The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1869-11-13

| Inc pOLtcal calurOn Is stu In nlgn STATE
of ebullition. No sooner has one portion of the
ingredients and clements which 60 to make up
the ''bubble, bubble toll and trouble" of politi
cal campaign been worked Off than fresh spirits
spring up that require all the potent arts and
spells Of the ring to provide for with the fat
offices which, by a pleasant delusion, are sup
posed to be 'within the gift Of the people"
but with the actual disposition Of which they
have as much to do as the inhabitants Of Tim
buctoo. The result of the State and county
elections has given Tammany complete control
of all the Offices falling within the election to
be held ON the first Tuesday in December
next, and as the chief slatemaker "wills" so
shall the result in the coming election be. In
the absence Of any party contest for the Offices
to be filed, and as the Tammany nominees
win have quiet walk over the course, Peter
Bismarck Sweeney can afford, in the elation of
unexpected success and in the magnanimity
natural TO the leader of a triumphant party, to
be just to the people in the selection OF his NOM
inees. The people do not expect and will not
ask much in the selection of the representa-
tives of Tammany in that coordinate branch of
the city government yclept the Boards of
Aldermen and Assistant Aldermen. Use has
made US so familiar with the organization of
these bodies and the manner of voting for
them, and this familiarity has bred such con-
tempt that very little thought is given to the
coming charter election, which is to give us
two fresh boards, especially as more than
three-fourths of the present worthless are sure
to be renominated and engineered back into
their old places.
The coming election, Notwithstanding that
it is thus encountered with deadweight, has
other interests depending on the result that
enhance it in the estimation Of the citizens.
The whole magisterial force Of the city is to
be re-elected-nine civil justices and nine
police magistrates In city stocked with
lawyers as is New York, the great majority
of whom are young, given to politics, and
therefore ambitious for place, there can be no
lack Of the right calibre Of men for the Tam
many Regency to select from to place on the
magisterial bench-no need to look to the
train bands Of the party for candidates-to the
class TO which portion Of those who are at
the present moment seeking the Office belong,
and who can only be inspired thereto not by
any possible consciousness Of their fitness for
the office, but as they deem themselves fitting
instruments to do the behests of the party who
may put them in power and which they count
upon as all-sufficient recommendation.
Tammany has wisely concluded to renomi-
nate several Of the present incumbents on the
Civil and Police Justice benches, and has
thereby given an assurance of its desire to
leave the right men in the right places. In the
vacancies to be filed let 1t do likewise, and
assurance becomes "doubly sure.' Besides
the class of candidates referred to-members
of the train band of politicians-there are
host of worthy and professionally qualified and
experienced aspirants for these Offices, and Mr..
Sweeny can have no trouble in adding to the
list of worthless to be retained on the magiste-
rial bench by selecting from these candidates
SUCCESSORS to those present incumbents whose
places which know them to-day will know
them no more forever after the close Of the
present year. The nominations will be decided
on in a day or two, and we trust that they may
be such as will give the fullest satisfaction to
the citizens, who have deep interest in an
impartial and bipartisan administration of ju S.
tics in our civil and criminal courts.