New-York tribune., 1869-06-24
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| The State of New-Y York will choose next Fall
an entirely new Legislature-thirty- Sena-
tors and one hundred and twenty-eight Assem-
blymen. We judge that the Houses will not
only be new, but composed in the main of
new men, We solicit thereto early and general
attention.
If our new Constitution shall be ratified by
the PeOple-as we trust it may be-the respon-
sibiities resting on this Legislature will be very
grave. The salaries of most State Officers are
to be fixed by it, and important general laws
are to be framed and passed. We trust our
Legislatures generally are to be abler and purer
than they have been. but this one should be very
decidedly so.
We ask the People to look about them forth
with for fit candidates, especially for the SEN
ate, and to take especial care not 10 concen-
trate on those who bore and buttOn-hOle, pack
delegations, and trade Their way into one House
or the other. Let these fellows stand back lit
tie; they have been in the foreground long
enough. Stop the nomination of all who have
been selling their votes and your rights to
"rings" of corruptionists; but if you fail with
any of them in the nomination, make a sure
thing of it at the polls!
If you let any of these thieves get nomi-
mated, don't Iun or write to us begging
that they be let up "just this time for the
good of the party; for it will do no good. Our
judgment is fixed that the good of the party
requires the defeat of every one of these ras-
Gals, and that their threats that they will 20
over to the Sham Democracy and take their
friends along are TO be defied from the start
If an honest, faithful, worthy Democrat shall
in any case be run against one of these thieves
and one of them must succeed, never hesitate
to vote for the Democrat if a Democratic
thief is run against a Republican ditto, nomi-
nate an honest man and support him to the
end, though he should not get ten votes. You
must not in any way aid the election of a
known cOTruptionist; but, if one of two such
must be chosen, we trust that it will not be
that one who has bargained and lied himself
into Republican nomination.
We hope to see regular nominations" in
some instances spuned from the outset, and
candidates nominated by public requisition.
Let the best men of q district come together,
look the field over, fix upon the ablest and
fittest person who can be persuaded to stand,
and then sign a public call on him to stand as
a candidate. If this be infuentially, season.
ably and resolutely done, regular nomi-
nations" if attempted, will not be much in the
way.
Try to find candidates who will not need
newspaper Endorsement or commentator. There
are such in almost every district-men widely
known, esteemed and trusted-for whom their
teilow-citizens will vote for what they are, and
not Tor what others may say of them. The
candidates usually run of late could MT run at
all but for their regular nomination they have
to be certified and pulled in if they get in at
all. You can find at least one man in each
district whom the electors will come out to
vote for because of what he is and can do
not because his name is on the ticket.
1t would be well to nominate some men of