New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1853-11-09
OVR CITY ELECTION.

We write In uncertainty whether majority OF Alder
men aud Councilmcn expressly pledged TO Municipal
Reform have been chosen but in doubt at all that
the Reform element is destined to preponderate in our
next CORPORATION us il manifesty did at the polls yes
tcrdny If a majority Of pledged Reformers be not
chosen. the residue will be split up into Hards,
Solis and Wings that the Reormers have only to agree
in asking only what s right and submitting to nothing
wrong, TO carry everything as they desire. Subsan-
ally our Electors have decided that Party Politics
have 10 proper place in the selection of Municipal
Officers and shall no longer be permitted to con-
troll IT, The defeat of Metsrs Sturtevant and Bar
ker in the two Wing stronghods with that of Wesley
Smith and Broaden in the Democratic strongholds,
gives assurance that only proper organization and
effort are needed to the election Of Reform
Council, pledged to know no party and to seek im-
partially the greatest good of our entire population
If the election were to be tried again tomorrow
Reform tickets would be carried in hreeourths of the
Wards.
There were some mistakes made In the preparations
for this contest which may be avoided hereafter Some
OF the Ward Reform Tickets got up without due
consideration and might have been considerably i'm
proved Those tickets should have borne the names
of such men as Henry Grinnell Luther Bradish, Wilson
G. Hunt Robert b. Minturn, Peter Cooper, &c. &c.
men known to the entire community and whose
names needed no Endorsement, by Committees or
otherwise. We hope the men actually chosen will
prove as honest aud capable but the public could not
InO this in advance of any trial. and the consequence
was distust and defeat where there should have been
confidence and victory. Next time the very best and
best known citizens must be taken up for Aldermen at
eli events. and must not be permitted to decline
1t was disagreeable duty part to maintain
position in the recent contest adverse to such
Gen. William Hall, William d. Andrews Nathan C..
Ely, &c. &c.-men known to capable andupright,
and whose election, under other auspices, should
very gladly have supported. We cannot help thinking
however that the blame OF this collision does not lie at
our door-that these and such men ought to have
tered promptly and heartily into the Reform move
ment and not have placed themselves in attitude Of
virtual opposition to it, Had they united in it, Reform
must have carried at least fifteen of the twenty-five
Wards, aud the divorce Of our Municipality from poll
tics have been complete And, since they saw fit to
stand in practical opposition TO it, we had no alternative
but to oppose them. Had we favored the election OF
Reformers only in Democratic Wards, and urged the
Wings in Wing Wards to " support the regular nomi-
enatons," " stick to the party" &c. &c, should
have aimed deadly blow to the entire Reform move
ment We could take no other course than that we
did take and if this shall have given lasting oense to
valued friends, we must abide the consequence as
we may.
Ono word now to the Retormers elected, and espe-
cially to those who were the Reform and also on
of the party tickets: Gentlemen You will be
licted, enreated mplOred to so into caucuses, Wing
or Democratic the may be-to parcel out Offices
for the good Of the party forget that you are
elected Reformers and array yourselves as partsns
If you are the men to be bought with Presidency of
either Board, or by the promise of nomination for
Congress next fall, or any personal bride whatever,
you viii be sold within week, your price paid in due
season. and your execrated ever after You
elected not to build Up this that party but toghten
tie public burdens of citizens and aprompt,
faithful and energetic enforcement of the laws fyou
forget or derde this you will live to the day in
which You were tempted to forsske the straight and
narrow path Of duty