Year: 1870




There was no fight on the part Of the repub-
licans. In this city they poled less than one
half their vote OF 1S68-or twenty-five thou
sand against nearly forty-eight thousand--and
throughout the State the returns show that
the general apathy" Of 1870 In the repub-
lican camp has exceeded that Of 1869. The
democrats are jubilant and regard their over
whclming success in city and State as full OF
hopeful signs of the future. The republican
organs are shocked and disgusted. Greeley
says 1--WE thank the ruifians and blackieg s
who are paid to do the voting OF Tammany
Hail for giving us so perfect a specimen of
their handiwork in yesterdays election" aud
that the ''legal vote Of the city was about half
polled yesterday" but that the '.liegal was
out in all its glory" The poets of the Post
tell us that in this city, in this election,
there was regular aud well established
scale of prices for repeating, varying, with the
urgency of the case, from fifteen dollars to fifty
cents for a fraudulent vote" and that Zone
eader of o gang Of rufians paid Off his men
openly, in siglt OF the orderly citizens
gathered around the polling booth, and SO on
to the end of the chapter.


But whatever was the extent of the frauds in
this election on the one side, and of the apathy,
distrust and disgust prevailing on the other
side, the established facts are that Tammany
is in absolute possession of the city govern
ment in all its departments and all its details,
and holds possession of the State The Tam
many democracy are now clothed with all the
powers of the new Charter for the administra-
ton of our municipal affairs, and they are
clothed with all the responsibilities attaching
to these powers. Mayor Hall is our municipal
President and the two Boards Of Aldermen
and Assistant Aldermen stand toward him In
while the heads of the several departments
may be considered his Cabinet advisers and
suboriinates. The important matter of dis
posing of the money Of the city treasury rests
mainly with the new city councils. They may
expand or contract our annual city expendi-
lures to the extent Of millions If they choose,
and while we do not expect much contraction,
we have the right to demand, as we do
demand, some practical illustrations of respect
for the taxpayers in the matter of
jobs We are told that the trustworthy men
in both boards of the new corporation legisla-
ture are in small minority; but if they are
over one-fourth the whole namber in either
board in behalf of proper retrenchments and
retorms the city will be safe, backed, as
we believe tn .se honest men viii be, by the
Mayor At all events, Tammany, being fully
invested with all the powers of our city gov
ernment, is henceforth responsible for its
administration, good or bad, honest or corrupt,
and law and order and the tax levy will be the
tests upon which she will be judged.


The election throughout the State on the
State judiciary ticket has gone by default.
What does this signify? In connection with
the overwhelm ng democratic vote Of the city
it signifies that the republicans Of the State
give up the State; that against the fifty, sixty
or seventy thousand democratic majority Of the
city, as the case may require, there is no use
of a republican contest in the rural districts to
recover the State. 1t IL charged, too, that
large deiachments of the republicans of the
city have become SO hope!essly demoralized
by the money Of Tsmmapy that nothing can be
done with them; that, in word, the four or
five millions of dollars which, it is alleged,
Tammany appropriates to herself from the tax
levy is too much for the republican party in
the city or State to overcome.


The State, then, may be considered demo-
cratic for an indefinite time to come. This
q |, stion, however, is not yet fairly settled,
but will be in our next November election,
which will embrace the election, by districts.
of the whole House delegation to the next
Congress. This win undoubtedly bring out
the full republican vote of the State, and
the full strength of Grants administration. At
the same time the new election and registration
law for this city will be brought to bear upon
is the equivalent demanded of and granted by
Tanmany for the assistance Of the republic
cans in passing our new city Charter, the
republicans, if honest in this bargain, must
calculate upon cutting out good many thou
sand fraudulent democratic votes under this
new election law.


The results Of the late election, however, in
connection with our State elections of 1869
and 1868, establish the democracy in full pos
session of the city and the State, and place
Tammany Hall in an admirable position, not
only for holding the State, but for the reor-
ganization of the democratic party of the
Union, and for the control of the Presidential
Convention of The party in 1872


The quarantine COmmissiOu-WhO IN Health
ORlcere


There is popular notion that DR.. Carno-
chan, the distinguished surgeon of the city,