The New York herald., 1867-08-19
The Plots aua Plans OF Oily Politicians-Thc
Coming Explosion.

The Plots aua Plans OF Oity Politicians-The
Coming Explosion.
The weekly papers are beginning to bestir
themselves about our local politics, and as the
greater number Of them have, or desire TO have,
fingers in the political pie, they afford a fair
insight into the bars ainings and tradings, the
intrigues and wire pullings, the combinations
coquettings and coy firtations just now going
On among the cliques, rings and place hunters
Of the oity. It ID amusing to see how, year
after year, the same old hacks are trotted out,
or trot themselves out for Office, and how the
several political organizations parcel out the
nominations, without any regard 10 the senti-
ments or wishes Of tho people. We are told
how one ward bully is on the Tammany slate
for Sheriff, and another ward bully is down for
County Clerk how this bruiser, with half
dozen aliases, is to be nominated for Senator,
and that one for the Assembly. We are let
into The secrets of this gang in tho "BloOdy
Sixth,r and tue other gang In the equally san
culinary First" and we find officials now in
place insisting upon denominations and ex-
Office holders putting up their men" VITA as
much GOODNESS and impudence as If they owned
every voter in the city, and as if the peoples
ballots were their individual property, to be
disposed of in any manner they may see fit
In the midst Of all this plotting and plan
ming, however, it is very evident that q mine is
preparing which will 60 down deeper than all
the political organizations, cliques and rings,
and when exploded will blow the whole crew
Incorporation lceches and piunderers into the
air. The people are heartily sick and tirei OF
the rule of radical negro supremacy commits
sions and dishonest Tammany politicians. They
are disguised with the oppressive and absurd
laws which have been fastened upon
them by the joint efforts Of republican
legislators and the Tammany corporation,
and are determined to sweep them all
out of official existence. The liquor dealers
and their friends, all the whisksy Irish demo-
erats and all the lager beer German demo-
crats are raliying on their natural and only
reliable champion-that magnificent rascal
Fernando Wood. They will trust no longer to
party nominations, for they have been regularly
sold out by Tammany, and they know that
1ammany Mayor and other Tammany corpora
lion officials, if elected, will 60 up to Albany
next winter with their pockets filed with the
public money, and will bargain away yet more
of The municipal rights of the citizens, in order
to be allowed to hold on to their own places.
The people will, therefore, refuse to be led any
longer by wirc-working, greedy politicians of
any organization, but will choose their own
candidates in their own way. They want no
milk-and-water leaders now, for this is the day
for bold men. A resolute, impudent, deter
mined rascal can carry The masses with him,
no matter what may be the color Of his mus
tache. Fernando Wood lacks neither impu-
dence, determination nor boldness, and is
shrewd enough to understand the bearing of
things and TO turn them 10 his own advan tage.
He will march on with his great Irish party
and his swarmng German legions at his back,
and bid defiance to the little Sweeney and
Brennan and Tweed politicians, as he did in
1859. The game seems now to be entirely in
his own hands, and there is no doubt that he
is preparing bombshell that will before long
explode among these small fry plotters, end
destroy all their nicely laid schemes for parti-
tioning up the city Offices among their own
disreputable cliques.