New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1863-10-09
LOCAL DEMOCRATIC POLITICS

no less than three sets Of Democratic candidates
in the field at the November and December
elections of this year. Possibly, Mozart and
Tammany may coalesce for the November con-
test, in order to defeat certain Judges who have
become obnoxious for their independence and
integrity, and in order to insure full dcega'
ton of Senators and Assemblymen from this
city pledged to the interests Of corruption, and
ready TO obey without question all the dictates
of the Lobby combination, formed several years
ago and still existing between certain ram
many and Republican leaders OF particular
stripe
Judge Bosworth "a Democrat Of unblemished
personal and judicial record) is marked down
for the guilotinc, because, II Is said' ne once
decided against the claim OF notorious IAN
many LOBBYIST. for services performed TO an
equally notorious city contractor ln'procurhg
the insertion of said contractors name IN grant
for a CITY Railroad now in operation. Judge
Hilton (also a Democrat Of equally good char
teri is o,tracised for having opposed the Broad
way Railroad scheme, from the date oil Its un'
holr inception many years ago in the Council OF
the Forty Thieves" down to the recent veto
of At measure by Governor Seymour. Inc
Judge also opposed many other of the success
fol CITY Railroad and other corrupt schemes oil
former Legislatures, his attention having been
first directed To this system OF public robbery
a, Albany by Mr.. Alexander I. Stewart
who employed him "a counsel for the pro-
lection OF our grand thorOughfare from the "a
pacious threads Of the City Railroad junta.
In regard to the Mayoralty, it becomes clear
or every day that Il Is the wish of one interest
in Tammany Hall to have no fusion with the
Moznrters Tor December. One controlling
CLIQUE of the Tammany faction is irrevocably
onposed % the claims Of City Inspector Boole
for this Office: and yet 30 deeply are they
pledged 10 him. 10 well known are their obliga-
tons, and 80 thoroughly is the majority oil Their
General Committee in favor Of Mr.. Bodies pre-
tensions. that the only means left TO them Tor
defeating his election will be 10 secure the de-
/ feat Of their own municipal ticket, which can
most readily be- brought about by refusal TO
cnacsc, on this nomination with Mozart Hal.
The preten,c made BY this clique that they Will
not nse with Mozart unless the latter agrees
TO swallow without wincing "war platform
only recently adopted By the Tammanyites Is
too shallow a trick TO deceive the most ycrdant.
| II i not many months since the newspaper or
gan OF this clique enjoyed a bad prominence
As the most yirulcnt aud auiaciOus IN spirit,
although the feeblest in execution, OF oil the
Coppnrhead papers in our State. II might have
been printed in Richmond with applause and
would probably have enjoyed very high popu-
hrty Tor the soundness Of IL Secession doc
trine., if published in the heart of South Caro-
lima.
This refusal OF Tammany TO coalesce with
Mozar, on the MayoTalty will probably give us
Boole As the Tammany nominee, John Ander-
son A. the Mozart, and Mr. c. Godfrey Gunther
A the candidate of the Mckeon Democracy, and
all the small. sore-headed, outside rebellous
Democratic organizations. With vote thus
divided. and with the machinery of the Repub-
can General Committee--as the Tammany City
Raroade7, hope aud believe-in the hands OF
the City Railroad Republicans, there would
seem eyesy chance that a Mayor may be- slipped
in between the opposing factions of the Democ-
racy who will be quite as acceptable to all the
corrupt Interests a. nominee OF their own d.
rect selection.
These are the present calculations Of tie pro-
fessional hobby agents and civic harples who are
n league together, irrespective Of principle;
,nd these are the dangers against which good
men of all parties must = once combine with "A
sole view 10 the maintenance of the lndepcnd-
encc OF the Judiciary and the protection OF the
public interests Against Surrogate Tucker,
Recorder Hoffman, and Judge Sutherland, there
are ~ yet no signs of any Democratic con
.pracy. the slaughter of BOsworth and Hilton
being all that the lobbyists feel at present able
to accomplish Every judgcship filled by thei'
adherents, however, will make them stronger
for future evil, and with Mayor of their own
choosing, OF one chosen by that corrupt wing OF
the Republican party with which they are in
league it will hereafter be difficult to raise any
eilcctual barriers against their despotic power.
We learn with pleasure that the members o,
the legal profession. under the leadership OF
Charles O'Conor and James L. Brady, and the
great taxpayers and merchants of our city, with
such men as A. Il. Stewart Edward Cooper,
and Others of similar high position and weight
at their head, are about taking steps to make
themselves felt and heard in this crisis of our
local affairs. A scraglio of compliant judges
is luxury which the bar will not consent shall
be enjoyed undSturbed by any one lobby.mem-