The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1855-10-30

ed IA h-TricEs and Troubles or the De-
mocrt y.
This Y week comes the election, from the
results) hich we shall be considerably en-
lightened reference to the reconstruction of
parties in, Empire State for the all-impor-
taDt nationA contest OF 1856. Beyond the
cTystalsation the numerous existing con-
glomerations visions and subdivisions of
parties and facA IFS, however, into two or three
definite and auyiole masses, we expect no.
thing. State reierla and city reform, econo-
my, retrenchment, and the correction of official
abuses, are but the cant and clap-trap of poll
tic'ans and spoilsmen contending for the plum
der. If anything is achieved for the relief of
the taxpayers of the Corporation and the Com
monwealth it will be accidental, and so much
clear gain; but 'blessed are they who expect
nothing, for they shall not be disappointed"
There are really but four State parties in
the field-the black republicans, the American
party, the hard shell democracy, and the softs.
| The alive wings" are myth, or a mirage, which
| has all the appearance Of reality in the dis
lance, but which dissolves into the circumam-
bient air as we approach it, and is gone.
The Temperance Alliance are but the camp fol-
lowers of the Seward coalition, and the liquor
and constitutional rights factions are but the
irregular cavalry of the democratic hards Or
softs. The silver gray wings are detach-
ment of the American party, and the demo-
cratic half-shells are the hard and soft fusion
lists, 80 far as they go. Upon the Governor
last year the popular vote of the State was as
follows
For Clark, Seward fusionist and liquor law cand
For Seymour, democratic soft shell and antin-
quor-law candidate. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 156, 495
For plman silver gray American candidate 122
For Bronson democratic hard shell. ....... $3.50
But these figures are no more basis for our
election Of Tuesday next than for the election
in Maryland on the following day. The Liquor
law people par excellence, of all parties, voted
last year for Clark; the extreme anti-Liquor
law interests, Of all parties, voted for Seymour;
the hard democrats made an eleventh hour
diversion upon Ullman, in the hope of defeat
ing both Clark and Seymour, and thus left
their own candidate, Bronson, far behind the
actual strength Of his party. Now the whole
programme is changed. The Maine law is but
a side issue; Southern slavery has taken the
place of the liquor question, and is the para
mount test. The hard shell or national demo-
cracy having put up bona tide State ticket of
their own, they will, we presume, with on eye
to Cincinnati,) bring up all their reserves in
its support, including many thousand votes
cast last year for Ullman. On the other hand,
many conservative wings who voted last year
for Clark or Seymour, will doubtless 60 over
this time to the American ticket, while all
along our northern border many regular out
and-out free soil Van Buren, administration
softs will fuse with the Seward Holy Alliance.
But as we have neither a Governor nor
Congressman to be elected this year, the
result of next Tuesdays scrub race, in a ma
tional view, is only important as far as it
shall foreshadow the reorganization of parties
in this commonwealth in 1856 In this aspect
ofthe case the imbroglio between ohm Van Blu
rem and the Kitchen Cabinet at Washington is
the most significant feature of the whole bust
ness. The bull Of accommodation against
the Prince from the Cabinet organ, leaves the
administration in New York without party;
for while the hards hold fast to their repudia-
ton OF Mr.. Pierce, he has repudiated the softs
This is supposed to be shrewd dodge on the
part of the administration organ to relieve the
softs of the incubus of the late pro-slavery
experiments of Mr.. Pierce out yonder in Kan
sas; and it may be SO. At all events, we are
free to say that if the Van Buren, ticket does
carry the State by fifty thousand plurality, ac-
cording to the absurd prediction of the hope
full Prince, it will be claimed as great demo-
cratic victory by the Kitchen Cabinet; whereas
if the softs should come out of the election in a
distressing minority, the Cabinet organ has
only to cry, such is the natural consequence
of desertion of democratic principles!
The net results Of Tuesdays election will
probably be the same as in 1853 and lS54--the
success Of the Seward abolition league through'
The adroit management in his behalf, of our
Pierce administration.
THE PACIFIC RAnRoAD-THE EXTREME
SOUTHERN RouTE--LETTER OF Hon. THOMAS
BTJLER KNG.--We publish to-day an inte-
resting communication from Hon. Thomas But
Ter King on the subject of the Pacific railroad,
and in behalf Of the extreme Southern route
through Texas and the Gadsden purchase, and
thence via the Colorado to San Diego
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