The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1864-02-15

next administration, and an administration thus
constituted would easily cnd the war. and sive
the country peace before its immense cXpeDses
should have exhausted every element Of wealth
in it,
Tao Row at Athamy-DeeIxns and @atd or
tine Democv ATTIC Party
The democrats are making pretty display
Of their dirty linen at Albany Peter B Swee
ny and Fernando Wood have completed then
little bargains without deigning TO consult any
body else and Governor Seymour and the
democratic politicians generally do not feel
inclined to ratify these arrangements. which
give Swceny aud Wood all the spols This
disagreement is the secret of tho row about the
Police Commissioners Luke Cozans, Sbafcr.
Fields, and the other people who have wran
eled ovct this question, may have displayed
some talont for windy and wordy VituperatioD,
but they have not shown Themselves even de-
cent politicians In this quarrel, however, The
opponents Of Sweeny and Wood have had OIL,
the might and all the right on theic aide Ac-
ton. Bergen, Bosworth and MoMurray ought to
be, and will be, the successful candidates
Purdy aud Jones. the nominees Of Sweeny and
Wood, amount to nothing Pardy Is called
"the Old War Horse" because be has fed 80
long from the public crib He has FIVE or six
Offices already, and we believe that all his rela-
tons, male and female, are similarly provided
for. Jones is nonentity. except in the Direc
tory, where his name occupies . dozen pages
Respectable people of all parties repudate
such candidates for the Police Commission.
The democratic politicians and their organ
the Leader-reeeatly protested against our
statement that the democratic party Is no more.
1t is no new tbag for politicians to object to
the publication Of the truth. They have man
aged the party oD'y- to destroy it. and now they
are 6ghtng over the benes at Albany In the
face ofrecorded facts it il ridiculous to insist
that the democratic party still lives and is in a
hourishing condition. Its decline and fall are as
much matter Of history "a The decline aud fall
of the Roman empire. Its former leaders
ruined it, and Peter b. Sweep and Fernando
Wood sold out its lifeless remains Ia 1860
Dean Richmond and Company, August Bel
mont and Company and other such politicians,
led the democratic party, and they verified the
Scriptural adage that whea the blind lead tho
blind both fall into the pit They murdered
the party at Charleston, and handed over its
property to the black republicans thus inau-
guratlng our civil war. In 1856, nothing
Its rank and ie had enlisted. Its
newspaper organs were suppressed for dis.
loyalty. Its leaders were hiding in holes and
caves, or had marched over boldly to the
rebels. In 1862 the HERALD raised up a new
party, recruited from the conservatives, and
opposed. not to the war but to the extrava-
gance, prodgacy and mismanagement OF the
umphed in all the State elections Of 1862, and
would have reformed the administration had it
not been for traitors in the camp who betrayed
il, as they had before betrayed the democratic
party.
Who. then. were these traitors They were
Dean Richmond and the rest OF the Albany
Regency. They were Sweeny Wood aud
Clancy, who may be termed the New York Re-
gency They had hung on to the skirts Of the
party until it was successful, aud then they as
sumed to manage it, They revived the rebel
Neaos, which ought TO be published at Rich
mond. They bought up the rotten World,
which neither pety nor porter india rubber
nor republicanism, had been able to sustain.
They tried to run the conservative party upon
secession principles, and they ran themselves
into the ground in 1868. At all the State cleo.
tons. and even in our municipal elections. they
were badly beaten. Since then they have had
no party. except the hangers on OF Tsmmsny
Hall and the strikers Of Mozart Heaven
knows that we earnestly endesvored to get some
good out of them; but we find them much
more amenabe to kicks than to good advice.
They live by carrying on system Of barter
and sale with the republicans aud, like curb
stone broker in Wall street. they do a pro6ta-
Bile business on capital Of nothing. This is
the explanation Of their squabbe about the
Police Commissioners at Albany and they are
preparing themselves for the same tao
tics during the Presidential campaign.
Their call for a shent-per silent conven-
tion n Chicago is their first move In
the Presidential game. The republicans
more democratic than these so-called demo-
cratic leaders-sre bringing out their candidates
through popular meetings. independent Of cut
and dried bought and sold conventions The
people have had enough Of parties. and OF
party leaders, and Of bands Of plunderers, or.
eanized into Halls. We want candidate whose
personal history is his political platforms
man like Grant, Mcclellan, Thomas Sherman
OF Gilmore man fettered by no bargains
and owned by no wirspuIlers such a man
will be elected President by the conservative
people and the Independent press. aud the so.
called democratic leaders, like Richmond, Bel
mont, Sweeny and Wood, will fsslsn themselves