The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1852-05-07
The Presidential Question in New York CITY,
Movements or the Whiss.
Iron the Tribune. May 81

PRESIDENTIAL NOMINA
Our Wing General Committee met at Broadway
House, last evening, and deliberately made over the
wing voters Of this city to the tender mercies Of the
hirelng bules and grog shop brusers who habitualy
and protably elect our delegates to our several
minating conventions. In spite OF every entreaty
and remonstrance, the majority refused to order
registration Of the wing voters, and directed that
the ward meetings should be held on Thursday morn
ing next, commencing at six anu closing at nine .
O'Clock, A. NJ. But one poll in each ward is con-
templated, and within the three hours thus pre-
scrbed, the twenty-five hundred wings in the |
Fifteenth and the two thousand and over in each of
the Eighth, Ninth, Sixteenth, Seventeenth, and
Eighteenth expected to deposite their ballots
ward delegates who are to choose the district dele
gates to the Wing National Convention, taking due
precautions for keeping out illegal and locofcco
votes, and respecting all the propriees OF regular
election.
Of course, this election will be a fraud and farce
combined. Its projectors or 80 many OF them as
have moderate share of common sense never ex-
pected, and We believe they desired, anything
else. Every locofoco rowdy who can "bring up
string of DULLES, no matter whether voters or not
will be driving sharp bargains for his services at one
more polls before this week is out Well inform
ed city politicians can tell you this morning that
Bill so-andso will take such ward, and Tom
what Shame 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 60 to the poll-as we trust
they will-they will find its entrance blocked and
wedged by sweating, shouting, swearing. pushing
will not be able to elbow their way up to the ballot.
box and vote, with the comfortable certainty that
for every one vote put in by a 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 city
are deliberately sold by the political gamblers who
compose u 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.
perfectly transparent Iii 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
of the preferences Of whg electors
right well did they know il. They knew that
one-fth of the whig money that will now be wasted
on ocofoco DULLES hire their services for this
that clique, would ray all the expenses Of regis
counteIacting suspected maneuvres 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 30 many sheep,
because this little knot think they take ward
and that one another, &c.-and these little knots,
added together, control Majority in the Wing Gene
raj Committee.
Well one thing, ut least, we have secured by
pressing them for IA regstry-we have shown that
those who are using the of Mr.. Fillmore in our
city dare not trust their candidate to the verdict OF
the people. They have a largo majority IN the
General Committee; they might have secured an he-
nest expression if they would. They chose rough
and-tumble contest, presuming that their Custom
House, and other hired egions, would thus be mere
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 OF you, next Thursday mora
ing if only to see how gross outrage this s See,
for once what sort Of men they are who are hired to
choose your delegates and to crowd fight you away
from the ballot boxes. Stand there from eight 70
nine o'clock. and see the great body OF undoubted
whig voters Ill the large wards shut OF by the poll,
l
resolve that this shall be the last
from the Times May 81
The Wing General Committee, as we mentioned
yesterday has decided that the election of dele
gates to the National Convention from this city
shall be held on Thursday next, between six and
nine o'clock in the morning II they h ad exercised
their ingenuity TO the utmost, they could not have
notified the public more ehectually Of their deter
mination to practice open and bare faced swim.
die upon the wings OF the city in the election Of
delegates to this convention. They know perfectly
WELL that between the hours specified, not one-tenth
of the wing voters ia any ward of the city
will attend at the polls; and they unqucstionably
alcula,e upon this fact, as certain to give to the
ules and rowdies. who may be hired to be present,
ompletc and uDdisputed possession OF the field. Fol
whose benefit this trickery is to be practised--
whether il is intended to aid the election OF dele
atcs for Fillmore, Scott or Wobscr-we neither
know care. We have not taken the trouble to
INQUIRE whether the movement originated in the
Custom House, with outside aspirauts fol
Official positions. 1t speaks for itself, and prOclam
clearly enough that the committee intend cheat
They have given not only their countenance, but
their direct sanction, to the practice of carrying
the primary meetings by rowdyism and violence,
which has so long disgraced the wing party in this
city, and which has uniformly driven from the pri
mary meetings the great body of the respectable
and intelligent members of the party.
The committee is ostensibly chosen to look after
the interests of the wing party in the cty-to pro-
mote harmony Of action among its members, and to
make necessary arrangements for its elections Its
late action not needed to show that it has be-
come mere tool Of faction-an instrument in the
hands Of busy schemers, for the accomplishment Of
their own ends, and an injury and nuisance to the
general confidence of the whig party in the city,
and is mainly supported by levyng contributions
upon such custom house employees and other Office.
holders as dare not refuse to pay, for fear Of losing
their places This last step is little in advance Of
any, Of its previous attempts upon the forbearance
Of the party,
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TO THE EDITOR or THE NEW YORK HERALD.