New-York tribune., 1866-12-03
THE CHdRTFR ELECTION

On Tuesday next the people Of New-York are to
vote for a Controller, and Aldermen, Coun,imen,
and School Commissioners, offices which contain the
very seat of the ofIense against which an Oycraxed
community has for so many years protested and Pc
titioned. Knowing this, it is wonder that a'y BODY
of our citizens are content to let the November verdict
in favor Of the State decide for them that they
have done enough for the city, and permit, by
their Indifference the election of the very men against
whom the vote which elected Coy. Fenton was IN
tended as q blow. We do not expect that every can
didate for Reform can be elected in districts where
maioritics on the side of fraud are to be reckoned
easily; but il is urgently important that no dis
trict where success is at all possible should be ne
elected and lost.
The nomination Of three with such names in the
vulgate as "TAe Allen Mike Norton and Oncy
Geoghan, shows that the friends of public robbery
hold out to Us the hope ofimproyement. either in kind
or degree. and will accommodate us with bad men IN
Office as long as any number of their fellows can be
drummed 10 the polls TO vote their taxes into the pock-
cts Of plicrcrs The three gentlemen named are
doubtless among the candidates to whom MAJOR Hofi-
man alluded in his Saturday nights speech as
not fit to be chosen. For the records
of such would-be Aldermen as Mr.. Theodore Allen,
we refer public inquiry to the Police Gazette If men
who have been tried in courts for larceny assault
and battery, and bounty jumping, and have graduated
from prison, are proper candidates for Aldermen by
all means let the honest voters Of this great mcroPo-
lis vote to have their pockets picked openly.
We are glad that, on the other hand, the candidates
for Reform, supported By the Republican party, the
Citizens Association, and honest bodies OF Democrats,
whoprefer pure administration Of local government,
are in many respects superior to any local ticket ever
presented to the voters Of Ncw-York. Su,h men as
Eugene Ward Don Alonzo Cushman Martin
Thatcher Robert G. Brown, James / loran,
and Councilmen White and Pullman, the
two latter distinguished as veteran opponclts OF the
" Ring" represent a. candidates for the Board Of
Aldermen a responsibility, honesty and influence to
which that body is a. present utterly Il stranger
When men of this class enter our local politics It Is
from a high sense OF duty and on earnest purpose
10 serve and not swndlc the public The nomnauon
of Don Aonzo Cushman, one Of our worlhest and
wealthies. citizens is evidence Of how much is at
stake in the election OF officers whose legsltion IL TO
increase or lessen our already enoTmou, axes. In
the same way. the nominations of such well-hoWn
citizens as Smith Bloomfield aud Col Mason certi-
fy the sterling character OF onr School ticket
All these nominations should receive the icarty and
united supper; Of respectable voters. Especially
should an able and honest Controller pledged TO
a sweeping reform OF the abuses Of his office be
chosen. by experience capacity and standing as a
citizen, no candidate has more claims 20 the office
than Jdlge Richard Kelly. Let every friend Of
METROPOLITAN reform and progress conlribu,e 10 his
election, and that Of the whole ticket and thus bring
us nearer 10 the dhy when the Government oi 'his
great city shall be redeemed.