New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1851-02-03
The Election Of U. $. senator.

| OK Will proceed 10 Cne oleC1Ioh vi
Senator of the United States in place
of Daniel S. Dickinson for full term OF
six years from the 4th of March next
There is large Wing majority in the AS
sembly and in Joint Ballot, and small but
sufficient majority in the Senate. And yet
the deadly enemies of Wing ascendancy'
inside and outside of the party, express
great confidence in their ability to defeat an
election, or at least to defeat the election
of the Wing candidate. We do not be-
lieve them; and yet, aware that two or
three Senators elected by Wing votes con-
spring with the Opposition may defeat any
nomination by their House, we are not alb
solutely without apprehensions Of SIMS
ter result. The law governing elections
of u. S. Senator prescribes that each House
shall proceed to nominate, by majority
of its members, U. S. Senator; and, if
the nominations, on comparison, are found
to agree, the person thus designated is
chosen. Ifthey do not agree, the two Houses
shall meet in Joint Ballot and elect the
Senator by a majority vote of the whole
number. If the spirit and intent of the law
be complied with, we have no doubt of the
result. But if three or four Wing Sena-
tors can be induced to unite in a conspiracy
to evade and defeat the purpose and intent
of the law, an election may be prevented.
To this end it is only requisite that three
or more Senators chosen as Wings shall
conspire with the whole body of Loco
Focos to scatter their votes on sixteen or
eighteen different persons and no nOmina-
ton wiH be made by the Senate, conse-
quently the two Houses will not 60 into
Joint Ballot. This game was played in
1889 by the LOco-Focos, then controlling
the Senate though largely in the minority
in the House and in Joint Ballot The
Wings of that day unanimously denounced
their course as an outrageous, Infamous
conspiracy to evade and battle the execu-
ton of an important law, and the People
in the ensuing Election sustained that de-
nunciation and overwhelmed the conspira-
tors. If it should be necessary to repeat
the lesson, we trust its emphasis will be
undiminished.
"A large majority of the Wing Mem
bers of each House, in meeting regular
~ called and duly notified, have presented
| the name of HAMILTON FISH, late Cover
nor of the State, as the Wing candidate
for U. S, Senator. The fairness and regu-
larity of his nomination is disputed by none.
The fact that he is the choice of large
majority of the Wing Members cannot be
gainsayed. And yet thirty Members
chosen as Wings saw fit to absent them
selves from the Caucus. Ssme of them
were necessarily absent from Albany;
others preferred to be so. Messrs. Bray
ton, Ferris, A. A. Gregory, l.. Harris
Hewitt and probably LangdOn, we feel con-
fident, will vote at all events for the Wing
candidate. Others we strongly hope will
do so. Yet it is certainly remarkable that
at such time as this, and in view of Gov.
| Fish's nomination, there should be absent
from the Wing Caucus majority OF the
Delegations from this City and from the
Presidents own County-as follows;
Absent from Nec- York City-SenatOrs Beck
| man, Crolus and Williams; Assemblymen Black
| stone, G. Clark, Dewey, w. S. Gregory, Green,
! NJ II w hlgg
Absent from Ere C0Wnty-Senator Baococki
Assemblymen o. Allen, Atwood, Bird, sever
ance-5: the whole numberl
DO from Suburbs of our City, pitkiH the StadoT
| ofthe Sub Ireasury-Messrs Anthem Of hlch-
mond, Backhouse and CAdy OF Kings;
Do. from Monroe County grossly, shameiuliy
misrepresenting their constituents -Senator Mil
ler Assemblymen Fitzhugh and Fordyce-S'
Here are twenty-five of the thirty alb
sentees; the other eight were mainly alb
sent unavoidably. Several of the above
will vote for Gov. Fish whenever their
names shall be called. They have been
evidently persuaded, eoaxed, entreated to
stay away from the Caucus in order to
bully the great majority of their Wing
brethren into voting for what are called
Compromise Resolutions under penalty OF
seeing their choice of Wing L. s. Senator
defeated. They have personally no faith
in this game of bullying, but have yielded
their own Judgment to Sub-Treasury i'm
portunity, and viii not regret the dis
comfture of the project.
The intense and inexcusable factiOus-
ness of the Silver Gray game now being
PLAYED at Albany can hardly fail of gene
raj appreciation. Its immediate object and
destined victimis Hamilton Fish-the very
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