The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1865-10-29

Party Politicians.
This is an old story; but we had expected
that with both parties In this State on the same
platform, and each with mixed ticket OF SOL
diers and civilians, old line democrats and re-
publicans, there would be but little of the
usual violent and vulgar personal assaults be-
tween the leading politicians Of the opposing
camps. It appears, however, that 1t is as DIM
cult for the mere party politician to correct his
vicious propenAties rs It Is for the leopard to
change his spots or the negro to turn white.
Just before the opening Of the State canvass
between the two parties we had foretaste OF
what was coming in the spiteful personal con-
troversy between Horace Greeley and Thurlow
Weed, in which each, according to the other,
was better qualified for Sing Sing than any
other place. But an armistice has followed
between these belligerents, and we presume
that It is agreed between them that each is
good enough Morgan till after the election"
But since the two party State tickets were
nut in the field Messrs. Weed and Greeley have
made some remarkable discoveries OF the un-
fitness Of General Slocum and Lucius Robin
SON for any post Of ofacial responsibility for
the one is denounced as cotton swindler, and
the other, by his late party confederates and
admirers, as . corrupt and trading lobby job
Der. Weed says that since the Albany conven-
vention he has been met with the pr0fered hand
of Robinson, but that "with those who know
me It is scarcely necessary to say that the
hand which had 80 recently reeked with foul
personal calumny was spurned." Robinson
responds that this "sensation story is as false
as it is silly" Weed retorts with the lie direct
against Robinson, and says "the truth is not in
him. All this is bad enough, but the gener-
GUS old grandfather of the poets of the Post
has to step in and make 1t worse by sly hit
at "the King of the Lobby" and "the debasing
influence of that body upon the legislation of
the State"
This brings out the lobby king in all his glory.
He shows how he was provoked to expose the
lobby jobs of the Post, to "break some Of its
glass windows" to arraign as criminal and
eject from his Office of Navy Agent the unfor-
tunate Henderson, of the firm Of the Post; and
Weed concludes by saying that the mistake OF
Kohnstamm, a government swindler now In
Sing Sing, twas in not connecting himself with
the EVENING Post before commencing his depre-
dations" Such are the courtesies brought into
play among the happy family of the republic
cans, and therefore, it is not surprising that
Horatio Seymour should turn up his nose at
John Van Buren,, nor that Van Buren, should
fippantly describe the Ex-Governor as "a
damned fool"
The personal compliments Of this sort in
vogue among the editors, stump orators and
travelling managers Of the two contesting
parties against each other and their candid ates
before the people are, however, the subject
now before us. Two specimens Of this style Of
electioneering will serve to show what is the
most conspicuous and the most debasing cleo
tionecring trick of this canvass. The first is
| from the Tribune. "How much" it inquiries,
"does Joe Davis propose to charge the United
States for the use of his and Jeff's plantations
since he ran away from the service of the
rcbelliong Couldn't he induce General Slocum
to give him certificate and order for the
cotton which he must have lost by the war;"
Here we have the baseness, malice and venom
Of party hostility in full play. Our second
specimen is from the World, the Monsieur
Mantilini OF which affects oil the prophecies of
the head of millinery store. In aconspicuous
headline to report Of . democratic meeting
at Rochester the speeches delivered are de-
scribed as "the scraping Of the old sow
| Seward" Here we have this affected Manti-
lini of the World in his true colors. And yet
from day to day he devotes whole broad
side to the ventilation of "the campaign Of
calumny against General Slocum."
In these coarse and vulgar personalities 80
habitual to our professional politicians, editors
and stumpers we have the fountain of bitter
waters which has made our political election
| eering system disgrace and nuisance in the
Judgment Of the civilized world. To this
source Of political and popular Generalization
we may trace all those downward steps from
law and order to rebellion ami the bloody civil
war through which we have passed. Freedom
Of speech and Of the press is the peculiar
boast Of our political system; but when under
this freedom Of opinion every prominent candi-
date for public favor becomes traitor, muir
derer, a swindler, defaulter or public rob-
Der, we cannot wonder that the management Of
our political parties has been and is in the
hands of demagogues, rogues, rufians and reck-
less adventures. The blessings Of liberty in such
hands inevitably lead to anarchy or dcspotism,
unless seasonably checked by wholesome
public opinion.
| TIE REPUBLLC OF GREAT BRITANNIA move
ment is on foot but not yet fully developed, TO
change the Fenian programme, and instead Of
aiming alone at the liberation Of Ireland, TO
aspire to still greater object, and that Is the
overthrow OF the English monarchy and the
erection Of the republic Of Great Britain. Not