New-York tribune., 1875-11-01
TdNU4NY MEN TO DEFEAT.

A good deal of the prevalent outcry against
Tammany and Tammany candidates Is pure
demagogsm. The present 1ammany manage
ment is quite as decent as that OF the Custom
House and hundred-fold more so than
that of the anti ti-Tammary Democracy.
The latter indeed embraces the worst
lot of graceIess, constituencies, worthless, pol
itcal rcprobates ever gathered together III this
city since the worst days of Tweed "a motley
crowd of disappointed baIroom politicians,
fifty marshaled by John MOrrisscy and James
OBren.
But neither TammanY nor the Cust0m-house
can be trusted-any more than any other eau
Gus machine. Here ere some tirst-rate Tam
many nominations for every honest citizen to
vote against.
The denomination of Judge James c. Spen-
Ger seemed TO us at first good thing. we
have heard no charges against his judicial con-
duct. and experience ought certainly to make
him a better Judge now than when he was frst
chosen. But in looking over a list OF sIhscrip-
tons to the Tweed statue we find this sig
nilcant combination Of names
Richard O'Gorman. g, 900 Shandey Association ,,
Oriental 1oS9 81 stESns acs Esi% pen
The date of this subscription is March II,
1871. The man who at that time thought
William NJ. Tweed deserving of statue from
the people OF New-York is hardly the sort OF
man whom, on that record, we should want to
select for iudgeship We do not think very
highly of the qualifications of the Opposing
candidate but it seems safe, at any rate, not
to vote for Judge Spencer.
Timothy j. Campbell, Tammany candidate
for Civil Justice in the Vth District Is good
man to defeat. He is no lawyer at all, but he
WAS a member of the last Legislature and did
not earn there any reputation which entities
him to trust as a judge Another Tam
many candidate for Civil Justice who
ought To be defeated is W. j. Kane III
the With District. His habits are said to un-
fit him for the position, and his qualifications
are at any late insufficient. The Repubhcah
candidate in that district is a better man thah
either Kane or the anti-Tanmany man.
Chas. Craftsman, the Tamnany candidate for
AssemblvInan from the With District, has
been reported as Il subscriber to tie IWecd
monument. We do not find his name i'll our
list of those worthless, though the name OF Geo
Kaussman is set down for T25. in honor OF the
statesman OF Blackwclfs Island. II this can
be shown 10 mean the same man he Is certainly
a GOOD man to leave at home. Whatever
other place an ardent admirer OF Mr. William
VI. Tweed is fit for, he is not fit fof the Legls-
lature. We have too many undiscovered OF
that Kind there anyway let us not elect more
OF the same sort with our eyes open.
Bartlett, the boy of bad associations, WHO is
running for the Assembly on the Tammany
ticket in the With District, is unfit for the
place. His Republican opponent, DR.. Isaac |.
Uaycs. is a man of character and ability, and
ought to be elected. We thinl, also that in the
XXth District ii will probably be 70 the in
tercst Of voters to send L. A. Erglehardt, the
Republican candidate to the Assembly, rather
than his Tammany opponent.
In the IVth Senatorial District, the situation
is about as bad as IT can be. John Fox, the
Tammany candidate. has no qualification what
ever. unless it be that he really lives in the
district. John Morrssey is Il worse man than
Fox. and a caIpet-bagger 10 boot. Fox viii
probably be elected, though nothing but the
fact that he beats MOrIisscy could reconcile
the public to his success, and nothing what
ever can excuse Tammany for nominating him.