New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-11-05
PROSPECTS.

UNFOLDING tnOSe views. ACCOluhB ~ Inv
World and its echoes, the political party
which has majority in legislative
body is responsible for all the wrong
done therein; SO that if. in an Assembly
consisting of 60 Republicans and W Dem
Ocrats 80 of the latter should unite with 10 OF
the former to pass an iniqutous measure
the people should hold accountable therefor
the party that furnished the 10 bad eggs, 10
the entire exemption and justification OF That
which supplied the so. We cannot concur IN
this view, and, if any Republican jobber has
escaped the general slaughter of his kind in
itiated by his constituents in the late nomi-
mating conventions, we give him seasonable
notice that he will be held responsible for his
own acts and votes next Winter ana those
acts and votes will be held up to reprobation
rs thoroughly as though he were In political
majority. We cannot realize that different
conrse would be consistent with justice or the
public good
The telegraph on Tuesday night reported
that the Republican candidate for Comptroller
was badly cut in the western Assembly Dis
trict Of Chautauqna County-a fact which does
credit to the discernment and consistency OF
the electors of that district. Since they have
decided that Matthew p. Bemus is n fit and
proper person to fill high public trust, they
would have stultifed themselves by voting also
for Horace Greeley; for one or the other OF
these candidates is clearly unworthy of their
confidence. Having determined that Bemus was
a man after their own heart, they were en-
phatically right in deciding that Greeley
would not answer their purpose, and thercupon
scratching his name off their ballots, provided
it had been printed thereon. They realized
that here was a case of chronic, obstinate in
compatibility, such rs they grant divorces upon
in Indiana and Illinois. Having chosen the
man of their counsel, they did right in discard
ing any nominee of their party whose election
would haye reblkcd and shamod their choice
of n representative We trust that, if they
should ever again be involved in like
dilemma. they will act with equal decision and
spirit.
And, with Democratic majority in either
Legislative chamber. We cherish lively hope
that their representative will relieve their
good name from portion of the rcproach in
which his past course has envclOped it, We
never heard Mat. accused OF voting for bad
measure that he was not or did not expect to
he paid for; and we have cheering cXpCcta-
ton that Mcssrs. Tweed g. Co. will next
Winter he able TO push through their Tax
Levy and kindred robberies without bnying
single Republican vote. True, there are few
old stagers like Blood elected to the new
Legislature who may have been spoiled 10y
past indulgence, and who may see fit to
emulate q late Senator, who, being "seen'
in the interest of pending Democratic job.
was honorcd by the suggestion, "Of course,
eve should MT think of talking money to yoH."
"Then, by George was his prompt aud encr
getic response, "you d better go right away.
"and send some one in your stead who pdL"
But we trust the wires will be 50 adjusted, at
an early hour of tho session, that whatever
the managers decide is to be done may be put
through by Democratic votes alone. In that
case, Mat. will live n virtnous-nay, an ex-
emplary-lfe at Albany the coming Winter.
devoting his time aud thoughts mainly to
wholesome meditation on the fate OF the
friends and confederates who 80 recently
rejoiced those legislative halls with the light
OF their presence, but whom those halls shall
know no more forever.
For years, our City Democracy have ener-
getically cursed those Commissions-of Police,
of Health of Water. &c.-which have given
this emporium the only symptoms of honest
and faithful government she has meantime en-
joyed. These will now, of course, be swept
away, though some of them date back to the
days when Van Buren,, SiIas Wright, Marcy.
Flagg, and Sam Young, were the magnates of the
Democratic party and the rulers of our State
men who, whatever their faults, at all events
were not thieves. They gave us our Croton Water
through the Intervention of an Albany Com
Emission; y and we have better, more enduring
works, at cost many Millions less. than we
otherwise should have had. But the Board
must now, we presume, share the fate of the
Others and its powers, with the control of our
Police, be concentrated in the hands of Mr.
Abraham Oakley Hall. whom we found an
expensive luxury, and decidedly more enter
tanning than profitable, while he condcscended
to be known as Republican. When we could
no longer make it an object to him to stay, he
went, as he should have done some years before.
Such mutual drops as he, and Tweed, and
O'Gorman, and Sheriff 0Bren, should have
" mingled into one" at least ten years ago.
We formerly had a strictly Democratic Police,
and its memory is still unfragrant in our nos
trils. For eight years and over, we have had
one mainly composed of Democrats, but one
recruited and welded without regard to the
interests of any party. Now we return to our
mutt0ns"-a change which, we are confident,
involves no improvement. So with the Water
Board, Public Health, &c, &c. 0nr Sanitary
machinery was clumsy and useless sham till
it was committed to the guardianship of
State Commission Our Board of Supervisors
may be permitted to stand, because Tweed is
in it, and knows the ropes and will naturally
prefer not to pay the Common Council for