The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1857-11-12
Tn. Comsnx Charter Election.


tiyes which were evenly balanced In her mind.
Tn. Conaanx Charter Election.
The ridiculous manifestations In Tompkins
square. the Park, and elsewhere, on the subject
of tho want Of work, illustrate the straits to |
which the leaders of the opposition to the de- !
mocracy are reduced. They are called meet
ings of the Unemployed, and 30 they are; but |
the people who are unemployed are politicians,
not workmen. 1t Is the politicians OF the scots
which have been thrown out Of work by the late
State election who have got up these meetings,
and who keep up the absurd farce Of pretending
that the peace and safety of the city are me-
naced. It was they who we're at the bottom OF
the fit of terror which induced the quasi decla-
ration of martial law at the Custom House. 1t
is they who, under the name of committees and
managers, keep up the excitement among the
idlers and workingmen, and they who expect to
be the ones to profit by the turmoil, If any one
does.
Their idea was happily confessed by one of
their leaders, Mr.. Case, who, another speaker
informs us, is .'the great land reformer." What
land Mr.. Case has reformed or proposes to re-
form, or what the nature of bis reforms are, We
do not pretend to know; but the first step in his
programme is the organization of the workmen
into solid body to be welded by such emf
nent politicians as the Tribune philosophers
Albert Brisbane, Stephen Pearl Andrews and
O. r. Potter If the workmen will only fall
| into line, and vote as these shining lights
| of the black republicans direct, Mr.. Case, the
great land reformer, will be content. But no.
thing can be done without organization and
nothing without implicit obedience to the au-
thorities of the Tribune.
This is the key to the whole movement Let
the workmen first agree to put their consciences
in the hands of the black republican leaders till
after election, and all will be right. Let them
appoint committees, with unlimited powers, and
nut the editors of the black republican papers
ON these committees; and let said committees
DISPOSE of the workmen's vote for Mayor ut
the coming charter election; this done, no more
will be said, and Tompkins square and the Park
may rest in peace. The plan is cunning If not
ingenious.
But can it succeed Not unless the mocha
MICS and workmen of New York are more easily
deluded than has been usually the case hitherto
The workmen Of New York have not been in
the habit of hiring the philosophers OF the Tn
bune to do their thinking. That, as q matter o
choice they do themselves: aud rs matter o
experience, If they needed counsellor, they
would choose last of all those socialist philoso
phers whose doctrines have proved so ruinou
10 the workmen of Europe, and whose theorie
have been for years the laughing stock OF al
parties here. Whatever the New York ope
ratiyes may think on the Mayoralty, tn
Tribune editors are the last person
into whose hands they are now likely I
commit their consciences and their votes
For, independently of every other considers
ton. there Is no workman In New York VIII
does not feel hurt that II should have been SUI
. posed that this city could not be kept quit
4 without bsyonets; and the men who now seek
organize and use them ut the coming election al
. the very same men who have steadily prop
u gated the theory that, without troops, neith'
public nor private property would be sa
" here
y All these tricks of politicians will be unava
* ing. After the victory of the democracy in q
20 State few days since, 1t becomes thing 81
n tied that they cannot be defeated In the cit
nr Some months since the idle politicians tried 4
I'd same trick on the occasion of the police squa
er bles; the result was one of the most ovs
rs whelming revolutions in public sentiment th
rs the country has ever known, and the utter All
co hilation of the republican party in this Sta
re The same fate will attend their machinato
m now Fernando Wood will carry this CITY,
IN matter who opposes him, by a hitherto UNI
w raileled majority.