New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1867-10-25
JlMES S. HAGGERTY
The World saws:

The World says:
The Radicals have nominated Major Haggerty FOR
Clerk He was soldier the late war; serving In the
18th Wisconsin regiment and has since served the keup
can party By sumpng portion Of the htaIe tOI them
nomination for office That al that is intended; for
according to all accounts he ras 9ng pat up as 0no
The Republican leaders already In quarrel over the
qu stiOn whether they viii throw their vote Tor Conner
or Walsh In fact given out the night that the
Republican nominations made that the nomination
for the position would bo made with view Oh eee.k
Pone TSt So 1 ne a PT now T aboP to secure
the adoption OF some plan that VIII transfer the votes OF
the party to Conner In accordance with previous under
standing. Another portion OF the party IS lah0rlng win
equal zeal 10 transfer the vote TO Walsh which party
will anaytriumph II is impossible 10 tell But, OF
the active workers publicly stated 1t certain that
twenty thousand Republican votes would be gwen 70 one
of those two and he thought IL would be foolish, Major
Uaggerty stands very slim chance OF being heard OF
after the Is counted and good prospect OF ms vote
being counted as scattering. This must be consoing to
him AFTER his great efforts in behalf Of the Republican
cause"
Major Haggerty labors under the disadvan
tagcs of being young, ana poor and not
native of this country. But he may fairly
claim this offset To tho last objectiOn-that,
ever since no has been in the country, he has
been fighting its Rebel enemies or working
zealously for Republican principles. While his
competitors have stayed at home, holding good
offices and making money, Major Haggerty has
oeen standing between them and the public
enemy, enabling them TO make their pile"
They may thank him and such as he that they
are now allowed to run for office at all. And
we insist that man who has been fighting for
the country, though born in Ireland, is ut least
rs good an American as though he had been
born here, yet did nothing to save the Union
from disruption.
1t is possible that there are Republicans who
are seeking to sell out Major Haggerty. There
may be those who would withhold their votes
from this gallant soldier of the Union and
effective, hard-worling champion of Republi-
can principles, and cast them instead for
Copperhead who never raised his arm for his
country. but for the last three years has held
this Office, worth certainly not less than $780,
600. But there are no five thousand nor two
thousand such in the City; and we shall be
greatly disappointed if Major Haggerty does
not poll more than twenty-five thousand votes.
We know that the poor always oppose and try
to keep down the poor, so that we are not ex-
.pecting many votes for Major Haggerty from
our foreign-born populations but there are
certainly not less than twenty-five thousand
native-bon Americans in our City who will
insist on casting their votes for the only Union
soldier who is presented for County Clerk
We hope for his election. because the opposing
votes will be about equally divided; but, at
all events, he will poll the Republican vote.
Friends of the cause you see what your
enemies say! Disappoint them