The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-08-08

ment on de past The manufacture Of plat
forms is behind the age.
The August ELECTORS for Our City Officers
New York in the Hands af lne PhSiisttaes.
The citizens of New York are under q very
general belief that next December they will
elect May or, a portion of the Aldermen aud
Coupcilmer, and several otter municipal, officers,
in what is called a charter election But that is
not the case. The citizens Of New York are all,
with the exception of perhaps fifty or hundred
of them, wrong on that point. The charter
election does not take place in December. 1t is
going on actively NOW, in this present month of
August, and at the beginning thereof, and in
two or three weeks the whole thing will BE- cut,
dried and decided.
Tammany Hall is in a ferment and the Sa.
chems are in motion. Mozart Hall is agitated,
and the wirepullers are hard at work. The
Black Republican General Committee is tremb-
ling with fear, and appealing TO Albany for
counsel and comfort. The runp Of Know
NotbiDgism is filled with anguish at the bar
rem prospect before it for the spoils
On every eide bargaining and barteripg
are going on between the five or Six
dozens of intriguing politicians who compose
these little wire-wolking clques and Che
offices of Mayor and other charter officers are up
for sale to the highest bidder in promises and
contingent contracts By the first day Of Sep
tember the Mayor and other corporation officers
of the city of New York for the next two years
will be decided. The people have nothing more
TO do with it than to come forward on what is
supposed to be election day, and take Hobson's
choice for their rulers-election laws, glass
ballot boxes and penal ensctments to the con
trary notwithstanding. Under our present sys-
tenn the election is not so much decided by the
citizens who put the votes into the ballot box
| as by the officers who count them out of it.
Now this system is all wrong. We shall never
have good government in New York until il is
broken up, and the choice of their rulers left to
the people themselves. IF honest men stood a
chance to get the nomination from the several
socalled parties it would be we'll enough. But
though the show of party division is kept up
for the public, there is really no such thing
among the city politicians. These all combine
to keep the honest men out. They have no
chance of nomination from any side. Such
men as the present Street Commissioner.
the City Inspector and the Comptroller, are
not only distasteful to the politicians, but
are hated by them. AS one of the city fathers
frankly acknowledged a few days since, in eau
Gus on a recent city nomination, eve want no
more such men, and we will not have them"
And go the rogues take care of each other WITH
cut reference to politics. and the taxes of the city
are increased one or two millions yearly, outra-
eeous assessments are made for useless improve
ments, and when paid are pocketed, as they have
been in times not long past, and the lien still
left upon the property. If this system of CON-
mittee nomination and election of our municipal
officers goes on few years longer, there will not
be a sound title in this city, and no man will be
able to leave his estate to his Legitimate heirs
The only way to break it up is to break up the
whole system of committee nomination. We
want no more Tammany Halls, nor Mozart Halls,
nor general committees, nor ward committees,
all Of which are based on primary elections, held
~ few prize fighters, shoulder histers and
butcher boys We must recur to the true system
OF popular government. Every candidate must
be self-nOminated, and come before the people
On his own personal merits, and not on party
ties. Party has nothing to do with the affairs of
this city, and the sooner it is TUNED out of them
the sooner shall we have good government and
lighter taxes, and better ordered city in every
respect while the well saved property of every
citizen will be safe from the rapacious attacks of
set of greedy political wire pIlers We repeat
it to the citizens of New York: The petty cliques
Of the political factions are to day barteriag
away your birthright, and partitionng out your
government through bargains and corrupt agree.
ments. Look to it, men of New York, before
our aifairs are involved to a degree beyond all
remedy.
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