The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1871-04-17

York Secured TO the Democracy.
Wonders will never cease. Tammany Hall
has found her man, and in the republican
round robin-the one republican vote needed
to break the deadlock in the State Assembly
resulting from the pugilistic James Irving's
resignation. On Saturday last Mr.. Orange 8.
Winans, member from Chautauqua county,
boldly, in tho Assembly, left the republican line
and Joined the rejoicing democracy. With
this acquisition the last obstruction is removed.
the course is clear and the whole budget OF
the big bills of s'the Boss" will be smoothly
carried through, including the bill for the prac-
tical repeal Of the city Registry law, the bill
to amend the State Election law, the Two Per
Cent Tax Levy bill and all the rest. These bills
are SO shrewdly adapted to hold fast the State
of New York in the hands Of Tammany
against all Congressional election law and
Ku Klux bills and against all probable contin-
gencies that We may safely say that the bolt Of
Assemblyman Winans from the republican
camp on Saturday is the greatest victory
achieved by the democracy since our Novem-
Der election OF 1869, which gave them abso-
lutte possession Of the State for the first time
In nearly twenty years.
But who is this Orange S. Wlnans, and how
Is it that his detection secures this State to
Tammany Hall for the Presidential campaign
of 1872 against all probable contingenciese
Mr.. Winans, the boiling republican, who has
given this great victory to Tammany, holds
the position Of Superintendent of the Erie
Railway at Dunkirk, sand his second nominal
tion" Qor the Assembly,, says our republican
contemporary, the Daily Times of this city.
lis reported to have been secured by FREQ
expenditure of tho money of Erie"-that
Winans sis an adherent of Senator Fenton, and
owed his first nomination (for the Assembly, to
the influence Of that political Chief who, in
turn, owes his place in the United States
Senate to Tammany Hall and the Erie ring"
It appears, furthermore, from our aforesaid
indignant and chopfallen contemporary, that
Winans, down to last Friday night, was held
by the Assembly republicans as one of the
very stanchest and trustest of them all:
that he was remarkably conspicuous in the
"round robin" against Tammany; but that.
sunknowing to HIMSELF two men appear to
have been preparing for him the path Of
treachery;" that ''the one was his political
sponsor and the other was his employers"
that ''the one was United States Senator Fem
ton and the other was Jay Gould $" that ''thess
two were closeted together for two hours on
Friday, and that at that interview there IL
reason to believe Winans was selected to take
the bride of Tweed, said to be seventy-ive
thousand dollars cash down, with the addf-
tonal bride thrown in by the Erie ring of
five years tenure of position worth Eve
thousand dollars year." May we not ask,
ssH0w is that for high2"
A HERALD correspondent at Albany, in his
very interesting letter of Saturday last upon
this business, published in yesterday s HERALD,
gives substantially the same facts of the gos-
sip afoat touching the alleged buying and SELL
ing Of Winans Our correspondent gives tho
rumor that Winans was offered fifty thousand
dollars and Eve thousand dollars per annum
sinecure for five years, if he held firm but
that make 1t seventy-nve thousand dollars
down and let the sinecures 60 and am yours
was the answer said to have been made" Our
Winans were poor man there would be but
one opinion as to the motive power which flung
him into the ranks of the democratic party
but it seems that he Is rich and lives like
nabob at Albany, and ''that the real power
behind the throne" in this bolt of Winans sis,
In the opinion Of many, the Erie Railway"
because Winans is an employee of the road,
was elected by its influence, and can be elected
by it again, no matter what ticket he may run
on;" and that ''the Erie folks owe the demo-
cracy debt of gratitude for having choked to
death Goodrich's plan to put an end to theis
rasoalties."
Here, then, from two intelligent sources al
Albany wholly Independent Of each other, We
have the opinion that the Erie Railway had
much to do in this alleged purchase of Winans.
On this basis, however, Of mere money COM
sideration. this bolt of his from the republican
camp to the democracy is nothing more than
the repetition of the old familiar story of these
last twenty-five years of Albany bargains aud
sales. On the other hand, Mr.. Winans rises
to the dignity Of great political intriguer
upon the theory that in going over to Tam.
many he acted under the advice and in the
interest of Senator Fenton, and for the pur-
pose of administering deadly blow to Gem
eral Grant in New York as the republican cans
didate for the Presidential succession. This
theory, too, is 80 very plausible that we can
not resist the temptation to recite some Of
the historical facts which 60 to support 1t.
At this time the two most conspicuous
republican factions in this State are the Fen.
ton faction and the Conkling faction. The
New York Tribune has been from the begin
ming and still Is identified with the Fenton fac
ton the Times has been and still Is anti Fen.