New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-11-26

way TO the conviction that it il only BY coucentra-
ton on Opdyke that the great object can be gained
The managers of Tamnany Hall are well aware
how formidsbleis the power Of Dir. Wood over tne
masses of the Democratic party in this city. Iney
know what has not been known to the puDhc al
large, that Wood is now at the head of the most
effective political organization ever brought INTO
action in New-York. He has club OF sctIVe and
devoted adherents not in every Ward, but IN erery
Election District long snce formed and drilled with
view to this very election. These clubs have
been constituted with such secrecy and quetness
that their existence has hardly been Suspected and
they possess all the efficiency that only perfect dis
cipline and full supply and liberal expenditure
of the snews of war, can give. For Mr.. Wood Is
now to make desperate effort to recover the po-
sitiou from which he was expelled two years ago;
nor IL this all he is contending forhe is resolved to
gain for himself in this election such q national
standing as will render him influential in selecting
the candidate Of the Charleston Convention and
determining its platform. With these purposes IN
view. we may be sure that all that restless energy,
unequaled capacity for political management and
a boundless expenditure of money can accomplish
viii be brought to bear by him in the pending
struggle. OF all this the managers of Tammany
Hall are aware, and the prospect fills them with
dismay. The thOroughness of their alarm Is con-
fessed more broadly than words could confess IT. In
their pitching overheard all their previous candi-
dates and all the active men of their party, and
making bargain with Mr. Hayemeyer as the only
means of saving them from destruction, and keep
inc Wood out of the Charleston Convention.
But will Mr. Bayemeyer save them' 10 us 1t
seems impossible. His name does nothing to bring
hack the Irish masses who had deserted the Tam
many star dard to enrol themselves under the ban
ner of Wood. 1t does not as the inventors OF bis
nomination fondy hoped it would, seduce In
70 temporary submission TO Tammany Han
the Republicans whom in 1856 Mr.. Have
never had coquetted with only to desert them.
1t excites nothing Of that hearty enthusiasm
and 7ealous industry which in 1857 elected Tie
mann. Thus it is failure; it does not accomplish
lis purpose; and Mr.. Havemeyer is left with only
the office seekers and Offce-hOders who belong to
Tammany, and with the votes they are able to con-
troll some fifteen G eighteen THOUSAND in number,
at his back He has only the fragment of q party
10 support him; and he stands to-day, defeated
candidate Between him and Wood, and if the
Democratic party alone were to vote, Wood
would beat him by a majority sufficient to cover
with ridicule the office-hOlders who have put
him up.
But, fortunately for the city, Wood has another
and far stronger opponent in the person OF Dir.
Opdyke. Supported by the Republicans, who
formed the majority of the forty odd thousand vo-
tiers who elected Tiemann, he starts with
strength that the faction of Tammany Hall cannot
bring TO the sustentation of their nominee. Ii
Wood is to be defeated at all, as we confidently
hope and trust he will be, it only be done by the
adhesion of all independent citizens to the strongest
anti Wood candidate. Let all Americans, all
Democrats who in city affairs propose to follow
their own convictions as to the city's advantage,
and all citizens who belong to no party, but who
wish for honest municipal government, give their
support to Mr. Opdyke, and he will be triumphantly
elected Otherwise, the city will fall into the hands
e Mr. Wood