Weekly national intelligencer., 1853-11-26
CONFUSION OF A NEW YORK ELECTION.
FROM THE NEW YORK EXPRESS.

fh0M THE NEW YORK EXPRESS.
Making every body vote for every body is only strong
description of New York city election day There were
four regular and field tickets the ground election
daythe Whig the Hard-sheli, the soft-shel and the
Free Democrat four city tckets--the City Reform the
Wing, the HardShe the Soft-Shell; and besides many
Temperance Free Democrat and Independent candidates
The whole number of candidates the different lists
which were circulated at the polls regular and irregular
amounted TO nearly five hundred 1t is business to
know something about candidates and voting places but
about the l24 voting places become bewldered and
indeed we did not know exactly our whereabouts or
ho or vat were exactly to be voted for All this
from calling upon the people to elect every thing by
popular vote and confusing the electors render
the elective franchise almost worthless for if men, whose
business it to understand politics DETAIL
prehend them without world of trouble, how
business man laborer whose mind is confined to
other pursuits
1t would that in the submission Of all the officers
to the popular baotbox, which the demagogue has in
sisted upon as popular right, it his intention
to render the elective franchise confused make
1T in the confusion worthless to the exercise Judges
are conounded with Common Councilmen and togroing
takes place between friends of the very highest and i'm
portan unctonares of the land with the very humbest
and least important that judge of court shares
with the constable ticket and log rolls another
along Of the great masses Of the people can
know nothing of the candidates voted for because we
whose trade is to study out these candidates lost in
the confusion and multiplicity and hence the demagogue
achieves his purpose of practically destroying the right
of suffrage by confusing It, and in the confusion
ing it to his own psa-es ,s
We eminent in the city yesterday, in four or
five different cases. voting for they did not to
vote for; and they chagrined enough when they
learned how they voted They did not comprehend the
order of the ballots the arrangement of them the
Der of person ticket the number Of tickets they
had right to vote In several cases, many the
tickets, crowding up to the baot-boxes with
important ticket missing, which they did dis
cover till too late to remedy the oss and hence they vot
ed without that ticketa of great chagrn. Nor
these ignorant men, but in other things Of in
tegence, who confessed however, their utter inability
the short time given them, to know their rights how
intelligently to exercise them.
Il is the.heght offolly be making whole State vote
for Inspectors of State Prisons for example What do
here know about them, the cement of them or
the proper men to manage them? If name is on our
ticket "go it blind of course and vote as we are
told and that is all know What folly, too, for
whole State to be voting for engineer and surveyor
we are doing! What do we know about engineering
suoyag, or what do we care, in respective walks of
life? We more likely to get bad engineer than
good under SYSTEM because good engineers do
covet State Convention nominations poor do The
whole system for the State is wrong; but it is much
when come to the city, and vote for all the
heads of the city departments and mix up contracts
lampghting streetcleaning &C. with the hustle, noise
and confusion OF the ballot-box.
We are very that there not honest, inte-
gent voter yesterday who did feel that he had been
wronged in his right of suffrage by the confusion and null
tpcity of names and places which the laws had allowed
to be thrown before him.