New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1851-12-25

name is called, i hat man is Rot NOter, or
not Wing, and the name so challenged to
stand over until he who bears it shall have
time to bring proof Of his right to be there
the Whig Inspectors of Electionin the
Ward TO be triers. Thus the list should be
revised and perfected between the lst of
Nav and the lst of August in each year.
3. In all Primary Elections thence to the
lst of May ensuing, that Register to be
conclusive evldence Of the right Of those
named therein TO cote, and none Others to
be so entitled. The name Of Peter Will
kins, I79 Dey-st.,' being called as that of
of one offering to vote, it shall first be as
certained from the Register that Peter
Wilkins, 179 Dey-st.,' is on it, and there
no challenge can be allowed except as to
the fact that this is the man so named and
there residing. Being on the Register, if
he is challenged he proves his identity
and nothing more.
3. Each Primary Meeting to be opened at
s Am. and kept open TILL s PM and as
much longer as shall be necessary ia enable
erery uoter then present to cote. Some can
only attend Primary Meeting in the morn
ing others at midday; others toward
night others after dark. Now the polls
are often closed while hundreds of legal
voters are waiting for chance to approach
them, while others have gone away in des-
pair of gaining access. But let it be known
that each voter may come at such time of
day as is most convenient, and that the polls
will not be closed while any man whose
name is on the Register is present desiring
to vote, and all temptation for crowding,
and we hope all complaint of foul play will
be obviated.
a. Let the voting be DIRECT for every Of
flee to be filled at the ensuing Election, so
far as practicable.-We must choose Dele
gates, for the present at least, to our State
Conventions but for Mayor, Sheriff, Cor
oner, Senator, Assemblyman, &c, the prop
er course clearly is to let every one who
sees fit announce himself or be announced
by his friends a candidate for any Wing
nomination then let each voter on the
Wing Register vote directly for such per-
sons as he would prefer to see nominated
for the several stations let the Inspectors,
sworn to guard scrupulously the purity of
the ballot-boxes and to make true return
of the votes cast, transmit the result to the
Wing General Committee, which shall pro-
coed to add up the returns from the several
Wards and declare that - by the
largest number of votes has been nominated
for Mayor, for Sheriff, and so on.
The Inspectors of the several Wards compo-
sing each Congressional or Senatorial Dis
trct might meet and declare the result there
in as to Senator or Member of Congress.
The Ward Committee and Inspectors jointly
might do the same as to Assembly and
Ward officers. In this way, all log-rolling
nominations and buying up of delegations
would be eflectually precluded.
Wings in the two General Committees =.
we entreat you not to give this subject the
go-by. Do not let it be put of until this or
that aspirant can calculate whether he may
not stand better chance in the old, corrupt
way than under a strictly honest regime.
Now is The TIME TO DO, if anything is to
be seasonably and well done. The cost
and trouble of all we have suggested would
be very little let each Committeeman
Ward Committee included) write down
list of all the Wing voters in the Ward, so
SO far as he knows, and you will have two
thirds Of the Wing voters down in an hour.
Then let young man be hired to draw all
these names off into one alphabetical list,
and your Registry is more than half made,
at cost of five to ten dollars according to
the size of the Ward. Then call your
Ward Meeting, and read over your list for
additions and corrections, and you will have
three.fourtRs of the remaining names hand
ed in and these may be incorporated with
the former at further expense of ten to
twenty dollars, including the cost of making
a copy for exposition where every man may
90 at his leisure and see that his name is
inscribed OF take care to have it There
will thus be found some thirty to two
hundred names, according to the size of the
Ward, which can be incorporated with the
foregoing at triiing cost, and the whole
now recorded in a book, which shall be for
the year ensuing the Register of Wing
Voters for the Ward. That being the In
exorable arbiter as TO who may and who