New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-12-31
THE sPEAKERsnHP.

Tn r. J.. Times Las an article in behalf Of
Mr. LittleIohn's reelection as Speaker, whereof
the gist is as follows:
1--WE feel no special interest the contest for Speaker fur.
Than decided upon fair gre and
consistent with justice and truth We have known DIR title
john IN private life aud in public Office for ten years
believe al h aslersioDs upon bis character In which THB
TkIB has so lera; INDUCED warlsn aid utterly base
ices We believe him be honorable and an upright
wholly pabe Of betrayng public trust We should dGet
from him several subjects which engaged his action last VIA
We sheud voted the City lrosI bills be
ddeiher before after they had been vetoed by Goy Nor
gan But subscribe to the doctiae tina. he
obliged change b. vote because TIE Goycnor ID vetoed the
biuplsss the assigned such convince
udgueut H. lad perNct yt his opiriors snd /.
bis duty q be ruided BY them.
The position that the Republican members compelled
change heir snd Lev 10 Governors lead pr,po,
,rsus And the veheuence with which il is sr1ed sg.n. Mr
eohns eec0n to he spesk6rstiP indicate hs,
is used mainly ss cover foT other mosive.'
1t seems to Us that this allus;cn to "otber
{" motives is not happy one; but Others will
judge. Mr.. Littlejohu was Speaker aud virtual
leader of the last Assembly, whose doinga were
intensely, and we think deserTedly, unpopular.
We desire Mr.. Littleiohns defeat because We
want new leaf turned over and a radically diff
ierent policy inaugrated from that which prevailed
last Winter. We want retrencbment to replace
prodigality, integrity 70 supersede corruption;
We want regime thai will render il profitable
for the George Laws and other Wholesale dealer,
in legislation to spend their time elsewhe than
in Albany this Winter; aud to this end we want
some man Ike Lucius Robinson 20 Gn the chair
of the Assembly instead Of De Witt C.. Little
john.
AS to the Governors vetoes Of the CITY
Railroads aud West Washington Market bills.
We do not hold any man obliged to vote in ac.
cordance with those vetoes because the Cove nor
was on this side og on that but because the
reasons therein embodied Were plainly unanswer.
able. Even The Times in effect admits tbis.
Aud Mr. Littlejohn aud Mr.. Raymond both know
that those bills could not have passed had not q
large proportion Of the members expected to de-
rive personal advantage from their passage It
is Just as notorious at Albany that they were put
through by veuality-by corruption--as that they
passed at all. Now, il does not meet the ext
eency to say "Mr. Lttleom vas not paid for
- his vote" Who said he was But MIR. Lit.
tlejOhn could not have been ignorant of the infu,
ences by which the Legislature was surrounded,
the Inducements and expectations by which too
many Of its members were swayed; and be ought
to have stood by the Governor in resisting and
defeating them He saw fit to take the other
side; and We leave him to the company he has
chosen. How any man can have earnestly, heart
lily approved tie Governors ,ctocs, yet now vote
to reflect as Speaker their ablest and most eff
tectNe antagonist, we do not understand.