The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1847-06-17
The Whig City Government-What Have
they donss-Win the Apple Women AM

The Whig City Government-What Hav
they done s-Win the Apple Women An
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Our citizens, we are sure, cannot forget tn
outcry which the wings of this city mad
for a month or six weeks previous TO GU
last charter election, about the extravaganza
and corruption Of the democratic city adj
ministration, and the reductions, reforms,
and retrenchments which their party would
effect, if the voters would try them once
more. and again put the reins of the city
government into their hands They even went
80 far as to say that the city government had no.
thing to do with politics that in case of their
success. they would not remove competent men
from their situations because they might differ
from them on the propriety OF the political mea.
sures and principles of the two parties and that the
only test theywould require would be competency
and trustwor,hiness for the offices they held. But
this is not all. The streets were to be efiectual-
" and economically swept and cleaned-the
most rigid economy was to be exercised in the
city expenditures-and every disbursement,
which could be dispensed with, consistently
with aproper administration of the government
would be abolished.
These were the promises that were made be.
fore the election; and although we knew the
wings of old to be as dereict In performing theil
promises as the democrats are, yet we thought
their long absence from Office, and the impor
lance of holding this city at time when the
Presidential election was approaching, would In
duce them to make effort at all events to fulfil
their promises. With this belief, and for the
sake of reform, we favored their party in the
struggle, and claim to have exercised little
influence in achieving their return.
We must confess that we have been again de-
ceived in them; and we honestly own that from
what we can Judge of what they have done In the
six or seven weeks that they have been in office,
we regret having given them helping hand.
Not a word has been said about reforming the
abuses which they so -eloquently denounced be-
fore the election. The outrageous expenditures
which their orators in ward meetings and mass
meetings stgmatised disgrace to the city,
and not to be tolerated by the tax-paying portion
of the county, is as yet unremedied, and the
probability is that the taxes for the year lS47 will
be as great as they for the year 1886, if not
greater.
We do not speak in this manner without
knowledge Of what we are saying. We have
carefully watched their progress since their in.
democratic Office holders, filling their places
with wings, and overturnng the stands of few
apple women and root-beer sellers, we do moi
zee that they have done anything. At their meet
ings no measures have been taken to reduce the
expenses of the government, nor has, we believe,
the subject ofretrenchmcnt been even alluded TO
In sober earnestness.
We can inform this whig Common Council
that unless they mend their ways, and that, too.
speedily, they will walk the plank next spring as
certainly as their predecessors did last spring
The people want not a repetition OF the
"shines" which the wings carried on when
the natives were in power short time since
They will never look at the upsetting OF
apple stands and root beer bottles in the light OF
reform or retrenchment The voters ofth city,
and particularly the tax payers, will not have
dust thrown in their eyes by an officer, who, by
virtue Of little brief authority, Expresses and
tyrannises over few old women, who sell APP
pies and candies, rather than 60 to the aims
house, and be fed by public charity. What
makes this farce the more ridiculous, and what
convinces US that il is mere flash in the pan,
Is the fact that these wing officials acting, no
doubt, by the direction of their masters, cou6ne
their little reforms to the apple women. If they
really wish TO abate what has long been felt a
nuisance-viz: the obstruction of eide walks, let
them make no discrimination between an
apple woman, a root beer woman, or the
builder of a house. We see daily barrels
Of lime, bricks, large bales and boxes remain on
the sidewalks from one end of the week to the
other; and further, we see permanent signs con-
structed Of boxes, in narrow streets, which are
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render those streets almost impossible. indeed,
il is almost impossible for females to 90 through
these streets without having their apparel torn
and destroyed. We care not for these things
ourselves, but why wage war of determination
against apple stands and root beer barrels, and
allow as great an evilto remain.l Is this city
reform
We beg to inform the wing government OF this
city that they have commenced reforming" the
wrong way; they have commenced at the wrong
end. Their constituents would much prefer that
the apple-women be allowed to remain as they
were, until the big abuses were removed. When
they see the cleaning Of the streets performed by
contract, and the other great reforms which be-
fore election they said were 80 necessary, they
will let them fire away at the unfortunate apple
women as much as they please, provided, how
ever that all other distractions be removed at the
same time.
Messrs. Wings, you have been again trusted
you have been elevated to Office by conservative
tax payers, for the sole purpose of tightening the
expenses Of the city, and stemming the tide of ex
travagance which flowed from the democrats.
If you fail in doing it, out you go, as surely as
you are now in, and when you next get in Office,
the heads of vour vounpeat men vii bc ma grey
as badgers. Mark that Take care.
ADVICE TO OUR FRIENDs.-We are informed
that our downtown friends are daily imposed
upon by the little rascally newsboys, who with
ha ndfn Of naners and an All of gre at imnorfa