The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-11-12

by Tsmmany on Tuesday last lies in her de-
cisive victory in this city under all the new
safeguards applied for an honest election.
She thus stands before the country relieved
of the odium so widely charged against her
of winning her victories by fraudulent votes
and false returns She has also gained
great moral advantage over her accusers in
cooperating with the United States authori-
ties in the maintenance of law and order. In
thus gracefully recognizing the sovereign
authority of the United States she stands
clear of any charges of a seditious character.
At the same time the President has displayed
the soundest judgment in his quiet and con-
ciliatory arrangements for the enforcement
of the laws, and in the appointment of that
cool, experienced, and r-headed diplomat,
Caleb Cushing, as the legal adviser of the
belligerent Marshal Sharpe and his collea-
gues. Thus the triumph of Tammany is
glorifed in the triumph of law, and she
stands before the country now great, posi-
tive, and undisputed centre of political power
as the 'head centre, in short, of the De-
mocratic party of the Union.
Governor Hoffman is her candidate for the
Presidential succession, and his popularity
throughout the Empire State rests upon the
solid foundation of good public record and
approved abilities as a politician and as a
statesman. The Republican candidate for
1872 is General Grant, and there is no danger
in his case of any contesting Republican
aspirant. He stands to-day the accepted
champion of his party against all comers, and
he stands upon the acceptable platform of a
careful, money-saving, retrenching, tax-re-
ducing and debt-paying administration.
Against him, from the facts of the late cleo
tions before us, the Democracy in 1872 will
have but slim chance of success. There
is no telling, however, what changes in the
nOlifipal isSI1pG Of the 6au ha hrlr robt
about within single year in these eventful
times Before the formal opening Of the
Presidential canvass, the Cuban question, the
st. Domingo question, the Mexican question,
or the Alabama claims, involving the Cana
dian annexation question, may be brought
upon the carpet in such a shape as for time
to supersede all other questions among the
politicians. All these issues are in the hands
of the President, and upon bold stroke for
Cuba, st. Domingo, Mexico, or for the acqui-
sition of the great river and Gulf of st. Law
renee as an outlet for the rapidly accumu-
lating products of the Northwest, General
Grant may make popular hit which will re-
peat, in his great success, the second election
of Jackson or the second election of Lincoln.
Meantime the Tammany Democracy have
great task before them in putting the party
for 1872 upon some new platform on the
living issues of the day, after cutting it loose
iAOh ohO uOdu loouSS VI tu6 tlIIl0 OI
But first and foremost, the duty devoves
upon Tammany of giving this city some
satisfactory and substantial equivalents for
the tax levy - something more than the
shadows of city improvements, including i'm
proved communications from end to end of
Manhattan Island, and with the islands and
mainland on both sides. If the taxes of the
National Government were on the scale of
our corporation assessments Secretary Bout
rxynll ,,<N,,1l Il,
sand millions a year. General Grant has
more, much more, to show for his money COL
lected than the Tammany government.
Taxes-speaking of taxes-we can do nothing
without taxes; but give us, Sachems a
fair equivalent for our taxes collected, and
you may hold on in the city for twenty years.
Next, with regard to the State. Protect the
people against the grasping schemes of rail-
way and other leagues of powerful corpora
tions, and you may hold the State for twenty
years and avoid the Intervention of Con
gress. Having all become millionaires, o
most potent sachems now is your time to
act largely and literally for the city and the
State.
There is no necessity for any hurry in
pushing the claims of Governor Hoffman for
the nomination of the next National Demo-
cratic Convention. The past Presidential
conventions of the party are full of instruc-
tions upon this subject. Never since the
time of Jackson has there been any certainty
as to the candidate of these Juggling conven-
tions, and the aspirants first in the field have
always been the first to be knocked in the
head No, we must except Buchanan in
1856. He was first IN the field that time. as
he was many times before, but that time he
succeeded. But what time they made of it
with him, and what mess he made of it! He
was the Louis the Sixteenth of the old Bour-
bons, lacking the guillotine So now, not
forgetting the keep-in-t the dark dodge of Hora-
tia Seymour, whereby he cut out Pendleton iu
1868, we have our misgivings of this prema-
ture trotting out of Governor Hoffman 1t ia
different case; but it reminds us that John
Van Buren in 1865 trotted out Andy Johnson
for the Democracy, which was the ruin of
Johnson, and the ruin of the Democracy, too.
Again. the Western Democrats have not for
gotten Seymour, and they still have an eye
on Pendleton. These old Presidential sores
are hard to cure, and disappointed and badly
treated aspirants are apt to seek their
revenges. Look at Calhoun, Tyler, Martin
Van Buren, Fillmore, Seward, and Johnson.
Let Tammany, then, for the present, be as
modest as Hoffman in reference to his claims
to the next Presidency. If Seymour had not
spoiled the trick we should recommend a posi-
tive withdrawal of the Governor from the
field. AS it is, let him be held by Tammauy
as subject to eventualities and not as an
ultimatum; and thus he may escape those
rival cliques and factions in the convention
SO fatal to any favorite under the two-thirds
rule.
Briefly, let Tammany do the best she can,
with the aid of the Governor, for the CITY and
the State, and she will do the best she can to
make Hoffman President, if not in 1872, in
1876. And thus, 0 greatly exalted sachems (!