New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-05-05
PRESIDENTIAL NOMINATION.

Our " nag Oc"ef"' CV"'"''''e' ni"' 90
Broadway House, last evening" and delibe-
rately made over the Wing voters of this
CITY to the tender mercies of the hireling
bullies and grog-shop bruisers who habitu-
ally and profitably elect our Delegates to
our several Nominating Conventions. In
spite of every entreaty and remonstrance,
the majority refused to order Registration
of the Wing Voters, and directed that the
Ward Meeting should be held on Thurs
day morning merit, commencing at SIR and
closing at nine o'clock, A. NJ. But one
poll in each Ward is contemplated, and
within the three hours thus prescribed, the
twenty-five Hundred Wings in the XVIII
and the Two Thousand and over in each of
the With, IXth, XVIth, XVIIth and
XVIIIth are expected to deposite their bal
lots for Ward Delegates who are to choose
the District Delegates to the Wing Ma
tional Convention, taking due precautions
for keeping out illegal and Loco-Foco votes
and respecting all the proprieties of reg
ular Election.
Of course, this election will be a fraud
ard farce combined. Its projectors, or so
many of them as have moderate share of
common sense, never expected, and we be-
lieve they never desired, anything else.
Every Loco-Foco rowdy who can bring
up string of DULLES, no matter whether
voters or not, will be driving sharp bar
gains for his services at one or more polls
before this week is out. Well informed
city politicians can tell you tits morning
that Bill so-and-so will take such Ward
and Tom what's-name such another, &C.
the preferences of the great body of quiet,
industrious, reputable Wings counting no
more in this melee than if they were SO
many flies. If they go to the poll-as
we trust they will-they will find its en-
trance blocked and wedged by sweating,
shouting, swearing, pushing crowd, through
which few of them may, but more will
not, be able to elbow their way up to the
ballot-box and vote; with the comfortable
certainty that for every one vote so put in
by legal Wing voter entitled to cast it,
there will be ten or fifteen cast by some
hired bully who is no Wing voter at all.
And this is the fate to which the Wings of
our City are deliberately sold by the politi-
cal gamblers who compose majority of
their General Committee.
The pretences that there is not time for
perfecting Registry of Wing Voters in
each Ward-that it would cost too much,
make too much trouble, &c.-are perfect
ly transparent. If it were true that there
is not sufficient time left, whose fault is
that! The General Committee knew
Just as well weeks ago as they now do that
these Primary Elections must be held:
why did they not seasonably prepare for
them? They knew that Registry was
indispensable to any fair expression of the
preferences of our Wing Electors-right
well did they know it. They knew that
one-fifth of the Wing money that will now
be wasted on Loco-Foco DULLES to hire
their services for this or that clique would
pay all the expenses of Registry-that
half the time which will be devoted to
counteracting suspected maneuvers on this
side and on that would suffice for the work.
And yet they pitched the rights Of the
quiet voters out of their window as though
these voters were SO many sheep, because
this little knot think they can take one
Ward, and that one another, &c.-and
these little knots, added together, control
a majority in the Wing General Commit
tee.
Well: one thing, at least, we have
secured by pressing them for Registry
We have shown that those who are using the
name of Mr.. Fillmore in our City dare not
trust their candidate TO the rerdict Of the
People. They have large majority in
the General Committee; they might have
secured an honest expression if they would
They chose rough-and-tumble contest,
presuming that their Custom-House and
other hired legions would thus be more
efficient. And we suspect they chose
wisely.
To the Wing Electors we say-Be not
dismayed by this outrage-Be not withheld
from the polls by it. Go there, every man
of you, next Thursday morning, if only to
see how gross an outrage this is. See, for
once, what sort of men they are who are
hired to choose your Delegates and to