The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1869-08-09

City PoIitics--'rhe state Of Parties.
Il il very evident, from the graphic sketch
given in the article under the head of ''City
Politics." published in yesterdays HERALD, of
the state of parties In this city, that the COM
ing campaign viii test the policy of the Tam
many leaders to the utmost. The German
democrats, hitherto very placid voting body,
are becoming FESTIVE. Through the impolitio
measures Tin party parlance) Of the republi-
cans in the Legislature touching the Excise
law frequent assertions have taken place from
the republican to the democratic camp. Con-
siderable strength has thus been added to the
German vote, which, with the natural
accretions through emigration for the past few
years, since the split In the republican
party, has made them, as they claim, the
strongest voting nationality in the city. strcnu-
Gus efforts are being made by fow leaders
among them to consolidate this strength
and TO make it an engine Of power In
firtherance of S;,eir ambition to take first places
in the city government. How far the Tammany
chiefs, against whom those demands are d.
rected are prepared to Yield Or may be com
PEELED to yield, will not be disclosed till some
time later in the campaign. AS fully explained
in the article referred to, under the head of
''City Politics, this new movement on the part
of the German voters and their leaders
threatens the Tammany ring with serious in
convenience il not positive danger.
Two other organizations, the offshoots Of
Tammany democracy, are also preparing for the
contest. These are the democratic Union and
the Mozart parties-one the creation of the
late Miles O'Reilly, the other once very
powerful organization under the leader
ship Of Fernando Wood The hope of these
two parties, even if under the most adyen-
titious circumstances they should unite as one
body, Of exercising any influence for the usual
political party objects, the plumber of the pub
lie purse, can only have chance of fruition
in the dissensOns that may arise between Tam
many aud the German auxiliaries that are pre-
pairing for revolt. Should such contingency
occur the united party would undoubtedly
be subsidized by Tammany, taken into her
sanity arms, and their return to the
by some signal acts Of favor to u select few of
the quondam leaders.
The republican party is still intent on
its own destruction, and has neither In
clinatlon nor real power to contest the
distribution of the city Offices in the coming
charter election. To this complexion has
the rivalry between the Twenty second street
and Twenty third street organizations come at
last. If reconciliation on the basis recon-
mended in the address of the Union Republican
Central Committee of the city of New York to
the republican electors of the city and State,
and which was published in yesterdays
HERALD, be effected different political result
from that now apparent may follow. In this
case Tammany would have an additional
danger to guard against in maintaining its
supremacy and the opposing organizations an
unexpected element Of strength in pressing
their demands. In any event the citizens will
only have left them the choice Of two evils.
They are in the position of the boy In the
show anxious to discriminate between Napoleon
Bonaparte and the Duke Of Wellington. They
have paid their money and they may take
their choice.