, and their vote would have
been trumpeted and contrasted with their oppo-
nents' throughout the Union. AS it is, with five
eighths of the voters of this City strongly de-
sirng as the first consideration, the defeat of the
Tarnmany ticket. we have managed to elect it !!
The other parties behaved well enough We
Wings did the business.
Another matter may as well be stated here
When our General Committee had resolved to
run clean Ticket, those who had dssented from
the policy came heartily into the work, and we
think were not behind others in energy-perhaps
not in efficiency. NqU it was clearly expedlent
to elect our Ticket as well as run tit being i'm
possible that any other could succeed over Tam
many. 1t was thereto essential that we should
have strong Ticket To be sure, man ought
to vte for the true interests of the Country, even
though their champions are not the greatest men
in the world but some ,c:ll not go to the Polls
unless they recognize in the candidates of their
party men of eminent capacity. We must re-
member shat every pa-tr nav be divided into
s.hses cissses. ~ }, sc.,. 10 vote
those who Slmply vote solicitation, and
those who need urging. Admit that the last
form but one-tenth of the whole, and still their
votes withheld ensure defeat. Now the Wings
had fair ticket, composed of upright, deserving
men; but we needed two or three different names
to overcome the apathy in our ranks and stem
the tendency to split off on the American Re-
publican ticket. We felt, when it was an
nounced that Robert Smith, John L. Lawrence,
Thomas Bolton and John O. Sargent declined
standing on the Assembly ticket, that their
names must be replaced by other. of equal weight
or the ticket was in danger. We conferred with
some Of the Nominating Committee, and urged
that they should put up DUDLEY SELDEN and
DAVID GRAHAM, and run them in defiance Of
their disinclination to serve. We urged that i,
would be better to make subscription and pay
TWO such men for the sacrifice of their business
involved in staying two or three months at Al.
bany, in the dead of winter than to lose all by
wanting them. Not that the two we named are
the only men that would answer--there are 9th.
ers of the same stamp; not that whole ticket
of such was requisite--but some such were clearly
needed. This course was overruled, and other
candidates misunderstanding, judicious men,
Cited to represent the City at Albany, but not
The men that the ticket then needed-not the
men to make good the places Of those who de-
chned. The result is as it is And now we be.
heve almost any Wing in the City could have
changed four names on our ticket so as to have
elected the whole. We do not speak of this in
complaint of the past, but as lesson for the lu.
ture--a lesson which mast be needed
But, says an obector, why should we not
make regular battle here, as well as in other
States' Why, SIR, because there was not enough
at stake to call out the last reserves of voters A
party which polls nine-tenths only of its whole
vote in this nicely balanced State is sure to be
beaten if its opponents can p9L nineteen-twent-
sths of theirs. Now if we had had the whole
Governments at stake as in Tennessee and Georgia,
or even U. S. Senator and the Districtng for
Congress as IN Maryland, or the Congressional
Delegation as in Ohio and Pennsylvania, we could
have calculated on calling out better vote. Bu,
there was nothing of the sort. The most over