Year: 1867

OmCeDs


When the people Of New York ordered
convention for the revision of the State consti-
tuition they desired and believed that system
Of government for municipalities would be
laid down in the organic law which would
secure to this metropolis an efficient and
economical administration of its local affairs,
and work thorough reform in our city poll
tics. The imbecility, dishonesty and cowardice
Of the radical majority in the convention de-
feated the object Of the people, and left us in
greater muddle than ever before, each fac
ton struggling to obtain something or other
out of the general scramble, in the apprehen-
sion that it may be the last chance they will
have at the public plunder. Thus we see for
each of the county and legislative offices from
four to half dozen aspirants-regular and
irregular democrats, radical and conservative
republicans peoples candidates, independ-
ents, and all manner of soreheaded patriots;
and the probability is that similar state OF
things will prevail at the charter election in
December.


This heated contest over the local spoils will
be the means of drawing out tremendous
vote in this city next week. On Friday and
Saturday, the lst and I'd Of November, an un-
precedented number of votes will be registered,
and we should not be surprised il the total
registration this year were to reach one hum
dred and forty thousand. So far as the local
offices are concerned, although they are the
melting motive with great number of the
voters, it is of very little consequence what
the result may be. 1t Is merely question
whether one set of men or another shall enjoy
the profits Of handful of places and secure
the rich drippings from the Sherif's, County
Clerks and other Offices The great mass Of the
people care little about them. The Tammany
ticket, being the regularly nominated demo-
cratic concern, will be likely to take the bulk
of the democratic voters, with the exception,
probably, of the candidate for County Clerk,
who is notoriously unfit for the Office. The re-
publican nominees would be well supported, as
representing the soldiers of the war, If it were
not for the fact that they also represent negro
barbarism in its most repulsive form, as we'll
as all the sumptuary legislation Of the fanatical
Sunday law radicals. The irregular demo.
Gratis will combine the several soreheaded
and disappointed politicians in the city, and
their chance of success depends upon how
many Of such dissa iished spirits they can mus
ter. But as we have said, the result of the
greedy scramble is of no matter Of consequence
to the people at large.


It is material, however, that the city Of New
York, with its enormous stake in the peace
and prosperity Of the nation AMI in the pre-
servation of the national credit, should give an
emphatic rebuke to the violent, revolutionary
and desperate men who are striving to make
negro barbarism controlling element in the
national government, and whose policy will
inevitably bring upon the country terrible
war of races, unless checked al once by the
sound sense Of the Northern people. The trc-
mendous vote that will be drawn out by our
local struggle next week will be cast almost
solidly-with the exception Of the small radi-
cal faction-against this party Of destructives,
and we should not be surprised If the demo
cratic State ticket were to receive sixty thou
sand majority in this city alone This is the
only issue in which the masses Of the people
are interested; and outside Of this they care
little who may be Sheriff or D strict Attorney,
Senator or Assemblyman, or what agurehcad
without brains may be placed on exhibition
for the next two years in the Mayors Office.