Year: 1872




at work within the organization, and there is
danger that in combination with new Ring.
fully as dishonest and unscrupulous, 1t will
succeed in dragging down the party still deeper
into the mire and repeating the disasters
Of last year. The action Of Judge Bedford,
it is well known, alone secured the criminal
indictment of the men who used their official
power TO rob the city Of millions Of dollars
But for the fidelity of the famous Grand Jury
of the General Sessions. and the patience
resolution and fearlessness of Judge Bedford
there would not now be single indictment
against the old Tammany corruptionists.
The honest sentiment of every good
citizen demands the nomination and re-elec-
ton Of this upright Judge, and as he is
democrat 1t Is his right to receive that nomi-
nation at the hands of his party. It is true
that he should be and will be nominated by
all true reformers; it is true that. In common
justice to the interests Of the city, there should
be no opposing candidate against him; but
IL is prominently true that regenerated
Tammany, which owes to Judge Bedford
more than to any other citizen its own
publication, should have seized upon the
first opportunity to nominate him by acclama-
ton. The old Ring leaders cared not straw
for civil SUITS and but for the indictments
found by Judge Bedfords Grand Jury they
would to-day be working boldly and openly,
as they are actually working secretly, in the
Tammany organization. There Is, then, but
one sole reason why Tammany can hesitate to
nominate Judge Bedford, and that is obe-
dience to the demands Of Tweed and
his associates In crime, who insist
that he shall be thrown overheard. It is
rumored that certain of the present Tammany
leaders, and at least ono prominent city
official, are in league with Tweed in the plot
to revenge the Ring upon Judge Bedford, and
that the consideration is to be the assistance
of Tweed's men in the Tammany county and
judiciary Conventions to secure the nomination
of Mayor and District Attorney Of the proper
stripe. We warn the politicians engaged in
this intrigue that certain defeat attends them.
The people who rebuked the dishonest Ring
last year will not suffer them to raise their
heads from the dust this year, and the
nomination of a Mayor and District Attorney
through the influence of the Tweed agents in
Tammany, in consideration of the defeat of the
Judge who was instrumental in bringing the
corrupt officials before criminal bar, will
not be suffered patiently by the citizens
Of New York. If Mr.. Duncan concludes
to decline the nomination for Mayor, other
unassailable and acceptable candidates may be
found; but any nomination whatsoever, made
as part of such bargain as that by which
Judge Bedfords rejection is sought to be ac-
complished, would be repudiated by the peo-
pie. We warn the plotters in Tammany that
the organization is too weak to undertake
this corrupt and infamous job, and that should
it refuse to nominate the City Judge, to whose
fidelity and frmness the people are indebted
for the only criminal indictments found
against the dishonest officials and their accom-
plices, it will share in the odium that now
attaches to Tweed and his fellow conspirators,
and will suffer ON ignominious defeat at the
polls in November.