New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-08-03
AN0TuEH OF THE .ICuEs.

At the election in ast November the people Of the
Kinl Ward e tiis City decided, By large majority
10 be- represented not only in The Legislature Of the
STATE but in the Common Council by thorough Maine
Law men They elected those in whom they bad
confidence. aho were pledged, b.. implication st least,
to carry out this idea. Accordingly the day for ccuS
inc m-sellers in tat Ward having arrived, the Al
dcImau and Couucilnie being a clear majority OF
the Boart If Excise. resolved 10 issue 40 license
whate.-r; there WAC uo reasonable ground for claim
because o. public tr5ei the groceries N almost
every instance acknou edged uu.snces, poisoning aaJ
de'uora.zrg children ana servants and the regular
porrcrL ouses we're the beadquart Of tle idle. the
pTogote and The vicious OF that and the ueiadJorus
ns.ds. IL them naht Wus made time OF deDauca.
Gambling ara Kindred vices and the sabbath day
riot qua.r.liug street brawl, and al of dis
graceful fceuea Noreo'cr no single cit.zeu of tao
ward not Ia some way considerably interested in the
.ae of liquor, asked Tor O license. either Tor himself
Or Others.
l. was im0ed uteIy after this decision of the Board
of Excise that Mayor " esterselt, the .ympathizer
al large with the ,un-dcaers, uttered his famous
proclamation: IL / were citizen OF the Ninth
Ward and wished to ,e liquor and the Board
.hould reuse me lceus, | would sell without
license aud in spite OF them. Acting mon this
voluntary advice large number of dealers hove
tinufd 10 sell although explicitly refused the proper
legal authorization. Thereupon certain Interested
citizens procured the pro. ecuton OF Il large number,
and 1iI. Waliy Mason keeper Vi house 10 Hudson
ST. ,oob the position of defendant in general con-
tending that nsimuch as he kept an irrsproact able
hou,e the 6oari Excise mad No right 10 rsfuse hun
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Die in selling without their authority.
The prosecution, however Wa. simply Tor selling
liquor without license, certain Days and to certain
persons named in the complaint. - lar IS plsin
English ran express It, Of these soecii-
cations distinctly and unequiyo cay proved upon
the most Trustworthy evidence. And not only this,
Jut Mr.. Macon himself has denied sought 10
deny the fact. lie has sold snd does now sell liquor,
without the slghtes. attempt at cOnceament; se-
csIse he processes - believe that the refusal OF
license Illegal and consequently tho oriinsr, re-
ttrsints oi law ere removed
But this was rot the question before .be Court.
TIE Judge explicitly stated that the ju-y bsd only
onc point 70 consider Ind the d, iendau' ssl excia-
bic liquors sf;er the expiration OF nis i.rse as
charged IA the complaint. Ii 90 be il guilty Ii not
~ N' Nt't hNt't. NOW = rFti- rNhitI A-lit LIt-
IN such cssc, whore tbc brosd act IL rot oily nct
disputed, but the oiense opea. continued sud pcr-
sisted in. scknc csd .n so MANY words IL order 10
ju.;i, gpon point ruled cgl in the case; it i. re-
aarhable that jury cannot agree Why the case
couii not have been uo-e clear upon confession o'
judgment and the jury could in sch case have been
as reasonably expected 20 disagree. NJ Mason 4ctu
ali made 10 le.es,e ,sa.e that which was ruled
eut) and thus in effect did confess himself guilty
There is not Of tbs jury who can By Guy possible
effort OF mind nave the sligbtesG shadow % doub:
thar the defendant guilty; nay Il is more than
probable that -ht very men who stood ia the
wsy If agreement have time and sgain proved in
their OWN persons the truth Of the charges made
against the IaAn they acqu5
These facts show the desperate lengths to which
The Rum interest sill 90 70 maintain is supremacy.
The TIRE; power for politicians to conciliate ia Ram
the old-fashored nominations were packed N Rgr-
house. and baptsed in that precious auid; the eandi-
dste was always expected to stand treat" to an ia
definite extent, and msny an ambitious m1n bss
wrecked fair fortune and blsekened spotess char
acter by this sayish subserSieney. More than this,
the Mayor Of the frss commercial city il AuericA
would make the Excise Commissioners but so many
machines set up Tor the occasion TO sign IL
ccuses and n csse Of refusal he trsmples down
both .v trl public opinion. forcing uooa D