New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1850-09-14
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PRIMARY Elections.

sevoral Wards ON Wednesday evening next
10 choose a Delegate from each Assembly
District to the State Nominating Conven-
tion to be held at Syracuse the week ensu-
ing. If we do not misapprehend this call,
it is intended and expected that the Wings
of each Ward which is an Assembly District
will vote directly for a Delegate to SYRIA
cuse and that he who obtains the largest
number of votes in each case shall be the
Delegate. The Ist and Id Wards, the Hid
and With, the XIIth and XIXth, form but
three Assembly Districts, each pair forming
District; and these, the Committee pro-
pose, shall seyerally choose Delegates to
District Convention whereby the District
Delegate shall be elected.
We thank the Committee heartily for the
Reform it has commenced and carried for
ward. Appointing Delegates to choose
Delegate is an absurd multiplication of ma
chinery. All elections should be direct so
far as possible, and at secondhand only
when no other course is practicable. For
the citizens of Ward to come together and
gravelY choose five men to say in their be-
half who ought to represent them in Nom
mating Convention is preposterous. Who
should know the man tie represent the Dis
trict correctly if the People thereof do not?
We trust our candidates for Assembly, in
every Ward which forms separate Dis
trict will hereafter be nominated by d.
rect popular vote.
But the Reform should not stop here.
What should hinder the two Wards forming
District from nominating their Delegate
and Assembly.man in the same manner
Last year our First District went unrepre-
sented at SYracuse-to the serious detrlment
of our City and our cause-because of the
diverse preferences Of the Delegates from
the First and Second Wards. The Second
claimed the Delegate as theirs of right, and
named a man whom the First would not &C
cept, and 30, after weeks wrangling, the
District came up missing atSyracuse; when
had the People been permitted to elect, the
question would have been aettled at the frat
trial. There is no difficulty in the premises.
Let the Wings Of each Ward meet as usual
and vote directly for a Delegate; let the
votes of each Ward be canvassed and the
result declared, and let one of the lnspec-
tors in each Ward meet at time and place
designated by the General Committee, with
citizen of some other Ward also designa-
ted by said General Committee, to compare
the vote of the two Wards and declare who
has, by the highest vote, been chosen. This
would be easier, simpler, more direct than
the present mode, and would preclude
failure to elect once in thousand times.
But the Reform should not stop here.
Our candidates for Mayor, Sheriff, judges,
Congress, &c. should be selected in like
manner. Let due notice be given that on
such day the Wings of each Ward will
hold o Primary Election for all officers to
be chosen at the ensuing Election, and that
each Wing citizen of any Ward is requested
to repair to the place designated and deposit
his ballot for candidate for each place to
be filed, or for so many as he shall see fit
to vote for, Let the polls be open from 9
Am. to 9 PM. with regular inspectors,
clerks, challengers, and poll-lists. Let the
results for Ward nominations be canvassed
and determined in the Ward, and let the
votes for larger Districts (including Con.
gressional) be made up and certified to the
proper District Committees, while, for nomi-
nations to be voted on throughout the City,
the results in each Ward should be trans
nitted to the General Committee, and that
Committee, collating and publishing al the
Ward returns should certify TO the entire
City the person receiving the highest vote
for Mayor, Sheriff, Clerk, Recorder, &c. re-
spectively, and declare such person duly
nominated by the Wing party as its candi-
date for this or that station. This would
deal death blow 70 the trade of packing
delegations and its product, the occasional
fois,ipg upon our Ticket of the names Of
incompetent or unworthy men. 1t is far
easier to corrupt delegation than Ward
and q man might be nominated for Mayor
or Sheriff under our present system whom
no thousand of our thirty thousand Wings
really desired to see put forward.
The next step to be taken is the placing
of Primary Elections under the protection o.
, Law. hv leealizing the appointment of In