The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1867-11-24
Tho Mysterious Influence or tho Heraii
and the Charter Election.

Tho Mysterious Influence or tho Herald
and the Charter Eiectien.
For the past quarter Of century, ct inter-
walls Of about six months each, the public mind
has been agitated by heated discussions and
wild speculations on the mysterious influence
of the HERALD. War, pestilence and famine,
battle and murder, commissions at home and
abroad, politics, impeachment, elections,
finances and Fsnianism, have all been insult
cient to divert attention for longer time from
this engrossing topic. Holy alliances take up
the subject, angrily discuss it, determine to
break the HERALD down. and end in breaking
themselves down instead Hungry ghouls and
infidels congregate in garrets and howl over it.
Reverend Chadbands raise up their fat hands,
wipe their oily ioreheads and preach about 1t
from their pulpits, as being of moro Importance
than the Gospel to their congregations. Pom
against it; snvious newspapers rack their
copper heads for arguments with which to
assail it; Bohemians soak themselves with lager
beer and grow bewildered in bordering over
1t; little political dogs snarl and snap at it and
hang their ears in dread of it. All such parties
acknowledge it. but none can understand it.
1t is to them more wonderful and incompre-
hensible than the solar system or the doctrine
of the Trinity Still, they regard its existence as
uudeniable. 1t continues to control all events,
great and small, to shape the destiny Of
nations and Of parties, to build up public men
or knock them down, and to regulate all
matters, from the heavenly display of mete-
ORIG shower down TO the DEVILS display OF the
"Black Crook"
According to our contemporaries, the mys-
terious influence Of the HERALD is responsible
for everything that happens in this world, if
not in the next The most surprising part Of
the business to them is the mysterious way in
which it moves its wonders to perform At
one time it opposes q candidate to elect him,
and at another it advocates him to defeat him.
Now it assails theatre in order to I'll its trea-
sury and now it praises performer for the
purpose Of damning him. A humbug Snowman
impudently asks to be sent to Congress from
Connecticut, and it is the HERALD that consigns
to private life the party that presumed to nomi-
nate him. A third rate lawyer and ward poll
ticisn, with very little brains, endeavors to be-
come Governor of the State Of New York by q
combination between the Tammany ring and
the prize ring, the Puritan and the blackleg,
and the HERALD, with retributive justice, elects
the blacklsg and defeats the Puritan. The re-
publican party shows q disposition to recon
struct the country on fair and liberal basis,
receives the endorsement Of the HERALD, and
carries every State in the Union by grand ma
jorities. The next session the radical Congress
alters its policy, is abandoned by the HERALD,
and radicalism 10 scattered 70 the winds. In
the meantime peddling politicians and Bohe-
milan newspapers are puzzled to know what it
all means, and keep declaring, in bewildered
state, that they cannot mako out the HERAID's
politics. They cannot understand that the
HERMD's politics are principles, and that men
and parties are as nothing In Its estimation.
All these things excite wonder, envy, confti-
sion, bewilderment and terror in the breasts of
our contemporaries, and Of humbugs, impos-
tors and rascals Of every description, whether
in science, art, religion, politics, literature or
any other calling. The HERALD and its mys-
terious influence are the nightmares that sit
upon their chests, disturbing their digestion by
day and their rest by night It looms up be-
fore them at all hours and in all seasons. A
day or two since the machinery Of the opera
became deranged and the performance ceased.
Instantly copperhead paper attributed the
troubles Of the manager to the mysterious in
fuence Of the HERALD. A mayoralty election
is approaching, and Hoffman, the candidate Of
all the municipal cutpurses who live by plum
dering the city, makes speech to his consti-
tuents. He does not tell the people why he
has suffered the taxes of the city to mount up
to twenty-four million dollars. He does not
explain how he came to sign the warrants for
all the thievish jobs of the new Court House.
He does not attempt to answer Peter Cooper's
last terrible indictment against him for squan-
dering one hundred and fifty thousand dollars
upon gang Of Tammany lawyers. He does
not let us know how he managed to be "out
Of the city" when this grand plundering
scheme was passed by the Common Council,
or why, after writing Puritanical veto of
that municipal swindle, he signed the warrants
to enable its concoctors to draw their money
out Of the public treasury. He does not inform
us how 1t is that an honest and
pious man happens TO be supported
by every one Of the notorious Corpo-
ration rings who have been robbing the
citizens for years in every department Of the
municipal government But be devotes his
time to cock-and-bull story about the HERALD
and some mysterious person supposed to be
Fernando Wood BY the confused reporter OF .
copperhead journal--who was some way inter-
ested in the widening Of Ann street. He de-
clares after the fashion Of Bohemians Of every
degree, that the HERALD is supporting Anthem
to elect Fernando Wood, running his head
against the mysterious influence which has
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