New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1863-11-04

State would have exceeded Ohl0's GLORIOUS
Union majority. Call over the roll of absent
ees from the polls yesterday in every rura
township in our State, and three-fourths o
them, it will be found would have voted th'
Union ticket had they voted at all In Tho
rural election district wherein we voted in. West
chester County, there were about twenty known
voters who were absent from home on business,
or could not be induced to attend the poll; and
at least eighteen of these would have voted the
Union ticket had they voted at all. Of the
eighty Union soldiers, not one came home to
vote; whereby our loss was not less than sixty
And so it was in most rural districts.
In the Cities, our Nominating machinery is
Iincurably bad, and must be upset. In TINS
CITY. our local candidates rather better than
usual-in fact, there was hardly one OF them
who was positively exccptionabc. But will any
man say that they were such men A. we
should have presented i'll such a crisis as this |!
Compare the list Of our candidates for Assem-
| bly with tha; presented hy Aaron Burr when he
wanted to carry the City, and thereby the
State. for jefferson and himself in 1900, and
mark the contrast. And We do not believe
the Primary Election machinery can be made
to grind out, in the average, better candi-
dates than this year. . DO men gather
grapes of thorns or figs of thistles y
| We insist that Public Requloition, signed by
Ecitizens well known and respected is the cheap,
simple, and proper mode of selecting such can
dida,es. Let no man be bored io- his signature
hut pos; up the rival rcqusitors-f there be
more than one-in some accessible place, and
Invite every voter 10 sign his maze and aiiix his
residence beneath that which expresses his
choice. Then let three impartial arbiters de-
cide--if there be any question-which OF these
requisiiions is the more strongly backed, and
let all Others give way to the candidate so Sc
lected. If this plan 10 not give rs six stronger
men for Congress next Fall than have ever yet
been run in our City by any party We shall be
ready to discard it.
Then as to a systematic cnlE htenmcnt Of the
peoples there is peril, there is moral treason, in
longer negiec,ing it. Ohe-halfth the voters of this
city are this day grossly ignorant or
grossly misnformcd with regard to the
mighty issues now convulsing the coun-
Try. They get thrir reading and their poll
tic. from the low groggeries where liquid poison
and Coppe, hcad politics are dispensed to all
lcus,mncrs. From these dens. all journals that
are thoroughly with and for the Coun-
Itry in her nie-or-deaih struggle with
Slaveholdng treason are vigorously ex-
Guided. And even in the rural districts, the
Copperhead politicians and Central Railroad
EMPLOYEES have, for more than year past, been
lindustriously orowding their organs into the
hands OF every poor man, with desperate inten,
TO convert him to their evil ways or seal his
mind against al better influences. In conse-
quence Of these efforts, We lost at least Twenty
five Thousand votes that should been with u-
yesterday.
Men and brethren this must not continue
We must organize nor, in every City, County
Township, Ward, for the Presidential
contest of 1864. We must have clubs
leagues, associations, that disclaim ant
repel any attempt at controlling nomina
tions-that offer no prizes to ambition-tha
simply and solely devote Themselves TO the dii
fusion Of political truth and the cultivation Of
patriotic spirit. We must take hold Of Thu
work resolved that there shall be no doubt, NJ
fear. as 10 the position Of New-York in ls6i-
that she shall not only stand with those who
have fought the battle Of tie Nation against il
tratorous assailants, but that her course shall
be the mos, decided, her majority the largest, Of
any State in the Union.
Let us begin this work To-Day
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