The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1869-11-06
New York--The Democratic Party and tn
Next Presidency.


Next Presidency.
In o national as we'll rs in local view the
complete success of the democrats in our late
State election is the most important political
victory they have achieved since the election
Of Buchanan in 1856. The full returns of last
Tuesday election will doubtless show that it
went by default in the rural districts, and that
there is q deficiency In the aggregate popular
vote exceeding one hundred and fifty thousand,
and 1t may fall two hundred thousand short OF
the vote Of last November. But whatever the
causes, in the fact that the democrats, with
tho Governor to back them, have both houses
of the Legislature for the first time in seven
teen years, we have substantial and most
important political victory. Since the election
of Pierce in 1852 down to this November the
democrats have not gained full possession of
our State government, and in this long inter-
val the repressive acts Of the other party have
accumulated into heavy bill Of damages, for
which full indemnity con and will, we dare
say, be exacted.
The Independent boards and depart
ments, for instance, into which the local gov
eminent Of this city has been divided by
republican legislation, will, we expect be
done away with, and will gil be placed
In subordination to the Mayor and City
Councils and subject to the supreme jurisdic-
ton Of Tammany Hall. We believe, too, that
IN the reconstruction of our city government,
as under a responsible municipal President
and Cabinet, not only may Tammany increase
her pre- ent majorities, but that in the matter
Of retrenchment and reform she may gain a
prestige which will give the democrats perma-
nent possession of the State.
Tammany has her eye upon the next Presi-
Dental contest, and she has her candidate in
tue foreground. From and after the first of
January the eyes of New York, and even Of
Delaware, will be upon the Wigwam and upon
Governor Hoffman at Albany. We shall look
for the Tammany programme In the Cover
nor's annual message to the Legislature, and
it will probably awaken the republicans to q
keen perception OF what they have lost. The
Governor, however, will have to play his
cards very skilfully in his message. in his
appointments and In bis action upon the bills
that will be laid before him In order to
come off to any advantage. We appre-
bend that as the Tammany candidate for the
Presidential succession he has been proclaimed
too soon, and that to secure harmony from the
Seymour men of the rural districts the
sachems will have to withdraw the Governor O
little into the background and bring into the
foreground a new national platform for the
democracy Of the United States-a platform
which will be up to the time and the new
issues Of this new epoch, and shaped to fusion
with the new democracy of the South.
The democratic Presidential candidate fol
1872, we think, will be new man but we
do not think it will be Hoffman. The PresI-
dental election Of last year and the State
elections of this year, and the new departure
Of the Southern democracy, and the neal
approach Of the universal establishment o.
| negro suffrage, and the settlement Of Southern
| reconstruction, have settled the question &c
far rs Seymour, Pendleton, Packer, Hen
| bricks aud all that old set are concerned
They are sheived, and to make any impression
against General Grant as the republican can
didate the democratic party will need some
great gun Of the heavy calibre, the long
range and the national reputation ant
popularity Of General Thomas. There
Ia no encouraging response from am
quarter to the namo Of Chase. lie, too, will
the rest Of the old stagers, has finished hi
career as pilgrim for the White House. Hi
record 10 good. but It y getting musu. TO hin