The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1866-12-06

as used towards the Executive they should be
secuted with indignant Reproduction.
The HeraId's Mysterious Influence Over
Mundane Affairs.
The mysterious influence of the HERALD is
beginning to pass into proverb. In small
things or great, politics or theatricals, states
manship or yachting, this influence is always
perceptible and always aggravating to our
contemporaries. These philosophers are APP
parently very anxious to edit the HERALD for
us. They kindly tell us what we ought to say,
what side we ought to take. what party or per-
son we Ought to support. Very much an
n6yed at discovering that we do not follow
their advice, they gre still ;sv,v ,nulgnant
when they find that we come out right after all.
They told US t'at we were mistaken in think
ing Grant great general, and assured us that
Mcclellan ~ the real hero of the war; but
Grant fought on il bis own way and con-
quered, while Mcclellan fzzled out. They up
braided us for predicting President Lincolns
reelection but when the votes were counted
our prediction was verified. They bitterly de-
amendment abolishing slavery; but that
amendment is now part OF the supreme law of
The land. They opposed the new constitutional
amendmencnow pending but we revived that
measure as basis of restoration, and the
whole North has emphaticaliy endorsed 1t.
They wanted us to sustain Hoffman for Cover
nor, assuring us that he would certainly be
elected; but we thought and said otherwise,
and Hoffman was defeated. They swore that
Miles O'Reilly never could be chosen Register
but oaths went for nothing, and Miles holds
the Office Such are a few instances of the
mysterious influence Of the HERALD, according
to these philosophers.
The election of Richard B. Connolly to the
Comphollership is another case in point. The
political managers had apparently made up
their minds not to nominate this modern Dick
Wilmington, as Oakley Hall calls him. Every
body informed us that the "ring" would Ger
tainly stick to Brennan, no matter how many
cards of resignation or withdrawal might be
written, and everybody argued that we would
have to 60 for blarneying Mike Connolly in
order to break the "ring" That seemed TO be
pretty good argument; but unfortunately we
upset it by limiting that Judge Barnard could
smash the "ring" as well as Mike Connolly,
and would be altogether q more acceptable
candidate. The so-called reformers would not
accept Barnard, because he was too good for
the place, and the HERALD would not endorse
Mike Connolly because he was too bad for the
place. After time, however, It became evil
dent that the mysterious influence Of the
HERALD had been at work once more, and even
the most obtuss politicians perceived that Bren-
nan was really out of the race. Then Dick Con-
molly, who has been slipping and sliding from
one thing to another ever since he landed with
his bundle, fresh from Ireland, In 1926, sud-
denly slipped into the regular democratic
nomination. This astonished the wiseacres,
who at once declared that he was nominated
to be defeated; that he would be cheated
and swindled; that Justice Joe Bowling
was going to carry the Sixth ward for Kelly,
and that Dick was sold out all around. Again
the mysterious influence of the HERALD was
quietly exercised, and the cheating ceased or
was Intellectual. The result Is the success ofthe
best Of the three candidates, in spite Of Kelly's
republican strength, Mike Connolly's Fenian-
ism and everybody's prophecy that the HERALD
would be wrong for once. By-and-by it will
be distinctly understood in all circles that the
HERALD is never wrong. More infallible than
the Pope, with whom we are compelled to find
fault occasionally, we move in mysterious
way our wonders to perform; but we are sure
10 come on gyht at the end and modestly de-
serve the envious plaudits Of our baffied con-
temporares md mistaken advisers.