The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1847-04-05
The Charter Electlon-Fun Ahcad~The
Prospect.


ter election will take place. AS usual, there will
zens--those of the wings, democrats, natives,
and national reformers, or vote-yourself-a-farm
witnessing house upon-it-party.
Variety, it is said is the spice of life. If it is,
we see no reason that it should not be the spice
of politics too. At all events, we will have va
riety of candidates submitted to the people; but
which of them will be successful is hidden in the
womb OF time.
The nominations, as far as they have come to
our knowledge, are as follows:-
CRY NOMINATIONS.
Mayor. Aims House Com
Wing VIM " Brady. -.
Democratic. j. s. Brownel. M. q. Leonard.
Native. Elias G. Drake. John Lloyd.
The wing candidate for Aims House Commits
sioner is not yet nominated, neither are all the
candidates for members of the Common Council.
The locofoco or dirty street party, are in gori-
Gus state of anarchy and disunion. They have
thrown to the winds the " usages of the party"
and determined to run three or four tickets in
some of the wards. The natives, usually the
FIRST in the field, have not, like the wings, yet
nominated their Common Councilmen, neither
have the vote yourself-a-farm party, but we sup
pose that both of these parties will do SO in the
course of day or two
The wing candidate for Mayor, it is said, a
rather clever kind of man. He is compare
lively unknown, but would no doubt make a tole-
rably good officer. The ocofoco candidate, on
the contrary, is well known. He has been a
prominent politician for many years, and can
command many votes probably any man in
the party. lie held the office Of Register, the
duties of which he performed to the satisfac ton
of his constituents, and the public at large.
Whether he will be elected we of course can
not say, but we would not be very much surpris-
ed if he should be. The splits among his party
while they will have the effect of defeating their
candidates for the Common Council, will bring
out all the voters of the several factions who will
cast their ballots for their particular favortes for
the Common Council, but united in voting for
him, because there is no split on the mayoralty
ticket. IfMr. Brownell be elected, he will, to
say the least be the largest Mayor we ever had
a, the head of our municipal government. He
will make one twice as large as Mayor Mickle,
and three times as large an officer as Mr.. Brady
would make. Thus, then, Mr.. Brownel has two
points in his favor, viz his weight in pounds and
ounces, and the unanimity with which he was fl
nally nominated. We may, however, add another
point, which will be equally as potent as either
of the other two in influencing his election, and
that is, his popularity with the fire department
The native candidate has been alderman,
but will probably never be Mayor, although,
perhaps he would make good an one as either
of the other two candidates in the field
In this condition are the different parties at
the "present writing" The locofocos are sadly
disjointed-the wings are united, and so are the
natives, because there are not enough of them to
kick up row. If the wings and natives unite,
they might, if they chose, carry the city with
ease and we would not be surprised if negota-
lions are now on foot to that end There is some
mystery in these two parties delaying so long in
max ing their nominations of candidates for the
Common Council. If such negotiations
foot, and should be successful. the locos will be
knocked into cooked hat or the Common
Council Chamber If there be no union the
locos will be successful. as they have been IN
former years provided they adjust their family
quarrels If they do not, Mr.. Brownel Will be
our next Mayor, and the wings viii have a ma
iority in the two boards.
The prospect for fun on Tuesday week next Is
very promising. In the interim all parties VIII
strive their utmost To wheedle, cheat, humbug
and deceive each other as well as the dear public,
who suffer from one party as much as they do
from the other We advise all parties to bring
out their big guns.