The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1870-02-11
shall we Have any Kind OF n New
Chnrtert

Three Democratic Senators Of this city
seem to comprehend better than any others
how necessary tho reform Of our municipal
and county government is to the continued.
prcdominance Of the Democracy. We refer,
of course, TO THOMAS J. DREAMER, HENRY
w. GENET, and MICHAEL NORTON the
Thunderbolt of the Eighth Ward. They un.
dcrstpnd that the Tammany Ring, with its
extensive plumber of the taxpayers, its con.
tempt of every democratic principle, and its
design by indirect means TO pcrpetuate that
sink Of corruption the Board of Supervisors,
aud all the anti-democratic Commissions
which Radical legislation has fastened upon
this luckloss town, must be overthrown be-
fore honest government and honest elections
will be possible. We congratulate these
three Senators on the manly stand they have
taken md the good fight they have made.
Let them continue 10 advocate the policy
which will reduce our taxes and save the
Democracy from dissolution, and they will
deserve and receive the public gratitude.
Senator NORTON is right when he says
that the Board OF Supervisors is the most
greedy md dishonest OF all the machines for
public plumber ever set up in this city. 1t
was originally devised TO prevent the
Democracy from controlling the affairs of the
county, as their legitimate preponderance at
the polls gave them right TO do This dc.
parture from the democratic rule that the
majority must govern was soon followed by
combination between Grasping Supervisors
Of both parties for the depletion of the public
treasury. The absence of all Just response.
bilty TO the people. and the long term Of
oflice-six years-made IL practicable to form
and maintain Ring in the Board, by whose
operations its members should become en-.
riched Accordingly. handsome fortunes
have been accumulated by Supervisors, and
they are not satisfied and place in that
Board is worth more than the wages of fifty
honest working men.
II the Democracy Is not to sink into ruin,
the Board OF Supervisors must be ami
hilated; the party must redeem its pledge to
abolish the Commissions and n new, simple,
and truly democratic charter must be enacted
for this city. And then the Democracy must
give US an honest, intelligent. economical
city government, with an efficient, non-par.
tisan police, and elections without reporters
and false canvassers. This is tho problem
and We call upon the three Senators who
have now risen into such prom hence before
the people to perseycrc in urging forward It's
solution.
The Tammany Managers are very Gun
ming. i is no easy matter TO contend sue
co-.iilly against such men as PETER b.
SwLENY, WILLIAM VI. TWEED, and ABRA-
HAN o. HALL. They want no change. They
wish to rerpctuNtc the Supervisors and al
the rum SIS. ons aud 10 run them all for
their own profit. To this end they have sent
up to Albany a sham charter intending it to
be beaten. Its defeat, they hope, will Pre-.
vent any movement for real reform, and at
the same time relieve them of all response
b,lity. But no such farce can avail. The
Democracy must either do what il has
promised to do or prepare to be cleared out
Of the way rs a nuisance and an obstruction.