The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1856-07-11

The NEXT GOVERNOR OF New YoRK-We
have received intelligence from various sources
in the interior of the State, from which it is
manifest that the contest in this State for our
next Governor will be as complex and exciting,
and fully as violent as the struggle for the Presi-
dency, if not more SO. The famous Central
Railroad operators have, within the last few
years, succeeded in effecting joint stock con-
solidation with other roads, representing an
aggregate capital Of forty millions, and yielding
aprofit Of fifteen or twenty millions to the opera
TORS. Emboldened by their success in this mag
nifcent scheme, another project, on a still more
extended scale, has been resolved upon. This
project is the consolidation of the Central road
and its appsndages with the Hudson river and
Harlem and Albany lines. To accomplish this
gigantic combination, in connection with the
monopoly of the proposed bridge over the Hud-
son, at Albany, the spectators, operators and
financiers concerned find it expedent to put in
the Governors chair a man identified with their
cause, and devoted to the consummation of the
vast railroad despotism which is thus to be
fastened upon the State. The managers OF this
magnificent scheme are distributed among all the
political parties and factions Of the day.
The plan of this railroad logrolling combina
tion is to secure the nomination Of E. D. Morgan
as the republican candidate for Governor, as that
ticket is thought to be the surest of success but
to make assurance doubly sure" the most pow
erful influences are to be directly employed
among other parties and factions to secure his
election, in conjunction with State ticket of
corresponding usefulness. 1t may be thought
somewhat singular among cur unsophisticated
readers, that few or none Of our party newspa-
pers appear to be possessed Of the facts purposes
or policy of this grand railroad combination, and
their scheme which, if carried out, will establish
transportation monopoly between the eastern
and western extremities Of this State upon con-
sodated capital of fifty or sixty millions of dol
lars The reason is that our political journals Of
This and that party, especially at Albany, are con-
cerned in the plot.
A monopoly scheme, however, of such vast
imensions as this, may well startle the people of
this commonwealth in reference to their canals,
heir taxes, and the freedom of their elections Il
sa scheme which simply proposes Camden and
Amboy government for the State of New York,
or railway despotism like that Of the Illinois
Central road, built upon the public lands given
the concern by its stockholders and financiers in
Congress. We are, however, informed that, not
withstanding the silence Of the party journals at
Albany on the subject, there is counter-mov
ment on foot in reference to our next Governor
and the State ticket for our fall elections and
that the anti-monopolists leading offin this move
ment have hit upon Fernando Wood, of this city,
as the man for their gubernatorial candidate
Thirty or forty southern and western counties are
already preparing to go in for Wood against
Morgan.
How this complication of our State politics
will affect the Presidential election remains to be
seen. 1t is very evident that the spectators,
operators, managers, fnanciers and drummers Of
this splendid railroad conspiracy including the
Albany Evening Journal and the alias and Argus,
are more absorbed and feel a deeper interest, in.
the success Of this plot than In any or all of the
Presidential candidates aud platforms put to-
gether.