The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1871-11-04
YATES COUNTY POLITICS.


the Professionalism Of tho Democratic
Candidate for rho ssnate-The Temperance
Party In sho Field for LEGAL Omces.
PENN yam, Yates county, Nov. ], 1871.
The present political campaign Is more exciting
than any IN this county ana thlg Senatorial
district hos been for many years. In the
rural districts neither democrats nor republicans
are directing their attention specially to their cand
dates for State 0ces; for It to be distinctly
understood on the one side, ana rather reluctantly
acknowledged on the other, that the democratic
state ticket win be reelected but by smaller ma
jonty than 1t received last year. Wherever any
particular excitement prevails Il lie over Senator,
Assemblyman, County Judge or some other local
od1cer Here in Yates, where there Is regular re.
publican majority Of from eight hundred to one
Thousand, the party is completely broken up, ana
its Senatorial, Assembly and judiciary tickets
are In jeopardy. The political pot Is boiling
madly, the excitement ID ct Its height ana
no ono knows what win become Of the
republican majority, far as local issues con-
cerned. The great fight s over Senator Of this the
Twenty-sixth Senatorial district, comprising tho
counties Of Ontario, Seneca and Yates There are
at least three very doubtful districts in this section
OF the State and there Is probability tnat the
publicans BY reason Of their own dissensions, may
lose their Senator in each. These are the twenty
Twentyninth includes the counties Of Niagara, Or
leans and Genesee and the Twenty seventh those Of
Steuben. Chemung and Schuyler. In neither Of the
three however, are the republicans IN such sorry
plight as they are IN thus The regular republican
candidate Is STAFFORD @. Cleaveland. who resides
here in Penn Yam, and Is editor OF the Ydtcs County
Chronicle. There Is 3 regularly organized 0pposi-
ton TO him In hts own party. Il Is open, active,
earnest powerful and determined to defeat him,
whatever the consequences may be TO the repub-
llcan party, local, State or national The repuD-
lcans who are relentless in their hostility to MIN
nave formed an alliance, offensive and defensive,
with the democrats for the special purpose, as they
openly avow, OF condemning Cleavelands alleged
dishonesty ana electing . democrat Of
strict integrity. The leader Of the op-
posing faction Is Martin Holmes, who
Is stgmatized as professional and venal lobbyist
at Albany. Holmes, vino lives here, claims, Of
course, to be an honest man; while he and his ad-
hcrents hold cleveland up as tha concentrated
essence OF compatibility and party infidelity In
their paper, published here to-day, they charge him
with ten separate and distinct offences, consisting
principally OF bolting regular republican candi.
dates, who were good and proper persons, and Of
bribery Ceaveland's friends retaliato by pointing
out that Holmes Is . tool Of Tweed and Tammany.
Homes' friends Ietort and say that Is Just what
many republican, and assert that his nomination
was desired and brought about by the c0nnivance
New York city, who have written urgent appeals TO
friends in rural districts in favor Of his election
and arr recImnston, which makes the canvass in this
region very lively and its local literature very spicy
For example: republican paper in the adjoining
that Il has received through confidential sources
information ITO the eject that the sum OF
district Dy inc Iam@s1y JSnia WIN the nope 3,
defeating Mr. Cleveland Tue organ o. the faction
srapn and reply SiSnss to tho editor
calling him BY name, ''Ellhcr you lied in saying
%cnsy mao Gomez 's'' mo
But while these charges and counterfeit argos Of
bribery and corruption, organized and individual,
the local papers in the district the real rear
son Tor the fight between the factions viii be
County. Their jcalousies have kept the republicans
in hot water Tor years. but they have not here
now assumed. Formerly Holmes and his friends
had ascendanoy IN the county and controlled ITS
L now; and hence the combination that has been
organized against him. On several separate coca.
siOns, which are duly cited with names, dates and
ular republican nominees and advocate the
election OF the democratic candidates. and
are taking this opportune to retaliae. They
In this election good chance TO turn the tables
motive e' assigned is n either CASE the onv dier
ence That 10, briefly stated. the position OF this
night Of factions as II appears upon the surface ~
Is well known, however, that the Conkllng ana
Fenton feud enters into II somewhat Not that inc
disagreement between the two New York United
menJ in It, but that the factions represent TO some
extent the rival interests OF those senators II 10
and il is whispered that lindependent OF
the open opposition led BY Holmes there
c ~ s0 re q sas conEna aide least BE-
lleved that some prominent politicians m me
who a T no 10 ny
thing in Clevelnnd's favor; tnat some 81 them WAL
abstain from voting altogether and others quietly
Tno democratic candidate IL Colonel William
Johnson, Of Seneca. He was commanding oiiicer
Counties forming this Senatorial district Some
few republicans endeayor TO detract from his reputa
mon as Soy Dus went 20 s
war with him. or rather those who returned, win
materially assist him In what Is termed tnis ngns
against corruption. There Ii post OF the Grand
Grand Army OF the Republic here and II Is claimed
that almost to man every member OF It VIII vote
mu,n the more popular candidate OF the two.
Whatever insnustions there may be u s certain
that no Sa sg ns coun
he resides and where the democrats are largely IN
me ascendant amt there oem a1onS ies sng
win receive an immense majority. Il y con.
coded that Cleveland will everywhere run
fulI party VOTE Il he does not run ahead OF It, The
epnbhcans arc doubtful OF CleveIand's election ana
he democrats are satlsned OF Johnson ~ ,n0
ast election for Governor the district gave \ w
majority for Woodford, Yates giving SSi anu Un.a'
rio SAT republican, while Seneca gave o2s demo.
cratic This year the republican vote In the disrlct
win probably be little lighter than Il was IN iSIo
An Impartial estimate OF the probable result IN
Yates this year the senatorial ticket places inc
= large majority for Cleveland, but they
claim small one, and liberal democrats
are willing to concede H. while otneIs,
who seem more sanguine. think that wnatever ma
jorty there may be WIN DO for Johnson. Bus u y
generally expected thai the large regular republican
the present instance. The republicans depend prln-
cIpaIly up0n the majority Of Ontario and Inc demo-