The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1867-11-19

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respec able citizens were urged to unite on
some good candidate against both Wood and
Hoffman. The radical cxtremists declared with
bantam feroci!y !.at they would nominate
an out and out, dyed in the wool, negro supre-
macy, national bank radical for Mayor, and
no other. But matters have now settled
down. Darling, a conservative republican,
has been put in nomination, and will receive a
few highly respectable woes; and with this
exception the whole political element seems
likely 10 be divided between the two wings of
the democratic party, Mozart and Tammany,
with the prospect of the success Of Mozart and
Fernando Wood by an immense majority.
AS we have said, this result naturally follows
the great political revolution in the State.
Tammany has been the party Of corruption
and heavy taxation here, as the radical Con-
gress has been in the nation. Wood will be
supported. not on account of his great honesty,
but because Hoffman, as the representative of
the Tammany rings, has suffered the expendl-
lures of the city government to run up under
his administration to the enormous amount of
twenty-four million dollars i year. Wood will
be supported, not because he is democrat,
but because he is Mozart democrat and bis
cleo ion will smash the arbitrary, close cor
poration Tammany machine, and clear the
way for new deal in the political cards all
around the board. Hoffman, as Mayor, would
control oil patronage here and elsewhere for
the special inside ring of Tammany, and keep
the democracy in the old rut Wood, as Mayor,
will be fgurehead as respectable in appear
ance as the famous old captain in Greenwood
Cemetery, and will stand guard over the grave
Of the old rut Tammany democracy. He will
clear tho road for the great conservative move
ment OF next year, and his success will break
up and sweep away the old Tammany ma
chine in this city, as the recent election broke
up and swept away the radical machine in the
State.
Both these. elections-the State and muni-
cipal-will be nothing more than the auant-
cosuriers of the great revolution in national
politics which is certain TO take place next
year, and which will sweep the radicals from
power and elevate Grant to the Presidency.
They will be followed speedily by grand
meeting in this city, Independent of all the old
political party lines, to nominate General Grant
upon the simple platform Of the peoples conf
dence in the man. The Times and the Tribune,
by the abandonment Of their own party, are
both unwittingly aiding in this very movement.
The Tribuns has so far knowledge of the re-
suit as that it is sensible that the success Of
Wood will kill off the old rut Tammany democ-
racy, but the Times blunders into it in igno.
rance of its ultimate effect We have already
seen that tie majority Of Atty thousand in the
State against the radicals has brought large
proportion of that party to their senses, and
prepared them to abandon their organization
and to unite in the great Grant movement of
1868. In like manner majority Of twenty
thousand against Tammany in this city will
broak up the close corporation ring Of that
organization, and bring the rank and file over
to the side OF the conservative uprising. No
vember wound up the Jacobin radicals; De-
cember viii wind up tho Jacobin democrats.
Let the people Of New York in their charter
election complete the work they have COM
menced of smashing all the old corrupt party
machines, and then for Grant, retrenchment
and reform.