The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1855-04-03

Police 90 be ObeaIned II Possible.
Though the meeting at the Tabernacle and
the structures Of the press may be said to have
killed off the Police bill which the friends of
Mr.. Seward had introduced into the Legisla-
ture, the scheme has not on that account been
abandoned. 1t is new intended, we learn from
quietly dropped, but that its provisions, EN-.
bodied in brief section or two, and couched as
an amendment shall be incorporated into the
new Charter bill. As this latter is sure of the
support of a commanding majority it is ex-
pected that the obnoxious change may be
struggled through, without notice, under its
cover. The end Of the session will of course be
chosen for the accomplishment of the trick
and, as usual, q large proportion of the me-
bers will be unconscious of what they -,
done until the bill is law. This is the 49,
lation, and it is pretty shrewd one.
Should it be carried out according ..an.;,..
adouble aim will be accomplished rho g.
ward men will gain the support OF A.. ..n,,,or,
and the keepers Of the houses ~ ,ros,;,,t;on
for future political operation = a,-oaan tso
pecuniary aid of these person 6shas been secnred
to the extent of $4,000 for ,be nurDose If
taking from Mayor Woo nnv mart of the con-
Hoi NC may Nv" n"'e over the police fierce,
and handing IT over 70 less scrupulous indi.
viduals' IL sa gee 2 laid scheme to oversor
tne present eAceir nt police and bring back the
odious system itch wasiR existence year or
TWO ago. Are we prepared for this changer
Are the peop Ie willing to have +" short boys"
rOWO1eS aHV Fioucu ia fho ordso ~ %ho
city! Ar the members of the Legislature from
the rur~ districts willing to have their wives
and Of lighters subject to insult and outrage
when ever they visit the metropolis?
IAe feet Is Mr. Seward cannot dispense
WI. tn the aid Of the New York police. They
Are essential to his ambitious schemes. II
any thing is to grow out of the recent dis
organization Of parties to his advantage, the
first thing needful is the command of the New
York mob, and they can only be commanded
through the police. Should his partisans
bring him forward next year as Presden-
tial candidate as they intend to do, If they
can, the police must be on their side, or the
city. which ought to be his stron ghold, is Sc
cured to his opponents. Naturally. the police
side with the democratic party. If they were
left to themselves to vote their own way, it is
pretty certain that large majority of them
would vote the democratic ticket. But this has
sorarely happened. these conditions have been
SO rarely fulfilled, that their natural proclivi-
ties matter little. Policemen like soldiers, do
as they are bid: whether in voting or patrelling.
! They have moreover wonderfully nice sense
| OF what is judicious and what hurtful at cleo
tons: know the men they should arrest for dis
turbing the peace, and the men they should
never see in any mischief; can make an
opponent move on with perfectly calm face,
while they allow crowd of their own faction
to block the way. By these means, indie
pendently of their own vote which cannot be
rated at less than thousand, they control in
reality an electoral patronage unqestionably
greater than that of any other body OF agency
| in the State. 1t would not be two much to say,
| considering how many men abstain from voting
altogether, that at any seriously contested cleo.
| ton the police are sure to turn the scale in
favor Of whichever side they espouss.
Hence the anxiety Of Mr.. Stewards friends
to get them out of the hands of the present
Commissioners, and render them dependent on
and responsible to tools Of their own We
gather from our Albany correspondents des-
patch that two parties, one hard shell, the
other soft, have put their hands in their
pockets and sent three thousand dollars to Al
bany to help carry the bill, with view of OBJ
tanning commissionership apiece. There is
nothing surprising in this; but the reader must
not be misled by names These generous men
may have been hards or softs in times past
now they are Seward men, and nothing else.
They are pledged to do Stewards work in their
office Of commissioners; if they are not, they
have no chance of the office, and have invested
their money badly. u.E
1t remains to be seen whether there is any
one in the Legislature who will take the initia-
tive in exposing-it only needs to be exposed
this fragrant fraud.