New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1846-11-06

wbolc We ought To have carriages also to prihg
-, t...bs 1srna or Invalid voters We do not hest
tate TO saw that State Election cannot De
ed as It should be in our CITY without an aggregate
,and;.ors of at least ten thousand dollars and ct
tb;s soro not one farthng shall be paid Tor any pur
nose that re would rot cheerfuliy have written On
the sky.
Bpt tins amount, if j, be had must be contribut-
ed By somebody. and it unfortunately happens that
melodies lor rather no-souls) are mora abundant
than somebodies The pious brother wha thanked
God that ne had been member Of the Methodist
Church forty years and it had never cost him SIN
gle cent was q fair sample OF majority OF men
with regard to Political matters There are perhaps
hundred Wings in our City who have IN iorner
dsvs contributed liberally-more than ought 70
have been asked of them-in aid OF the " hiS
Cause There are ten TO twenty times Is man!
who ougl,; TO have done something but never did
save that n few Of them have grndgingiy' gTufn-
bl;noIy given dollar or two at long intervals to
Ward Committee 10 nd themselves Of importantly
The few who gave freely have been worn out as
they well might be the many remain as they
were. Those who have read the stories IN the TX
press, Courier and Evening Post about wing
money raised in this City and dispensed fer and
wide will be surprised to learn the truth that not
one thousand dollars altogether have been contri-
buted or expended in this City by the Wings to
contest the late Election save what was expended
by the friends Of three Of our candidates es
pecially for the sake Of those candidates and even
this makes the aggregate Wing expenditure on
this Election good deal less than five thousand
dollars From this sum were to be betrayed the
expense of FIVE or six Mass Meetings seventy or
eighty Ward Meetings printing handbIiis and bal
lots very heavy this year; preparing Tor and
fighting the battle in eighty Election DIS
tricts. advertising in neutral papers, &c &c. The
Wing papers can do without pay Tor the party ad-
vertising in their coumns-they are used to Ii.
This last is the mn General Election which has
been held in our City within the past two years
and every dollar which has been contributed Tor eX
penses Except in behalf Of two or three local can
didates ms aforesaid in those two years is consid
erably less than s2oOO-a sum hardly more than
adequate to pay for printing the necessary ballots
Need we add that the Members OF the General
Committee. beside freely giving n considerable
portion Of their own time-valuable at least to
them, Tor they are generally men who earn their
bread by their own labor-have had to tax them
selves repeatedly for Inevitable expenses, and are
now threatened with suits las they have been re
peatedlvl for room rent &c. which is truly no more
Mei, debt than that Of any other members OF the
Whig party And this aforesaid $4,000 I'm truth
good deal less, but ashamed to make 1t as
little as is has been raised by desperate begging
in City which numbers among IT'S citizens at least
one hundred Wings worth Hall Million to Ten
Millions each one thousand worth $4,000 or over,
and many more worth $40 600 TO $4,000. Many Of
these grumble right sturdiy if they happen to go
TO the Polls and don't find ballots abundant and Of
every desirable variety or if the Police and Custom
House cohorts are not met with ample numbers
and spirit, Very oitenthey wonder why the Wing
Committees don't pay proper attention to these
matters and think might ms well not have any
Committees So zee think If the Committees are
expected to do every thing and pay for every thing
GU, of their own pockets.
It was but the other day that venerable and
most estimable citizen who has filed the highest
Municipal station IN our City, and was always one
of those Wings who work right on whether exact
ly hurnored in every thing or not called on Wall
solicited small contribution toward the inevitable
expenses OF our State Election The answer was
short and rough There's no need OF any money
l won't give any-but our friend was used 10 that
and veptured TO expostulate We must have
few dollars to print ballots was his meek obser
walton No YOU necdnt-you can 'er7te them
was the settler of the gentleman OF great pecuniary
responsibility similar TO this was the general
treatment received by those who, on behalf OF the
Wing cause, ventured 10 ask for a few dollars OF
our silk stocking gentry There Were of course eX-
ceptions-noblc and treasured eXceptions-but
street bcggars could hardly be refused with more
noncRolance than they generally Were And ma
ny of those who thus spurned them will be asking
the Governor elected in spite of them for offices or
other favors before year rolls round, and will
greatly marvel il gentlemen OF their standing and
influence can, have their own way with Wing
Administration
We, know it will be said that all that have
spoken OF has resulted from the disailection at the
nomination of John Young and hostility TO the idea
OF having Wing candidate who was supported BY
the Anti Renters But the truth is not SO Not one
of their paltry dollars needed asked to elect
John Young that had been settled long before
That there were some such immeasurable 2anies
among US as TO believe that John Young's election
would shake the Rights of Property &c. &c. is
possible, but this same spirit was even more strong
~ and universally evinced last year, when
didstes were LUTHER BRADlsH, DAVID B OGDEN,
h 5, WILIlsMs, &c. including not one man who
was ever suspected or accused OF Jacobinic ten
denotes When such men had consented or rather
been constrained to run for stations tar below their
merits, with moral certainty Of being beaten by
such as did beat them-it was found impossible TO
raise $500 trom the entire Wing party OF New-York
TO pay for the necessary printing, and the Committee
were obliged to assess themselves TO pay the
avoidsble expenses OF the most languid contest
as near no CONTEXT as possible
We have spoken freely-perhaps too freely
Tor We feel keeuly. We ask rejecting men to
think OF these things Ii they say there should not
or need no, be any Wing party, very well We
who think differently Will have Try TO get slons
without them If we must. But if il be worth while