The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-09-29


the people. We must not have at the
head of the administration an officer
who is in constant conflict with all the other
departments, and in hot water with every per-
son who does business with the Corporation.
Harmony in all the departments of the NUM-
cipality is above every other requirement
necessary to make strong. effective and sue
not be one who would put heavy dragchain
on to the wheels of progress, or under whose
rule we might wake up one morning to find
ourselves without Croton water, or be COM
PEELED to 60 to bed one night without gas
light in the city. Neither must the Chief
respectable ancient party hack, whose fingers
have for lifetime been constantly in the
political pie, even though under the pre-
tence of searching for the plum Of
reform. fine old American gentleman, fully
competent to play the part Of Mayor twenty or
thirty years ago. may be utterly unfit for the
position now, when the world has progressed
and the city grown so rapidly as to outstrip all
his ideas. We want citizen in that impor-
tant position at this time with whom the people
are satisfied, rather than one who is satisfied
with himself We want a successful business
man, who. by his good management of
his own affairs has given guarantee
that he can manage the affairs of
the people. We want person whose
name will carry with it at once conviction
of integrity, capacity and independence. who
is free from all political affiliations, and whose
position is such as to elevate him above the
reach of politicians, great or little.
There is no difficulty in finding such can
didate. The only trouble seems to be about
nominating him. We have ward clubs max
ing selections, o remnant of the Committee of
Seventy appointing committee of themselves
to put forward ticket and speeches and reso-
buttons in abundance but still no definite
action is taken by any proper authority. 1t is
time that all this nonsense should cease and
that the people should know who they are to
be called upon to support for the chief
municipal Office in their gift. We have
suggested q number of names, many of
which might be selected as candidates
with credit and honor to the party making the
nomination, and it is now within five or six
weeks of the election. The strongest party in
the city is the Tammany democracy. The
Tammany organization, purified and regen-
Grated, is now in reality reform party. Its
present leaders we're the recognized leaders of
the reform movement Of last year. and to them
mainly was due the overthrow of the corrupt
ring A thoroughly good nomination by Tam
many would be equivalent to an election, and
would enable the democracy to win back their
old-fashioned majority of fifty or sixty thou
sand. The present Sachems are solid citizens
as well as experienced politicians, and they
know what the people expect and desire. They
are sensible of the sort Of candidate calculated
to command public confidence and to win
popular support. Msssrs. Belmont, Tilden,
Schell, Barlow, John Kelly, OConor, Often
dorfer, Fox, Arthur Leary and William c.
Conner cannot make a mistake in selecting
their candidate, and they must know that
most unexceptionable nomination now will
efectually wipe out any stigma that may still
attach to the old name they bear. If they put
forward such ticket as justice, wisdom and
conscience would dictate, they will compel the
endorsement of all the reform organizations or
bodies in the city. If they act at once they
will stop all the small side intrigues and COM
binations that are now being made, and will
carry with them the great body of the voters
who followed them in the reform movement
year ago. AS they are the most powerful
party in the city the Committee of Seventy
and all its allies and offshoots must
hail with satisfaction a thoroughly honest
reform nomination from them, since
the triumph of honest government would
then be secure. Indeed, any attempt
to oppose their candidate would brand the
pretended reformers who might essay it as i'm
posters, traders and political corruptionists
1t would at once classify them with the de-
bauched legislators of last Winter, who, under
the mask of reform, obtained Office only to
dishonor and degrade the State by their undis-
guised rascality. We call upon purified Tam
many to make their nomination for Mayor
without any further delay, and if it is such as
ought to be made by earnest and sincere re-
formers their candidate will be certain of
election by one of those old-fashioned, rousing
majorities to which an honest democracy is
entitled in the metropolis of the Empire State
The Discussion In England or the
Geneva Settlement.
From our cable dispatches day after day we
now begin to learn in what light the Geneva
settlement is regarded by prominent English
statesmen and by the representatives of the
kingdoms Mr.. Lowe, the Chancellor of the