The New York herald., 1872-10-27
CITY POLITICS.
The Coming Close Of the Political Con-
test and Its Present Aspect.
O'Brien, Lawrence and Have
meyer for Mayor.
The Custom House Compact and the Pros.
poets Of the Rival Candidates.

The Congressional and As
sembly Tickets.
week and few days only intervene to bring
US to the 9th OF November next, on which day the
electors Of the city OF New York shall not only de-
eide, far their votes may go, who shall be the
next President OF the. United States but by the
same vote shall say who shah be our next Mayor.
The Presidential question is one OF paramount i'm
portance In the broadcast view that may be taken OF
national politics. The Mayoralty canvass is Of
more intimate and, to q considerable extent, i'm
portant nature to the citizens OF New York.
TAMNANY HALL,
under its new dspensation, has failed to dispense
that relief which as political dispensary 1t was
hoped 1t would have prescribed for the curing Of
the evils with which old Tammany was afiicted.
In the multitude Of counselors it has
been said that there is safety. This Scriptural
axiom has not been sustained by the action of the
great Sanhedrim, which has been lOunderng about
like whale for the last eighteen months In the ef
fort to get rid OF their JONAH and In the last days
of their most painful parturition brought forth
"Havemeyer." Had the Seventy-or the noun
tain in labor, as they have proved themselves to
be-brought forth their mouse it might have
turned out to be o respectable Mayor; but they al
lowed in their political senihty, the opportunity to
60 by in which they might have proved their devo-
tion to the cause OF reform In our municipal gov
ernment. There was double mistake, and "re-
form" might have exclaimed,
"sAvE NE FROM MY FRIENDsn
But the question now discussed in political circles
is, is Havemeyer going to be by the great San
hedrim as the 'stra1ght-0ut" republican candi-
date for Mayor, or is he in TACT only political
scarecrow, that Jimmy O'Brien and Tom Murphy.
OF the Custom House, with the rattle OF corn
creak, can give him wings to ny to other fields and
pastures new Peter Cooper and the other en-
gineers, not excepting the PRESIDENT Of Folly Hall,
may imagine that the nomination has been made
in good faith but the general belief is that Have
meyer has been
POLITICAL CHATTEI,
thing OF sale and puschase, as between the chief
OF the Custom House and the autocrat Of Apollo
Hall. 1t might have been supposed that Tammany
Halls nomination Of q candidate in the person Of
Mr.. Abraham X. Lawrcnce-a nomination in every
way acceptable to the citizens generally, and
which should have commended itself more
especially to the Committee OF Reform and the Bar
Association, pledged to reform In municipal
anairs, would have been endorsed by the gentle
men composing these political organizations. Why
the
COMMITTEE OF SEVENTY
have failed or, as 1t Is charged against them, per-
mitted themselves to be the tools Of the Apollo
Hall and Custom House party, it is for themselves
to say. The Mayoral fight, as we said week or
two ago, Is
in which O'Brien first in the Held, Is one; Abra-
ham X. Lawrence number two, and, last and Oldest
q as % ca se ks to G Se
thrice Mayor OF Gotham. The political cat, how
ever, has not mewed the prophetic strain that
heralds Havemeyer to the chair OF the chief execu-
tive, unless, indeed the people Of the city anxious
for reform see In him that candidate In whom they
can implicitly rely for measures OF reform.
TAMMANY's FIGHT.
Tammany, torn by the thunderbolt which fell upon
her eighteen months ago, has not yet recovered
the pipe OF peace or daubed on the paint when
they went on the warpath. The Nero OF reform,
more lucky than he OF old Rome, who wished that
Rome had but one head that he might take It OF
at single blow, struck on the hydra head Of Tam
many by single injunction In the courts. But
with the head the spirit also Departed and nothing
is left OF old Tammany but an automatOn that .
few manipulat0rs can move this way or that in
their own interest and in furtherance Of their own
gain.
THE MAYORAL TRIUMvIRATE.
First In the field SO far back, indeed that the
bering II, was Senator James O'Brien. Tammany
had faflen In those days, and the Senator, the Ben
S not iaccup" Cohen Of that Sbnt Of the original
Tammany Jacobs, VINO carried OF more swag In his
sack than all the brethren put together. Senator
he Is the candidate OF the s0called reform Apollo
Hall party The heather Apollo was q famous per-
On the Tyre IN his dahow fs far the
Tyre. and to what tune he will play on the 5th Of
November next Is yet to be told. The rumor is
gain between the young reform Apollo and
honest Tom, OF the Custom House, that Havemeyer,
who mas accepted the nomination Of the regular
Seventy, Is to be thrown overheard, that his name
will be scratched on at all the polling places and
| O'Brien's name inserted. But here comes In a
hitch.
anxious for his reelection, and impressed with the
the other hand all tho respectable and non parti-
san republicans are avOwed and resOlutely opposed
General DIX has emphatically announced that he
will not run on the O'Bren ticket This is q hitch
the reform Senator and party-striped candidate for
Mayor.
ABRAHAM r. LAWRENCE
started in the contest In good ath He accepted the
Tammany nomination with the implied understand
ing that he should receive the endorsement OF the
seventy. When the announcement OF the proffer
OF the candidacy by Tammany was made and ac-
cepted by HIM the political pulse felt easier. 1t
was supposed that the necessity Of the introduc-
licans was by Mr.. Lawrences nomination obviated,
and that all sincerely desiring reform would have
rallied to the support oil the ticket The regulars,
however, have. In the lace OF a doubt OF their SIN
ceriy and OF the Murphy-0 Brien alleged coalition,
at the last moment put forward Mr.. Havemeyer.
The race Is not always to the swift, nor the battle
to the strong, and, no doubt, the truth OF this
Scriptural axiom win be proven in the
5th OF November next. The ex-Mayor OF a dozen
years ago, with all his supposed strength and his
ancient prestige, will be nothing in the race II the
compact entered into with O'Bren is faithfully car
ried out and he
BETRAYED IN THE HOUSE OF HIS FRIENDS
AS between Lawrence and O'Brien it would have
been race, perhaps In which both the contestants
would have had to do all the running to win; but
now Havemeyer being In the field, and, as Is gen.
orally believed, to Kill on the Tammany reform can
diate in favor Of the Apollo Hall reform candidate
the political pool is all In favor OF OBrien This Is
matter, however, for the citizens themseve to de-
cide Like as in the case Of the petition or the
frogs, benign Jupiter has given them for first
choice
KING LOG AND KING sToRK;
but, better still, they have third chance In the
person OF Abraham X. Lawrence Let them decide
on this point on the 5th November next.
Very little Is to be added to our previous ressane