New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1866-10-04
OUR CITY.

The members of the Republican. Union Associations
of our City are called to meet in their several Assem-
bly, Districts on Monday evening next for the choice
of delegates to their County Judicial Congress and
Assembly Nominating Conventions, which are to
meet respectively on the Tuesday Wednesday, Thurs
dav and Friday evenings of next week. Should har-
mony prevail our nominations will be commenced ana
completed within the week about to open. And the
character of those nominations will largely influence
the results Of the canvass.
This City Is the stronghold Of the impOsturo which
misnames itself Democracy, while its vital, avowed
purpose is the perpetuaton Of Caste and Monopoly III
the distribution of political power Democracy say
the dictionaries, is government by the whole peo-
pe but the swindle which here usurps the name is
based on the assumption that mole than hall the peo
pie of several States and considerable minority IN
all, shall be utterly and forever excluded from oil
voice in making and executing the laws whereby they
are governed "No Taxation without Representation |"
CRY our Democrats; meaning that the Rebels must DO
allowed to vote because they are taxed; yet those
very Rebels tax the loyal Blacks Of Louisiana and
Texas to educate White children, refusing TO these
taxpayers penny of their own money for the educa-
ton of their own children and Sham Democracy says
this is right. To love and champion the Rebels who
sought to dissolve the Union, and at the same time
caumniate degrade and trample on the loyal Blacks
who fought to preserve that Union is the essence of
Sham Democracy.
The ignorance, the vice. the brutality, here massed
are fearfully powerful 1.-THE Citizens Association esti-
mates that there are Sixty Thousand Voters in this
City who, in one way or another, have personal
interest in msgovernment. There is no reason to e1.
pect that the great army Of thieves and aw.deiying
rufans who burrow here will vote for good govern
ment; since such government would soon stop their
career. And the muitudes who live by pandering TO
others vice and debauCheIy are natural enemies of
good government. The dance houses, dens of lewd-
ness and wdeying groggeres of City (and their
name is Legion) are nurseries and neutrality-suspicious.
of Sham Democracy. And, so long as nearly full
half the voters of City have personal interest in
misgoyernment, we cannot expect to carry maorites
for any organization substantially identical liz ideas
and objects with the Republican Union party.
Yet We can make great inroads on the heavy ma
ortes hitherto rolled up against US by our adverse
RES and ought to make them Give us a lis. of can
ddates whom the public will recognize as eminently
upright worthy and capable, aud we can concentrate
upon them the votes of better citizens to an unex
ampled extent. The taxpayers OF our City chafe I'M
der the domination Of the municipal Ring" they
know that they are robbed enormously by our Demo-
cratic msrulerS they do NOT feel sure that they can
escape robberyby displacing those comorantS. If we
put up jobbers and scramberS for horse railroads aud
other plumber, those known as their tools, we shall
be badly beaten; but let our candidates be widely
known of the opposite breed and they will receive
thousands Of votes hitherto cast against Us.
Men and brethren hear and heed US Resolve
now to attend the Primary Meeting in your district
next Monday evening, and there support delegates
whose characters give assurance that they will nom'
nate such candidates ought TO be- and heroofe can
be- elected.