New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-06-21

leading candldAte-tne canuldate OF the
People-is seriously diminished. Then
come the ballotings, to which two days are
given without result; until, late on Satur-
day night, the Convention adjourned over
exhausted and outworn by this unhealthy,
feverish strife, and the irregular living con-
nected with it, to begin second week of
it this morning.
How easily, how bene6cently, might all
this excitement, strife and bitterness have
been avoided by our leaders simply agree
ing that the People shall make The candi-
date in casting their rOtes for President!
Half the trouble and one fourth the ex-
pense already incurred in not making
candidate would thus have answered every
purpose. The friends of Webster, Scott,
Fillmore could each put forth their ad-
dresses, and make their speeches in favor
of their respective favorites-the discus
sion of their relative merits could 90 on
simultaneously with that of the party is
sues involved in the canvass-and at last,
every one having had the whole year of the
contest wherein to compare facts and ar
rive at conclusion, each could vote the
Electoral Ticket of his party, headed For
President, Winfield Scott or Daniel
Webster or 'Millard Fillmore, or any
body else, as he should see fit. The vote
being thus polled, the Endorsements could
be counted as well as the ballots, returned
at once to the County Committee, by that
to the State Committee, and hence to the
Central Committee at Washington, which
could announce within ten days after Elec-
ton how every State but California had
voted, and for whom the larger number of
Wings had decided that the entire Wing
Electoral Vote should be cast. And this
would be an Election by the People-un-
controlled by cliques, cabals or conventions.
Each man would vote bis own honest pref
erence, and the Statesman or Hero who
should thus, without distracting or weak
ening his party, receive the unconstrained
suffrages of two or three hundred thousand
freemen, might well feel prouder of that
honor than of an election under our pres
ent cramping machinery, which compels
every elector to choose between two can
didates thrust upon him or throw away his
vote.
We shall come to this system in time
indeed, we must. The People are be-
coming too intelligent to endure the old,
rickety, vicious machinery much longer
If to-day, the Wing National Convention
would simply appoint good National
Committee to take all necessary steps to
secure full and fair return of the Peoples
endorsements on their ballots next Novem-
Der, and then adjourn without day, they
will have made out a very fair weeks
work. Every Wing voter would vote the
Wing Electoral Ticket headed with his
candidates name, untrammeled by con-
vention or caucuses. Then if the larger
numbers said Webster Webster it would
be; and SO if plurality said Scott or
Fillmore We should all be working all
summer and fall for a Wing ascendency
while working for our man, whoever that
man might he; we should all be busy at
the poll next November in order to get in
as many votes for our candidates respect
lively as possible. We should poll many
thousands more of votes for the Wing Elec-
tors than we otherwise shall, and carry
States that we shall now lose, whoevermay
be nominated. And, better still, no por-
ton OF the party would hereafter be con-
strained to gulp down Platforms they ut
terly detest in order to secure such nomi-
nations as they deem indispensable to sue
cess "a necessity which reminds one
of the baggage-hampered, plunder-laden
French army that Wellington routed at
Vittoria, whose battalions 1.-THE wits said)
abandoned their cannon to save their
mistresses." When things are at the
worst, they can't help mending, if they
change at all; and we cherish the joyful
hope that the very last Wing National
Convention adjeurns to-day.
e The Albany Atlas undertakes by
few plain words" to set another journal