New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-11-29
ps THE MAYOR OF NEW-XOnK a
COMuGN sWINDLEB

The answer TO this question uecpiy cohScius
the good name Of our City and the moTa
charaetes of its citizens. 1t is true that Fer
nsndo Wood never received the votes of a
majority of our citizens for the Office of Mayer,
and never WILL Still, if we allow man to be
not only elected but reelected, and agnn
elected TO our most important municipal trEst,
who il Dot only a notorious but an admitted
scoundrcl, we must expect to be regarded py
other communities az no better than our chosen
chief. We cannot shrink from an ordeal 30
entirely seifimposed.
In testing the moral character OF Fernando
Wood, we do not propose to 60 back 10 Ms
alleged swindliOg of his customers as keeper VI
of dock rum hole while young man, nor 10
his asserted cheating Of the Bank wherein nc
kept deposit some yeara aitersard' anu
whose officer by mistake placed largo sum
TO his credit, which he thereupon drew out'
eypended. and refused TO make good TIL COM
PEELED by law. Nor will we revive the story
Of his dealings with Bis late partner, Mr. Mar
vine. whom he swlndled out of thousands OF
chosen in part by himself, and who thoroughly
scrutinized the whole transaction, and decided
that he must disgorge. We let bygOnes be
bygoles, because il is possible that kDave
ten or twenty years ago may be an honest man
now. We propose TO rest the whole case on
transaction of yesterday and on the con-
fession of the rascals owa most INSCRIPTIONS
ally and defender.
Our readers are aware that our own and
several other journals have repeatedly charged
this state Of facts.
]. That Fernando Wood, wishing to make
bis binder personal followers swallow Oakley
Hall without knowing it, caused The Republican
NJ well as the Democratic Judges whose terms
expired this Fall TO be nominated for re-elec-
ton lsst month by his Judicial Convention ct
Mozart Hal.
2. That the Republican Judges lMessrs
Woodruff and HoA'man) having been thus no'ni-
mated, were formally waited On by Commit
tee from that Convention and rendered by them
the Mozart Democratic nomination on the eh-
press around that il bad been decided by that
body 10 re.elect the old Judges without dis
tnction of party.
3. That Messrs. Woodruff and Hoffman,
having accepted were soon after waited on by
the same or another Committee, which solicited
Of them contribution Of $500 cath to pay
the expenses Of the Mozart Democracy IA
printing the ballots, posters, de-, &C., getting
up ticket-boxes, aud dealing out ballots Oh the
Day OF election. They compiled with the de-
mand.
T. Nevertheless, whisper soon after reached
their ears that they were TO be jockcyed-thdt,
having achieved bis ends OF getting Oakley Hall
nominated as the Mozart candidate without
naming him, achieved some reputation as
rising above party IN the choice OF Judges, aud
pockcted their money, Wood meant g. throw
item at the ballot-boNes, by printing and cir
culatng their TammaDy competitors names in.
siead of theirs on his ballots. The Judges
.hereupon sent a friend to Wood to inquire
INTO tho matter, aud received from lin the
most positive assurances that the rumor was
the names OF judges Hoffman
md woodruff, arid theirs only, should be
printed aud circulated on the Mozart ballots AZ
candidates for Justices Of tho Superior Court.
Being satisfied that Wood was playing fair,
and that their election by majority of many
was consequently certain, the Judges
took no further thought OF tho matter hay
ing received from tho Mozart Committee pack
ages Of ballots for circulation on which their
names and none others, appeared as candi
dates for Justices of tie Superior Court.
3. Bat when the polls opened, behold the Mo
Fart ballots at nearly or quite every poll were
found TO bear tie names Of Alessrs. Monel! aud
Barbour (Tammapy) as candidates for Justices
Of that Court, aud not those Of Messrs. Wood
ruff aud Hoffman at all We know from per.
sona observation that this was The fact AZ mort
)f the polls ia the XYIth and &Vlllth Ward,,
,ud hear that II was so nearly everywhere
Use. IL the XVIII, we are informed, or at
east in certain districts OF II, ballots were
given out from Mozart boxes beaHng tho MINES
If Mesurs. Hoffman and Woodruff. AZ nine
Of the polls however il was
certainly Otherwise; and tho voters who tup-
posed they were voting for Tie nominees Of tho
Mozart Convention were deliberately .lsindled
)ut Of thcir snHrsges. By means Of ibis fraud,
Judges Woodruff and Hoffman we're defeated
.nd hisssrt. Barbour aud Moncu, with 01key
Hall, elected - Mozart votes. Report says--
SO know not how t-rly-.hal this operation
.ost Messrs. Mcneil ara Barbour $4,000 each.
d i, certainly to be hoped lAai Mayor of