The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1860-02-14

ton and Chicago, the elecHoneering, az
it is technically called among the lead
ing men Of the various factions, grows
more and more warm every day. We have
already alluded, at some length, to the
operations In the republican camp, which is di.
vided into two cliques-one engineered by old
Blair, Of Silver Springs and going for Mr..
Bates, Of Missouri, and the other worked by
Thurlow Weed, in the interest of Mr.. Seward
The object of both these experienced politi-
clans appears to be to make the choice Of the
delegates to Chicago fall upon Bates or Seward
by consolidating their respective strength
upon those candidates to the exclusion of all
others. The republicans have very plentiful
crop Of candidates, bat Seward and Bates
seem to be the only ones for whom there is
anything like powerful and effective election
eering. They have been prepared for the field
IN the most artistic way, and their chances
seem to be about even, 80 far as the nomination
is concerned.
On the other hand, the democrats, who have
high hopes Of ultimate success, whoever may
be taken up at Charleston, are gradually set
ting down to the programme of operations
not unlike that of the other side. As many as
eight or ten men have been named prominent
ly for the succession. We have had Wise and
Hunter, and Stephens, and Toombs, and Sill
dell, and johnson, and JEFF. Davis, from the
South; Lane and Douglas from the West, and
Pierce from the Northeast Matters seem now
to be settling down, so that Douglas and poor
Pierce are the chief candidates in the field.
Mr.. Douglas has many powerful and hard
working friends in the North and West, who
are making capital for him by claiming
great deal of strength in advance. We are
told that delegations are pledged even before
they have been selected. OF course, Mr.. Dou-
glas will have considerable strength at Charles
ton, as he had at Baltimore in 1852, and Gin
cinnati in 1856. No one can tell exactly how
this strength will be distributed, or how much
of it will come from the South and Southwest
which is the important, we may say the vital,
point of the whole matter.
Meanwhile it is believed that JEFF. Davis is
engineering for poor Pierce, and that his new
move with the democratic Senator'S has been
made to help along this game. If Davis could
bring about poor Pierce's election, it would be
the best thing for the Mississippi Senator that
could happen to him, next to being President
himself; for poor Pierce would be nothing
more than puppet in Davis hands. Poor
Pierce's friends are very hard at work in his
own State. The general election there comes
off next month-just in season to operate on
Charleston; and if they can manage to carry
the State for the democracy, they think they
can have matters in the National Convention
their own way. The home organs of poor
Pierce-the Concord Patriot and Boston Post
persist in denying that he desires the nomina-
ton; but the Democratic Standard, printed at
Concord, Is out with an article which positively
AYERS that Pierce is the field for the succession.
The proofs support this assertion are therecent
publication Of the correspondence between
Pierce and the members Of his Cabinet, which
was exhumed after having been buried more
than three years; the choice of two of his
friends and confidential agents as delegates at
large from New Hampshire to the National
Convention, and other straws that show which
Woy sAO VIM o1OWos 4uC OttHNkUJ0 ctotC5 tuot
Pierce's present game is the same which he
played at Baltimore in 1852; that his expedi-
ton to Bermuda is q mere "ruse to gull the
fats" and 30 on. The Standard is opposed to
Pierce, and declares that he is as much of q
traitor to the democracy as his friends, Forney,
and Hamilton of Maine both of whom have
gone over to the enemy. Pierce's nomination
would swamp the democratic party irretriev-
ably; it would fall like the pail Of death upon
the democratic party of the North, and insure
its inevitable defeat. He could not carry a
single free State" All this, and much more to
the same purpose, is said very emphatically
by our Concord contemporary, whose platform
is, no reelection, no restoration-one term
Presidents.
Il appears, then, that, 80 far as the North and
West are concerned, Mr.. Buchanan being po-
sitively out of the way, the choice at Charles
ton is between poor. Pierce and Douglas. The
latter is working secretly, while the former is
oiling, and curling, and cutting, and shaving
and dressing himself making his political
toilet, in fact, for Charleston, while his friends
are endeavoring to smooth his path in advance
There is one circumstance, however, which does
not seem to have occurred to the political phi
losophers who are doing all the electioneering
With one or two exceptions, the wirepullers
for Douglas and poor Pierce live in the North
and West and represent no Southern strength
Pierce's men are nearly all from New England,
which would not give an electoral vote for the
angel Gabriel if he run on the democratic tick
ct. They are either placeholders or ci-deuant
spoilsmen, who hope to get another dash
at the Presidential kitchen, which was so fat
in Forney and Sidney Webster's time. Douglas
is little better of, but not much. In the
North and West there are few doubtful
States; and such is the Generalization of the
democracy that the number does not increase
materially by the lapse Of time. Count out
New York. New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Indiana
and Illinois, and the free States are irretrieva-