New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-05-16
TO-NORROW,S DUTY.

An election is to be held tomorrow which
fixes our most important Judiciary for the next
fourteen years. We do not appeal to Repub-
leans to come out and win victory for our
party, for we prefer not to invoke party
spirit in Judicial Election. We do appeal to
every reader, whatever his political faith, so to
arrange his business now as to make sure of
time tomorrow to come ont and vote for the
very best men he can find on the ticket of
either party. That the Republican party should
win or lose at this election is certainly an i'm
portant matter, but not one whose consequences,
whichever way the scale may turn, are IRE
parable. But that for fourteen years we
should be afflicted with weak, partisan, or
corrupt Judiciary would be calamity whose
far-reaching consequences no man could esti-
mate, and from a weighty responsibility for
which no citizen who now neglects his duty
could escape.
For ourselves, we very heartily hope for the
election of Henry r. Selden, Charles Mason,
| Charles Andrews, Charles j. FOlger, and Rob-
ert 5. Hale. We believe these men would
make able, learned, and upright Judges; we
believe they are superior TO the gentlemen
on the rival ticket; and we should
| rejoice in their election as the success Of
men chosen rather for their qualifications as
| iurists than as politicians. Sanford f. Church
was nominated, as all men do know, to get
| him out of the way of other aspiring candl-
dates for a more desirable oilcc; Henry t..
! Selden was nominated because in the Judgment
of those who selected him, he was qualified by
study experience, bent of mind and high char
acter for the place at the head of our Court OF
Appcals We shall be glad if a majority of
the voters of the State agree with us in
this estimate but III any event, we exhort
every man to vote for the candidates whom
he honestly thinks the best fitted for these
high places. We count it fortunate that in
any case both parties are sure of representa-
ton on the bench. Only five names can be
voted for on any one ticket, yet seven are to
be chosen.
Electors of the Empire State let us show
that we are in earnest in our talk about de-
sire for pure Judiciary! Let us not permit
this most important of elections TO go by de-
fault. If you think with us, vote for the five
Republican nominees butin any event, VOTE!
Of the issues involved in the election in
this city we need say less. There are several
districts where the candidates of the Ring can
be beaten if the friends of honest and
economical City Government will only take
the trouble to say what they want.
If the heavy taxpayers of Murray
Hill, for example, care to have their voice
against concrete swindles and threatened wood
pavement swindes heard in City Hall, they
have the votes to do it. In other districts the
new element, the negro vote, will be
quite considerable, and all on the
right side. We have candidates so
UNNECESSARILY superior, in many instances, to
those of the Ring, that comparison is ridicu-
lOus. No taxpayer need be told what sort of
a City Government men like VIM. f. Dodge
and Henry Clews would try to secure Let us
prepare to give them full vote, and show
the Country that City RepublicaniSm is not
utterly disorganized and asleep. VIII not
every friend of honest City Government
resolve to-day to lind time for to-morrOw's