New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1850-10-23
Ward rHecting.-meart Burninss.

fast Wings talk Yesterday of rebellion
against the nominations secured By the
Ward Meetings of Monday, because Of the
means by which those Ward Meetings
were too generally controlled and their re-
suits secured In the XIth Ward especial
*. where the known and emphatic senti-
ment of the Wing electors was overruled
and defeated by the intrusion Of hired
gangs who had been used to carry three
other Wards in the course of the day, the
feeling is very strong and general. The
science of manufacturing Delegates had
not hitherto been carried to such perfection
in that as in some other Wards, and the
voters are naturally more restiff than some
others under such exhibitions as that Of
Monday evening but, unless radical
change of system can be effected, our Pri-
mary Meetings are morally certain to be-
come great deal worse rather than better.
New safeguards for honest voting mast
be devised, so that disinterested citizens
MAY be drawn to and not repelled from the
Polls. Let the dead bury their dead
therefore, while we keep keen and steady
gaze on the duties and demands of the
Future.
The Ereniipg Post speaks of our Pri-
mary Elections as discreditable to the
Wbjos Of our CITY. We do not think So
The apathy and inattention of the great
majority Is reprehensible, but the ready
excuse for 1t is. What can I do : If |
were to spend the day at the Ward Meet
.ings, my neighbors would not, but would
only laugh at me for my folly; and the
hired gangs would carry every thing as
usual. Until some better and surer mode
'of determining who the party prefer to
support for this or that post is devised and
put in operation, choose to consult my
comfort or interest by staying away
The real culprit in this case is the
Wing General Committee, and more espe-
cally its Executive Committee. That
Committee knew perfectly well--knew
from abundant experience as we'll as from
most significant indications--that Ward
Meetings held in the old way 1rould not
afford any fair expression of the preferences
of the party proposition looking to rad
zeal reform was laid before it, but rather
laughed off than seriously considered
You know said leading member, who
was not afraid to speak out that we have
got things all fred in most of the Wards
including mine, and that this will upset
.evervthing.' SO the usual call was issued,
with liberty to one Ward Committee to
open poll at 81 or and close at or 10;
another to open at 10 and close at l; a
third to hold open from 8 to 5; fourth
from Z to 9, and so on-so that the same
gang would answer for three or four Wards,
vet have time to vote three or fnnr times III
the same Ward. Then it was only requl-
site that this superintendent of public
works should lend his gang to that contract
or in the next Ward, and this roadmaster
make swap with that captain of police,
taking his pay in kind, and the thing was
set There are Wards where such adj
iustments will not do; but with regard to
majority everything was foreordained to
a certainty. Some of them, wherein the
thing was overdonc, are ashamed to let the
number of votes polled be known, especial
ly where it exceeded that of the Wing vo-
tiers in the Ward, seven-eighths of whom
never went near the poll. In one of the
Wards, where the five Inspectors had been
chosen with special reference to their quail
ihcations for such a service, number Of
the shrcwdest and most experienced citi
zens united in the expression that if FIVE
thousand votes should be necessary to carry
the fore0rdained ticket, they would certain
ly be polled. The Wing voters in that
Ward are perhaps fifteen hundred in all, of
whom not over three hundred took any
interest in this election.
= But shall Wings take the sulks and
refuse to vote or cut up antics because of
these proceedings! We think not. If
unworthy men should be nominated, es-
pecially for Judicial or Municipal stations,
we trust they will not be supported. For
any Judicial station, we will vote for the
best candidate who has q chance of cleo
ton, without regard to his politics. If
neither Of the leading candidates are wor-
thy, we will vote for some good man who
can't be elected. For Mayor, or any such
office, we will not vote for an unworthy or