New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-05-14

our City IN Convention oi 'iie 'li''
but he pretty certainly will on the last.
We repeat, then, that we do not COM
plain of the general result in our City,
though several Wards were carried by the
Custom-House battalions In utter defiance
of the will of majority of their Wing
voters. But we renew our protest against
this mode of choosing Delegates, and en-
treat the Wing General Committee to give
our CITY an efficient REGISTRATION OF
Wu,G VorERs forthwith. 1t must be
manifest to all who attended the poll in
snv of our contested Wards yesterday,
that Primary Elections. without careful
registration of those entitled to vote in
each Ward, are and must be nothing but
pross farces. Hear what The Erpress-
hitherto a tacit supporter of the villainous
system which prevails-in relation to the
Ward in which its Editors live, which their
faction has hitherto ruled, but where it was
badly beaten yesterday-says:
ain the XvIIIth Ward, Webster ticket is elected
Extraordinary exertons made in this Wsrd against
Mr. Fillmore and not one vote in twenty was legal
EVERYBODY, we believe, was allowed to deposit ballot,
and wsgon.loads came up, many of whom we're known
to be not voters No Scott ticket runthe Webster
men and Scott men pulling together"
Now, the vote in that Ward was much
fairer this time than it has been at several
preceding Primary Elections-the ticket
elected was composed mainly if not wholly
of Scott men nineteen-twentieths OF the
votes for it were cast by Scott men, though
they will support for Delegate Hon. Moses
III. Grinnell, whose first choice Is well
known to be Mr.. Webster; his second
Scott; his last Fillmore. The eatire vote
polled there is not half so many as the
number of Wing voters in the Ward.
Compare this with the election in the next
Ward, (XIXth,) where the ticket elected
is claimed for Fillmore, where the total
Wing vote is about nine hundred, and
where nineteen hundred were given yester-
day, though this is an out Ward, with a
widely scattered population, and not more
than two hundred Wings went near its
poll yesterday. The same men came round
and round in the same wagons dozen
times or so, and voted each time, having
every facility afforded them. In the
XVIIIth Ward, on the contrary, the
Fillmore party had the Ward Commit
tee, made their own Inspectors, located the
poll to suit them ION the extreme west line
of the Ward and had everything their
own way except the voters. Yet The
Express singles this Ward out as marvel
of foul play-because its friends were
beaten there.
We make no such distinction. We do
not pretend that the vote was fair in the
Wards our friends carried; we only say it
was quite as fair as in those they lost.
We are confident that Registry and a
fair election would have given us more
Wards than we carried; but there are
probably some make-weights on the other
side. We do not write to claim all the
fairness and disclaim all the sharp-prac-
tice, but to insist once more that OUR
PRIMARY MEETINGS MUST BE REFORMED.
The work is short and easy: Let the
General Committee order a Registration
of the Wing Voters in each Ward, under
the direction of its Ward Committee, de-
creeing that no person can vote at the
Primary Election of any Ward whose
name does not stand duly recorded on the
Alphabetical Register thereof as Wing
voter therein, and all else will readily adj
just to this requisition. Not a moment
should be lost in commencing this work ;
for the Registration should be deliberate,
giving each voter who may be out of town
the week of its opening chance afterward;
for, if postponed another month, many Of
our citizens will have gone to the Country
before it closes, and will not be registered
when our early Primary Elections must be
held in the Fall. Let the names of the
Wing Legal Voters in each Ward be al
phabetically registered forthwith, and there
after simple revision, on public notice,
each May or June, will answer-probably
the labor of three persons for week suffic-
ing to correct the Register of either of our
most populous Wards. The voter who
changes his residence will be put to half
an hours trouble each year (if he moves
so often) to keep his name fairly on the
list so that he may vote at every Wing
Primary Election without elbowing his
NAV throroh fnrinus preasy screechinr