New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1853-10-24

or. fthelaws and bring them TO punishment TAePOce
men have iust had an addition made to their pay which
vii nut sore 500 OF over into the pockets of each Of
them and saddle our taxpayers with an additional iOad
Of $4,000. And they tell us that they have beea
h.r5 AZ work earning this DEMONSTRATING up within
tho former half Of this year no less than $40 persons
oI.,,sd with Assault and Battery. 22l0 guilty Of Dis
orderly Conduct. Is charged with Murier 800 sus
noted Of Petit Larceny, go of Grand Larceny, BIZ
.rrsigued for Fighting in the Streets i5J7 for In.0x
.,;on 3es9s for ditto and Disordery Conduct, &c,
&c and only ilco for Selling Liquor without license
Yes: the sane Official Report which informs rs taat
Sir thousand Fire Hundred AID Siy habiual Tola.ors
If our Louor Laws either by selling without license
or selling on the Sabbath. known TO the Police.
sppres Us that fo voators Of those laws were arrest
cd and called TO account therefor during the forner
half OF the present year And this is but one among
several classes Of public wrongs which imperatiTely
call for an earnest and thorough Municipal Reform
All tbs has taken place under what is called Demo-
cratic administration and is just Ike what has been
oos On under such rule for the last half century only
growing worse and worse, as all tolerated iniluites
naturally tend to do. Nobody presumes, nobody i'm
AGNES that any change for the better will result from
the choice Of a new Democratic Council and Board OF
Aldermen.
But suppose Hhg Board should be chosen this
fa-what them VIII these law-defying grOgshops be
shut up whether all Of them on the Sabbath or the
unlicensed on other days Does any one believe that
q Wing rule would secure any such result VIII
Stu1teyant in majority be any better than that same
model Alderman in minority Has Wing Munich
pay erer enforced the law sernly against all these
offenders When such a Council might have sivel
us feaIlessly upright and thoroughly laweniOrcng
Chief Of Police, did it not fit to keep in Gorge
w Matsel What evidence have we, what golnd
for rational presumption that Wing COOPERATION
chosen this year will do any better than those elected
in the past
The truth lies just here-no Corporation elected by
aud for either of the great National parties ever can
deal thoroughly with lawbreakers To 90 so is 10 haz
card if not ensure the downfall of its party Let
Wing Council in next January ind it will almost
DeyabTbe in part indebted for it, success to rumsel-
ers, gamblers and rowdes Nine-tenths of these may
and probably would vote the regular Demo
cratic ticket but the other tenth would probably vote
Wing, and by that vote the Wing triumph would be
secured Now let the Wing authorities so chosen turn
around the gainfl arts whereby the simple and the
sensual leuTed to ruin in our City and this flying
column Of its supporters would instantly 90 over to the
adversary as they did when Aaron Clark defeated
for being too faithful and efficient Mayor The virtue
of Council so chosen-supposng II to have any yr-
tue would prove its runtO the great damage of its
party in the City State and Nation. And this is the
main reason why we desire Municipal Alminstra.
ton entirely independent of party. 4 City Reform
Council may do its whole duty without fear favor if
its fidelity shall repel few lawbreakers from its sup
port hundreds OF good will be attracted thereby to
its standard while Wings would not be drawn in like
manner to support partisan Democratic Council and
rice rrsd Council independent of National or State
Parties ard elected on the naked basis of Municipal
Reform is only remaining hope for the triumph Of
Morality and Law over ganful abuses and wholesale
cOrruptOns.
OF course, our readers understand that we 10 not
approve the nomination of City Reform candidates for
Assembly any more than OF Temperance candidates
for Controller Judges, District Attorney, &c. All
these unwarranted by the Of tho case and
can only tend to weaken and distract the friends Of
Reform As TO Senators and Members of Assembly
our first and foremost inquiry H. Which candidates
"will unquestiOnably uphold the Maine Law and
those candidates will have our hearty support For
Aldermen and COuncilmen, our inquiry is, WHO are
&" nominated in utter independence of all National par
" ties and pledged TO Municipal Reform ~ We would
have no incompetent, corrupt unworthy men support
cd because they have taken the name of Reformers
but between two equally good candidates for Alderman
we should prefer Democrat standing in good faith
the City Reform candidate to Wing running as
Wing We apprehend this WI dspease The Com
mcreiai Adrcrtistr but if so we cannot helpi.