New-York daily tribune., 1859-12-20
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Dir Postmaster Fowler, as Chairman Of the
Tsm many General Committee. has issued On Ad-
dr.es explanatory of the recent defeat and over
tbr,w of the Soft Democracy. 1t is longer than
an, Of NspoleOns bulletins, and much duiler read
ng. Isaac must hGve had quiet Singer all to
biu,self v heb be wrote to bis brother Tammauyites
thur:
.e.irs you lsiiOu asyorsy
.,.ess ,ovr 'f, 10~ srt' ~ '1ppTf II y"sr Sr~ "0Aes
Ii that snt cool, how bot an iceberg must bel
But let US hear the T. NJ. explain how and
Why he wa 50 badly whipped this time:
1bs BacL Republicans, with large number Of Amen
have united HrA pofou Of the Democratic party ia
sny al esinAbie candssie~ with nndiss sucd
oc eeciins the The Republicans bad previously
81 cal conduct they had pae the only their
S,iI 1iioi o. y sI gsr 'hs sJ e.t ioI "a; removal oa
local 'ttb "bh ne her his personal nor political merits
Tue psnis to liz eysliou have steadily aded Othes
oiut ofLe contest Meetings cae BY ether have bees
by the adhsrsuts Of bogh In give
suIFIels OF hr haveneyr and draw votes nom him 20
the c,riou bsve h.u tsken up aud commenced BY tho
iher thSush they wee tne But rosi ee,ens q all toe
tsctu and concerted haDd prsctced by fHB FKBUNs
no (oU, a. The SIsas ot OPdyhe snd ne Herals and
tutirr, candidates and Ar.
Haven tye v oud only reo.i.e than
Of tbs City voed candidate Mr.
bs'tnsy,Issr Ianbe Of ,loss 10, sci,e IN PSc "a ,ae
CeyI under belief hs' necessary TO do ~ in order to
In sdion these large number Of jerse qie, voters
ofbo stTonr partisan yupaihe. so deceived into throw
,ss a"ty zen soes uivn % 81 ' t, y ). p ~. ~,
tbeu dnec, ood aid thus insured bis election
-1sIs is heary as clear as mud, but not quite so
plausible What is perfectly plain is just this-A
large majority of our citizens wanted rammany
Hall haxtd out; so the nefanOus wretches went
and dId 1t. OF course, they ought to be ashamed
ef themselves; but, since they maniiesrly an't,
what do you propose to do about it Have Jon
mole other than the aogsed urcbns consolation, II
"cant hex you, but III make mouths at your
" sisttr7"
But let US take look at the Official Returns
veIy dIy reading, we judge they must be to the
Postmaster, for he never once aludes to them.
They are q great check on the imagination, and
ppt 10 be- uc, uyeuieut to those who invent their
facts us they go along. But here are the Official
Totals as pearly ~e can make them:
Ao,or. Opdyke. at Havemoyer. 96.9l3 wood."ea9O
CCuh,d e5l 1ilden. 2Js7s Bronson 312Ol
AIR. H.Tnlpe, ..27 lsS McEoy ..24ss Lynch. as9
-OultI1t uo Oht WIN PANbohu AA1b biA' hiNAVy
received any Democratic yotes-not even hun
dred Why should he have received anyl His
friends asked for none he never pretended to be
Democrat; and no was regularly nominated by
the Republicans, the Americans cOncurrmg. Nor
can we imagine reason why Tammany Demo
cIat should have failed to vote for McElroy He
was the candidate of that organization; not a
word was said to his prejudice; yet he received
AIS votes less than Pinkney and A. 743 less than
llayemeyer. Is it not plain that these were mainly
if not wholly Opposition votes cast for Hayemeyer
in order to defeat Wood Scrutinize the Official |
closely aid see if you find in it any evidence that
any considerable number of Republicans voted for
Wood or of Democrats voted for Opdyke. The
figures are there's sean them for yourselves!
MIR. Hayemeyer was far the highest on the Tam
many ticket; Dir. Opdyk whose prooity and worth
DO one questioned, ran lowest on bis. And this
was simply because Republicans aud Americans,
jreadins Woods election, voted for Hayemeyer 10
deiest IT. Had they stood by their guos, Opdyke
sOuld have been Woods leading opponent aud tue
votes that in the afternoon were concentrated on
would have gone for Opdyke and elected
him. We tried TO make this clear before the cleo
ton; but the united clamor of The Times, Journal
# COmm,'ce, Express, &C., was too much for US;
80 tho,e who were inteut ab Jve alIhpgs beating
Wood were Impelled the wrong way, and voted so
ss to insure his election. That the danger
from ibe first But the fact still staods out on the
Iate of the returns that of the three parties the
Tan many is the weakest.
MIR Fowler closes his Address with the usual
sw ash about giving 10000 majority in this City
next Fail for the Democratic candidates. How
many d. Les must that wIndbes BE- pIicsedl For
three or fOsr years past, from 80 900 up to 40 900
DeInocIais majority has been promised here, but
never realized Even at the late Charter Election,
v ith ten dOlsrs spent by The two rival Democratic
factions for every dollar spent Oa Our side-with
Mozart and Tsmmany Halls raking every gutter
or votes and ubquestionably sesuring those OF
many who were not Democrats, their combined
sote exceeds OSss ior Governor of tas Aims House
but 22,676. They may possibly do we'll for
President IN 1869, but that is not probable. No
rabdid, intelligent man will deny that Wood and
Have vtmeyer together received a. least 5000 OpPo-
,tion votes; subtract that number from their COM
Dined poll and add i, to Opdyks's, and it leaves
the Democratic majority q, ,436. They can never
reach that number in a full, fair poli;. but lot us
give them 20 na2y and the Republicans Of the
-ursl districts can surely overcome it. So let
Mozart aud Tsmmany fight or fuse, we are ready
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