Year: 1875

1t il doubtful whether the people of this
State see the full extent of the tide in their
affairs which, taken at the food, may lead on
TO fortune. There will doubtless be inyestiga-
tions to follow this, and more exposures. more
arrests. and more indictments; and by the
close OF GOV. Tiden's term, ii all the augures
are fulfilled, the Empire State will have a
Government which has ceased to be den of
thieves, and which will be administered with
~ near an approach to absolute honesty and
rigid economy az the average mercantile estab-
lishmcnt. More than this can be done, however.
The Legislature, after all, is the great cess
pool of corruption, and no reform can be called
complete which leaves the lobby unmolested,
or permits the periodical reelection of thieves
and iobbtrs. Let the law-making body be
purifcd, and the executive branch will he III
less frequent need of publication. To do this
requires only that the citizens who value good
government more than party success shall
scrutinize kcenIy the records of all who offer
themselves as candidates for the Senate and
Assembly; that they shall oppose bad
men in the caucuses, and holt them
at the polls that they shall labor
70 leave AT home all whose records or assOcla-
tons in Albany are in any way Suspicious.
man must pay the penalty of the company Lc
keeps and, if you find that your representa-
tive has been the boon companion of thieves
or lobbyists, disregard his pr0tcstatOna of in
noccnce and send in his place some one who
respects lis consti uentS as we'll a. himself
Citizens of both parties can afford to vote this
Fall for any candidate for the Legislature
whom they deem most capable and honest.
:. aIX
10 be gained in the election of the next Legi.-
IatIlrc. There is no United States Senator to
he chosen, and most of the work of the scs-
sion, such as the investigation of fraud, the
completion of the general laws. &c. is of Il
non partisan character


There is more need OF wedding out at Albany
than is generally supposed. The stay home
farmer or the busy merchant does not know
that at least one third, if not more of the last
Assembly, to take the latest instance, could be
bought in drove simply by negotiation with
one of their number nor that others could bc
got hy individual persuasion who were too
Ligh-priced and too refined 10 belong 10 any
of the lobby organizations. They can hardly
bc cxpcctcd to know what even those who
know il cannot prove. Their member probably
smugglcs his wealth into the county. and re-
Trains from any display that might awaken slls-
picion. He adopts the whine of reform, and most
people believe him honest because he continually
protests he is He is rcnominatcd often by
men who know him to he n rascal, and laudcd
by editors who are under obligations to him.
He is elected by voters who are profoundly
ignorant of his real character, and goes back
to Albany TO rake i'll one or two hundred dol
lars a vote, and perfect himself i'll poker. IL
adds to the difficulties of their detection that
men who go to the capital reasonably honest
often come back moderate thieves. Farmers
or young lawyers asked to vote oil IA certain
side of a question about which perhaps neither
they nor their constituents care button take
the money, and from selling vote about
which they care nothing they soon come To
selling one about which they ought to
| care q great deal. And then. too, country