The New York herald., 1872-10-03

will the citizens have an opportunity OF judg-
ing whether the men who set up the banner of
reform have strength and honesty enough to act
up to their pledges Halfway measures never
lead men to victory. Let Tammany and the
Committee of Seventy unite in presenting the
name of William Butler Duncan as the reform
candidate for Mayor, and popular endorse
ment will follow such as no candidate for that
Office ever before received.
Tho Folly Hall and Apollo Hall Poli-
ticians.
Folly Hall may not be known to all the
readers of the HERALD. It occupies fashions
BILE locality-a malicious slander Of tho ssreds'
declares that fashion and folly generally are
found in company-being situated in no less
aristocratic . place than the Fifth Avenue
Hotel. The name may not be fully written
out, but the curious inquirer will discover on
the parlor that bears the title the initiatory let
ter F. Political bodies are nowadays in the
habit of christening themselves after the
names of the halls in which they assemble.
Formerly we were accustomed to hear of the
jackson democracy, the Clay wings, &C.. but
at present we are more familiar with Mozart
Hall democrats, Tammany Hall democrats,
Apollo Hall O'Brienites, the Twenty-third
street republicans, the Union League Club re-
publicans, the Custom House republicans and
the like On Tuesday evening the Folly Hall
reformers sprang into existence, and, like the
famous tailors of Tooley street, proceeded to
take under their sheltering wings the manage
ment of the affairs Of the Commonwealth.
The head Folly, whose Christian name is
John, was charged with ON important duty.
Up from the heart of the people had come the
swelling demand for the advancement Of the
banner of real reform, inscribed with the name
of William Butler Duncan, over the carcasses
Of all Folly politicians and bogus reformers.
It was known that the powerful regenerated
democracy could not resist the acceptance of
SO popular and sterling o candidate, and that
the nomination would put a stop to oil trades,
bargains and intrigues made under the mask
of reform, and would unite all good citizens in
its support. So the Folly, whose name is
John, was commissioned by all those interest
ed in such bargains, trades and intrigues,
to call together as many of his fellow Follies as
he could muster, and to make q nomination
for Mayor at any hazard, so that their candidate
could afterwards withdraw or run as ''dum-
my'-a convenient article well known to the
politicians of the Folly school-as the necessi-
ties of the case might demand. It was known
that the Mayoralty field once occupied by such
candidate as William Butler Duncan the duty
Of genuine reformers, which is to sit in judg-
ment upon the action of the political parties,
and not to dabble in politics themselves,
would be ended.
The mission Of Folly Hall the night before
last was not successfully fulfilled. The man.
aging Folly has weakness, and that weak
ness is known to be venerable and respect
able politician who was actually Mayor of
New York in 1916, when the city had three
hundred and seventy-one thousand two hun
dred and twenty-t three inhabitants; when the
Watch Department comprised, all told, officers
and watchmen, six hundred souls when forty
eight thousand eight hundred and ninety
votes were cast at the election; when the en-
tire receipts Of the Corporation Sinking
Fund and all-were six hundred and twenty-one
thousand and thirteen dollars and twenty-four
cents, and the total expenditure on the munich
pal government was six hundred and four
thousand three hundred and nineteen dollars
and ninety-four cents, leaving to the credit of
the city-and Of the Mayor-the sum Of six
teen thousand six hundred and ninety-three
dollars and thirty cents in the City Treasury
on the 1st January, 1876. Such conclusive
evidence Of the honesty, economy, energy and
competency of the er odicio head of the six
hundred city watchmen, this tangible proof
that not an unnecessary dollar had been
wasted on lanterns, rattles or overcoats, could
not go unrewarded, and the Mayor was re-
elected in 1848. This excellent public officer
has, to be sure, few more years to carry on
his shoulders now than he had then but his
vigor is attested by his lusty candidacy for
nomination at nearly every municipal election
for the past quarter of q century, and as he
Don't feel day older, Jack, not day,
the enterprising Folly, whose name is John,
has long since agreed with himself that the
ex-Mayor is just the man for the Folly reform
crisis. But at last Tuesdays meeting of the
Folly haulers things did not work smoothly.
There were present few delegates from real
reform organizations-suc as the Young
Mens Democratic Reform Association and the
great German Reform Association-all of
whom retired as soon as they discovered the
object Of the Folly meeting, protesting that it
was absurd for handful of patriotic
bald eagles, who had no authority
and represented nobody but themselves
and the wire-pulling political traders
behind them. to set themselves up in the