The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1858-08-22

them With themes for censure of the heat and
c!smor and confusion of our political struggles;
Of the great license of liberty, and the exag-
gerated feeling of nationality which 20 forward
iy displays itself on every public occasion, they
must perceive how the best material political
and moral interests of our race are best main
tanned on republican soil, and how the seeds
of many forgotten principle of right aud
justice have here taken root aud fructifed after
centuries of mummy torpidity. They will
understand, too, that expansion Is the power by
which freedom advances, and by which our
social engine is worked while contraction, con-
densation and compression have been the mo-
tors of European governments
We therefore look for q radical change Of
thought in the minds Of che people Of Europe
towards this c0unuy-a conviction that we are
near them, and sympathiss with them in their
life and labOrs; that they will appreciate what
by our wondrous inventions and resistless
energy we are doing, not only for ourselves but
be world, and that we are coming closer and
closer to them taking an interest in their affairs
and asking them to participate in our own.
This ia a new pagein the worlds history. 1t is
electrotyped and made visible to mankind.
The CTY ELECTIONS IN DECHMBER-PARrIEs
IN THE FIBLD-CoNTEsT FOR THE SPouS.-tn
every attempt to unravel the confused web Of
our party politics, the fact must not be over
locked that there are two distinct systems Of
party machinery at work in this city. The one
looks solely to obtaining control Of the national
patronage in the various departments of the
Custom House, Post Office, Navy Yard United
States Marsbals Office, and SO forth. The other
directs all its energies to, and finds the main
springs of, it's action in the control of the mu-
nicipal treasury. Here is placer of the richest
yield and those who go prospecting after it can
we'll afford to pass by the mere surface scrapings
Of the general government, and leave them to
email rogues and politicians who are ready to
cell themselves for yearly salaries, ranging from
$500 to $4,000 year. Upon this the wire
workers of city politics look down with con
tempt they do not care to disguise. They go in
for higher stakes. Give them the control
of the city purse, in the persons of the Mayor,
Comptroller and Common Council and they do
not care straw whether Schell and Cobb are
at loggerheads through the whole quadrennial
term, and whether good fighting democrats are
successful in getting this Office in the Custom
House, or that one in the Post Office. Such
pickiDes out of the public crib are to them
mere picayune affairs. But with Street Com
missioners, who will certify to any sort of frau
dulent bill presented, and with Comptrollers so
stupid as to be bamboozled by every rogue and
scoundrel, and with pliable aldermen and council
mento give out fat contract jobs, what rich hauls
they can make out of the eight or ten millions
a year, which our city pays for being the worst
governed municipality in the civilized world!
They are well aware that, with political friends
at court, they can get an opportunity of having
q grab at the public treasure, and of 20 enrich
ing themselves in the course Of year or two as
to be able to retire from the business with
brown stone palaces up town, and the title to
score or 20 of submerged lots along the river
front. These are the spoils they 60 in for, leav-
ing the small fry politicians, as we said, to be-
siege the Custom House and Post Office with
demands for official positions.
Thus these two distinct systems Of political
machinery work; and though the aim of each
is somewhat different, they necessarily co-ope-
rate to some extent. Nevertheless, the ques-
tors after the national spols care very little
whether the party of municipal jobbers lose or
win, and cice reru; let the latter but have the
control Of the city purse, and the national ad.
ministration may fall into any handr, for aught
they care.
This is a very fair analysis of the two sets of
ideas that prevail among all our political par
ties, whether democratic, republican or Ameri-
can. The conventions which are to nominate
candidates for State officers meet at Syracuse
on the sth and 10Th of next month, respectively;
and as there are to be two sets Of democratic
delegates present, the extent Of union that
exists In that party may be easily estimated.
The same legerdemain sort of arrangement
will be subsequently gone through with in re-
gard to candidates for city Offices, only that
there will be one or two more parties In the
field. Thus, In addition to the democrats re-
pubicans and Americans, we will have the re-
form party, which succeeded last December In
electing Daniel +. Tiemann Mayor of this city;
and we will also have new and more powerful
party than any Of the other corrupt organza-
tions-that is, the taxpayers party. If this Or
ganization be faithfully and theoretically man.
aged, 1t will be able to command some $4,000
votes, and thus elect all its nominees to ofi:e.
We hope there will be no tagging or party
lodging or underhand trickery about this tax
payers party, and that none but the most CON-
petent and honest men will receive its endorse
ment to the people. That being 20, there is
some small chance left Of getting the govern
ment of our city out of the hands of rogues,
rufians and nincompoops
The most important city Office to be filed at
the next election In December Is that Of Comp
troller. With an honest and competent man In
that position, much Of the frauds by which