The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-08-26

odd MOVEMENTS FOR THE ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
NoMINAT1oNs.-The question of who shall be the
next Mayor Of New York appears to be subs!i-
tutipg itself, in the public mind, for the excite
ment produced by the Donnelly letter, the ami
hilation of poor Wise, and the terrible recoil
sustained by the Albany Regency. We insert
elsewhere to day couple Of articles from one of
our contemporaries, the Tribune, nominating the
proprietor of this journal, Mr. Bennett, for the
Office of Mayor. We are not authorized to state
what the exact response of Mr.. Bennett will be
whenever a personal application may be made
to him on that point; but this much we may
state, that the party that nominates him will
have to elect him at its own expense, as we
know that Mr.. Bennett would not bleed to the
extent of five dollars for an election to any
Office in the gift of the people. On those condi-
tons we have no doubt he would accept the
position; and we are convinced that he would
conduct the municipal affairs of this city in q
manner very unlike that to which our citizens
have been accustomed for some years past.
Our contemporary, in nominating Mr.. Bennett,
argues bis case and sustains his pretensions as
journalist with such an JUNCTION as almost to
make us believe that he is arguing bis own case,
and that either Horace Greeley or one of his
principal associates would have no objection to
be candidate for the same position. 1t puts Mr..
Bennett up as being entitled to the powerful
democratic influence of Tammany Hall and the
Pewter Mug on account of the SER
vices which he has heretofore rendered to
that party by his good counsels, and his indepen-
dent thought and action in his career of over a
quarter Of a century. Now, on these very same
grounds, the proprietor of the HERALD is as
much entitled to be the candidate of the repub-
lcans. During the last quarter of century the
HERALD, while it aided the democratic party and
democratic administrations when they were in
the right always took particular care to assist in
the demolition Of the same party and administra.
tons when they were in the wrong. The He
RAID advocated the election of Gen. Harrison,
Gen. Taylor and Colonel Fremont, as being so
many doses Of good medicine to relieve the sick
condition and unsound constitution of the demo.
cracy. 1t succeeded in the cases of Harrison and
Tay Tor, and made perfect cure, and would have
also succeeded in the case Of Fremont but for the
treachery of Weed and Seward and their CLIQUE
in the State of Pennsylvania and elsewhere.
The election of Fremont was advocated by the
HERALD not on antislavery grounds, but because
the candidate was Southern man, who would do
justice to the South and to the whole Union.
Mr. Bennett is therefore good candidate for
both parties when they are in the right, but
bad one for either of them when they are in the
wrong, and when they are treacherous and cor
rupt. The HERALD nominated Mr.. Greeley for
Governor last year, and we think him still in the
field. If he or one of his associates wants to be
Mayor let them have fair chance for the Office.
But one condition we hope they will put into
their programme, and that is, never to pay a
single dollar to the hungry politicians either for
the nomination or the election. Let these fel-
lows and their conventions elect their candidates
at their own expense. That principle, we think
will dispose Of good many of the nominations.
ANOTHER LAUNDERING LETTER ON New York
PoIIT1Cs.-Whenever politician of certain
order in the South breaks down altogether, he