New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-04-23
A Wnpn IN SRASON.

The Wing General Committee meet soon
TO designate the time and manner OF choos-
inp Delegates from this City to the Wing
National Convention. In view of that
meeting. we entreat them once more to
give their constituents REGISTRY OF
Wu,G ELECTORS and VoTE BY BALLOT.
We know how strong are the influences
which resist these essential Reforms. Eve
ny Delegation-packer fancies himself lit
tie shrewder and smarter than any rival In
the trade, and, even though badly beaten
at the last trial, thinks he has learned Wis
dom bv his discontinue and can certainly
fetch 'em This time Every gambler in
politics, every controller of a gang OF I'M
scrupulous DULLES whom he is accustomed
to hire out at q high figure to rich fools
who want nominations, perceives that
Registry and Ballot would be death to
his occupation and his gains. Every aspi-
rant who fatters himself that he has the
wires all set for his election as Dele
gate or his nomination next Fall. will OF
course 90 his death against the proposed
Reform.
But, on the other hand, the great mass OF
active with many of the usually torpid
Wings want chance to express their pre-
ference as to the next Wing Presidential
candidate. They will readily take the
slight trouble of stopping at the Wing head
quarters in their Ward on some evening
during the week of Registration and give In
each his own name and residence, with his
ayerment that he is Whig-and this, un-
less disputed, will suffice to place his name
in alphabetical order on the Wing Register
of the Ward. That done, we shall be ready
to hold meetings for the choice OF Delegates,
each person who offers vote being checked
on the Register before his vote is accepted
and the polls being kept open two days If
necessary. Then we shall have In the trst
place, pretty accurate census OF the live
Wings of our City; next Directory to tell
rs where to find them finally, list which
will only need correcting thereafter to pre-
serve us ever more from fraud, corruption
and violence in our Primary Elections
When no vote is taken but that of citizen
whose name is on the Wing Register of the
Ward where he offers it, and each name
checked as soon as its possessor shall have
voted, so as to render it certain that no man
votes but once, we shall be saved from in
finite frauds, wrongs, heart-burnings, and
corruptions. And now is the time to do 1t.
If we let this occasion slip, there will never
be another so favorable. Candidates will
be thicker and appliances more lavish in the
Fall. If we do not succeed now, we shall
work on, but with diminished hope, for
Reform hereafter.
Members of the Wing General Committee!
give your Wing constituents a fair and
equal voice in the nomination of their party
candidates! You know they do not and
cannot have it under our present system,
nor eny other that does not include Re-
gistry of our voters, and Vote by Ballot
based thereon. In their absence, Loco
Focos land the worst specimens even of
that breed) will cast more votes and exert
more influence in our Primary Elections
than Wings. Gentlemen of the Commit
tee ! if you determine to refuse the Wings
an honest and equal voice in choosing their
Delegates to Baltimore, at least take vote
on the question, and oblige us with the
Yeas and Nays!