The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-09-02

countrymen enjoy the prosperous era which the
Napoleonic ideas have opened to France and
Italy.
Democratic Candidates for tho Maycrslty,
AS the period approaches for the nomination
of Individuals by the democratic party to the
high position now filed by Mayor Tiemann, the
deep waters Of the Pewter Mug and of Tsmmany
and Mozart Halls are daily becoming more
troubled and mudcled in relation to the course
to be pursued upon the subject Of our future mu-
nioipal government. 1t 10 generally understood
that MIR. Fernando Wood will, In any case, offer
himself as candidate for the Mayoralty; aud
the rival asprants for the chief magistrasy of
the city in Tammany Hall are Messrs. William
D. Kennedy and Isaac V. Fowler So indef.-
tigable have the exertions, in their respective
spheres, OF all three Of these gentlemen been,
that they have managed to retain until the
present time monopoly of the candidacy mar
ket. and it is therefore well that their claims
upon public sympathy should be severally con-
sidered
Mr.. William D. Kennedy first attracted notice
some years ago as small politician in connec-
ton with the late Lorenzo B. Shepard Counsel
to the Corporation. He had previously con-
Quoted with good repute, paint and putty
store somewhere down town, and is said
to be very fair judge of those
articles AID also of glass. He is brother OF
John A. Kennedy, al one period Chairman Of the
Republican General Committee, and still either
aCommissioner CT Emigration at Castle Garden,
&c sDp.
William D. counts, naturally enough upon the
influence of his republican relative to secure for
lin no small number of anti,democratic votes in
case ne shall be put forward by Tammany Hail.
but we scarcely think that this latter aspiration
can be realized. He is, doubtless, very anna.
bic, worthy merchant, and it is sincerely to be
hoped that he may have his quota of commercial
prosperity In trading in paint and putty. Neither
Is there any objection, in case his income is in
adequate to his wants or he aspirea to the dignity
OF official station, to his being appointed to some
place more suited to his capacity in Castle Gar
den, or even to his having a clerkship in the
Almshouse, or connected with the Street Depart
ment. His services might also be made profess
sonally valuable if the City Hall is ever rebuilt
and the aid of his Judgment could be secured re-
specting the quality of material to be used, as
far as hc is ramIiiar with it. But to make Mr.
Kennedy Mayor would be simply absurd. He
has neither the intellectual vigor nor the educa-
ton indispensable for that Important Office.
Postmaster Fowler belongs to an entirely dife.
rent class from Kennedy. His friends consider
him 'fne looking fellow, = and he is alike gen
lemanly in his manners ard well educated. He
makes very fair Postu raster, aud practices
largely at the bar. lie ia an old adept in the
ways of Tammany, and exercises control over an
influential class both in the Wi,ywam itself and
in the Pewter Mug. StiIl, it ay well be doubt
ed whether Mr.. Fowler either ought to or will
receive the Tammany nornina lion for the May
orally. In the first place, he cannot afford it.
The hospitable qualities for which he is noted
must not be restrained within the limits of five
thousand dollars year, upo which only very
frugal city official could ma mage to exc out an
existence. His present salary with it's adiuncts,
may be counted at nearly, If not quite, double
that, and still we doubt whether our worthy
Postmaster considers wha'i he receives as any too
much for his wants. The refore, until the salary
Of the Mayor is raised to, ten thousand dollars
year Mr. Fowler cannot take that place.
Again, life Of elegant leisure, which
he would vainly endeavor to abandon,
is totally incompatible with the onerous, and at
times very disagreeable duties, of the Mayors
Office. This Of itself should be objection suffi-
Gent to his remaining candidate. We are per-
suaded that in view Of it Mr.. Fowler win never
hoc tna npD IN
William F. Havemeyer.
That DIR. Fernando Wood will run for Mayor
again in December is placed beyond question
by the articles that have recently appeared in the
Daily Meas. And no one doubts, from past expe.
| rience, that this gentleman can make an excel
lent city executive if he chooses to do 80.
Energy, talent and industry, are never wanting,
and with proper will on his part to do right
every good citizen would be satisfied Never
theless, we had judged that Mr.. Wood was
aspiring beyond the Mayoralty, and that 80 con-
tracted sphere would scarcely correspond with
the objects of his ambition. He aims certainly to
be nominated to the Vice Presidency at Charles
ton, and is carefully adapting himself to the
size Of the shoes which were so mercilessly and
treacherously torn from Governor Wises feet at
Albany BY Confidence Cassidy.
Under these circumstances, the expediency
Of electing to the Mayoralty either of the
three gentlemen we have named is very
doubtful; nor is the propriety Of putting
up journalist for the sufffages of the
people to be considered for moment. An
upright, independent newspaper editor, fitted
for bis profession, has no time, and ought to
have no inclination superior as his vocation is
TO any otber-for The cares Of office. A poor,
Tag behlnd newspaper-monger, had better emi-
CRATE to Kansas, and carry out with hoe and
spade the principles he has failed to inculcate