The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1868-08-29
Tho Democratic State Canvention-The
Tnmmany Ring and tho Candidates.

Tammany Ring and the Candidates.
The New York Democratic State Convention
assemblies in Albany next Wednesday, the I'd
of September. 1t is called for the purpose of
nominating candidates for Governor, Lieuten-
ant Governor Canal Commissioner, Inspector
of State Prisons, Clerk of the Court of Appeals
and Presidential electors. The republican can
didates are already in the field. On Wednes
day the democratic party brings out its candi-
dates, and the question is, Whom will they
nominate? Who will be their candidate for
Governor, leaving the minor candidates to
take care of themselves? Four candidates for
the Gubernatoral nomination have been
named to wit Sanford e. Church. Henry
G. Murphy, William Cassidy and John T.
Hoffman. Hoffman is the candidate Of the
Murphy of the opposition to Hoffman, and
Church of the great democratic power in the
western part Of the State The Tammany ring
showed its best strength last year in the election
ofHoffman Mayor of the city by sixty thousand
majority. Upon this they usurp to themselves
the authority to dictate to the balance of the
emocracy of the State who shall be nomi-
mated and who not They expect to carry
everything But the result will demonstrate
whether the Tammany power is omnipotent
and whether the strength of the New York
Western democracy will be exhausted in an
effort to make great Of so much native little
ness as exists in the leaders of the Tammany
or city democracy. The Tammany ring has
and enjoyed an absolute despotism over the
municipal affairs of the city number of
years. They have augmented the taxes of our
citizens from eight millions year to twenty
five millions. They have jobbed and bar
tered away the rights of citizens to thorough
fares by helping through corrupt Legislatures
franchises that would gridiron the city with
horse railroads without recompense to abutters
or consultation with taxpayers. They have
seen the peoples money squandered in such
operations as the building of the Harlem
bridge, in the construction of what was
number of years ago called the ''new' Court
House, and it is not yet finished; in giving large
salaries to worthless men who fill sinecures in
the Department for Surveying and Laying Out
New Streets Avenues and Squares; in grant
ing favors to monopolists for ferry, wharf
and dock privileges and in hundred
other ways has the Tammany ring in
the City Council, with its af1iliative branch,
the Board of Supervisors, managed to extort
unnecessary, unlawful and prodigious taxes
from the citizens of New York.
Hoffman, the candidate of this Tammany
ring, is the head of that ring. He is the
Chief Sachem of Tammany, and his war whoop
is the signal for all the lesser savages who
covert in the swamps of the Wigwam to be
ready for their prey. With the history of the
ravages upon the taxpayers Of the city of New
York winked at and encouraged by Hoffman,
can the democrats of Western and Central New
York regard him as proper leader in the
Gubernatorial canvass Of the State? Can the
friends of Church, Murphy and Cassidy submit
to such an atrocious usurpation of their plain
prerogative as the representatives of reforms
long demanded?
These questions, however, are answered
almost before the ink dries that places them
upon paper. There exists decided opposition
to Hoffman in this city and throughout the State.
The Western and Central democracy of New
York do not like expensive and extravagant
administrations. They see that the enormous
taxation in the city, under the administration
Of the Tammany ring, with Hoffman as its re-
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They do not desire to have similar system of
extravaganza carried into the State govern
ment. Hence it is no matter of surprise that
there should be smashing up of the old grasp
ing Tammany democracy and reconstruction
of the real New York democracy upon a
broad, liberal, economical and safe basis.
The democratic organs here are already divided
and afford evidence how the disruption is
spreading among the party. Belmont, Barlow
and the rest Of that clique represent the World
or Hoffman, Tammany wing. Brick Pomeroy
and his friends represent the red-hot, indepen-
dent wing. Dana and others represent the
neutral squad, and it is probable they will hold
the strings of the purse that will furnish the
cash ammunition to carry on the campaign. In
this dilemma the Convention at Albany on We'd
nesday will have an interesting and important
business TO perform. Selecting between the
candidates named, the delegates will have to
choose either Mr.. Church, q first rate man
from the interior, one of the good old Silas
Wright school and uncontamnated by the cor
ruptions of the Tammany ring; Mr.. Murphy,
a good man, who has the strength of Kings
county with the city of Brooklyn at his back !;
Mr. Cassidy, Of Albany, who is very good
man and would make fair candidate were it
not for some few impediments, and Mr.. Hoh-
man, the tool and personifcation of the Tam
many ring, reeking as it is with its foulness,
corruption, extravaganza and perfdy. Here