The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-12-05
The Four Republican Rings.
From The NJ Y. Herald.

From The NJ Y. Herald
There are four Republican rings in New
York, all anxious to serve their country under
the new dispensation, and to control General
Grants administration. Each of these rings
has its organ in the city-One headed by
Greeley, another by Raymond, third by
Dana, and fourth by Weed-eaoh has it's
game to play, the stakes being the comfort
able pickings from the brokerage of the Fede-
raj patronage, and the rich drippings from
whisky, tobacco, and revenue matters gene
rally. Their first point was to obtain some
sort of official recognition from the President
elect and when he was in this city all the
rival organists waited upon him at his hotel
in the hope of being enabled to make some sort
of public announcement indicating that they
had gained the inside track in the great race.
But they could get nothing but polite 'good
morning" and the pleasant Whit of an excel
lent cigar as he stepped into Bonner's hand
some wagon, to be whirled away on the road
inside two-forty gait. Thus bat1ed, the heads
of the rings next set themselves to work to
create the impression that they had been chosen
as the select and special organ. grinders of the
new administration. Two of them caused il
to be given out that they were about to be-
come the proprietors of the whisky ring paper
at Washington, which was to be recognized as
the official mouthpiece of General Grant; while
q third desired it to be understood that his
own Washington bureau was all the organ
that General Grant needed or desired. All of
them got mixed up in an impertinent discus
sion of the domestic economy OF the White
House, and entered into general scramble for
the position Of chief cook and bottle-washer Of
Grants kitchen cabinet. They are now par
ticularly engaged in nominating themselves
and their friends for the best Offices in the
gift of the new Federal administration, and
are likely to prove as mOnopolizing in this
direc ton as were the Blairs in the good old
days, or as would be the Washburnes in these
modern times.
The first pitched battle between these four
rings will be fought in Albany in January
next over the question Of the United States
| Senatorship. This struggle opened some time
| since with great contest between Fenton and
Morgan, which seems to have had a termina-
| ton similar to that resulting from the famous
| combat between the Kilkenny cats. AT all
events, Fenton has been finally disposed of,
| with not even the most extreme point OF his
tail left to tell the story of his valor, and IL
Morgan still lives it is only through the gal
vanizng properties Of gold-bearing Govern
ment bonds. The Greeley ring, originally
inclined towards Fenton, have gone back on
| their faVorite in his hour of need, and will
concentrate their strength upon Noah Davis,
of Orleans, who was pitted against Roscoe
Conkling in the last Senatorial struggle, but
only served to kill off Ira Harris. The Dana
ring and the old Tammany Hall Joint Stock
Real Estate and Mutual Admiration Society
are prepared to bet their pile on Morgan, win
or lose. Raymond and his combination would
like for Senator Attorney yGeneral Eyarts oI
any other good-hearted gentleman who is
easily managed, believes in the United States
Eastern district for the State of New York,
and does not credit all the idle gossip about
revenue frauds Weed is, as usual, beating
about the bush, willing to pick up Marshall
O. Roberts and his stamps, or any other
man, and to claim the candidate as his own
| special property, whoever he may be. There