Year: 1871

The sabbath day was exceedingly well observed
yesterday, politically and spiritually, by the wire.
pulling politicians OF all parties In the sixth Sena-
torial district. There Is good deal OF piety and .


great many churches In the district for tho public
exhibition OF the unadulterated article, but the
politicians had much profane work TO do during
the day 10 attend any one OF the numerous houses
Of worship. With them, as doubtless was the case
with the politicians OF almost every other district
In the city, the busy hum Of preparation
for the strife election day had
more alluring eject than the chimes OF the church
bells or the peals OF the organ And when one looks
ut 1t in purely human point OF view, aside from all
moral considerations, it - not to be wondered at
that men who must work on Sunday to get their
bread aud butter on Monday should have no heslta
tlon about dsregarding the advice or the good re-
ngious rcformers who like to see one day In the
week kept holy.


district is made up IN large part OF Germans, who
n oil that the German orators Of day the say be
true are the bone and slnew in the city OF the
form movement. IL takes In the entire Seventeenth
ward, the Eleventh and part OF the Tenth ward.


THE GERMAN VOTERS


are as thick as bees in well re zuated hive In the
seventeenth and the Eleventh, and the CRY OF
reform made quite stir IN the district; in fact,
It Is said tnat 1t has taken greater hold upon the
German portion OF 1t than upon any other class Of
voters In the city, the out.and-out American class
excepted.


Tne rank and file Of the various parties yesterday
Judging from tour made through the district gave
but little thought to the great contest OF Tuesday
next Everything was quiet The lager beer sa-
looms were, OF course, as usual, well patrOnZed;
politics were discussed over the wel-fled glasses
with just as much zest as they have been since
the reform movement was started. and the good
people who 90 to church regularly III the morning
in their attendance, as though there never had
teen an election In the city, and they cared very
them, 10 all appearances, the election was as far
distant % the millennium. 1t was NOS 80, however,
with


many OF whom not only do their share Of the voting
land II NAV be more than j their share when they
get chancel, but whose position In the district and
whose daily bread depends upon just who the man
Is who gets elected for tns mat or the other Office
1t all day and way into the small hours of the
night The work was the arranging Of the ballots.
ing' OF them, as the "6oys' Cali it In their
nned 70 any one particular party. Tne refcrmers
were as inderalgable as the men whom they nope
TO send


next Tuesday, ana the republicans were as diigcnt
the reiOrmers. In fact the latter and the repuD
licans seemed to make common cause OF IL all over
the district and iraternlzed together and bunched"
their tickets IN many places together as though the
matter mat how an ousand-out Tammanyits chose 70
look at 1t. As matter OF course the various candi
dates were on hand with the army OF bunchers,
purpcsely to that everything went smoothly or,
rather, In q good many cases, to see to II that
cur in the best OF well regulated poltical families
their names were not left OF the ticket to make way
for that OF somebody else who had got up early
in the morning ana


in some out OF the way "headQuarcrs.o The folding
Offl flNo hnf for VnQ
done by Tammany democrats at the rooms OF the
Tammany Association, IN 81. Marks place, where
Eleventh wards were arranged The two parlOrs
on the first floor aud the large in the rear OF
siyely by the folders There were three centre tables
in the parlors and long deal table In the other room
noon tho greater portion Of the ballots ior inspectors
Oi election were made up, and In the early evening
xssamoy as esss for on john Tyler Kelly ans
Christopher Flecke were also taken hold OF
81 81 tSese ne IN N TenS ana
wards, which arc comprised in the senatorial dis.
ioliers work at these rooms. Kelly and Wotman
were on hand during the entire day, and dld Their
sihie by liberal supply Of the


to make the busy fellows forget tnat they were
PROBABLY working harder than they ever WORKED in
their lives before at least Tor themselves. The
pecied 70 toil ike day the OF the
straight TammAny ticses when tne tight ts
their rendezvous during the day, and all sorts OF
consultations were held In the rear rooms between


The iui i've tickeIs that Will be voted on Tuesday
were printed by the district committees on Satur.
day and so IL was only question OF time last even
ing when the whole lot would be ready or distribu-
ton to the men designated TO be IN charge OF the
tickets simple possible; that is. to print the
names OF the distinct candidates plain as clear
day that spurious democratic Senatorial ticket in
German text with weissman's name on It, was 70
be circulated election day among some or the
democratic boxes, and so 1t was decided to nave This
ticket In large. clear, full lace type, thus to


AVOID ANY MisTAKE


on the part OF The voter who the hurry Of voting
might be deceived BY the name Of Weissman, the
reform candidate 4 IN German m text being on the the
printed m % IL German text but some wag or other got
thus made them spend few dollars more than was
necessary in getting up ticket OF their own III the
to believe the other would be. The Tammany state
ticket made up and sent to the various districts BY
the General Committee ana wnlcn c aS me
and Aldermen is printed In small capitals, the Al
dermen's names being arranged together in Two
name Of Samuel Koch is the only one that makes
the ticket differ from the old ticket voted at the last
election, he taking WOltmln's place. Ledwiths
name has been faithfully put on II for Justice OF he


NICE LITTLE DoDGEs.


Every effort was made during the day 10 get
specimen OF all the tickets prin.cd by al the par
ties running candidates IN the district, and among
the reform and republican 1t was found mat there
were many state tickets which were headed with
the regular democratic nominees and sigel's name
substituted Tor that OF Shandey. Others had the
name Of Barrett for Justice Of the supreme Court
instead of Ledwith, all the rest OF the ticket being
regular democratic. Yet another was found with
ali the names oil The democratic nominees, with the
exception OF that OF O'Neil, the republican noml.
nee kirkpair!cE's being substituted. Senatorial
Ticket was also discovered that was made by
one OF the opposition factions, :, apd which
they intend to circulate On election day,
with the name Henry W. Gilman instead OF
Henry woitman. several tickets, said 70 have Deen
gotten ND by republicans, have Judge Aker's name
on the general republican reform ticket, instead OF
tnat OF spauidng, tor Justice Of the Marine court.
This would seem 10 indicate That Spaud,nR Is 10
he oyerslaughed by OF his alleged friends. Ine
ticket for inspectors OF election for the seven,
many tickets arc said TO have been made out by the