New-York daily tribune., 1844-09-09


hundred Of her Whig voters IN this city, and
thousand all aiong shore, who say they will be
home in November to vote for President, but don't
consider it important now. The Editor OF the
Bangor Wing is out of the State, and his paper
sound asleep just four days before the Election.
1t needs no ghost from the grave to tell us that
the State can't be carried in such lazy contest
80 VIC shan't hurry about the ;;:turns. Yet we
knop that the changes sir,ce l940 are decidedly
in our favor, and the, the State might have been
won this time with proper cxcrtons. As 1t Is,
we must be content with what we can pick up.
Si!as Wright and the Rights OF the Peo-
ple-The Struggle of 1924
The notorious Seventeen what New Y orkeT
has not heard OF them ?-yet how small proper
ton of our present voting population retain u
vivid and distinct recollection of the outrage OIL
Repubicanism and Popular Rights which made
The seventeen so unenviaby notorious The
Editor Of The Tribune is of that proportion, be II
small or large. Though boy in 1924, and llv-
ing mile across the Vermont line of the State,
he can never forget the indignation awakened by
that outrage, which made him for ever an adver
sary of the Albany Regency and the demagogues
who here and elsewhere make use of the terms
Democracy Democrats Democratic party
to hoodwink and cajoc the credulcus aud un-
thinking-to divert their attention from things 10
names-to divcst them Of independent and manly
thought, and lead them bndfold wherever tho
intrigucrs' interests shall dlctatc-to establish
real Aristocracy under the abused name Of De
mocracy. II was 1924 which taught many be-
side us tho nature of this swindle, and fired them
with unconqucrablc zeal and Tesolution 10 defeat
the fraud by exposing it 10 the apprehension ol
duped and betrayed People. Now that one oi
the widest contrivers and cnaclers o the outrage
OF 1921 is before the People as candidate for
Governor, brief rccaptulation of the scenes Of
that memorable year, SO far as they relate 10 this
subject, cannot be unintcrcstins to any. We
have just been patiently rcGxamning the docu
lnents, and with their help, shall give PLAN,
unvarnishcd history.
The party i'll this State hostile to DE Witt
Clinton, called Republican, by itself ana
Bucktail' by the Clintonians, i'll 1922 elected
Joseph c. Yates Governor and Legislature oi
their own sort with little opposition BY this
LcglEldtuIC, DuiSu hoo SIiooSii w
tho U. S. Senate, having befosc been Attorney
General, Siias Wright was one Of It's Leaders
in the State Senate In 1923, another Legisla
iurc, almost entirely Bucktail,' was chosen-
Azariah C. Fhgg, then Editor Of village
newspaper in Clinton County, came into the
House, and was made Speaker. He is now
Comptroller of the Finances of the State.
This Legislature had been chosen with scarce
ly thought of the Presidential Election which
would take place in Nov. 1924. The candidates
for that Election had not been nominated; they
were but vaguely indicated. Dc Witt Clinton
and John C. Calhoun were by many expected To
be among them; Andrew Jackson was as yet hard
" thought Of. The Legislature Of this State werc
by law empowered to choose the Presidential
Electors Those who controlled the Legislature
had thus in effect thiIty.six Electoral Votes to
throw into either scale in that contest.
Long before it became generally known that
Van Buren, s. Co. mad resolved to cast the vote
of New York for William Ii. Crawford, the Poo.
pie became uneasy and began to demand that
the choice of Presidential Electors be surrender
ed by the Legislature to them. We believe the
Members from this city, before their Election,
promised to propose and urge such q change
Public sentiment daily became moro united and
earnest in favor of this reform; and III due time
bill giving the choice Of Presidential Electors
TO the People was introduced in the Assembly
discussed through all the regular stages, passed
TO a third reading, Feb. 4th, lo2i, by One Hun
dred ard Ten to Fire, and finally passed, Feb
5,h, by One Hundred and -Four 10 Four. So
unanimous were the immediate Representatives
of the people in conforming to what was known
to be the very general and earnest demand oi
their constituents.
But the managers who had the Vote Of New
York for President nicely arranged had no notion
of giving it up readily. They felt sure that the
Legislature ,pould give the vote they had
pledged it, and were equally assured that the
People ,oould not. So, when the bill reachcdthe
Senate, it was referred TO Il Committee ofwhich
MIR. C. E. Dudley (oi Albany, now deceased
was Chairman, who (Feb. 20) reported upon it
ambiguously bat unfavoraby. motion was
now made to lay the Report and Bill or the
tab!e-(that is, to kill the bill) This, after de-
bate, was carried, by the following vote:
VrAs-Bowmnn Bovine, Bronson. Dudley. Gteen GTseGb,
ssah.n ksss heissa sds Whcssf . and S
iSias a. wasF-,S -
M'lntyre, Ogden. Thorn-S-
But the bill was got up again, and March
9th) MIR. Wright moved an amendment proyid
ing ,ha. the People be allowed to choose 81 Elec-
tors by majority (not plurality OF the whole
vote, and that the Two Senatorial Electors be
chosen by the Legislature
MIR. Wright proceeded 10 make very much the
kind OF speech he usually makes on the Tariff
question, protesting willingness to vote for s
bill giving the People the choice ot Presidential
Electors, but really and obviously intended to dc.
feat any such mcasare lie contended that the
People have no right 10 choose the two Electors
answering to the U. S. Sena.ors-f1is amend