The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1852-08-26


his views in propria persona This Of itself, should
be inducement enough for all Wall street 10 conn.,
bine in getting up magnificent Webster meeting ]
in the Park. What says Mr.. ex-Recorder Tall
madge?
DEMoCBATIc PRIMARY ELECTIONS TONIGHT
WILL Rum AND RowDYIsM BE TRIUMPHANT 3
This evening the democratic primary elections will
take place oil the city, pursuant to the regular
call Of the fifth of August, issued by the majority
Of the General Committee. They will be held be-
tween the hours of seven and nine o'clock, P. NJ,
the avowed object of the Committee being to give
the working men time to come to the polls, after
their days labor is terminated in order to counter
act the efforts Of the rowdies The minority of the
Committee at first called the meetings from five to
seven o'clock, in order, they alleged, to avoid
rowdyism, by holding the elections in daylight but
the majority of the Committee said, in order the
moro securely to carry the rowdy tactics, as dur
ne these hours the operative classes would be ab.
sent, and only the Weather classes could come to
the polls, who did not wish to be brought into COLI
sion with DULLES and fighting men, The minority
have since acquiesced in the hours and places APP
4 pointed by the majority, but have named different
days for the delegates chosen to hold their nominat
ing conventions, and for several of the wards
| they have authorized the appointment Of different
4 set of inspectors.
! The object Of the primary meetings this evening
isto elect in the different wards delegates, one from
| each Assembly district, to the Democratic State
Convention, to be held at Syracuse on the LIST of
\ September; three delegates from each ward to q
Mayoralty Convention; five from each ward to q
! County Convention, to nominate county officers;
five from each ward to City Convention, for the
purpose Of nominating candidates for the offices OF
Comptroller, Street Commissioner, Commissioner OF
Repairs and Supplies, City Inspector, and Governor
of the Aims House; three delegates from each ward
to Judicial Convention, to nominate candidates for
the Offices of Justices of the Supreme and Superior
Courts Counsel to the Corporation, and Justices of
the Marine Court; seven delegates from each ward
to convention to nominate candidates for members
Of Congress; five delegates from each ward to
convention to nominate candidates for members Of
Assembly; a committee of fifteen persons to nomi-
nate candidates for charter Offices, in other words,
members of the Common Council; and five delegates
from the Eighth and Ninth wards to a District Con-
vention, to nominate candidate for the Office Of
Justice of the Third judicial district
These are the spoils for which both wings and
democrats striving and for which the factions in
both parties-the hunkers and barnburners among
grays among the whigs-are struggling, with equal
bitterness, to obtain the nominations. The weakest
faction in each party employ the rum and rowdy
influence to make up for deficiency in numbers
and power; and the result is rioting, and disorder,
and violence, of the most atrocious description.
That such will be the case this evening there is
every reason to believe. We had o foretaste Of it
at Tammany Hall on Friday evening last, and we
| ain rhn hall 1inn
their forces for the field day
We call upon the Mayor and Chief of Police, and
the captains, and all that are in authority to be at
their post, to check the riots in their incipient
stage, and put down the first disturbances that
manifest themselves, by arrestng the often
ders, and placing them in durance vile. Pre-
| yention 10 L-.s.A TL.-. .~ray
CARNATIONS have been in existence for the last
three or four years. and every man Of them is known
to the police Their haunts and drinking dens are
known, and if the officers, forewarned as they now
are, cannot break them up, and preserve the public
peace from violation, it will become question for
the citizens Of New York whether there is any use
in police force at all, which always fail at the
moment they are most wanted. If q body Of men
who are paid SO large sum of money by the citizens
for the purpose Of protection, and the maintenance Of
law and order, not reliable or available in the
time Of need, it would be far better to dispense with
their services, and to keep the money or apply it to
some more useful purpose. The misfortune is that
considerable number of the police force are them
selves most active politicians, and not only connve
at these outrages, but assist to get them up. The
Mayor, however, and the Chief Of Police, and the
magistracy, ought to look to it, and have such Off
GERS dismissed from the service. 1t is their duty to
prevent the city from being disgraced and to make
examples as well Of those policemen who neglect
their duty Of those rowdes and their leaders who
are guilty of disorder, or incte to breach of the
peace.
The question is-and it is one that comes home
to every mans business and Observation-Disclosures the
city and county, and all its Offices, and all its ex-
penditures, amounting to between three and four
millions Of dollars in the year, shall be surrendered
into the hands of these organized hands of rowdes,
and left under their absolute CONTROL to levy black
mail from the candidates, and to thrust upon the
public such men as never could have obtained an Of.
nee by lair play And another question arises as a
cerrollary from this whether the city Of New
fork-the empire city of the greatest and freest
country in the world, country in the very van of
the civilization of the nineteenth century-whether
this city to relapse into the barbarsm and savage
~ of state Of nature without laws or ordinances
the only right being might, and the strong arm be-
ing the only justice recognized-or whether there is
still left enough Of patriotism, and love Of law and
order, and civilized society, to arrest at any and
every expense the torrent of violence and corruption
which threatens to bear down all before It. A DO
itical and social condition has been superinduced
in this great metropolis which compares unfavor-
aly with that Of the most savage tribes Of Indians
the fercest Of whom maintain respect for their
simple code Of laws, unwrtten though be; whereas
here, in this city, all law, and religion and morality,
and all the obligations that bind men to each other,
are trampled in the dust, and anarchy reigns tri-
umphant How long is this state Of things to last