New-York daily tribune., 1865-11-09
NOTEA ON TEIE CANVASS.

NOTES ON NNsf~ h'''''
Mr.. Dean Richmond, wc hope, will not be
discouraged by tho result of his first experiment
in rc,onstruc,ins the Sham Democracy. Its
failure is due to lack Of thoroughaesS. In revo-
lutionary times, half measures never DO. Had
he constituted ri, state Ticket entirely OF Old
fashioned hboli,ionists with Gerrit Smith at the
had, and adopted the Republican platform oi
next wear, instead of last. he might have won.
The age is progrcssive-somo people call 1t last
And Won NAV a. well be mile behind as
length. Better go clear to the front at once.
Mr.. Montgomery Blair We are sure, has not
made his last canvass Of our State. His recent
prorress was all too brief. He did his old
friends good wherever he spoke, and must come
again. stay longer. and speak oitcner. True.
we are pretty well now, but we would like to
DO still better; aud, il he would give us few
of his talks in Rockland. Greene Schoharie, and
one or two other bcnighted Counties, his ser.
vices would be gratefully remembered. The
Fourth and Sixth Wards OF our City also need
him. If anything will cure their voters Of their
invctcrstc habit of supporting the Democratic
ticket. We think Montgomery's appearance as
its advocate will do the business.
That horrible monster Depew seems to be
never weary Of devourng our urban (not
urbane) Democracy. Not content with re-
ducing the population of our City hundred
thousand or so, heis about 10 reduce its Demo-
cratic majority from ThiTty-seven to less than
Twenty five Thousand. What is Oakley Hall
about that he don't have the cannbal indicted
John Van Buren complained, during the lats
canvass, that. after twenty years OF political
activity and prominence, he was doomed L"
" come ont at the same hole he went in at"-to
wit, the Attorney Generals office. lie was
slightly mistaken. He was required To go by
the hole. not through IT, When he reached it
last Tuesday eve. and attempted to enter, he
found it filled by Gen. Martindalc. backed by
Twenty-odd thousand Union majority, and
wisely concluded to stay outside. That was
wise. The Prince is generally shrewd to-mor-
row.
The Republicans of Troy have been strug-
Cling for several years against an adverse
malority that seemed inyincble. At last, their
good genius persuaded Tom Carroll to 60 square
over to the Democracy and bctake himself to
speech making by the side OF John Van Buren,.
That did it, We trust he will stay put, and
that Troy will be night hehceforth and forever.
! The Hon. Ben. Wood, through his Daiis
Neus, exults over his own election TO the Senate
as the only Democratic trophy Of our late can.
vaSs. He more than insinuates that, if the
party had only nominated thick-and-thin JEFF.
Davisites throughout, they might have won
the State. Therein we consider him mistaken.
That abominable Abolition device, the Registry
Amendment act, stood in the way of 1.-The boys
obeying the old Democratic injunction TO "yote
early and vote often" Repeal that act, and
Ben's District can give Democratic majority
exceeding ito whole number of legal voters; /;
but, while almost every Democrat is restricted
to voting once at an election. the opportunities
for displaying genius are limited.
Will some one be good enough to inform our
respected fellow citizen. James w. Gerard, esq.
that the Eleventh Century expired by limitation
several years ago' knowledge of that fact
might not enhance the liveliness of his cam
paign speeches, but could not fail to increase
their practically. A eulogistic dissertation for
instance, on the merits of the Trojan horse as q
device of offensive warfare might be very well
in the pages of an antiquarian magazine, but is
hardly the thing for political canvass in the
year of grace, 1866. Can't Mr.. Gerard be per.
suaded that some things have been settled by
the events of the last decade
| The only persons arrested in our city for
voting or attempting to vote illegally were $50
far as we have heard) Michael Kenny, Lawrence
Reilly, Bernard Greene, Patrick Kelly, and John
McNh. How does it happen that the Police
don't arrest Others for this crime as well as
lrishmenl
The Albany Argus, after scrccching itself
hoarse in support cf the Slocum ticket, and
seeing it most eiIectually demolished concludes
that at is better that the day of Democratic
victory sh0uM be postponed" Therein we have
the rare felicity Of agreeing with The Argus.
LET Us UNDERSTAND.
Among the amendments TO the Constitution
which the Jeflersonans Of eighty years since