The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1867-09-27

Andrew johnson as scapeS oat Will NO longer
avail them.
The Opening OF the Cnmpaign-Politics In
the stntc ana the City.
The political fires are beginning to blaze up
all over the State, and everything gives
promise of very warm contest in the Novem-
Der general election as well as in the charter
election which follows in the city Of New York
one month later. One Of the parties, the re-
publicans, have already placed their candi-
dates in the field and given them sort OF
platform to stand upon. The other, the demo-
Gratis, meet next week to make their nomina-
tions and to announce the principles upon
which they desire to go before the people. So
far as the candidates are concerned, they
amount to yery little, for no one except few
expectant appointees for handful Of beg
carly subordinate Offices cares what indlvidu-
ais may be chosen to Ill the posts Of Secretary
of State, Canal Commissioner, State Prison In
spector or any other position In the State gov
ernment The places are Insignificant, poorly
paid and with very small patronage attached.
and really are not worth the acceptance OF
any active business man. But the issues to be
decided at the polls are Of vital Importance to
the welfare of the country, and to these alone
the attention Of the people should be directed.
The platform Of the republicans, ~ enun-
ciated at Syracuse, is very diluted, cowardly,
fraudulent affair. It is a. wishywashy and
worthless as the trashy speech delivered BY
Master Roscoe Conkling at the opening Of the
exercises. It touches every issue in Q gingerly,
timid manner. It Is gingerly on negro suf-
frage; gingerly on impeachment; gingerly on
Sunday laws and prohibition. Master Conk-
ling should have been soundly whipped, stood
in the corner with FOOLS cap upon his head
and sent very early to bed without any supper,
for making such silly address. The platform
should have been Indignantly secuted and
kicked out Of the Convention by every radical
delegate who possesses spark Of boldnsss
and manhood.
But, Notwithstanding the schoolboy speech
and the sneaking platform, the fact stands
plainly out that the republican ticket nomi-
mated at Syracuse represents the party that
seeks to obtain control Of the government in
1868 by the aid Of moneyed oligarchy and
negro supremacy In ten Of the States Of the
Union; while the ticket to be formed at
Albany next week will represent the opposition
to all these dangerous and revolutionary
notions among the whole mass Of the people,
without distinction Of party. This will be the
great absorbing point upon which the contest
will turn and although the republicans are
laboring to conceal the true issue under
ridiculous hubbub about Andrew johnson, who
is in fac, their most useful ally in putting the
South under negro domination, the people we'll
il in November.
In the State there will be but two organiza-
tons with candidates in the field. OF these the
republicans have been for some years the most
powerful. The democracy, as an organization,
amount to nothing at all. They are in tram
stion state, and only serve as nucleus for the
formation of great constitutional party by
which they are certain to be absorbed and
swallowed up ia tho next Presidential election.
But the republicans will lose this fall the votes
of all the thinking business men, who foresee
the ruin that awaits the country If the violence
and intemperance Of the radical Congress
should be suffered 10 proceed unchecked, while
the democrats will secure the aid Of all who
desire to unite next year in great constitu-
,ional movement 10 rescue the country from
the hands Of the men who are recklessly
driving 1t to destruction. Those who are
willing to submit to negro government will
adhere to the radicals; those wio believe In
white mans government will 60 with tho
Opposition. The reaction already seen in
California and in Maine will make itself felt
more distinctly in New York, aud the party
chat links its fortunes with the tremendous
bubble OF the national banks, the supremacy
OF the negro, and the sumptuary legislation of
the Puritans will assuredly go to the wall.
In the charter election in the city of-New
York affairs win wear different aspect Here
| there will be no division aud no issue upon
national questions In place Of two organizs-
| lions fighting square battle for and against
a moneyed oligarchy aud negro supremacy,
there will probably be three candidates In the
field for Mayor, and all of them democratic.
While In the general election in November
| New York city will roll up her sixty thousand
majority against the negro party, in the De-
cember charter election this majority viii be
divided between some three anti-nsgro candi-
dates on local issues alone. The chances are
that John Anderson, sterling, independent
democrat and an honest, upright business man,
viii, be in the field against Fernando Wood
| and John Hoffman, also democrats, but ma.