The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-11-05
The Elections TO-MOrrOw - The Only
. Live Issue,

The Elections TO-MOrrOw The Only
From the Herald
VERY little general interest is felt in the cleo.
tions of tomorrow, and the politicians, egg
men, and petty ofIice-seekers are the only per-
sons who seem to care which way 1t may go.
This indifference is easily accounted for. The
result on members of Congress in the city dis
tricts is entirely immateral, so far as the ques-
tion of national policy is concerned; for it is
now fixed fact that the Republicans will be a
little stronger in the next Congress than they
are in the present, aud will have more than a
two-thirdS vote in each House for the entire
remainder of President Johnson's term of Office
The result on the Governor is already as good
as settled; for every unprejudiced man knows
that Mr.. Hoffman never had chance of success,
that the boasts of his organs and hackers have
been mere brag, and that Governor Fenton's
former majority over so popular Democrat as
Governor Seymour will be increased over
New York "ring" candidate by several thou.
sand votes.
AS to the county ticket, the only interest felt
by the citizens generally is on the issue raised
by the nomination for Register made by several
independent Democratic organizations ana en-
dorsed by the Republicans, against the Joint
candidate Of the Tammany ''ring" and Fernando
Wood.
Mr.. John McCool represents the new bargain
made between Fernando Wood and the Tam
many rumD by which the latter hope to sus-
tain themselves q little time longer In power.
General Charles g. Halpine represents the OPP
position to the corrupt rule of the 'ring" and
the political trading and bargaining OF Fernando
Wood. The issue comes up distinctly between
these two candidates; ior General Halpine is the
bOldest opponent of the ''ringr in the city of
New York, while McCool is Fern ando Woods
man, and Woods bargain with the ''ring'' Is to
re.eleGt him TO the Office Of Register. As to the
Recorder and Surrogate, the present incum-
aaIa AnI.
objects to them, while the candidates brought
forward by the Republicans in opposition DO
not amount to much.
Asthe issue made upon the Register is, there
fore, the only one OF any general concern, 1T
will not be uninteresting to examine the chances
of the cand dates. When we look over the
ground aud recall the results of other local
elections, there seems to be no doubt of the sue
cess of General Halpine. 1t is a wellknown
fact that the Tammany rump cannot poll over
twenty thousand votes. Mr.. Bodies vote for
Mayor was only little over twenty-five thou
sand when the 'ring" had the large patronage
of the City INSPECTOR Office at its back, and it
is weaker now than it was then. Last year Mar
shall o. Roberts was in reality elected Mayor
by nearly five thousan1 / plurality over Hoffman;
but he refused to follow UP his claim to the
election because he did not desire to hold the
office. The city gave sixteen thousand popu-
lar majority against Hoffman at that time.
Outside of the strength OF the ''ring"-some
twenty thousand votes-McCool has nothing
but the personal strength of Fernando Wood to
back him, and that cannot be set down as very
efficient at this tlme All the organizations in
the city except this particular ring and the
parties personally interested IN their Fernando
Wood bargain have declared for General Charles
G. Halpine. General Halpine will receive a
heavy vote from his Irish fellow-citizens, and
will, of course, take all the "soldier boys" of
the war from a stay-at-home Copperhead like
McCool He will receive the support of all the
anti-"ring" Democratic organizations as their
nominee, an the solid votes OF the thirty-eieht
forty thOusnnd RnDuhlicanS who have H.
dorsed him for the purpose of breaking up
corrupt combination. So if all those independ-
ent and respectable citizens who attach them
put stop tot6e career ofthe band of forty thieves
that has plundered the city for ten years past,
and increased the taxation to twenty millions,
will turn out on election day and vote for
General Halpne, they will not only dispose for
ever of the "rILg" and the trump" but they
will finally Law the re tless ghost of that defunot
Copperhead, Fernando Wood, as well.