The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1869-10-04
State P0litics-The Campaign Of 1879.

State POlitics-The Campaign Of 1879.
In month from to-day New York State
will hold its election for State officers. The
accepted as a criterion to judge Of the relative
strength of the republican and democratic
parties when they come to vote on the more
important issues involved in the succeeding
Presidential election. The result, however,
whatever 1t may be, cannot be viewed in the
same light with regard to the campaign Of
1872 as the results which will follow the cleo
tons in Pennsylvania and Ohio. These States
are to vote their gubernatorial tickets, which,
next to Presidential election, always call
forth the highest voting strength of all parties.
Therefore, as State goes in voting for its
own executive it may fairly be concluded it
will 60, if no serious administrative fdsc0
occurs in the meantime, when voting on the
Presidential ticket. This admitted fact gives
to the Pennsylvania and Ohio elections an
Importance that our own election seems to lack.
But there is behind the ordinary interest
attaching to our November campaign an
interest and Importance arising from the use
the politicians design to make of it
which does not appear at the first
glance. The republican party of the State
has lost the cohesive power which made it SO
strong and irresistible during the war. Apart
from the influence the leaders of thu party ex-
ercised to their own profit in the federal ad-
ministration, they controlled all the patronage
of the State government during the double
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and the election of Governor Hoffman the
power of the republican party has been grad
ually slipping out of It's hands, till now its
leaders, or such of them as are left, are placed
in position in which they are compelled to
act on the defensive instead of the offensive
The Morgan and Fenton Senatorial fight COM
pletely disrupted the party. From the moment
these political gladiators entered the arena
with their stamps aud greenbacks the weak
ness and corruption of the party were made
publicly manifest, and the demoralizing effect of
the bargaining and huckstering for votes then
openly carried on in the legislative chamber
is felt in almost every republican district in
the State. Fenton has temporarily abandoned
the field of politics, and between his late fol-
lowers and the Morgan "soreheads" there Is
now deadly feud being waged. This is the
condition of the republican party throughout
the State at the present moment.
The Tammany Regency under the leader
ship of Peter Bismarck Sweeny, resolved to
take advantage Of these discussions in the re-
publican camp, is making sure work to secure
majority in both branches of the Legislature
in November next. 1t has its emssaries in
every Senatorial and Assembly district spying
out the land and reporting the condition Of
local politics and the position Of parties.
From these reports, favorable to the ambitious
views of the democratic leaders, political
programme is prepared for the coming Presi-
Dental contest. With the Chief Executive
personally and politically attached to the Tam
many dynasty, indebted to it for past favors
and present eminence, and trusting to it for
still further honors, and with Legislature
pledged to carry out all its behests and support
all its measures, the Tammany Regency may
not SO far mscalculate its power if it aims to
reinaugurate the policy and to tread in the foot
steps of the old Albany Regency, which placed
the man of its choice in the Presidential chair
in 1886. What the Albany Regency did in its
day circumstances, directed by such men as
Peter Bismarck Sweeny and his councillors,
can no doubt do in the present. At all events,
the Regency is directing all Its efforts and
shaping every political movement in city and
State with a single eye to Its action in the
campaign Of 1872, and to the nomination Of
their man, Governor Hoffman, on the Presi-
DENTAL ticket.