New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1858-11-23


Ticket, We .hsll al know that return OF any
more than one hundred endorsements for various
Republican Presidential candidates VIII De errohe-
Gus or fraudulent and therefore Invalid. Here IS
complat. check On fraudulent returns. Now
.uppo,s the hundred votes 50 cast are indorsrd'
% Fremont. 30 Seward, 90 Chase, or otherwise ss
the case may be; the supporters OF the Candidate
who Ia, most votes will have direct positive
interest in having return duly made, while the
supnorters nf the candidates who run lower viii
take care tat such return do justice to their re-
spective f.vortes. If, then, the inspectors or
cauya,.ers utterly ignore the Endorsements, there
will be parties On the spot who will take care that
the Endorsement, be duly counted and returned
The moment the inspectors shall have done with
the ballots. Admit tina! there viii be some few
rregulsritie, or deficiencies. and still We say that
the probability that The Popular Voice Will pre-
vail !, at the worst much stronger than where the
nstteris virtually decided By politicians National
Convention.
III. The Adrertiser objects to our plan that il will
prove "quite impossible to make its actual bearings
" comprehensive 70 the 7oters." On this point,
each man must judge for himself. II he cannot
comprehend it, be is at liberty 70 conclude that
others cannot in the other case lie must come TO
an opposite conclusion unless he presumes himself
great deal wiser than his neighbors. We insist
that this is, per 81. much more direct and COM
prehen.ible system than that il is designed to
supcr.tde. Now voter goes TO the poll to vote
T =. L. al Ill.
NOT for the man or men he wishes TO elect, but five,
ten or twenty men whom he scarcely ever heard
OF, whom he has no paItialty for, and whose names
he could not call Oh-AOr the half OF them-the
moment after he has voted them. His ballot says
nothing whatever of the candidates he wants to
elect he must have faith that voting for this
platoon or two of nobodies will enure to the benefit
Of bi, preferred somebody. Were the two systems
now both TO be commended for the first time, there
could be no doubt that ours would BE- the simpler
and easier of comprehension. Do not forget that
We have two years in which 10 get the idea Of
Bona fde Election by the People through the skulls
of the stupid. ftbey are not thicker than potash
kettles, the job can be done.
III. The Adreriiser supposes that 'the simple
"minded voter will ask "Who am voting for p
Has our contemporary forgotten the supplementary
direction on the old guide-board, If you can't
" read, inquire at the mil :" The voters who can
read would certainly ask no such question as The
Adr1tiser magines, because the ballot put into
their hands would read, "For President John c.
" Fremont" or For President, Salmon P.
&" Chase" or For President" some one else
the name in honest, plain Roman capitals. If he
does not know how TO read, he will have to be told
for whom his ticket, If chosen. will vote just at
pre- sent. But if he does know, he cannot ask any
such question:: and if the Endorsement on the vote
handed him does not suit he will change it for one
that does. He viii be quite likely to know whom
be prefers for President before he goes to the poll
If he does not, he will vote the ballot handed him
by some person in whom he confdes-which is
exactly the present case.
". The Adrertiser thinks that the Republican
voters will refuse to vote they fit, lest some
one they do not like shall nevertheless be chosen
Ii says:
"Under The TRIBusE's plan, the Republicans
would Lore the votes Of everybody who entertained
lstrust or dislike toward either one OF half dozen
candidates.
Again we appeal from an unsupported dictum to
both common sense and experience. Would you,
reader refuse to vote the Electoral Ticket of your
party, whether it be Republican or Democrst-ssid
ticket being headed by the name of that man whom
Of all others YOU prefer for President-from fear
that some other statesman Of your party, being
preferred by tie larger number Of its legal voters,
should be eleeted1 Ifyou would, aud you belong
to the same party that We do We will thank you to
get out oft. You are worth nothing to any party
but that you favor with your opposition. Bot We
are perfectly willing to vote Republican Electo-
raj Ticket indorsed % aforesaid, and let majority
of the Republicans say who shall receive the entire
Republican vote. When We feel that we cannot
trust the Republican party to that extent, We shall
make haste to relieve il OF the Incubus OF our cold
ness and distrust.
But We appeal. moreover, 70 facts. We were
quite young in l.2i, but our feelings were warmly
enlisted on the anti Caucus side; and We feel Ger.
tain that Observation-Disclosures Of the anti-Caucus
voters (made up rs these were from all parties
and never having acted together till them would
gladly have voted for anti Caucus Electors on the
plan we proposals some Of them certainly and
successfully did. We never heard Of Jackson or
Adams man who refused 70 vote the snt.C Caucus
Electors in any State where fusion snti-Caucus
ticket was run through fear that the vote would
enure to the benefit of some other than his fsvorte
How New-Ycrk was carried against the Caucus BY
the copjoint action Of Adams, Clay and Jackson
men Though the latter were then very few must
be familiar to wel-nformed politicians.
Y. The idrsriser dilstes on the advantage OF 8
..v,. :, . Presidential rsnysss Very KEEL. IL that