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THE RESULT OF GENERAL GRANTS
INTERMEDDLING WITH NEW YORK
POLITICS.

THE RESULT OF GENERAL GRANTS
INTERMEDDLING WITH NEW YORK
POLITICS.
From the NJ Y. Sun.
The Republican party of tLis State will
fall an easy prey to its opponents at the
annual election in November. 1t is torn by
internal feuds, is utterly demoralized in
large number of Congressional districts, aud
its leading journals and principal candidates
give signs of woe that all is lost. And why
is this thus =!
In the early summer the prospects of
Republican victory in the State this fall were
cheering. The sanguine leaders of that
party were confident of triumph, while the
Regency at Albany and the Sachems of Tam
many felt at least doubtful of the result.
There were solid grounds for the hopes of
the Republicans and the fears of the Demo
Gratis. The Democratic ascendancy in the
State Capitol during the previous winter had
exhibited no marked improvement, espe-
cially in the matter of venal and corrupt
legislation, over that of the Republicans in
former years. The Democratic administra-
ton in this city had rent the party asunder,
and the malcontents, under the lead of
OBrien, Ledwith, and their associates, had
organized such powerful opposition against
Tammany Hall that the magnates of the
party began to fear that the regular Demo-
cratic tickets would fail to receive a maio-
rity of the votes in this city in November.
At this critical iuncture General Grant got
it into his head that the Hon. Horace Greeley
doubted the expediency of his denomination
to the Presidency, and that Senator Fenton
was plotting to become his successor in 1872;
and so the President fastened a quarrel upon
the willy politician of Ohautauqua and turned
the cold shoulder upon the philosopher of
Chappaqua. The President commenced his
war against Fenton by appointing the Hon.
Thomas Murphy Collector of this port against
his strenuous opposition, which Fenton
based upon the ground that Murphy had done
his best to defeat the Republican State ticket
in 1866, when Fenton was the candidate for
Governor. Grant followed up this attack at
the Saratoga Convention by preventing the
election of Fenton to the chair of that body
while at the same time he dealt foul blow
at Greeley by crushing his aspirations for the
nomination to the Governorship, a distinction
upon which the founder of the party that
made Grant President but to which Grant
never belonged, had set his heart.
This quarrel with Fenton and this insult to
Greeley have produced their legitimate fruits
by carrying discord acrimony and dis
every county of the State. Their influence
has been felt in at least dozen of the
strongest Republican Congressional districts,
rendering it almost impossible to nominate
candidates after hundreds of ballotings and
producing irreconciable splits and the prob
able loss of Republican Congressman in two
or three districts. Their baleful effects are
felt, too, in score OF Assembly districts, aud,
unless promptly checked, which the factionists
seem not to desire, will surely give the
Democrats a majority in that body. They
have torn the Republican party in this city
into shreds, making each wing of the belli-
gerents good deal more eager to beat its
rival than to reduce the Democratic maj orty
on Manhattan Island, and thus doubtless
convincing General Sharpe, the United States
Marshal, that his plans for helping the Re-
publicans at the polls will be of no practical
use, and discouraging the Young Democracy
in their fight against Tammany, which they
gallantly keep up, though badly crippled,
their numbers diminished, and their hopes
blghted by the treachery of Littlejohn and
his Republican associates in the Legislature
last winter.
All this is the result of General Grant un.
seemly and unskilful interference with the
local elections of this State, and his unpro-
voked quarrel with one of its most adroit
politicians, and his ungenerous efforts to
crush the aspirations of one of its Oldest and
most distinguished journalists-and all to
secure what he will not obtain, a renomina
tion to the Presidency; for from this hour
forward Reuben e. Fenton and Horace Gree
ley, backed by a maj ority of the Republicans
of New York, will labor to prevent it. And
they will succeed