The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1868-01-26
CITY POLITICS.

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| Parties La This City-The Candidates
| "Thought orr and Their ects-.J ohm
| son, Grant, Chase ana Pendieton-Breakers
/ Ahead-JohnsOn the Fayorite in the Counc
of Tammany.
| The world Of politics never in a more dis
turbed state than at present. Meetings are being
| held throughout the city night after night
| speeches, resolutions, motions and propositions,
and counter speeches, resolutions, motions and
propositions are made, listened to and then
secuted and discarded much blank firing
that means nothing and hurts nobody. All the
various political organizations in the city are
holding councils in their several wigwams. debating
the plan of the coming campaign. Not one Of
them, however, has arrived, or at the present
iuncture desires to arrive at fixed and decided
course Of action. Time presses, and though all
are anxious to take time by the forelock, that
fast gentleman is gliding past and no sign ind-
Gates the man upon whom the chiefs and their
followers must concentrate as the standard bearer
Of either of the great contending parties in the
coming contest. Reconstruction for the Southern
States has been long time great national de.
sideratum but before the question as to who shall
be the man to put forward rs candidate for Presi-
dent shall be decided there will be such a disrup-
ton OF parties that party reconstruction may
never be hoped for.
THE REPUBLICAN AND DEMOCRATIC PARTIES.
Grant conquered the rebel States by attri-
uon," and it Is exactly through similar process
or, II not that, OF spontaneous combustion, should
the present contention continue that the republi-
can party are about being dissolved resolved
into its first elements when it was power in the
State. The democratic party are holding meetings
nightly in all the wards of the city for the purpose
| OF permanent organization for the coming cam.
| paign. The first duty Of these organizations,
| when completed, will be to meet in convention,
| through delegates, and then, having at last and
| finally selected the man whom they shall
1 fix upon as their standard bearer foc the Pres-
| dency, call great mass meeting Of the people
| and ask from them an endorsement Of their princi-
| pies and OF their representative man as candidate
for the Chief Magstracy of the nation. In the
republican ranks there is terrible tempest in the
SIN Hest Of all tea cups. The party has really but
| one man to cling to in the f0rlorn hope that a
| radical Congress has left them to fight against
That man is Grant, and yet even his name is
| seldom heard at their public meetings. "No
| Surrender Grant is no longer @ rallying cry at
| their meetings, and the next man whose name is
| on their lips they fear even to whisper in each
| other s ears. The most daring of them cry Grant;
| these are the men who have, many of them
! fought under the General, and beyond the sol.
| dier's attachment and devotion to a success full
| leader in the field, have no object interest to
"
| enough this branch of the republican party claim
to be the radical portion of it; but their rad cal
ism seems only TO go to the extent Of no surrender
| for Grant and thorough contempt and complete
| defiance for their seeding friends who have not
| the courage to name the man of their choice TIL
other is the speculative branch of the party, who
anticipate that in the event OF Grants
election he viii proclaim general am.
nesty, so far as the present incum-
bency of Offices 60, leaving the ms'' in aud
the outs" out-an arrangement peculiarly unac.
| ceptabe to the aspirants for revenue collector
| ships, United States marshalshps, commissioner.
1 ships, judgeships and various other ships that
| might naturally be expected TO require TO be
manned in the event Of Salmon p. Chase being
| elected to steer the ship OF State. The latter
branch hold out at room No 8, Astor House, in
daily coDcave, sending out their CIRCULARS lar and
| wide throughout the state, inviting delegates to
| meet them in convention to be heIi some time ia
April, at some point yet undecided upon to con-
| suit as TO the nominal of some man yet BY
| them unforeshadowed, because they do not yet
| proclaim Chase. This great unknown in reality
should there be~ chance given to tn Sc
| wire pullers OF the Astor House for a show
would, when unveiled, exhibit to their
deluded followers the imposing counterfeit
| presentment to be seen by the lucky few who
have the stamps-a genuine one dollar green
back-which now very rare, and valuable as rare
emblem of currency the erst Secretary of the
| Treasury selected as his advertising medium for
| tho Presidency long ago. The radicals, under
| their rrepressible leader Spencer, and speaking
| through him, say, in his "Spenceran" style OF
i
seed enough among them TO raise up a party for
| Chase" in this Chase may be counted out
and the nominee OF the dominant republican party
| in this city will be Grant for President. AS to
| the Vice Presidency there is no difference Of
opinion, no discord; all is serene. Chase or
| Grant. or anybody else, as far as appearances
| go, Fenton is the choice of all as second fd-
| dler in the dance to the Presidency Here
everything is settled, appointments pre- arranged
and Offices to be filled, all disposed Of ea sonae,
| according to programme. The Chase clique
| harp" upon the extreme and unconstitutional
| measures adopted by Congress in their new recon
struction bill investing General Grant with powers
| independent OF the supreme Executive over the
| unreconstructed States, and this they seize upon
as their ground work Of opposition to Grant. They
| plead that Grant ought not to accept post so
opposed To all the great fundamental principles OF
| the government. The bill also requiring
two-thiris majority Of the judges Of the
| with effect against any act OF the radi.
| cal Congress comes in for its full share
OF condemnation. This measure IL seized uron al
the principal refrigtun Pcccdto,u'n Of this small
| branch Of the party, whom their stronger and
more confident brethren say have not seed
| enough among them to DO the creators OF q new
party to contest the spoils of Office
THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY.
In the democratic ranks there is also great IN
| certainty as to their coming man. There is no
doubt but the great democracy OF New York
| city are unusually exercised as to their action.
They look upon Grant through other spcctacles
| than those with which they 0ged him a short time
| since. As regarding him, heretofore they we're in
| the delicate position of young gentleman anxious
to pop the question, but whose bashulness was in
/ the way, or whose conscience told him he would
not be accepted. Still they coquetted about
| until assured he would not accept and then they
seize the first opportunity TO denounce him one
| they had never thought OF in their widest dreams
4 the one of their choice. There is now evidently
| a determined stand taken-that is, as far as the
| shifting nature Of the ground permits them-to
| come right to the point with O man by whom they
i will stand or fall. They have locked over the
| whole political expanse, and before them some
seers Of the party conjured up strange FORMS
1 embryo Presidents-from General Mcclellan, yet
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