The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1865-09-10

OF course the amount 10 small compared WIN
their transactions In previous years; but with
the credit they will be likely to obtain,
rightly applied, it will prove sufficient to give
the people of that section fair start on the
road to future prosperity, always providing
that they come squarely up to the support OF
"the Union, the constitution and the laws"
What Our Citizens Expect OF Governor
FentOn.
As the fall approaches the political trick
STEERS with which our city is at present
swarmed are busily engaged in making and
breaking "slates," arranging them so that they
may insure to themselves and friends more OF |
the public pap and more unlimited domination
over the lives and property of our citizens.
For years past our municipal authorities
have been sinking lower and lower in the mire,
and public Offices in this city are looked upon
by intelligent and high-minded persons as hot
beds of corruption; and many Of our citizens
avoid the polling places on election day as
they would the haunt of some loathsome dis
ease. This can scarcely he wondered at if
we look at the onacials who are at pre-
sent living from the public purse, and de-
stroying, at the same time. the resources
of the city and the health of it's inhabitants.
We have, for instance, an alderman whose
family was comparatively unknown until 1t
figured prominently in connection with the muir
der of young man at an excursion. We have
another whose notoriety was gained in the
prize ring, who is arrested one night for wilful
violation Of necessary police regulations, and
the next morning steps from the prisoners
dock to the judges bench to decide upon cases
similar to his own. We have another alder
man who had called around him all the ronghs
and renegades of bis district and demanded
that persons seeking political preferment
should secure the services Of himself and his
DULLES or be defeated, and who condescendtngly
informs his neighbors that he will take some
county Office next time. We have police justices
whose only qualifications for Office seem to be
their previous endeavors in obtaining votes
for favorite candidates and extensive and in
innate acquaintance with the thieves and des-
peradoes of the district, insuring to the latter
fraternities fair show Of justice If any person
should be so impolitic as to arraign them.
We have lately had assemblymen whose
qualifications for lawmaking were exhibited in
their ability to command fire COM
pany, keep a faro bank, or "bat
couple o. heads together" if the folks at
Albany would not vote as they said. We have
State Senators whose qualifications consist in
their ability to do nothing to benefit their con-
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tanned from moneyed corporations for the estab-
fishing of monopolies. We have in one of the
down town wards person Of considerable in
fuance in political circles, whose brother keeps
the drinking establishment in the back room of
which the caucuses are held and nominations
made, whose principal notoriety was obtained
by the killing of an inoifensive man, and who
has but recently been pardoned from the Sing
Sing State Prison.
We might go on adducing individual in
stances Of this kind to an almost incredible
length, but it would be useless. We might
show how the affairs Of the city and county are
managed, and the division Of spoils arranged
in q Revenue Collectors Office down town
and at the Americus Club House at Green
witch, Conn.,; but it also would be useless.
All we might say on tho subject would be USE
less unless Governor Fcnton come to the rescue,
and, learning what our citizens require of him,
Immediately and unsparingly use the preroga-
tive of his Office and rid the city OF the miser-
able, ignorant and incorrigible set of officials,
who, by their paIpable inefficiency and NAL
feasance in office, are making our city and its
government by-words in the mouths of respect
able persons in al parts Of the country.
The citizens Of the metropolis feel that they
have no person to look to for redress except
the Governor of the State; and to him they
turn with hearts of yearning faith, hoping that
he will pay particular attention to the numerous
and earnest petitions now before him. for they
feel If he do not take the matter in hand they
will be obliged to suffer the ascendency Of
ignorant and desperate characters to positions
of responsibility and trust and allow their city
to be looked upon asa cesspOol Of depravity
and corruption.
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