The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1868-02-04

from the plots and cOunterpl0ts the con-
fiicting aspirants, cliques and factions, the
wranglings and squabbles among the busy poll
ticians on both sides, it Is difficult to conjec-
ture who will make up the ticket or what will
make up the platform, beyond the negro ques-
ton, OF either the republican or the opposition
party.
On the republican side, although New
Hampshire aud Connecticut and several
Western States have pronounced for General
Grant and although among the masses
Of the party throughous the North we
hear Of no movements for Mr.. Chase,
the conflict is by no means settled in favor OF
Grant. On the contrary, it appears that the
sappers and miners Of Chase intend returning
in New Hampshire the compliment paid them
by the Grant engineers in New York last
November Senator Sprague, the Rhode Island
millionaire and son-in-law of the Chief Justice,
refuses, it is said, single dollar to the repub-
lican cause in New Hampshire on the Grant
platform, and General Ben Butler, it is given
out, intends scattering broadcast over the
Granite State terrible pamphlet on Bourbon,
In return for that cruel bottling up Of said
Butler at Bermuda Hundred In truth, upon
this matter Of Bourbon or army whiskey the
ultra radicals and the copperhesds seem to
have joined in a sort Of Holy Alliance against
Grant When men sto0p TO such weapons of
warfare we may be sure at least they will
leave no stone unturned to reach their adver-
sary. The probabilities, therefore, looking at
the interests of Mr.. Chase in New Hampshire,
are in favor Of The democracy in the coming
election.
Whether republican defeat in New Hamp-
shire, through the detection Of tho devotees OF
Ne. Chase, will help him or hurt him at Chicago
remains to be seen. 1t will suffice for the
present that if the always closely divided
States OF New Hampshire and Connecticut are
carried this spring under the dag OF Grant, Mr..
Chase will be reduced to an unconditional sur
render In New York the radicals, it would
appear, are prepared for the compromise of
Grant apa Fcnton but the amiable letter OF
Fenton recommending the same honors in the
cemetery to the rebel as to the Union soldiers
killed at Antietam, has awakened lhc wrath
of the Pennsylvania republicans, who have
in Governor Gary, they think, or Ex-Governor
Curtin, or Senator Cameron, or Secretary
Stanton, much better man for Vice President
than Fenton. Moreover, tho New York Grant
republicans, par excellence, are dead set against
Fenton, and through . sort of Mozart delega-
lion at the Syracuse Convention, the day aftor
tomorrow, they evidently mean TO swamp our
aspiring Governor, if they can. The Conven-
lion, however, it is supposed, will pronounce
in favor of Grant and Feaion. Ii so, MI. Chase
may possibly surrender without further delay
in Difference to the voice of New York; but
otherw. 80 the confusion in the party camp will
be only worse coufounded from New lamp
snire to Nebraska.
So much for the clashing cliques and factions
Presidential ticket Tho democracy are even
more divided on the question of a candidate,
from New York westward. while in the
New England States they seem TO be
ready for anything that nay turn up
as their national ticket In New York we
have Seymour clique, Hoffman clique and
the dormant reiuains OF a Mcclellan CLIQUE !;
but we have seen no outcroppings az yet of a
genuine Pend.eton clique. srom the federal
Offices here we have The nucleus Of Johnson
party; but Tammany and her painted Indians
keep alooi from Johnson while moving heaven
and earth for bis Offices. He Is manifcstly
The proper man for democrats and conserya-
tives OF all descriptions. aud next to him, as
the embodiment of the principles of The late
war for tho Union and the constitution. stands
General Sherman; but tho copperhoads recoil
from Sherman. rs tho Tammany sacbems
shrink from Johnson. They have no longer
the sagacious John Van Buren, TO guide them,
and 80 they are all adrift.
Out West there has been . clamorous
democratic uprising and hu!iabaloo for PEN
dlcton, from West Virginia TO Wisconsin but
q late event In Ohio threatens to take the cake
from Pendleton. We refer TO tho recent
Congressional election in the Eighth district,
and to vallandighsm's explanation Of that
suggestive democratic deie,t He says 1t Ia
due to the democratic policy Of trimming to
catch republican votes, by ignoring old
fashioned, Straight out democratic principles
| and democrats, and thas under this policy
Ohio, next fall, will 20 republican by from
twelve to twenty thousand majority. Vallan-
digbam, in word, has been badly used man
in Ono. BY his own party, and he evidently
means to smash tho machine" The man,
too, who dictated the Chicago platform OF
1864 will be very apt 60 have finger in the
pie in 1868 What mischief disappointed
| party leader with faithful band Of followers
at bis back may do bas been illustrated In a
thousand cases. from Calhoun down to Fill
more among the larger fish, and from Collector
Bronson down to Fernando Wood among the
smaller FRY. And how far individual claims
and prelensions have gone 70 settle and
unsette administrations and parties may be
seen in all the ups and downs Of American
| politics