New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1867-11-15
THE M5TORAITY.

by the Mozart; and WILLIAM A. DARLING w
the Republicans. The election occurs on Tues
day. Dec. Sd, when certain Aldermen are to pe
chosen, with Councilmen and School Ofhcers'
We wish we could say with truth that tne
control and management of our Pubic ocnoo,,
command deep and general interest," ana wiz
call out large and discriminating Vote' o"on
ought to be, but is not, the fact. oar ochooi
Officers will in the main be such pelson'
as seek the places, not such as the pi"ooo
would naturally seek. The grogshops VIII
make the most of them, and they VIII DE
worthy Of their origin.
The shape of the canvass does not please us
Profoundly convinced that no political party
can or will reform the monstrous abuses anu
measureless corruptions of our Municipal rule
we should have much preferred that no us
tinctive Republican candidates, should be nom
mated, and that that very large majority OF the
Republicans who do not wish to job and 10
earnestly desire pure, frugal, and non
est rule, had united, or offered 10
unite, with any Democrats of like dlspo-
sition, in presenting candidates OF Known
capacity and proved integrity on the common
and simple basis of devotion to Municipal
Reform. We should have gladly supported for
MAYOR such a Democrat as Smith Ely, Jr,
proved himself during his six years service
in the Board of Supervisors; though we think
it high time that Democratic reformers
should be willing to support Republican as
heartily as we supported Daniel f. Tiemann
and John Hecker yet we care nothing for the
mans politics, so that he will give himself,
wholly, unreservedly, to the work OF cutting
off sinecure places and reducing the enor-
mousy excessive cost of our City rule.
We believe that full half OF
the money paid out by our Controller
as salaries and for opening, grading, working,
and repairing streets, is stolen, and that a
good part of it might be saved. And we want
to exclude politics from our Municipal cleo
tions till this end shall have been achieved.
Hence we supported, TO the best of our ability,
the nominations made two years ago by the
Citizens Association The candidates were not
Republicans but they were pledged to the
cause of Reform, and we sustained them on
that ground Under like circumstances, we
should do SO again.
But the case is bravely altered. Three can
ddates for Mayor are presented, of whom we
consider Mr.. Darling by far the best. We do
not prefer him merely for his politics, though
these would entitlc him to our preference
but because his election would annoy and en-
barrass the "rng" of audacious corruptonlsts
who are stealing themselves rich under Hoif-
man. and will probably continue to do the
same under Wood. With Mr. Darling IN the
Mayors office, their machinery would be thrown
out of gear. and time would be required to re-
adjust it, The City could not help saving at
least One Million Dollars in the interval.
The Times urges that no Republican can be
elected, and that Hoffman should be supported
by Republicans in order to secure the deieat
of Wood. We dispute both propositions.
WHY can no Republican be electedf There
are this day Forty Thousand legal voters III
our City who prefer the Republican to the
Democratic party. There are not Eighty
Thousand legal voters who prefer the Demo
cratic party to the Republican Hence we have
mt different times elected George Opdyke
Mayor. James w. White Justice of the SUI
perior Court, and John Keyser Register over
the best efforts of the divided Sham Dcmoc-
racy. 1t looks rs though Hoffman and W ood
are to run very close so that we might carry
Mr. Darling if we all took hold. And we
shall take hold.
But, suppose so many Republican voters
fail to vote that we cannot thus succeed, why
should we vote for Wood or Hoffman What
is to be gained by supporting the latter1 Re
spectability, you say1 That responsibility has
Just made James O'Bren Sheriff of this County
and sent w. NJ. Tweed and Michael Norton to
the Senate. If there is any more varnish
needed for the Tammany concern, let not Re
publcans supply it,
We trust no Republican will vote for either
Wood or Hoffman, though we should consider
the latter's election the greater calamity. FOI
he is the figure-head, the stool-pigeon, of the
unprincipled, audacious gang now plunderng
our City by wholesale through the machinery
of the Board Of Supervisors, the Street De
partment &c &c. They made him Mayor
they have renominated him, and they know
why. To help them or their fgure-head to n
vote, is to become accomplices to the most
gigantic peculatiOn and fraud.
The Times virtually tells the public that a
majority of the Democrats are for Wood, and
will elect him unless the Republicans turn in
and save Hoffman. That may be the fact; but,
if we wished Hoffman elected, we should not
care to parade it. But, if Democratic Mayor
is to be chosen as such, why should he not be
that one whom the Democrats preferP Why
should we help the minority to beat the ma
joityP
Mr.. Wood, we are told, is in favor Of " free
"rum." We presume he is. But he never made
a meaner appeal to the Rum interest for votes
than Hoffman made last Fall, and we do MT be-
lieve the latter was ever outdone in the Cop
perhead slang with which he in 1864 assailed
President Lincoln and the War for the Union.
1t is a snake-and fight between him and
Wood, and we exhort Republicans to keep out
of IT, With 90 GOOD a candidate of orr own as