The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1846-11-06
From the N. Y. Evening Post, Thursday Evening,
THE ELECTION.

The wings at Albany concede that Addison Gar
diner, the democratic candidate for lieutenant gov
ernor, is elected. He was placed by the anti.ren
party their ticket, and though he refused to &C
cept their nomination, they gave him their votes.
This circumstance shows the true nature OF the
triumph which the wings have Just achieved. II il
a triumph of the anti-renters, gained by the help Of
the wings. The anti-rent party have held the bal
ance in their hands and made it incline to which
side they pleased They have been persuaded to
adopt John Young as their candidate for governor
and they carried him into the chair-they put Mr.
Gardiner on their ticket candidate for lieutenant
governor, and he is elected.
But the anti-rent vote for Young would by no
means have been strong il is, had it not been fol
the extraordinary activity of the wing emssares who
were charged with expendng the enormous sums
collected from the manufacturers in different part
of the Union, and concentrated upon the State o.
New York. Their munitions Of war were trans
ported hither to make the attack upon this strong
hold Of democracy. The battle has been fought
within the anti-rent ntrenchments, but it has beer
fought with the guns of the protectioniss, served
by protectionist engineers. No sort Of exertior
omitted to excite the preudices Of ALL in whose
minds leaven of anti-rent prejudice existed, agans
Governor Wright as their enemy, and every etfor
was made to bring them to the polls with votes fo
John Young in their hands. The wing organization
appears to have been remarkably perfect, and t.
have embraced the ant-rent party in its very com.
prehensve arrangements. . .
If our State politics had been put in such a trair
that we could have met this anti-rent question in tn,
country with one of higher and more genera
importance--if in the contest which we have
been waging with the protectionists our own
politicians had taken such decided ground, tina
the free-trade questionable question whether
the farmer should be allowed the market OF
the world for his produce, instead Of a confined
market at home, and low prces--could have
been, as 1t deserved to be, the topic most ir
sight and most discussed, the vote for the demo.
cratic candidate would have been far greater. TIL,
farmers would have seen how the essential inter
ests of their own great class involved in thif
election, and would have thronged to the polls to
vote for Wright. As the now stands, we have
lost the State on an issue which is false as be-
tween the two great political parties.
That in some of the counties men who call them.
selves democrats, either treacherousy stood aoof o.
aided the enemy, there can be sort of doubt. We
should not wonder at all if some Of these men had
an understanding with the proectionisis, and had
given their quiet but effectual aid to the wing cam
ddate. 1t is not easy to explain the falling off in
some of the strong democratic counties, where the
ant-rent question not raised, on any other sup
position The result in these counties cannot be
ascribed to any unpopularity Of Mr.. Wright We
scarcely ever knew candidate handled so tendery
by his opponents. He has been beaten without Q
word said against him by his worst enemies
beaten in spite Of the high general respect and ad
miration with which the people regard him. 81
We shall soon know whether the majority which
we might have given MIR Wright in this city, If the
people had not been repealed from voting by our
bad city nominations, would not have elected him in
spite of the protectonists and the an-reners. Ter
thousand democrats or more abseDted themselves
from the polls. If we had put respectable men on
the Tammany ticket, his majority in this city might
easily have been twelve thousand
The call for reform Of our method of making
party nominations to elective Offices must be obey.
ed. Its abuses, we hope, have reached their high
est points the public Indignation is strongly aroused
and is expressed in the most decided manner There
are thousands who do not mean hereafter to coun
tenance, the most distant manner, such disgrace
full proceedings as, in the election which has jus
taken place, have gone by the name of regular nom
nations.