Year: 1872

There were many popular men among tne
speakers at the great meeting on thursday
night but none was welcomed with more
heartiness or applauded with more genuine
GOOD will than the gentleman whose name
stands at the head of our State ticket. Mr.
Kernan's duties have not often brought MIN
into close personal relations with the people
of New-YOrk City, but he is known ana IT,
spected here, as he is all through tne o'aVe'
for his purity of character, his native strehglh
of intellect. and his many accomplishments
and the party which supports him IN TINS cam
naipn will be animated not only with en-
tbusiasm for its cause, but with an hoheSC
nride in its candidate. Mr.. Herman has been
long in political life, and has been leader OIL
the Democracy of the western counties. In
these days of reckless defamation 1T is hlgh
tribute to a man of so conspicuous career to
saw that not even a suspicion has ever been
whispered of his integrity or his PATRIOTISM
He comes TO the front with record aDso-
lutely clean, reputation perfectly unassiiil-
able.


Mr.. Herman has always been a consistent
member of the Democratic party, but he mas
been at the same time stern enemy OF the
abuses by which certain wild fanatics and
thieving Rings so nearly brought that party
TO its ruin. He sustained the war Tor the
preservation of the Union, and when the war
upon our municipal rogues was begun, he
sustained that too with all his might. No
false idea of the needs of the party ever led
him to tolerate the rascalities OF a Tweed,
Connolly, or an 0'Brien. He was the cOni-


Il
dant and adviser of Messrs. Illden and
O,Copor in the prosecution of the King; and
if we succeed in bringing the culprits to justice
that happy result will be in large measure
due to his services.


Such man was prominently qualified to
speak to the people of New-YOrk on the great
issue OF Reform. He put the question clearly
to his audience, whether they would have
perpetuation Of Leet and Stocking and Casey !
Whether the whole power of the Federal Ad-
ministration should be used to influence or
coerce the State elections9 Whether the Sec
retary of the Treasury, the Secretary of the
Navy, the Postmaster General, the Attorney
General, should be allowed to abandon their
posts and go into North Carolina, Maine, Penn
sylvania, Michigan, and Oregon, to dictate to
the citizens how to manage their affairs I
Whether investigations should be stifled and
fraud go unpunished, lest a partisan Organiza-
ton might suffer through the exposure of its
inquities2 And the emphasis with which he
was answered proved that the citizens of
New-York have made up their minds on these
points, and will express them in November
with startling distinctness.


Mr.. Kernan's speech is a model which his
adversaries would do well to study. While
the Administration scribes and orators are
raking over old newspapers to find out what
the leaders of the opposite party said ten or
twelve years ago, Mr.. Herman points out the
duties which have to be done now, and in
quires who is ready and able to do them. The
object of the reformer must be to introduce
purity into the debased Civil Service, and to
check the growing usurpatiOns of the Federal
Government, especially its interference with
the electoral franchise. Nobody can hope for
such reforms from the present Administration; /;
but with union of Democrats and lnde-
pendent Republicans, under the broad banner
of the Cincinnati Convention, we shall accom-
plish our great purpose. The heart of the
people is with us we cannot fall