The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-08-04

Gum.
Although the politicians still insist upon be-
Jogging the result of the election in North
Carolina. each side persistently claiming the
victory, it appears tolerably certain that the
democratic ticket has been elected in the
State, that the democrats have secured large
majority i9 ths Legislature thus gaining a
United States Senator in place of John Pool,
and that they have also carried at least five
out of the eight Congressman. The repub-
licans are by turns admitting and denying
their defeat, and government officials are
telegraphing to the departments at Washing
ton mysterious assurances that all will yet 60
WELL It may be that these reports have two
objects, the first TO break the force of the
terrible blow inflicted on the republic
can cause in the Presidential con-
test by the North Carolina disaster,
and the second, to prepare the way for tamper-
ing with the figures, if the vote should be suf-
iciently close to warrant an attempt at fraud
But however this may be, and whatever may
be the actual result of the official count, it is
certain that the large republican loss, the fail
ure of the anticipated twenty thousand ma
jority, and the closeness of contest in which
every advantage that patronage, money and the
control Of the machinery of the election can
give, was enjoyed by the republicans, will be
just as damaging to the administration party
as a complete and total overthrow. At the
present moment the North Carolina election
has given more strength to the Greeley move
ment than it has yet received from any event
since the meeting of the Cincinnati Convention.
Leaders who have heretofore held aloof from
committing themselves on either side, may now
be expected to flock over by the hundreds to
the liberal ranks after Sumner and Banks; and
the effect among the masses is seen in the
anxiety with which every politician now strives
to impress upon his friends the belief that he
has always been on the Greeley SIDE The adj
ministration republicans are beyond doubt
proportionately depressed and while they
may affect to believe that their disaster is not
SO great as it is represented, they feel that
their supposed power has received serious
check, and that they can no longer be looked
upon as invincible, even though they should
manage to drag their State ticket through the
official canvass, with a small majority at
its back.
The North Carolina contest WILL on this
account, exercise an important influence over
our approaching charter campaign and may
serve to make material changes in the pro-
grammes of the politicians. Its effect will be
to unite the democracy more solidly on the
Cincinnati liberal movement and candidates
and to crush out opposition to Greeley in this
city on the part of those politicians who are
looking round for profitable trade in the
confusion and muddle of regular organiza-
TONS The republicans of the Custom House
have been casting about for some alliance by
which they might strengthen their party
through friendly combination on the
charter offices, believing that their own
patronage and influence, backed by an
independent democratic force, might be sufi-
cient to carry the city, Now, however, the
fclat of the North Carolina fight will render it
dangerous for Gny democratic organization to
oppose the Greeley movement, as it would be
almost impossible to hold its followers to-
gether for such action and hence we may
conclude that the republicans will have to go
begging, and that any Independent demo-
cratic movement that may be made in the
charter election will have to be fought out on
its merits within the ranks of the democracy,
under the banner of the liberal republican
candidates. This being the case, there is a
strong probability that in the municipal con-
test there may be triangular fight
and that we may have three candidates for
Mayor in the feld-one nominated by the re-
pubEcans from the ranks of the Committee of
Seventy, whose members strove SO hard to
give us an experimental charter last winter, and
the others representing respectively the new
Tammany democracy and the opposing demo-
cratic organizations. This will be no novelty
in our city politics, our charter elections hay
ing frequently taken a similar shape. On sew
eral former occasions we have seen the de-
mocracy Of New York united on Presidential
or State candidates, but divided on local nomi-
nations, and it has invariably been observed
that such division has aided rather than in
jured the general ticket by calling out on in
creased democratic vote. This would no
doubt be the case with regard to the Greeley
ticket should democratic split occur in the
charter contest at this time; for it has always
been the custom of the rival municipal fac
tons to try which could shout the loudest and
work the hardest for the democratic national
and State nominees.
With the exception of these local divisions
there will be no further difficulty in nominal
tons, and the fight will be fair one between
Grant and Greeley. The administration repub-
licans will put straight State ticket into the
field, and will make their regular nominations
for Congress, Legislature and city officers.
The democratic and liberal republican con-
ventions will meet separately, but will