The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1860-10-22
The City EisctGens-Ths Lat or Can.
dadates.

The City E;sclAOns-The Lat or Can.
dsdstes.
We publish to day q list Of the candi-
dates in this city for Congress, for the State
Legislature, for the judiciary and for county
offices. 1t will be seen that they belong to the
various factions which now divide the people
some to TammaDy Hail. some TO Mozart Hall,
some to the Breckenridge party. some to the
Douglas, some to the Bell and Everett, some to
coalition, some to independent cliques and
some to the republicans.
OF the last. in no instance do two candidates
run for the same Office. Not 30 with the demo
rallied democracy; they are split into the fac.
tons we have named, and two or three Of their
candidates are contending for almost every
office. What the result Of this insane policy
must be needs no ghost to tell. In view Of the
probable election of Lincoln, it was highly i'm.
portant that, at least in the Congressional dis
tricts, there should be only single candidates on
the conservative side, in order to insure ma
jority in the House OF Representatives, which
would checkmate the black republican execu-
tive and arrest the progress Of its revolutionary
measures. But instead Of that, the leaders of
the factions, some Of them probably bribed by
black republican gold, or the promise of
federal Offices. have split up the conserva-
tive interest and 80 played into the hands of
the enemy that his victory is almost certain,
and the chances are that he will have the con-
troll Of the House of Representatives, as we'll
as Of the administration.
As to the other Offices, it is of very little
consequence which faction succeeds, for, with
few exceptions. the candidates are all pretty
much alike. How could ii be otherwise, when
the source whence they derive their nomina-
tons is so foul and corrupt! The nominations
are as much matters of bargain and sale as so
many sheep and oxen in the cattle market.
And those who sell them are the shoulder
hitters and Short Boys, and Dead Rabbits
and criminals, and stool pigeons and gamblers,
and the scum and dregs Of the community
some of the scoundrels 80 ignorant that they
could not write their own names to save their
lives. These are the real ruling classes, and it
is farce to say that the people in this city
have anything to do with the choice of their
public officers Practically the voters are as
much enslaved in this respect as the citizens Of
Coustantinople, or of ST. Petersburg, or of vi.
emma. The only difference is that in those Eu-
ropean cities the people would have it very
different If they could. Here the people
have it all in their own power but they will not
take the trouble of asserting their rights and fran
chises; or they are so inundated by the local
hly;as /crotoctod <bo vv,ar thov bo ~ nj nad ";
power) that they fear to come into collision with
them, and allow the primary elections, which
are practically the real elections, to 60 by de-
fault, and content themselves by giving silent
vote at the legal elections for the worthless or
positively vicious and degraded candidates set
up for them by the organized rowdies. II is
Hobsons choice " with them they must vote
for one or other three or four rascals or throw
away their ballots on some respectable name
that nobody has heard Of or, in disgust abstain
from voting at all.
Will the people submit to this any longer !?
VIII they not make small sacrifice and slight
effort to free themselves from the yoke of the
dictators? If they combine they are irresistible,
and If they want good government they
have the matter in their own hands In
another column is list Of the names Of can.
didates, and we ask them what necessity IL
there that they should vote for these men
Unfortunately, merely because they are re-
presented as belonging to the same factions With
themselves? Let them inquire into the charac
ter and capacity OF these candidates before
they vote to place them in positions Of trust
honor aud emoument. Let them select the
good and reject the bad, but let this be
done by concert, 90 as to secure success. They
ought TO hold public meetings and overthrow
all that has been done by fellows calling
themselves nominating conventions in grog
shops and disreputsbe dens. and put forward
a ticket OF their own. With names beyond re
proach. To aid them in this work we will pub
lish the antecedents and status OF the candi
dates now in the field and we will nominate
ticket Of our own. which they can adopt whole
or in part, a. they think proper. One thing
we will venture TO say Of 1t is, that II will be
found incomparably better than any ticket pre-
sen,ed By the nominating committees Of any Of
the factioss, and that il the candidates 1t indi.
Gates are elected they will not be the reproach
and the scorn of our civilization. az have been
the majority Of our public Officers for the last
few years
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