New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-08-02

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Tory.-No, Sir! so much for aristocratic
corruption of democratic institutions. Oar
Primary Meetings, under the prevailing
system, destroy genuine democracy (no
matter in which party and give us instead
an aristocracy of blackguards. The great
mass of honest, quiet, industrious, thrifty
citizens have only the delusive semblance
of voice in the choice of their Municipal
rulers. Long before the Election, set of
hireling DULLES and grog- shoprO dies have
carried the Primary Elections of both par
ties for those who bid highest for their
services, and have so fixed things that
one of their two sets of candidates must
be elected. If you undertake to kick
against the candidates they have manufac-
tured for your own party, you find that the
set got up on the other side are no better
and may beeven worse, so you gain moth
ing by voting for them but the odium of
having defeated your party. And so we
drag on from year to year, sinking deeper
and deeper into the ooze Of corruption, the
slime of prohigacy, ustil our City has be-
come byword for misgoyernmentand tne
scandal of Republican institutions.
The remedy for all this is in the hands
of the two General Committees-so far as
the Wings are concerned in the hands Of
their own General Committee, whereof
James Kelly is Chairman, and Daniel I'LL
mann, James E. Wood Alex. II. Schultz,
&C., arc prominent members. That Com
mittee can upset the whole system under
which our City is now so di>graced, mis-
ruled, plundered, if it only will in good
faith make the attempt. To this end it
has only to resolve.
/. That every Wing voter in each
Ward, who desires to be known and &C
credited rs such, shall personally report
his name and residence to a portion of the
Ward Committee, who shall sit from s to
10 o'clock of each evening for full week
to receive and record such names.
2. That these names being duly and
alphabetically drawn off into book, and
duly subjected to scrutiny shall constitute
the official Registry of Wing Voters in said
Ward for the ensuing year.
3. That, in our ensuing Wing Primary
Elections, no man shall be allowed to vote
in any Ward whose name is not on the
Wing Register of said Ward each name
being checked as voted on, and the voter
| (if unknown) duly identified, and no vote
thereon received after the first one.
4. That, at said Primary Meetings, In
spectors shall be legally sworn, the boxes
carefully scrutinized and sealed and the
pcn kept open until ample time has been
allowed every one to vote--One fall day
and evening at least, and still longer if
there be voters uppolled at 10 P. NJ. of
the first day.
5. That the voting shall be direct so far
as possible, each ballot specifying-For
Mayor, --; For Sheriff, --,
For Congress, - -, and so on; all
the ballots to be canvassed in the several
Wards, and the result duly certified to the
General Committee, which shall forthwith
proceed to sum up and declare the persons
having the. highest votes for Mayor, Sheriff,
Congress, &C., to be duly nominated as
the Wing candidates for those stations re-
sPectively.
Give US this system, and the men who
cast a majority of the votes in the Wing
Primary Meetings could not vote there at
all--at all events could vote but one ballot
each where they now put in handfulls;
and honest, quiet, substantial citizens.
| having fair chance afforded them, would
come forward and vote. Thus we should
have very different candidates from those
often palmed upon US by hired bands of
rowdics, whom our Aldermen are con-
strained to form in their official career be-
cuuse to them they are their elevation.
Men and bretheren shall we have the
needed Reform
NJ NEED OF CALLING TIE DOCTOR,
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