The New York Herald Newspaper, November 5, 1871, Page 3

| an dinni ll STATE AND CITY POLITICS. | General Review of the Election Campaign of 1871 and tho State of Parties, Tammany, Struggling Against a Host of Fees, is Still ‘< Unterrified.” THE ORDER OF BATTLE. Buprecedented Activity in Marshal ling the Opposing Forces. : The Offices---The Guerdons of Victory. Great Tripartite Alliance Between Tammany ferebeads, Democratic Reformers and Custom House Republicans. The City in a Blaze of Excitement. The Popular Mind Fully Aroused to the Tumportance of the Crisis. BALLOTS BEFORE BULLETS. Mayor Hall’s Revicw of the Action of the Courts on Injunctions and Mandamuses, SUBURBAN POLITICS. Fred Douglass Nominated for the As- sembly in Monroe County. We are now almost on the very eve of one of the Mom exciting political contests in which opposing parties in this city have ever engaged. Pubiic fer- Meat over the anticipated results, from opposite Mandpoints, is at its culminating poin:, and it 13 well that the intervening time between this and the ‘coming of Tuesday next is sv brief. It is not that Qe ofices to be filled are of paramount importance Wa political sense that all this unusual excitation @f public fecling is so strikingly displayed. Wor the first time in years has the mbattered republican party had a chance @f successfully contesting with the power @ Tammany. {The republican record when the party was in power was not such a pure one that it could ron long upon it in the name of honesty and economy, and the time or ft overthrow came and Wt fell, and great was the fail thereof. Other parties eppesed to the Tammany machine followed and seigned in their stead, but their reign was brief and” somewhat logiorioas. The sun of victory once more shone upon the time-honored banners of Tammany, and for years new chiels known as the Ring “ruled the roast.” Under their guidance and control the machine ran splendidly, and when it entered upon a face all opponents had to clear the track. But evil @ays have lately fallen upon Tammany, and their old ®pponents, and all whom it was impossible to please w the distribution of we loaves and fishes have, with renewed hope and energy, enterea the field against it. Tammany in the days of its successes could hardly tell its strength and power, so over- qbelming on all occasions were its victories. Row, when seeming adversity has overtaken it, and q@hen, asin all such cases, there ts secession on every hand and desertion in all quarters, it is called epon to PROVE ITS INHERENT STRENGTH gad to test the devotion to that old principle of pure democracy in its tollowers who made it, in victory and defeat, the rallying point of the masses of our semocratic citizens. ‘The fact is fully understood by friends and foes, and hence the unusual interest aroused in the com- ima contest. Tammany isthe great citadel that is to be attacked. Its foes are numerous but ill dis- giplined. Tne secession leaders from the old party @ust, more or less, be oppressed with the con- sciousness that they are fighting against a power Mey once worshipped, and undera banner which, = “politicians,” they know to be a sham. The radical party, under the new name of reformers, grasp like drowning men at straws, and gladly en- ter imto an alliance with the deserters from Tam- many, fortified with the old sophiam thai evil can be done that good may come out of It. Tammany 1m the contest is still courageous and defiant, looks grimly but unshrinkingly at the defection of its for- mer supporters, and takes a note of them against she day of wrath. THE CONTEST Wwthe all-absorbing theme of discussion, and every act of the authoritics preparing for it is commented upon, The fight lies properly between the radical party, now the “reform party” of, the Council of Beventy, swelled by numerous deserters of sore- eads from the Tammany camp, and the Tammany feaders, who still rely for victory upon the votes of she out and out pure democracy that has ever sus- tained them. That “the race is not always to the swift or the battle tothe strong” comes from the very best authority. it is verified every day in various shapes and ways. The contest for supre- macy in our State and city governments, anda the race for place and patronage, which at tis moment (s the great sensation, will, no doubt, give another Mlustration of the wisdom of the apothegm. The question as to which party mignt be properiy applied the “swiit’’ and the “strong” would a few months ago have been of easy solution. Late events, however, have made a radical change in this respect, and the combination of the rag-tag and bob-tal of iactions with the high-toned and unset. fish reformers of municipal abuses must to-day be oomsidered as the aggressive party. “Their souls are in arms and eager for the fray’? om Tuesday next. The would-be reformers are led by men long smarting under <ecteat, and who are ‘anxious, under the banner of reform a8 @ popular embiem, of fighting their old opponents op new ground and changed auspices, to secure for them- selves the rich spotis wiiich, like the sons of Ahab, the Tammany chieftains fave so long nidden ‘way in their tents. An election time like this ‘wakens passions not unlike those aroused to the throes of a revolntion, when the alesatistied, the disamected and the enemies of the existing oraer of things snatcn the first oppor- tumty of benefting by a change in whic, how- aver detrimental to society in general, they may Qave a solitary chance of securing some public pander to themselves, The ORYING EVILS under which the city has so long labored demanded, uo doubt, a radical remeqy, and that remedy has eon ostensibly agolied by the radical party. The NEW YURK HERALD) SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1871.—TRIPLE SHBBT. Taree at nopunen mmaiguntiea seeet puiar andiguation posure of fronds in one the Gity government, were enapied in the detection of frauds and ‘ir suppression in the future. Every effort of tending to lay bare the whole municipal “BYsteM 80 as [0 at the root of the evil, has been watched with p interest by the citizens at large, aided by the countenance and fry ahs of the Judictary in every instance. In the tide of their popularity and their seeming course of patriot- posed, Sxcept in so Taras’ they Keep up'a running , ex up ara aki al tactics in the Courts, and at once led by the eX- ‘uments of the take the first than every other way. The latter accept batte under the banner of reform with @ broad grin ready but are to go over to the enemy, their old’ friends, at tne ‘first sigo that their services are wanted and will be Trew: . ‘nis 15 the whole ground of battle occu- pica by the combatants in the strife tobe decided on Tuesday next. THE ORDER OF BATTLE—THE LEADERS. Ever since the rival parties held their conventions at Kochester and Syracuse the nove of prepuration has been sounding all over the city cump, and tne 1ead- ers now with their armor buckled and lance in rest eager for the fray. Notwithstanding the unprom- dsing attitude of the Tammany chiefs a tew weeks ago their array 18 in periect order, deter- mined to move on the enemy's works ere the roos- ters of Gi have Peter ammanyites ‘under nts stan Lead! Jemmy v’brien, the generals of ague seventy, The has lost considerably in the detection of Ledwith, the first reformer, who runs for the vacancy in the Supreme Court under the ices of ‘Tammany, whom he has beea lately posing only to oe Worth purvhasing ata high re. But still if in a multitude of counseliots re 18 safety, then the y very They are terri! exercised as to whion side their bread is buttered, in cetr_ Own camp a4 to. deal destrdetion on the enemy. The Greeleyites are also in a quan- dary. Tuey swear .not to vote for a democrat at price, which means that they will not vote at except m one Senatorial district—the they ean gover ‘pal shrough, andra one Asscmbiy ry can ne 1m one mi disirict—the eventh—where Hawkins, ne Greeiey ite, and Gridley, the it repudlican, contest the field against each other as ib Thomas W. Pittman, the democratic candidate. This triangular fight promises well for Mr. Pittman and leaves no show for the harikari republicans of Opposite ks, THE OFFICES AND CANDIDATES, The re-election of the democratic State ticket, with the exception of Homer A. Nelson, Secretary of ptate, who retires, and his place filled on the lcket by nis present depnty, Diedrich Willers, Jr., 4s conceded by the republicans, THE SUPREME COURT, In the city and county the office of paramount m- Portance is that of Supreme Court Judge. ‘Thts, the one in which the citizen should have the greatest meerest, is contested by Police Justice Ledwith and ex-Judge Barrett, late counsel to the reformers, but Who was so well teed to undertake his task. Led- with is pretty well known to all. The first isa acknowledged avility, who, as Judge on the dence of the Common Pleas, earned a high cha- racter for judictal in ty and uprignt decisions. in this ot _he is head and suotiders over his opponent @ Would-be reformer—but who, on the first on of cemptauion, went back upon his friends. “When the devil was sick the devil a saint wonld be; when the devi was well the devil @ saint was he.” So with Ledwith, whom we here- ‘with consign to the ballot bux. ‘THE SUPERIOR COURT. Here the citizens are fortunate, a8 they cannot make a bad choice. There are two vacancies. The | present reuiring incumbents are Judges Spencer and ; Jones, op; by Wulham E. Curtis and Jono Sedgwick. Judge Spencer, who ls renominated for the office he has so weil filled, 18 one of the few -Judicial officers who ‘‘cagnot be spared.” On his merits he shouid be re-elected by an almost unant- mous vote. He is a credit to the Supenor Court bench, and the people should take care that he is kept there, IN TUE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS Judge Charles I’, Daly has received the renomina- Uon of both parties, with the gratified concurrence of the whole body of our citizens. For the MARINE COURT vacancy Judge Alker, the present incumbent, is op- posed by Alexander Spaulding, formeriv an Internal Revenue Collector im the Eighth district, Federal , ollices, as a general thing, are not just the places for our citizens to select upright Judges from, but ex-Internal Revenue Collectora in purticalar will | bave to pass _@ strict scrutiny before will be Promoted to tne bench to admini law and justice in thie janity, which knows them 80 Well... ge Alker, who most ‘popular ‘noe oa tne beach’ of shy of our Cours, among the ing ong profession so fong practisi before him. and with sil parties, /piaintifts or th fendants, who have tad occasion to submit their suits to tis most impartial and just decisions. There 38 Do fear of nis re-election. THE RBGISTERSHIP. Here the two parties—the hydra-neaced party of reform and the Tammanyites—meet in a fair fleld for @ square stand-up tight. Shaudley fights not “mit Sigel,” but against him. It is a very pretty fignt as it is, and may the dest man win. THE SENATORIAL CONTEST stands just mow as it did iast week, The bold O'Donovan Rossa, in the Fourth district, is re-enact- ing his old character over again—“bearding the lion m his den.” As he bearded the British lion at home, so he beards the boss lion in his favorite lair in the Fourth district. Anthony Miller is also in the fleld on the revorm ticket, and to some extent the interest In the race lies ‘between these two. lor whichever of them comes in second best, that party in a certain, not improbable, contingency may rep- Tesent the district, No change in th® Sapect of the contest in the Fifth district. Micnael mn will undoubtedly be sent up the river for another term, and the best we can say for Mr. Benedict 1s, that he stays at home in the ym ot h.s family. In the Sixth district Henry Woltman, the Tam- manyite, and Augustus Weissman, the reformer, are endeavoring to put @ poiltical head on each other— all the chances, being in favor of the ate, ‘ THE SEVENTH DISTRICT. This 1 the battle nd of greatest interest, so far as the Senatorial contest concerned. The present incumbent, Senator Bradiey, 1s opposed by ex-Sheriif O’Brien, who rallies to his standard ail the young democracy of the Twenty-first ward, where his greatest strength lies. But even here Senator Bradley has a host of friends, attached to him nos only on account of the ever prowpt and material benefits he has, in his representative ca- pacity, conferred upon the district at large, but that im addition he has been for many years a resident of the district, and 80 personally interested m securing all proper legisiative recognition for its wants and requirements, in the Eighteenth and Twen- tieth wards the 0’ Brienites claim to have had great success In the canvass; but, however apparently | Jubilant they may be in anticipation of Tuesday's results, they know that the vote of the district by a | large majority will send Mr. Bradley for another teri to the State Senate. In the EIGHTH DISTRICT Senator Genet’s re-election is a foregone con- clusion—Tieman’s defeat ditto. THE ASSEMBLY DISTRICTS. | _ There ts a tierce fight being waged in some of the | districts. {n the First a triangular fight between Nicholas Muller, Tammanyite; Harding, republican, and Healy, reformer, 1s Waxing very warm, and time can only tell who will be the coming ‘man, Mailer, the friend of Tweed—frienuship recipro- cated—is likely to be the victor. In the Seventh district Twombly, republican, is in the feild against James Reilly, Tammany. Twom- bly, it was alleged, Carried the district in the last election, but the Legislature raled him out, giving the place to Jonn Carey. He has a fair chance to make his election more sure this time, In the Eleventh district Thomas W. Pittman, the didate of Tammany and of ail the dewocratic parties Of reform, stands opposed to a Greeleyite re- Publican in the person of Kush C, Hawkins and to a Murphyite ditto im tae person of the ponderous Gridley. The popular and talented Tom has a chance he ts not likely to jet escape bim of distin- guisping bimneif at Al this winter. In the Bighteenth district Michael Goode, a thor- ough and earnest representative of the working ciasses, is the Tammany candidate, and, strangely enough, opposed to him ts Silken Saminy Tilden. Of all Sammy’s pokey ventures this promises the worst for him, Goode ts in the hands of tne honest workingmen of the district, and they will make their boast guod of sending their frend Goode to the As- sembly and poor Sammy to grasa. Mr. Leander | wan Scroumly Drovoed Wo aseape & Nominaien ear $e Was strongly @ nomi declined 1n favor of Mr. Goode. baa In au the other districts the Tammany candidates ‘will be elected. Subjoined we give a fall and correct list of all the candidates of ihe several parties, iucluding the State ticket. The taxpayers and citizens generally are fully miormed as to the state of parties, their motives of action in this contest, and they are the best, as they are the only judges of tue claims of the candidates, and 1 is for them to elect for the various ofices those in whom they have the most trust and retiance for a faithful discharge of tne duties of he | offices to which they aspire. OUR NEW NATCRALIZRD CITIZENS, At the naturalization offices, which have been closed since Friday last, about seven hundred per- sons tave completed their citizenship within ihe | Jast lew weeks. The tabular statements have pot yet been prepared, and iti# not, therefore, practl- cable to give aciassification of the nationalities and occupations of these naturalized citizens. Enough, however, is known to justify the state- ment that the majoricy of these are Germans, and of these a large number are young men who have recently atiained thetr majority, ring the last ew days preceding the Clusing of the onice for tne Leflecuon tere Wore A RFOAt MADY anp)cants, bur thrice done salutation to the | on the great . tho number was not \ ' j | | To the new citizens it should be guided by the best advice as to the fun of the candidates in whose mterest they will for the first time exercise the sacred privilege o1 ctu- zenship as voters. THE INSPECTORS OF ELECTION. What Mayor Hall Thinks of the Mandamus— The Programme of Foley’s Friends— No Vacancies To Be Filled Among the Inspectors. ‘The proceedings taken in the Supreme Court on the appiication for a mandamus to compel the Mayor to appoint a new set or inspectors and the aMdavits which were published as part of the pro- ceedings created quite a@ stir among the poilticians and the pubhe generally. To ascertain how the Mayor took the situation @ HERALD reporter visited him yesterday and had @ conversation with him on the subject as follows:— a “Mr, Mayor, Ihave called to ask your opinion in relation to the matter of the Inspectors of Election and the proceedings as to the mandamus.” “There is very ilttie about it. My counsel will Move on Monday morning to quash the matter on the ground that there were no vacancies.” “Woat do you think of those aMuavits published this morning in the papers?’ “They are only publighed aga dodge. I learned from one of their mon that the mandamus was to be issued one day; 1 was to be indicved the next day; A'derman Coman was to be declared meligible to hold office onder an old statuve; then Ce, would resign; Green, Acting Comp HOAA ereonnt Mayor wale x is! statute; he wean Int @ new set of inspectors; everything ‘Would be lovely and all that sort of &! chad “The statement ot the manner in which the in- spectors are chosen is correct, 1s it not??? “Why, itis all done according to law. The very object of making the appointmeuts in this way is to have some individual responsibility. Iam directly and solely responsible,” p the recommendations from the “Yes, Dut about leaders in the wards?? lee of course, the Tami democrats and many the Greeley republicans—the republicans in that organization a@ prominens memoer of which isa candidate for Presidency. It I had taken a Murrey republican the Greeleyites would com plain, oe : on A paige ‘reformers’ the Tammany folks “Do you think they intend to push the matter?” ‘They will have only one day todoit in, The courts will be closed, of course, on election day, and they can’t get out any mandamusor jojunction, or anything el except @ writ of habeas corpus. if Mr, Foley intended todo any real good for elec- ticn day he should have brought his action three ‘weeks ugo.’” “Do you not think itis merely part of a plan to get a point on the registry and election and nave them thrown over?!” “Very likely, but that can amount to nothing. They have been appointed and elected, strictly accordance with the law. Now you can eve the general public a little legal knowledge. You “cannot mandamus @ rson to do anything im 4 certain way. For instance I Might be mandamused to appoint inspectors, if there were vacancies, but I could not pe Mandamused to appoint Mr. Foley’s friends. If 1 could be 80 Mandamused then the Murphy republi- cans, the “reformers,” the Young Democracy, the Democratic Union and all the others would have as much right to apply for a mandamus and get it, A mandamus might be issued compeling the Comp- troiler to do @ certain thing, but it could not be made to compel him to do it in any particular way. If he does the thing ordered there it ends. Oh, no; this mandamus will ba quashed; there arc no Vacancies at present, and, as usual, I wili be at Police Headquarters on election morning at daybreak and remain several hours, so as to be reaay to fill any bray that may be reported from any of the wards. At this point Mr. Corson, Chief of the Bureau of greed entered the room and the reporter took eave. WHY DON'T THE MAYOR IMPEACH? From a Persosal Friend and Supperter of Mayer Hall. New Yorn, Nov. 2, 1871, To Tne Epitor oF THE HERALD:— Believing, as I do, that Mr. Hall is not personally concerned in any of the vile thefts of Tweed & Co., whose open and undisguised plunder of our citizens is now acceded by every honest citizen of the metropolis, and is known and stigmatized where- ever the HERALD sheds its light, as “the most @udacious and villanous robbery in the history of maukind,” I am at @ loss for any reason why the Mayor does not instantly impeach that brutal Plunderer of the people’s money, and (debaucher and corrupter of the youth of our city. An old demo- crat, and a personal friend of Mr. Hall, who voted for bim for every public office he has held since his accession to the democratic party, I am the more deeply ed LOW at m8 equivocal postion, and ‘while defending him irom the ribald and de- ing remarks made on his character and good name as Mayor of our city, am confronted with the “logic of the hour.” “Why, if Mr. Hall is, as you gay, untainted with the unievery of the Ring, does he not now impeach Tweed?’ “Can he make even you believe he is acting as the Mayor of the chief’ city im the Unton should, when he, even by suspicion, is associated with a gang of robbers, who have not only stolen our money by the million, but by their vile and brutal habits and immorality have demoralized our city, all but destroyed our credit and committed wita impunity nearly every vill: in the whole catalogue of crime??? We never blamed Mr, Halt while he could even believe these fellows might be innocent; but now, when light is being fooaed upon their rascalities, it is an insult to the intelligence of Mr. Hall and his constituents, who placed him the civil chair, to doubt foy a moment the guilt of the untried and detiant criminal. 1 hope for the honor ot our city that our Mayor will come out of this muck of crime pure and uastained from any Participation in the frauds of his rascally associates, and that he will take immediate steps qby impeach- ing the head devil) to bring back his good name to his fnends, who are deeply grieved at his position. If he persists in associating any longer with the circie of villany, then, sir, ios are called on by your position, as arbiter of public morals and terror of evildoers to compel Mr. Hall either to leave his po- sition, impeach ‘weed or suffer the penally due to public peculators, The time has arrived, and no more trackling to base robbers will be tolerated— who are festering in their crimes and stink in the nostrils of every decent man, huxawuunalar (ge PY A CONVERSATION WITH O'CONOR. ‘What the Leader of the American Bar Thinks of the Political Situation—Ihe Democratic Ora- cle Explains the Tammany Usurpation— An Honest Legislatare the Hope of the People—What Will Be Done After Election—Mr. O’Conor “Will See”—Aiders and Abettors of Municipal Thieves To Be Punished. Conflicting and absurd rumors of what Mr. Charles O’Conor was going to do with the municipal oMcers now under the ban of public opinion having been reduced to positive statements a HERALD reporter ‘was directed to call upon the great lawyer at his office and, if possible, obtain an interview on the political situation. The representative of the HERALD Was peculiarly fortunate, for while he was explaining his business toa clerk Mr. O’Conor en- tered the office of the Bureau of Municipal Correc- tion. Glancing at the card placed tn his hand, he courteously invited the reporter to take a seat in his private room, A bright coal fire was blazing in the grate and there was an aspect of comfort about the apartment that the piles of law books, briefs and legal documents did not matin the least. The learned gentleman turned towards the fire and with @ quiet smile inquired THE REPORTER'S BUSINESS, “[ should be sorry, sir, to interrupt you in your Jabors at any time, uninvited, but Ihave a duty to perform——” “Tnterviewing? Iam getting accustomed to it, there have been so many reporters here to see me. it 18 a novel experience, bus not entirely unpleas- ant.” “{ would be sorry to misrepresent you, Mr. O'Conor, and { shail carefully avoid it, An evening Paper publishes @ conversation between yon and one of ifs reporters in reference to Mayor Hall. May I inquire if 1t 18 correct?” “1b 1s one of those things that it would be waste of time to correct, In the main it is true. Really, 4 ave no present intention (Mr. O'Conor emphasized ‘presept’) of commencing a suit against Mr. Hail. It would notdo forme in my present position to 4 positively what I intend to doin the future, When [ tell you that I have no present intention of doing @ thing that 1s no reason why { may not omnes my mind a ha 3 eciall " “A great many, tmings are possivie. Let me tell you what is probable—indeed, I may say, certain. I Will, while holding my present position, prosecule THB CRIEF SWINDLER AND THIRP, With the view of getting back the peopie’s money. we shal vertaue Fecoves irom Tweed from ne a : a OE SELES Te ae ae a RE EN lo EDN peeved than former years. | $3,000,000 to $6,500,000—tnrough @ civil sult, of | cast of features, whose gaze rests enough to say that they | course.” ess “What about criminal proceedings, sir?’ “The time between my authorization as counsel | for the people and the election 1s so short that I don’t | gee how Tweed coulu pe putin the State Prison, the election——” “after the election, Mr, O'Conor /”” “Well, after the election we will see. One thing 1s pretty certain; all AIDERS AND ABETTORS OF TWEED, those who sustatn the principal and hide his vil- lanies, will be held liabie for bis crimes; at least they are open to prosecution,” “Bo, then, crimimal proceedings will not be com- meno immed! against any members of the “We are working all the time and are satisfled with the progress made. The princi tuning now is to get back the stolen money, hen that is ache Why, we will see.” Mr. O’Conor smiled in a peculiar way as he re- peated siowly and deliberately, ‘we will see.” “As ademocrat, sir, you lament this exposé, of course??? L 3 bat I am determined to do my duty, no matser at what sacrifice. [| look to the future, and ‘am anxious for the future of the republic, ‘To cleanse the Augean stabie of political corruption ‘WH MUST BEGIN HERE. New York gives the cue to all the States, It was not so formerly. Corruption began in another State that I will not name—you, perhaps, know which State i refer to-and our municipal tuieves are merely im tators. Really, they cannot lay claim to originality in public thievery. New York, however, being tne greatest city in the Union must neces- sarily affect the ontire ceuntry. If we have purity here there 18 more chance of having the country pure. So that ts tue issue before us.” “A good ure, sir——’? * “Is what we want first of all. With nonest, intel- ligent la’ ® system of plunder like that which prevailed herefor years past would be !m- ee pone ple re the matter in bret own ands ought to take aavantage e porvanity afforded them.” Ni “pO YOU THINK, 81R, THAT THE REFORM MOVE- MENT commenced here will extend to other States?” “I have no doubt of it. Indeed, I expect a revival of honest feeling in the masses consequent on the prosecution of our local thieves.” sir, whether you Would it be too much to asl Rave formed ao one as to the relative chances aes candid: forthe principal oifices in this “I never (ad the subject my attention; I have quite enough to do without that. 1 am only anxious about the Legislature. Let us have iionest law- givers, and everything else desired by the citizens ‘wil come in good time. As I said, the result 1s in the hands of the people themsctves,? The HERALD representative here thanked the dis- tingaishea mentetpas for his courtesy and took his leave. Mr. O'Conor immediately plunged into the bowels of a huge volume on law. PREPARATIONS FOR THE CONTEST. Banners, Guttersnipes and Andy Garvey’s Wagon as Adjuncts of American Freedom—An Ar- tistic Criticism on the Likenemes of Would- Be Office-Holders—Refiections on Men Who Vouch for Their Own Hones ty—-All the Fun of the Season. Is is worth while being an American even u, apart from the advantage of living in the most pro- gressive and liberal community the wide world over, one had only to enjoy the fan of constantly re- curring elections. And, after all, in spite of the loud talking and menacing language that barroom poli- ticians and a few over-excitable young gentlemen occasionally indulge in, there 18 less real danger of an uctual outbreak among us than among any other civilized people enjoying the privilege of representa- tive institutions. Rarely, indeed, have our civic contests been stained with bloodshed, whereas im Sngland, in Frence and in Hungary sanguinary fights frequently disturb the pablic peace, and even endanger tne stability of society on similar oecasions. But, on the other bund, we certainly contrive to get far more pleasing excitement and laughter and amusement out of an election than Englishmen or Frencamen. Dickens has admirably portrayed the humors of an English straggie for a membership of Parliament in his account of the election in the borough of Eat- answill, DOG it falis far short in interest to what is even now passing around us, if we bring but eyes to see what lies before us. For example, let us take @ run up town on any of the grand avenues. On almosi every curbstone the litte paper porters, “GUTTER SNIPES," as they are termed in the pariance of the printing office and the political club, stare at us in appealing black and white, anc implore us to vote for Joun Smith or Henry Brown, or whoever may be the par- ticular candidate of the district, Side by side and cheek by jow! with them sprawl out the adver- tsements of some, sa¥yrite of chewing to- bacco or a variety Of morning Ditters. Across the street at constant intervals stretch suspended ban- ners, also bearing the same entreaty, varied with biazoned designs of the American flag and the American eagle, and hideously complaisant por- traits of the would-be recipient of the popular suf- frage. It is a sight to see one of these HUGE DEVICRS of metwork and painted cloth being reared up about @ month before election, amid the cheers of al) the small-fry politicians m the neighborhood. Fre- quently a couple of immensely tall poles have td be planted for the purpose at either side of the street, though sometimes a couple of owners or proprietors of very firmly built houses are found willing to allow the necessary ropes to be attached to some convenient projection of their property. As the poles are hoisted into position an admiring crowd of idlers gather round and look on at the operations in @ state of interested excitement, veguiling the time with remarks avout ELECTIONS IN GENEBAL and this election in particular, “Where on earth do they get the money from, Mike?’ says one, ‘to put up their ‘honorable’ names across the street. Many a hundred dollars must it cost them to stand like thatin the eyes of the people.” For it may be laid down a8 a general principle that politicians receive scant mercy at the hands even of those who may afterwards sustain them in power by their votes. This is a rather startling fact, and bespeaks sadly the aemoralization of American politics, but it must be the tritest of commonplace observations to all who have been ina ition to be cognizant of the facts, So tar | as candidates go, the verse of Scripture which says “that they that exalt themselves shall be abased” ta literally and absolutely confirmed. A man who allows himself to be run for oillce, or who rans him- self, voluntarily consents to have him name dragged through THE VERBAL MIRE of a thousand evil tongues, “And naven’s they stole enough to advertise them- selves like @ quack medicine on every rock and | boarding im every State in the Union,” Will be the on the transpa- rency of “Crime’’ in frout of the Bowery Theatre. He looks good enough for @ churchwarden; no one would ever suspect him to be the man who has thriven, as some one says, “‘on the distributed divi. | dends of rascality and on percentages of stealing. It is a singular fact that ail the banners proclaim the beings whose likeness and cognomina they enshrine as ‘THE PEOPLE'S FRIEND,” and the “people’s choice,’ and perfect models of “honesty, integrity and uprightness.” Ah! if the people could only grow into a firm belict in the Yeality of these vaunted friendships! And, better | still, if the frienships ever really bore worthy fruit; it would indeed be a changed world. some of the Men who thus delight in parading their affection to the public could, with @ mere percentage of their enormous wealth, amassed, too, while they have been in public servive, light up each poverty siricken tenement home in this great city ,witn its scores of thousands of the miserable and the unfortunate, with joy and gladness. & CAR CONDUCTOR’S GROWL. “Every one on’em tells me now that he 1 my friend,” says the conaucter, a8 you ride up town with bim on the Pronk pair inthe bleak winter | air. “He shakes hands and says ‘Good morning,’ | and swears he likes me better than any other man | in the world, But see him after election, when I’ve lost my job and go to him to beg nim to use his influence to get me an honest job. ‘I never saw you before in my life,’ says he; ‘why in thander do rou ter me?’ Or, perhaps, if he is a decent fel. | ¢ softens it down a littic and says, ‘What did for?’ Well, I has to say I got on @ _ little jamboree and did not show up till two days after my ! off day (we only have one of them a month). ‘Ah | Bays ‘Lam very sorry I can’t help you; whiske; 1s what kil's al! you poor laboring men, Why don’t you jom @ Father Mathew Socieiy” ‘Uh, yes; they’re my friends, you bet, They can all go to—— before I votes for’em, Joe knows a trick worth two low, bi lose your job HONESTY, &C., if these placards could but be believed this city bas) the purest and most meorruptible and most unim- peachable crowd of candidates for officd tnat ever appealed to the confidence of a@ free com- munity, ‘They say, though, that in Chinese towns it 18 common ice for each store to put up outside its doors @ notice in huge char- acters, “No Cheating Here.” The reason of the custom is that all the tradesmen are dishonest, and, as the proverb says, ‘Good wine needs no bush,” Perhaps all this clamor and outcry sbout 3 | cheers, and a cry of “Tit ‘em again 1) I must go, now, my telluw citizens, first, however, thanking you for the reception you have given me. Your goodness and confidence are not misplaced. Rest assured that all the anve-election charges tiat have nm made against me Will dissolve as dew before the rising sun when they are subjected vo the calm, dispassionate, impartial investigation of (ne Courta of law. (Loud applause.) Now, oae word more. I ask to support, that he may _ serve In the Lower House, Mr. Timothy J. ampbell, (Loud cheers). He is a devovea demo- crat, and the experience of four years’ service makes him @ usetd! me: of the Legislature. At the South, in the ante-war times, if @ representative proved capable tiey retained him, and secured the advantages of his increase of experience, a8 in- stance the case of Olay, and more especially thatot Benton. It was a capital custom, and it might be carried out te your advantage im my Case, Boers of laughter and great cueertng, auld which the “Boss” retired.) The Produce Exchange te the Front. The great awakening of the people to the neces» sity of going to the polis on Tuesday morning is Well illustrated in tne action of the Produce Bx- change yesterday. At half-past ono President Reed called the Chamber to order, when Mr, Hi moved that when the Chamber sdioue ae Monday 1t stand adjournea until Wednesday mora- Ing, to enable its members to gu to the polls, the vote was called about five hundred Voradpemiet “Aye,” and the motion was carried noah oloualy, It is expected that other boards will follow this ex- ample and that many of the business honses lose to enable their employ¢s vo vote. A Card from Mr. Thomas W. Pittman, New York, Nov. 4, 1871, To THE EDITOR OF THR HERALD: — ‘The sooner a He is discovered and tnrottied the bet- ter for the safety of truth, An infamous report has been industriously circulated that my friends have made a bargain to seil out to John V. Gridley. This 19 utterly and wil'ully false, and emanates from the Greeley-Gridley republicans in the Eicventh Assem- bly district, That Mr. Gridley and his cohorts have been industriously endeavoring to bribe demo: voters in the district is true; but to all wo kuow me it is unnecessary to say chat I could never, either directly or indjrectly, Lave any relations whatever, or countenance uny, particularly political transac: Smith being honest and Brown being unimpeach- able and ingon above suspicion may have as | @ melancholy motive cause the universally low character of our would-be oilice-nolders, After banners the big BLECTIONRERING VANS are perhaps among the most paeine features of the election, Here comes one lumbering slong, unsteadily laboring to get over acarrail and re- move its unwieldly carcass from the patn of trafic. How it joita and groans and crouches down upon the hard ‘stones ere it succeeds! And low joudly that harsh bell, which forms the music of its trium- phal progress, rings discordantly out upon the crisp, cold air! ‘but ia ‘sAndy Garvey’s’’ bell. Wonder if he hears it, sounding out with menacing outcry, as he paces to and fro, with uneasy steps, | the ‘floor of the public dining room of the little Swiss auberge in which 16 is said Ne bas taken up bis tnglorions abode. But what a wonder- , ful monument of vehicular engineering these vans | are when you stop to closely examine them. A huge and stupendous growth of CANVAS AND BUNTING towers up from the body of the vehicle and compels the admiration of the beholder. Just think of the weight of honor the four miserable hacks 1n tront of | the wagon have to draw in Stars and Stripes alone} A score of national flags, counter- marked with the name of the candidate, are adroitly stack all over it, and ensnrine witha wreath of glory the inscribed appetiation aod virtues of the would-be office-holder. Curious, in- leod, must be the thoughts of the man who drives #80 ponderous a@ political machine, freihted so marvellously with ambitious hopes and visions ot patriouc fame, And so the work of the coming contest goes bravely on. Seventh of November in the unknown future find us less free or less prosperous than will ‘Tuesday | next. THE “BOSS” DEFIANT. He Makes a Speech to His Constituents and Calls Upon Them to Stand Firm—The Fourth Dis trict in a Terrible State of Excitement. The aunonneement ihat “the Boss’’ would address them in the lecture room of the Tammany Assovia- tion Of the Thirteenth ward, in the Walton House, Grand street, drew together an immense assemblage of the democracy of that precinct last evening. The maim goom, hallways and even sidewalks were crowded, and when Mr. Tweed arrived the excite- ment was intense. He was loudly cheere1, and only reached the speaker's stand after a bard etrug- gle, 80 compact was the throng. Colonel Alexander H. Stewart presided at the meeting. The Colonel said he was born in the ward sixty years ago, was a true democrat, had heard the charges against Sena- tor Tweed and did not believe them. (Loud cheers.) “Reform” was an old opposition cry always heard before elections, and when defeat was their portion they changed 1t to “fraud.” (Laughter andjapplause.) He predicted a democratic victory and then intro. auced Mr. Tweed, who met with a hearty reception. The “Boss” spoke as follows:— | tor May the best men win, and may no | i with Jonn V. Gridley. My frienas and myself stand true and uncompromising, and cannot be swerved either by threats, bribes or lalse rumol and the result of the canvass wiil prove to Mr. Grid- ley how futile his attempts have peen to win ve honors by democratic votes. Very fully, THOMAS W. PITTM, HOW LEDWITH WAS NOMINATED. Letter from the Chairman ef the Convention that Nominated Ledwith, New Yon, Nov. 4, 1871. Hon. Roper B. ROOSEVELT: — Sra—As you are well aware, [ was the Chairman of the Jot Convention of the “regular demoeratio" and Democratic Union organization, by which Judge Ledwith was nominated for the office of Jas tice of the Supreme Court. You nave doubtless seen in the public journala Judge Ledwiti’s letter addressed to me ay such chairman, accepting the nomination, Under the circumstances I aeem it my duty to say to you, and through yon to the people of the city of New York, that the nomination of Judge Led- with, conceived and put through by men noto. riously in the interests of Tammany Hall, 18 @ fraud upon our organization as well as upon the people of this city. The facts connected with that nomination are, of course, Well Known to vou, and it is 4 matter Of sur- prise to me and others that you should not, ag you Said you would, repudiate it; for py the under- slaading had between the representatives of the above named organization, Oliver Charlick, Jud; Wateroury, Roswell D. Hatch and yourself, tie nom- ination of Judge Ledwitt was to be made only for the purpose of forcing such a recognition from the outside organizations as Would satisty our dignity and sel!-respect. Under no circumstances was it to be cousidered absolute, and it was then that you cxpressed @ de- termination, tf It appeared, as it nas since turned out to be, a device and a scheme of Tammany Hall to endorse him, to disavow and repudiate it, it ig now two weeks since that nomination was made and withjn a few days of election, and as nothing fas appeared from you inaicaung an inten- toa so to repudiate it and place our orgonization where it was distinctly declared it should be—viz., on the side of true reform, natntaining a dignified and honorable position—{ can only conclude that you do not purpose to fulfil your promise, and acy cordingly, I, with others, do not propose to be the instruments of Tammany Hall in furthering its un- holy alliance. That the nomination of Judge Ledwith is one not fit to be made, not only has the Bar of our city, unanimousiy declared, but you yourself, in your own paper, by the flattering expressions applied ta Judge Barrett, have likewise corroborated, and 1¢ caunot be doubted that honest men of every party should and will cordially unite tu the support of the latter gentleman and thus themselves repuaiate the fraudulent nomination of Mr. Leawith. I am, sir, respectiully, JOUN W. BENNETT, inairman of the Joint Conveation of the “regular democratic’ aud Lemocratic Union rrganizatens. A GIGANTIC FRAUD. eae Mr. PRESIDENT—This tremendous outpouring of | Discovery of an Alleged “ Ring” Conspiracy to the people, their unmistakable enthusiasm and the warmth of the greeting they have given me must surely be accepted as in a great degree an expres- sion of popuigr opinion. (“Tnat’s so!” and loud cheers.) 1 donot deny the clatm of the press to be the exponens of public sentiment, but there 13 occa- sionatiy such multiplicity of difference in tts utter- ances and conciusions that I am disposed just now to give preference to A THE VERDICT OF THE PROFLE themseives as regards their feelings towards me, proclaimed by their own voices, as here to-night, and to be m formally given on Tuesday next through the medium of the ballot box. (Great cheering.) The newspapers have ulready indicted, tried, convicted an sentenced me—(roars of laughter)—but I feel pertectly tree to appeal to a higher tribanal and have no fear of the result, Cheers.) I do not come to you, my fellow citizens, in @ circuitous way, indicative of the possession of the thought of the neces- Bi of caution, engendered by fear, but directiy, openly, squarely, @9 & man to men, and without an appeal for your sympathy other than £0 far as my samily have suffered from the cruel indignities that have been heaped upon them ior my political actlons—(sensation)—vut asking at your hands the jusuibe and fair piay that | have becn denied me by bitter, unrelenting, uascru- ulous, prejudiced and ambitious parisan foes. Deafening shouts of approval.) 1 have represented | you for four years in the State Senate, aad I seek | Te-election for 1t3 moral value as AN ENDORSEMENT OF MY COURSE, an expression of your satisfaction, and an answer to my assailants whicn, with all tneir apparent in- aifference for you, they would be bound to respect, I have faith im your intelligence, faith in your sense of justice, iaith im your devotednes to your party and its principles, and faith in your sense of grati- tude for fuituiul public services. (Loud cheers.) If you are satisfied with me as a Senator, | am proud of you as constituents, Vilifcation, misrepresen’a- ton of interested opponents, partisan clamor and baseless newspaper assertions, should not separate us or chill the mutual regard or shake the contidence that our identity of interests should foster. 1 am being subjected to all this contumely in this campaign, and you, my fellow citizens and constitu- | ents, are not free from it. A morning paper, claim- ing to be democratic, bat waich deserted us in tke ly. i it deal of curiosity, however, mingles in the watchtul gaze that the spectators cast at the banner as at length tne coras are hauled up and the names of the battling candidates are for the first time in the season flung to the winds of heaven. Every window in the neighborhood is filled with eager faces, and the letters in the name of the standard bearer of the district are spelled out with anxious care, “go he 18 going to ran again,” says one. “He ougnt w be go with plunder by this time, Heaven knows. But, then, another man will be hungrier still, while he must certainly have dipped his hand deep enough in the public purse by this ime.”? es A VERY PRETTY SIGHT indeed isan American street thus brightened up with fluttering banners of gredy colors, Far as the eye can reach it rests only upon election insignia, the standards of the coming eventful but peacetul contest. The weakest feature in them, however, are the caricatures of the countenances of the can- didates. How unnaturally urbane and mild and good these fancy pictures ap} | Take, for in- stance, the avowed likeness of the man of memory, Judge vowling, just the Tombs. Who would recognize in that evolent phiz the terror of evildoers amd the scourge metropolitan rascality? So far as one LA judge from @ half-length portraiture he dressed in f best store Lager purchased tie, ie coat sets potlessly his mastache is waxed at the.ends, his eyes stare out in benignant blue from the canvas, and but for a splash of mad flung by some envious, henchman of Brennan upon THE TIP OF THE JUDGE'S NOSE ne looks as though he could step ont of his frame and march up the aisie:of a@ church amid the respectful gaze of @ col ion 1,200 strong. How diferent to the real Judge as enthroned un tne Bench and surrounded by all the terrors of the | law, he coolly disposes of @ burgiar’s dental of | guilt by @ few crisp words: “Young man, | Know you. You belong to Barney Wiison's gang in the Eighth ward. You were sent to Sing ding on the 17th January, 1865, for cracking a crib up to Harlem,” Or, again, take Boss Tweed’s visage as It appeals to the gaze of a wondering public from a nandsome netting just Opposite the vid Kowery ‘Theatre. We Jook in vain for the hi probosis and contracted head that nave been favoriie caricatures. In their place we have another caricature litte less Startling. Look at that bentgnant gentieman with she fresh, Realthy complexive and sternly upngut without a wrinkle, the ehirt 1: last presidential campaign on the eve o1 battie, bas what I am about reading, and whica ts evidently intended for country copsuimptivp, concerning the ple of the Fourth Senatorial district, a district the unswerving loyaity of the democracy of which | has time and again secured the success of the party | in State contesis. Here Mr. Tweed took a ship of newspaper irom his pocket and read:— | The Fourth district is the most loathsome political scab ta the United States, It is only necessary to look at ite boun- dariew tu see of what materials its popuiation is com- Pm os the Aste Tree ManKeW, respectable permanent | lers at the Astor House, and one or two sinail hovels on Cortlandt street, this district has no reputable inhabitants, * © * it ie not the residence of people who hm rd for the decencies of life or the eateom and good opinion of respectable society. The very dregs and acum of our pooulation, the of-seouring of this country and all others inbal (Hisses and other manifestations of indignation.) So you bave the sanctity of your own homes, the social positions of your wives and daughters, your own characters to de‘end, as well as | to defend mine, from these WHOLESALE SLANDERS, and if you do not turn out in your majesty on Tues day next and vindicate yonrseives it will be re- ceived as a submissive endorsement of this news- per’s insult to your intelligence, En. Piisiastic cheering, long continued.) by, dear iriends, the Fourth Senatorial Aigrit the more important in point of population, ‘wealth, commerctal interests and enginery tor the dissemination of intelligence than either of the Vhirty-two into which the Empire State is divided. It 1g composed of nine of the twenty-two wards of this great metropolls, and quite all the newspapers and magazines of the city, the more influential of the country, are published within its limits. (‘ood ! ood | joud. Jaughter and cheers.) Its facvories are numerous and extensive. The great Protestant Cathedral, Trimty church, and st Patrick’s old Roman Catholic Vathedral are withm its boundaries. Tne hall of the Board of Kducadion and many institutions of learning are in our district, Ita river fine Is marked with « forest of masts of the bulk of shipping that visits the port of New York, and we have Vastle Garden, the gate to our repuplic, where manu- THE WISTFUL EMIGRANT SONS Tamper with the Ballot Boxes on Tues- dsy—How the Plot Was To Be Carried Out—Is It Only an Electioneering Dodge} The great event in political circles yesterday wae the alleged discovery of a gigantic conspiracy on the part of the “Ring” to swindle the honest voters on election day. Ex-Sheriff O’Brien 1s said to be the individual who smoked out the fraud. The whole affair looks very much like an electioneering doage. Yet there may be something init. The aim of the alleged conspirators was on election day apparently to give the reformers all the opportunity they de sired to . WITNESS THE VOTING at every poll an@ the subsequent canvassing of the votes, and in order to pull the wool over the eyes of the ‘watchers’ the police were to be instructed to show them every courtesy and act the part of “good fellows well mev” with even the most inquisitive and exacting. It was hoped by this means at the start to allay all saspicion as to frand, and thereby the more easily to accomplish the grand coup which was to take place after the clos ing of the poll, This coup was to ve brought about as foliows:—The discoverers say the conspirators were to have in a room adjoining the poll room, or behind the counter where the inspec. tors stand, asct of bailot boxes tallying in every respect with the appearance of the boxes actually used during the day to deposit the ballots in. Tae voting once over and THE GENUINE BOXES SBALED and placed for safe keeping beluud the counter wnile everything was being got in readiness for the final event, the poll clerks were to anuounce their wily from their books. A confede- rate of tne Ring inspectors, secreted im the room adjoining the polling place, would then place in the dummy boxes the exact number o! baliots called off, taking care, however, to put euough Tam. Many ballots In each to make everything ali rignt for the King favorites. This once done, the boxes, thus nicely stuffed, were to ve placed under the coan- ter and the genuine boxes steaithily removed, The connting O! the votes would then he begun openly, | and. of course, every chance would be given the Teformers to look on and see that everytaing was done squarely. It ts said that the plan was so neatly arranged that @ lot af baliots were to be placed in THE DUMMY BOXES, with reform endorsements, but with pasters over the reform candidates’ names, each paster beart the name of a King candidate, AS & matter course, if the pian were successful, the reform Watchers would see for themselves the result of the vote, and be conviuced that they were fairly thrashed. In other words, the counting could be done with such apparent fairness (out of the dammy boxes), every ballot could ve so plainly exhibited to all who chose w be on and, and the canvassers Would act with such a senae of courtesy to the outsiders that they would be unable justly te assert that any trickery had been practised. ‘True, they migh,,ve ASTOUNDED AT THE RESULT. but what cod they dof They might say to them selves, “We can’t see how this district went thas way after what we heard al) around the day of the election;” but that coulda’s alter the count, whice ‘was made open and above board. Now, tus is the whole story of the allegea dis: covery of what was to be done in many of the dis tricts, but particularly in the district where O’Brien igronning, Yetitis hardly credibie that anything of the kind could have been mtended by tne Tam- many party, for the simple reason that the thing would not be accomplished without great dimculty. It 18 almost unreasonable to suppose that any set of men, who are accredited with so mucb smartness and logeauity in POLITICAL TRICKERY as the Tammany folks, could be so foolish as to attempt anything so open to discovery, so easy detection, as would be a change of boxes at the polls. im tne first place there 18 not a second room of the Land of Shamrock, of old German Father- | Wiere @ confederate could be hidden in all te land, and every other clime, take ther mival step polling places, and ven + ‘een oe ie on our soll, and Gnd @ favore:t start on the road to Changing of ‘the boxes could not be Pp if they are touched by tne spirit of hon - est emulation and regard for the institutions and laws of the land. (Enthusiastic cheering.) by Tea- gon of Wail street being on the map of our district imay bg by to represent the very financias contre of United Staves =U.cw! laughter ana ty, unless the reform watchers wore as bid as bats. Then again tie fraud coud not be successtully carned out, even supposing the Com CONTINUED ON SEVENTH PAGE