New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-12-06
and will vote for the public good regardless OF
party! Fail not to vote
DIP LITE ELECTION.

Perbaps some of the thOusand-and-One jour
nails that, from Maine to Oregon, have pusieu
themselves with devisng or imagining reasons
why Horace Greeley ran so far behind his as
sociates on the Republican State Ticket at the
late Election, may be surprised by the fact that
he not ONLY did not run behind at all, but that
he is beaten 1899 less than the average majority
against that ticket, which falls barely below
10000. Aside from Gen. Sigel, who heads
the poll for our ticket as 1t was
every way the interest OF the party
that he should. no other Republican
candidate is beaten so few votes as Horace
Greeley by more than Six Thousand. 1t Is
burning shame that our able and upright
Judges of Appeals, who have served with
blameless fidelity and uprightness, were allowed
to fail considerably below the residue OF the
ticket. This may have been the fault OF care
less voters, perplexed with such multiplicity
of ballots; but we apprehend that there were
many polls at which no Republican ballots Tor
Judges of Appeals bad been provided, through
default of some of the County organizations.
We understand that there were polls in Sullivan
County at which no Republican ballots for State
| Officers could be had
There were good many Republicans who
voted against the aforesaid Greeley, as 1t was
their perfect right to do; and their reasons
being satisfactory to themselves, are nobody
business but their own. In so far as those
votes were impelled by his structures on the
| venality and corruption which dlsSraced our
last and some subsequent legislatures. the I'M
| pulse was very natural and ineligible. II the
money-changers who were switched out OF the
temple las recorded in John ii. 13-lO had
| been called upon TO vote directly thereafter for
a Controller of that temple, 1T is MT likely that
the switcher would have received majority
| of their ballots and human nature mas
! changed very little since that day. But there
were some Republicans who voted against thls
particular candidate for other reasons, just as
there were many more Democrats who voted
for him. with perfect understanding OF their
difference in politics. Having done our best to
induce spirit of manly independence in voting,
we honor it alike in political associates ana
political advcrsaries. We trust the day Is at
hand when thousands will vote thus indie
pendently where dozens now do. 1t Is no
mans duty to vote for candldaCe
he deems unfit, or against one he regards as
eminently worthy, because of his politics; ana
TO those who voted against the said Greeley
because they considered him unfit or undcscrv-
ing, we tender assurances of our profound re-
gard and esteem. They have shown that they
comprehend the meaning and purpose OF u
vote. and we exhort them to perseyere IN
voting exactly as they shall deem right.
There is another class for whom we have
less respect-that which makes an objection to
one candidate an excuse for staying away from
the polls, to the prejudice of many candidates
against whom nothing IS or can be alleged.
For instance: On the day of election in 1854,
we visited sundry slow voters in our election
district to coax them to the poll and among those
who could not be moved was one substantial
farmer. always n Republican. who could not be
induced to vote, simply because his Copperhead
neighbors had persuaded him that, should LIN
coin be reelected. the War would never end'
and his farm, with every other would he swat
lowed up by taxes. We lost his vote that
time; but he came ont of the cloud after
Richmond's fall and Lees surrender and
was a pretty good Republican once more till this
wear. when he baked again, and could not be
induced TO vote because The saidl Greeley
"had bailed jeff. Davis" Here were dozen
perfectly unexccptionable and most worthy
candidates deprived of vote to which they
were every way entitled, because one name on
the same baot-which could have been
scratched off in three scconds-was unaccept-
able.
Thus it is that men babitually allow the
most frivolous prctcxts TO excuse them foE
neglecting n high public duty thus do many
voters surrender the government of the coun-
try to those who have personal ends to serve
or who are made blindly to vote so as to serve
the personal ends of others. When the women
are let loose upon the polls, we shall have
great deal more of this Their
Acknowledgement is urged upon grounds which
seem to us utterly Incompatible with the true
and nobler ends of voting-they are to vote
with q view to their elevation as a sex, and
with an eye to securing better wages and a
more profound consideration. If this is the
right view of the matter, then the loafer who
sells his vote for ten dollars makes an excel
lent trade, and one for which he is wholly
blameless We cannot regard the matter in that
light.
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THE CASTLE or ERIE.
The day is long past when the public could