New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-12-05
THE ELECTION TOMORROW,

If the few Republicans who have been duped
into the support of the Tammany candidates shall
succeed in drawing off votes enough from Opdyke
to defeat him, which we now see no probability OF
their doing they will to moral certainty, elect
Wood, not Hayemeyer. With the support OF the
great body of the Americans and Independents,
Mr.. Opdyke is fairly entitled to from 700 TO
80. 600 votes, which is more than can possibly be
obtained for Hayemeyer. Two years ago, when
every nerve was strained on all sides, Wood and
Tammany Hall together pOlled 900 votes where
of some 10000 were bogus. The frauds which
gave Wood that number cannot be repeated now,
even under such Registrars and such Inspectors
as Tammany Hall has vouchsafed us. But let US
suppose the secret bolt from Wood in the Tam
many concave gave Tiemann 5000 Democratic
yotes--a large estimate--and that the increase III
the legal vote of our City equals the fraudulent
vote for Wood in '57-anOther large estimate-and
there are now 5000 Democratic voters in our
| CITY. to be divided between Wood and Hayemeyer
and thus TO be overcome by the election of Opdyke.
Now it is not merely THE TRmUSE-it is Tam
many Habitat computes Woods faction stronger
than that Of bis Democratic opponents All the
talk of a "machine vote" of Republicans for FOOD,
requiring Republican vote for Hayemeyer to over
come it, is simply, markedly, consciously election
eerng falsehood, and very impudent at that There
are not one hundred Republicans in the city who
can be- induced to vote for Wood in any contin-
geney-nOt dozen beside those who are impelled
to do so by some personal interest, or dscredtable
aspiration. Nor, TO do him justice, has Wood ever
fshed for Republican votes. He has made his
| fight exactly as if undoubtng that he has ample
strength behind him to beat Tammany Hall or the
Republicans separately, and us If his only dread is
such q coalition Of his Democratic and other adj
| yersaries, as foorod him in 1851.
| Tammany Hall, on the other hand, has notori-
ously fought as if conscious that it must succumb
| if il could not secure Republican aid. The nom-
nation of Hayemeyer was Of itself q confession of
this consciousncss-a grand haing sligo Of distress
"a bid for Republican votes. 1t was cry Of
"Help me- Cassius or sink - And, ever since,
Hsvemeyer's friends have been embarrassed by the
necessity of appealing to Democrats tovote for him
for the partys sake and to Republicans to support
him in defiance of party. The arguments and aP-
peals of Tsmmany Hall were thus weakened by the
necessity of holding different language in Wall
street.-the means of carrying the XIVth Ward
sacrificed in vain attempt to carry the XVIII.
The two-faced character of the Havemeyer fight
hss been fatal to the energy and efficiency of those
who engineered and led t.
And this fact at least has been made certain by
the progress of the contest to the eve of the
elechon-thst the Republican masses cannot be led
away from tho support Of their own candidate.
Here and there an individual may have seemed to
be caught by the bats held out to him; but the
masses are unmoyed. They arc going straight
along for their own man. and viii not listen
TO the voice of the Tamlnany charmer, charm he
never 30 sweetly. The honeyed seduciiOns of the
hour do not serve to esce from their memories the
unmerittd abuse, the unmessured detracton OF
years. The bland entcements of tie current fort
night do not eaee their recolections Of the Purdy-
Bell appointment of Registrars, and the blood-snd-
murder Address Of the Fiflh-ayenue Hotel Com
mittee.
The present danger Of Woods election springs
entirely from the detection of the few Republicans
and Americans who have gone rowing after the
strange gods of Tammany Hall Let them simply
return to the great body of their political friends
and Woods chances win be as cold as HAvemeyer's.
With their cooperation, we can give Opdyke -, 900
votes, placing bis election beyond contingency. II