New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-09-28

| " MY sob, Sdiu tne grave tA-Nudhtthol' \"
! " forth into the world, and observe with how
little wisdom it is governed In the same
| spirit. we beg each Republican voter residing in
our City to devote tomorrow evening to the PM
mary Meeting of his Assembly District which is
! to choose delegates to our several Nominating
| Conventions. He may there much 10 sur
prise. to alarm, to disgust him; but he could
hardly spend an hour more plolitably II he
has for years been wondering and grumbng at
the average uniitness of our local nominations,
he may continue to grumble, but he will no
longer wonder. The mystery OF iniquly will
have been fully solved.
The Primary Meeting machinery is utterly
unsnited to cities. 1t inevitably throws their
nominations intp the hands of the least wise
and least worthy Bad as its practical working
has been, we do not see how ii can he re-
formed. Ii makes every grogshop bully, who
strikes from the shoulder aud doesn't mind hay
ing his coat torn, of more weight In the
nominating counsels of his party than
Washington, Jefferson, Jay, or Hamilton.
The time cannot he distant when 1t
will be utterly condemned and discarded
The British system of Requsition is infinitely
cheaper cleaner, more honest, and every way
preferable Let those who consider certain
person worthy and fit to represent particular
district in Congress or the Legislature unite in
commencing him to their fellow citizens in Il
written and printed request that he stand rs a
candidate; let those who prefer another put
forth similar requsition, and then let the
electors choose between them. II two
rival candidates should endanger the prac-
teal asccndcncy of the stronger party-that II,
if two Republicans running in Republican
district should threaten to secure the return of
Democrat. or rice uersa--means would be
found to rule of the weaker Of them, or de
prye him of more than handful of votcA
There might be some bitches, but not more
than now; while the right man would he
brought TO the front nine times in ten instead
of once in ten as now. How long must We
wait for this most needed reformi
Our ridiculous exaction that candidate
shall reside - that is, slecp-in the district
which he aspres TO represent, is enough to
ruin us of itself. Here. for instance. is Moses
H. Grinnell. who for forty years has been one
of the foremost merchants and business men IN
the down town district OF onr City, aud, II be
would accept it. is fttest OF all men to repre-
sent it in Congress. What importance has the
fact that he sleeps up town, or out of town, in
the PREMISES
1t is q common assertion that poor cand-
dates must answer because the best men will not
take office. We say, Nominate the very best I;
if they refuse to serve OF to run, then take the
next best But there is no excuse for not first
nominating the very best.
| If we could present to the voters of our City
six of our very ablcst and fttest Republicans
as candidates for Congress, with corresponding
nominations for Register, Judges, Coroner, &c,
and twenty -onc more such for Assembly, the
whole State would realize that her vote was
sure for Grant and COllaX and that the Pres-
dental contest was virtually ended. Such
nominations would give us from Five to Ten
| Thousand more votes for President and Gov
ernor than we can poll with ordinary, fan to-
mddling candidates And while we cannot
hope to gather grapes from tie thorns or figs
! from the thistles of our present nominating
machinery, we entreat every Republican to at
tend the meetings tomorrow evening and try
to make the best of them.