The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1869-12-07


The great and protracted excitement which
marked the entire charter election campaign
Of 1869 will have its elimination and it's close
tonight There are many interests and con-
siderations involved In the Aldermanic con-
test that have been either overlooked by the
majority of the citizens or else have not
attracted the amount Of attention which they
deserved. With the change In the political
supremacy Of the city and State, the result of
the November election, new era of restored
power dawns upon the Councilmanic Board.
This body win again be called upon to act
in concert with the Mayor In all municipal
appointments to the heads Of such bureaus
and commissions, the creation of republican
legislation, as may for another year be per-
mitted to stand. But at all events, with the
chartered rights of the city SO long wre5ted
from 1t restored, the Councilmanic body will
be once more clothed with it's old prerogatives
as power in the city government. 1t must
be matter Of regret that the thorough defeat
Of the republican party in the late State cleo
ton seems to have been accepted as coup
de grace from which it could not even rally to
contest single Aldermanic ward in the city
with the slightest prospect Of success. Con-
sequently the citizens have but ssHobsons
choice" in the election to-day-to take the
Tammany candidates as they come rather
disagreeable alternative, no doubt, but still
the only one.
In the contest for Civil and Police Justices
there has been a wider field for selection open.
The Tammany candidates, whether those
renominated or those nominated for the first
time for either Civil or Police Justice, possess
all the necessary qualifications for the office.
The election is not entirely confined to those
nominees, however, as there are in two or
three districts independent democratic candi-
dates running. In only one, the Ninth "a new
district), the candidate is one not seeking
reelection, but comes for the first time before
the residents Of his district as candidate for
the Office. Captain Wiley, however, is so
popular with all classes that he enters with
perfect confidence into the struggle, and, with
an honest canvass of the votes polled, he has
no fears for the result tonight.
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in the case Of the Aldermanic candidates,
almost oil Tammany men. It is, therefore,
needless now to reiterate our oft repeated
warning to the citizens to be up and doing
in the election 80 far as the candidacy for
School Trustees was concerned. The general
apathy that prevailed as to party opposition
in regard to the other offices has had its
influence here, where even all political feel
ings should have been thrown aside, and
none but reliable and competent men put
forward.
It may be said that the charter election
for 1869 goes to the winning men by default,
arising from the supposed uselessness on the
part of the republicans and outside organi-
cations to contest 1t, and through apathy on
the part of the people themselves, who seem,
for the present at all events, to have confded
their whole political existence to the hands
of the Tammany leaders.