Year: 1867

Our Charter Eiectlens-The sraisrisy Asssuse


Tammany.


II the respectable democrats Of the city
Of New York we're allowed an opportunity
to-day to make choice Of q candidate for
Mayor, they would not be likely to name
either Fernando Wood or John 7. Hoffman.
Yet it is q foregone conclusion that both
these wornout politicians are to be forced
into nomination; Wood, by the old seeding
manipulators OF Tammany, and Hoffman
by the secret caucus, close corporation,
family money making ring at present control
ling the inside affairs OF the Wigwam. In
neither case have the people any voice in the
matter, the machinery being worked by hand
full Of men who run 1t to suit themselves, and
the whole thing being cut and dried without
any reference whatever to the sentiments or
wishes OF the voting public.


1t is about time that all this selfish clannish-
ness and secret manipulation should be broken
up, and that the men OF the city who do the
voting, but have no share in the spoiis, should
assert their independence AMI refuse to be
used any longer as the puppets Of few greedy
politicians. Let them unite upon any good
candidate Of their own for Mayor, and they
have the power to elect him. Tammany Is in
a large minority in the city, as the vote Of last
Tuesday as well as the elections of other
years, will show. In 1866, when Hoffman
was elected Mayor, eighty-three thousand
votes were cast, Of which he received
only thirty-three thousand, leaving ma
jority Of seventeen thousand on the popular
vote against him. He was successful only bs-
cause the opposition was divided between
three other candidates, and his plurality over
the highest Of these was only few hundred
votes. In 1866. seventy-one thousand votes
were cast for City Comptroller, of which tho
Tammany candidate received only nineteen
thousand leaving again majority Of seventeen
thousand In the popular vote against that or
ganization. The opposition was divided, as In
1865, between three candidates, yet the Tam
many plurality over the highest was only two
thousand. On Tuesday last the majority cast
against the Tammany nominees was yet more
decisive. Out Of one hundred and eleven thou
sand votes for Sheriff the Tammany nominee
received forty-two thousand only, leaving the
large majority Of twenty-seven thousand
against that organization. AT the same time
everybody knows that James O'Brien, the
popular Tammany candidate for Sheriff, OBJ
tanned large number of votes that will not
be cast for Hoffman.


The weakness Of Tammany is evident from
these figures. With democratic majority Of
sixty-one thousand in the whole city last Tues
day her candidates were leh In minority Of
twenty-seven thou,and ON the popular vote.
and only obtained success because of the dis
traction Of the opposition. Whenever deter.
mined fight is made against Tammany tool
he is certain of defeat. In one Assembly dis
trict last Tuesday, james Irving, selfnomi
mated candidate for the Legislslure, beat the
Tammany nominee out of sight. 1t only needs
the combination Of those opposed to the
greedy, grasping, close corporation clique Of
the Old Wigwam to ensure the defeat Of Ho6-
man by ten thousand majorlty.


II is true that Fernando Wood is In the field,
but as one Of the old inside manipulators Of
Tammany he will only draw from Hoffmans
strength. The German lager beer element and
the Irish whiskey element will 60 with him
against Puritanism and professed piety, and
there is little doubt that he will beat Hoffmsn's
vote. But II the respectable people Of tho
city will unite upon good citizen they can
secure the defeat of both these hackneyed
ring politicians Such q man ss Andrew H.
Green, Of the Central Park Commission, would
command the full support Of the opposition,
and should be nominated and run as an inde-
pendent candidate and voted for without re-
gard to party. He has been the principal
executive member of the Commission, and has
achieved in the Park magnificent tri-
umph, uncqualled in any city in the world.
Many millions Of dollars have passed through
his hands and been honestly expended, and his
ability Is as unquestioned as his integrity.
Tho Democratic Union, the republicans and all
who are opposed to the selfish cl.ques Of Tam
many, the Pecksnifian piety Of Hoffman and
the magnificent rascality Of Fernando Wood,
should at once put him in the field, bid de-
flance to the close corporation cliques, and
elect him Mayor Of the city.


suspeusIon OF tho Rectifying Businsss.