The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1871-05-17
General Grant asd the New York Re
publicans-Is There No Hopee

General Grant asd the New York Re-
publicans-Is There No Hopes
The republican party Of this city and State,
from the never-ending but still beginning
squabbles among its 'discordant leaders,
cliques and factions, is In a very bad way.
The two great bones Of contention among
them are the Custom House and Tammany
Hall, with the fat pickings thereof. From the
dissolution in 1860 of the political firm Of
Seward, Weed and Greeley, these disturbing
factions have continued their silly intrigues
and plots and counterplots against each other
until the party, after holding the State for
fifteen years and more against all hostile COM
binations, has now become in this city and in
Albany mere plaything in the hands ofthe
Tammany sachems. General Grant has under
taken the difficult task of restoring harmony
and what Kossuth would call solidarity" to
the New York republicans in pretty positive
way; but, 80 far, instead of harmony we have
only confusion worse confounded."
General Grants system Of peace-making
among these squabbling factions, in mill
tary view, is very good. His object is to
unite the New York republicans in support of
his administration. He finds that he has to deal
with two factions which will not agree, and
he therefore concludes that one of them must
be put down. He finds the faction represented
at Washington by Senator Conkling loyal and
tractable, and he adopts it; he finds the fac
ton represented by Senator Fenton domineer-
ing, dictatorial, grasping and rebellous, and
he rejects it. He finds that Fenton has no
faith in him, and he resolves to put no faith In
Fenton; and 80 Mr.. Fenton Is weeded out of
the Custom House. But here, while II is
manifest that this line Of action has not recon-
ciled Mr.. Fenton to General Grant, we see
that it has alisna!ed NJ; Greeley, the chief
scribe 81 the Fenton faction. And again,
General Grant undertakes, through Collector
Murphy, to detach the republican party of this
city from its demoralizing Establishments Of
Tammany Hall by wedding out the Tammany
republicans from the Custom House and by
bringing the State Central Committee to bear
upon the Tammany strikers ia the republican
clubs Of the city when we find that, while
Tammany provides for the lucky fellows dis
charged from the Custom House, Mr.. Greeley
and his city committee stand by their Tam
many brethren and defy the Republican State
Central Committee, and denounce II as too
oficiousy intermcddling in other peoples
affairs Nay, more; the hackers of Fenton
and Company are silly enough to undertake
the removal Of Collector Murphy on Know
Nothing dodge, and 1t is only then that they
discover that Murphy is too much for them.
The disguised Trombone is with Fenton
and against Grant 1t says, speaking Of
certain republican newspaper manifesto, that
''the force Of the document would be greater
did not its writer so strongly insist that the
republicans ought to re-elect Senator Conk-
ling and renomnate General Grant Here
is shot both at Conkling AID Grant. Again,
Western paper, the Cincinnati Commercial,
having published the oplniop thai rthe nswa-