New-York daily tribune., 1863-11-05
NOW IL THE TIME /!

We want to carry this State next Fall for the
Unconditional Union ticket by at least One
Hundred Thousand majority and to elect thcre-
with by far the ablest Delegation to Congress
that any State has sent for a generation. Pre-
suming that the Rebellion will ere that time
have been suppressed, the very gravest ques'
tions of Finance, Public Policy, and Political
Economy, will come before the succeeding Con-
gress for decisive action. We shall need proved
integrity, signal ability, and ripe experience in
the Legislative as well as the Executive Councils
of the Nation. Convinced that these cannot be
secured through tho Primary Election machinery
now in vogue, We urge coed citizens Of all
parties to unite in devising the means whereby
that machinery can most safely, advantageously,
acceptably, be superseded. In our own judg-
ment, what we need is substantially as follows:
/. A club league, or association in each City,
County. Township and Ward, devoted to the
diffusion of important political truth. and labor
ing wholly to that end
.. A general agreement to dispense with Pri-
mary Elections, and nominate all candidates
for Congress and for the Legislature by Public
Rcquisition--cach citizen of the Union faith
indicating should he ace fit, his preference by
signing the requistion of that candidate he pre-
fers, and all impartial committee Of arbitration
being fairly chosen u decide between rival
requistions in case there be two or more pre-.
sen,ing rival candidates for the same post.
We believe that. by this simple means, far
ADLER, stronger. better. more popular candidates
will be put forward than can be under our pres
ent machinery. And. at all events. the e1peri-
ment can cost little and can hardly have worse
consequences than those now experienced.
lie, us liit one corner Of the curtain that
decorously drapes the machinery whereby "ir
local candidates are now ground out:
There are six Wards Of our City which
together cast but ,2e6 votes for the Union
tickets. while there are nine other Wards endh
one Of which casts considerably moro Union
votes than these six altogether. Yet every one
Of the rotten boroughs aforesaid scndf as many
delegates to our County Nominating Conycn-
ions az do either Of the strong Wards in ques-
ton. In other words less than two hundred
Union voters located in one part of the City
have equal weight io working up our County
ticket or more than two thousand voters do IN
another locality. Na,urally-nay, inevitably
i, is "A paying business to be- an INSCRIPTIONS
Ward politician in one Of the rotten boroughs,
20 as to bc constantly on the Judicial. County.
or some other Nominating Convention. They
do say tia, many thrillless fellow makes
his bes, suit Of clothes annually ont Of his in
huence in this or that Nominating Convention.
OF course the suit is with him The primary
consideration; the fitness and worth Of the
candidates follows long way after.
If the People will but take this matter in
hand resolved TO act seasonably and thorough
", We may have reform inangura,ed in ample
season for our next years elections. IL they
do not. We shall often have 10 vote and hold our
noses hereafter as hcrctofore and the blame
will Justly rest, not on Republican institutions,
but on the selfshness and Incidence Of citizens
who fancy that good government oueh, Ia cost
nothing, or who, if il does cost anything are
unwilling 10 pay for IT,