New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1847-01-01
The Iiccusc Law


10 ~ Fricads cf&s prescat Ercse Lao Of The Sas Of
Nor YORK..
Although at period Immediately succeeding the
general election the question OF licensing the sale of
intoxicating liquors held In May last reported MAORI.
teswe extensively published yet the undersigned,
Central Committee appointed by your last state Con.
veution had intended and At much earlier day TO lay
before YOU summary OF the ccai cdArdss but have,
hitherto been prevented, by the delay OF many of the
local officers 10 make the returns which, by the law
above mentioned required 10 be filed with the Sec
Rotary OF state These returns are nearly complete
and the Committee hasten TO spread their results before
The public.
They deeply regret that In the city of New York. our
great commercial metropolis the popular will upon this
question has not been permitted 10 be expressed through
its appropriate channel of the ballot boxes not doubling
that there elsewhere, the result would have been in
accordance with our wishes And 1t is but justice To
say that her Delegation in the Assembly when this law
passed srenuousy insisted upon that city being
cludcd but that from doubts believed to have been
groundoss OF the issue OF election there and from
resoue opposition in the other House which threatened
to defeat atlcast by delay the whole bill their reluctant
consent obtained that Now York should be for the
time excepted and excluded from the benefits Of the
law. All the remaining hyeeht counties OF the state
have made the required returns except few instances
OF towns from which the had been received
by the county clerks in time 10 be embraced in their
ports.
From these fciurns appears that the small County of
Richmond alone has voted License by majority of
efy.fue votes and that the remaining CoptoS OF the
state have all voted No License by majoiiies ranging
from t0yniRC to fGW thousand and RiHdg6 Sh-hc low.
est majority being in the County of Queens and the
highest in the County OF Onondaga That all OF the
eight cites OF this state which allowed to vote upon
the question: have decided against licenses by aggrc-
gate majority OF sI thousand one haHdrcd and cghy four
rOfCs That of the focs from which returns have been
received, hhc divdcdby tc vote. one hundred and
s,rfyc9h have voted License in most cases by very
small majorltes and Sir kHFdTcd and tfgsI-being
about, four hiths OF the whoe-havo voted No License
for the most part 10y large maoritcs That in each of
the six Counties of Cayuga Rocklsnd, Togs Tompkins,
Warren and Wayne, Cc0g torn has given a majority
against licenses while in strtoca other Counties but a
single in each has voted in their favor And that
IN me wtoie STATE Except about twenty towns above
ierred to- from which returns not yet received the
majority Tor % No LiccRsc" is SlNTY-SEVEN THOU
SAND NINE HUNDRED AND EIGHTY -FOUR.
Such being the overwhelming majorites against
licensing the traffic in Intoxicating drinks the question
arises is this fair and f expression of the sentiment
OF the people OF this State the attendance at
tho polls scsny and did the friends OF the traffic suffer
the election go by default has been confidently
asserted and to some extent bcheyed In answer to
these questions would he desirable to present state
OF the whole number of votes cast at the License
Election with the view 10 comparison with the number
poed by the several parties at recent political elections
This however is at present impractcabe, FOR reasons
above alluded to and for the additional one that IN some
instances the county returns contain only maloities
and not the aggregate vote OF the county But pre-
sumed that the purpose will be sufficiently answered by
the following table which exhibits in the FIRST column
the names of sixteen counties, indifierenuy selected
Two from each OF the eight Senate Districts in the
second column the entire number Of votes poed in each
OF these counties by the three parties for Senators
the Fall Of l-i5n the third the votes tor and against
License In May lsi6-and in the fourth, the aggregate
OF votes for and against the Convention TO amend the
Constitution. To compare the License vote with that
cast at a united Presidential Governors and General
Election where the aurements OF hope and the spur of
private interest reach almost every man in the commu
nifty causing by means tits TO be feared number
of votes TO be poled greatly exceeding the number OF
electors in the State, would be msniiestly Unfair