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that body faithfully to advise" tho Executive
with regard to this important appointment.
OUR CHARTER ELECTION MKT
WEEK-DUTY OF THE C1T1-
ZRNa, AAaOCIATION.

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alive or elective government on Manhattan
Island, under the pretext that this is tho only
course which can remedy the admitted evils OF
our City Government. In any such remedy
we give public notice. we can have no faith' re-
garding it as belonging to that class OF creme
dies" which are said to be "worse than the
disease" Whenever our citizens choose to re-
form their municipal government, it is in their
power to so; and, until they take the few sim
pie and easy steps necessary to this end, the lar
presumption is that they like to be mls-goVerned'
like to be oycr.taxed like to have swarms OF tho
basest harpies fattening on their plumber, and
like to be represented in both Boards OF the
Common Council by such as have held
the power of our local government during
the last half-dozen years. SO long as our
citizens, having the power in their hands
to remedy all these matters iaii TO 10
so. we are opposed to any interference
from Albany-frs. from deep-rooted convlc-
ton that the Albany appointeos would be no
better, practically, than the men they would
displace; secondly, because citizens who neglect
their duties as such deserve to be over-taxcd
and punished; and, thirdly, because any inter-
ference on the part n tho Union majority OF the
State can only tend to riyet more firmly the
hold of the Democratic party upon the great
mass Of our citizens. Any reform, to be eiii-
cacious, valuable or permanent, must be carried
out by compelling the intelligent and respecta-
bic of our fellow citizens to know their rights,
see their wrongs, and take the steps essential to
having Justice done to their own interests. Any
less reform than this-aLy etendcd reform,
imported ready.made from the foul atmosphere
of the Albany Lobby-can only prove, II at
tempted, so much additional capital for the
Democratic party in oil future years, not only
in this city, but throughout the entire country.
If the gentlemen composing the Citizens AS
ISOLATION will act wisely and with disnterested
motives, they can redeem more than one-halt OF
our Common Council next month from the
clutches Of the corruptionists and lobby-leaders
of both parties. Above Fourteenth'St.,
there is no good reason why they should not
with the help and sympathy they now have in
both the Democratic and Republican parties
elect every single candidate for Alderman and
Councilman at the Charter Election to be held
on the first Tuesday of next December. And
even below Fourteenth-st., they have strong
holds in the old :fashioned rcspcctability of the
Ninth. Tenth and q few other Wards, If they
will only exercise discretion in the matter OF
nominating or indorsing candidates for city
Offices. Even in the worst districts-as in the
First and Third Aldermanc-they have the
weapons of victory placed ready at their com
mand in the VIGOROUSLY bad and disgraceful
character Of at least two Of the Democratic
nominees in those districts. if they only know
how TO use them. 1t surely cannot be q hard
task to prove to Sane voters that men
only known TO the fame OF our police and
military reports as baggage-sraasherS, bounty
swindlers, gamblers, fancy men, emigrant-plun'
derers, ard the accomplices Of bountyjumpers,
pckpockets, and house-breakerS, are not the
proper kind Of men to represent the interests o!
their respective districts in the Common Coun.
Gil. Ii these lower Wards and against such
candidates, the Citizens Association should
make no nominations of their own, but should
pick out the strongest and most respectable OF
the other Democratic candidates in the field,
and give to them their Endorsement and support.
In the Third Aldermanic District there il, We
know, very respectable merchant-a whole.
sale painter and glazier, we beleve-in Demo.
cratic nomination, and certain TO be elected il
the Citizens Association will only give him
their countenance. How it is in the First Dis
trict We have as yet no precise information
further than this-that there is now, or will be
in very few days, Democratic nominee in
the field for whom citizens Of intelligence and
responsibility may safely cast their votes. For
the Unonists in these lower Wards there is but
the slimmest possible chance: four Democratic
nominees haYing run last month for Assembly,
in tho Third District, against one Unionst nom
inee, and yet one Of the four Democrats was
elected. In the First District, the odds are still
heavier in favor Of the Democracy, and there.
fore it is that we counsel both the Citizens
Association and the Unionists who are so
unhappy as to live in our first eight Wards to
support any decent, honest and popular man
who may be presented By any active and strong
organization Of tho Democratic party. This
same advice will hold good for all other strongly
Democratic Wards, such as the 18th, 18th, &c.
We must take the best mon We can get when
We cannot exactly get the men We want.
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