Year: 1872




After much delay Tammany Hall has at
length nominated its candidate for Mayor.
There have been those who have hastened
from this delay to make augury of evil, aud
others who have charged, with some haste and
much injustice, that the nomination was to be
forced or dictated after the manner of Mr..
Tweed. We now know from the result of the
proceedings as well as the report of the Con-
ference Committees, that the latter charge Is
untrue: we trust that the prophecy is alike
false. The nomination has come after
much deliberation and consultation; it is
the best choice of old and experienced
men, familiar with our public institu-
tons and or political organizations; and
moreover. it has the unanimous approval of
the Convention. The nominee, Mr.. Abraham
r. Lawrence, is popular and able, and from
the first has been identified with the Reform
movement which q year ago eliminated in
the overthrow of the Ring. He was assOci-
ated with Judge Barrett as the adviser of the
Committee of Seventy III the prosecution of
the Ring suits, and to his intimate acquaint-
ance with the laws and ordinances affecting
the City Government was in large measure
due much Of the success which attended those
proceedings. Having abandoned Tammany
Hall when it had fallen under the corrupt in
fluence of Tweed ard his associates, it is nat
ural and fitting that he should now rejoin it
as its representative and the candidate for
the highest municipal Office in its gift, when
it has become thoroughly reformed and re-
organized institution. With Mr. Lawrence as
the head of the ticket, Tammany Hall ought
to win.


But it will not win without struggle. A
Ring almost as strong and fully as unscru-
pulous as that which existed year ago,
strives for absolute power in this municipal
ity and the November election is to decide
not only whether or not the Military Ring is
to rule in the nation, but whether the Gus
tom-house clique are to be masters in the
City Hail. 1t is now doubtless clear to all
that there are to be at least three candidates
for Mayor at the coming election. James
O'Brien, self-nominated, will doubtless persist
in the pretense of the Apollo Hall indorse-
ment, and win poll a large part of the
strength of the worst half of that dis
rupted organization, besides q few thousand
fraudulent votes, cast by his thoroughly or
ganized repeaters, fresh from large and sue
cessful experience under Cameron'5 pay in
Pennsylvania. The Grant men are reported
as meditating breach of their bargain with
O'Brien, and the nomination of George N. Van
Mort, Commissioner of Public Works. Their
hope would be to use the so-called Reform
organizations, held together by the Custom
house Ring, to poll the full Grant vote, and
so to run in their candidate while the Democ-
racy are divided The Grant men here are
thoroughly organized. Let us not deceive our
selves to what was manifested clearly enough
at their primaries last night. In not a single
district was there any disafiectlon; in no dis
trict were rival tickets in the field the delegates
to their conventions were dictated from the
CustOm-hOuse, and they will do the Custom
house bidding as unhesitatingly as the Re-
nominationists obeyed Grant, or as old Tam
many obeyed Tweed. There will be with