New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-11-28
WHAT rs ASKED OF THE RRPUB-
IICANs, AND WHY.

The Republicans of this City are asked to aid in
placing one faction of their adyersaries in power in
order to keep the other faction out. Those who
make this request virtually say" The Democratic
"party Is so strong that it cannot be defeated; yet
$50 awfuly corrupt, deprayed, and rotten, that it
Twill inevitably elect Catilines and Marats to rule
over us unless the Republicans aid the smaller
Democratic faction to beat the larger"
Now suppose this representation to be true, ought
not those who ask us for our votes-whO cannot, it
seems, get on without them-to have profered us at
least some show Of equivalent If they cannot beat
Wood without our aid, they must be inferior in
numbers to the Republicans. Why, then, should
they not have offered to combine with us on some
fair principle of give and take If the defeat of
Wood is so vitally necessary is it also necessary
that we should surrender everything and get
nothiDgl
But it is not new experiment that we are now
asked to Try. We elected Temann to beat Wood
two years ago. 1t was fairly understood aud pro-
claimed that we were to be treated as equals by
those whom We thus hoisted into power They
were nobody without our aid-not one-fourth of
the Democratic party Mr. Tiemann we knew to
be bitter partisan, butwe esteemed him an honest
man, and he publicly pledged himself to know no
party in the exercise of the official powers conferred
on him by Republican votes. The midnight con-
spirators who plot and rule in Tammany Hall com
PEELED him TO violate that pledge. Not content
with this, they, through their mOuth-piece, John
Van Buren, insulted and fouted us for asking Its
all al 70 al as
though We were Lazarus at the door of Dives,
only the dogs were sent out TO tear rather than 10
seek to healus Can all this be at once forgotten!
Is not two years of it enough
But it is said that Wood viii be an awful fellow
if he gets back into the City Hall. Well, then:
Let the Tammany folks vote with US for OPdyke,
and keep him out. We have voted with them
onee; why is not turn about fair play They can
not raise plausible objection to Mr.. Opiyke, save
that he does not belong TO their clan. His integ-
rity, his capacity, his freedom from the trammels
of narrow, proscriptiye parisanship, are notorious
Unlike HayemtyeT, he makes no stpulations, affects
no coyness, does not ask that the most lucrative
Office in the Peoples gift be conferred on friend
as condition Of his running. He does not, Ike
Mr. Havemeyer, regard the Mayoralty as mere
clerkship and viii not, if elected, make it one.
He is a Republican, but has already proved his
independence aud fidelity TO his convictions of pub
lie duty. Elect him, and the City viii have such q
Mayor as it has not known since De Witt Clinton.
"But you are only Twenty thousand" say the
advocates of Hayemeyer to the Republicans. We
do NOT admit il. We polled Twenty-iour Thousand
votes for our Supervisors at the nemann election,
and can do il again if all those whose hearts are
with US VIII give US their votes. The anti-Wood
Democrats made q desperate effort then, but did
not poll more than half many votes as we did.
Their confessions of weakDess-their sPpeal 10
Republicans for aid-prove that the Tammany
managers are aware that they are the weakest OF
the three parties. Why, then do they not offer US
fair terms if they wish to act with US against
Wood
But it is said that the cause Of good government
demands the defeat Of Wood. Very good, If you
mean defeat by 0pdyke otherwise, not so good.
What did Wood ever do more outrageous than the
corp 9'f,at of ProiAne Bell, Purdy & Co., by
which they seized upon the Registration OF Legal