New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-09-28
DIR CITY NOMINATIONS.

The Delegates elected in the name of
the Wigs of the several Wards of our
City will this week assemble 10 County,
Judicial and City Conventions, to nominate
candidates for Sheriff, Clerk, CorOners,
&c. at our November Election. A few
words with reference to their action and
its consequences cannot be deemed un-
timely or presumptuous.
New York City has twice decided the
choice of President of the United States
in 1900, and again in leii-a may do
1t sgain-perhaps this very year. Tico rOtes
cast in neighboring counties of North Car
DINA have determined the party pre-
rondoranoo In tho rssently chosen Legis-
lature of that State, and will probably
choose Senator of the United States for
the ensuing six years. And those votes
were doubtless determined by the person
al character Of the candidates presented,
IS this City land thence the State) was
carried for Jefferson in 1900 by the supe-
rior strength and popularity of the candi-
dates presented by the triumphing party.
To say that the selection of our candi-
dates at this time is of the highest Ma
tional moment, is to state what every one
will readily allow. But We do not stop
there. We have friends who desire NOM
nations on the Whlg ticket this fall but
he who would take nomination when
another could add more strength to the
ticket, is no longer our friend. We de-
spise and disown him. We prefer not to
know him henceforth. And there are
those whom we have esteemed and re-
spected now pushing for nominations with
selfish recklessness which we shall re-
member so long as we may live,
Every man-we mean every aspirant-
suppOses himself eminenily qualified AMI
popular; so that we cannot object to a
candidates. thinking himself Just the man
to be put forward in an emergency like
this. With his estimate of his own mer-
its we do not quarrel so long as he allows
others ample liberty of judgment. But
when he waylays, button holds and ear
wigs Delegates, and endsavors to bore
them into an inequalities promise 70 vote
for him, then he becomes a fit subject for
universal contempt and loathing.
The delegates are chosen to make the
best practicable nominations. They are
morally bound to do this, and cannot bind
themselves to do otherwise. The primary
duty oyerrules the needless promise ex-
torted by selfish importantly. And we
say now to every delegate, Your promise
to vote for A. or B. ought not to hold you
IN case you are convinced that c. or D.
would be the better candidate. Your frat
pledge is to the constituency you claim to
representa- binds you to do their work
and with a single eve to their in
terests-and any other promise mus. be
held subordinate to this
If our friends, who are aspirants, shall
seem to be the strongest candidates who
can be selected, we trust they will be
if not, not. Ii our bitterest
enemy alive can bring fifty more votes to
he ticket, and is personally worthy and
qualified, We entres: that he be selected
u preference. Give W the strongest and
'est ticket-one that will draw out and Sc
ure the most votes-and we will exult
yer its selection and do our utmost in its
Import, though every man on it hates us
heartily as he knows how to do.
The action Of the WING State Conven- |