The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-08-21
How the Political Straws Blow
in California.
GREELEY rAcTIcIAns IN VERMONT.
Sentiments Prevailing on tho
Shores Of Lake Erie.
Samuel ]. Tildens Ambition Carrying Him
Toward the White House.

Starting West to see how the Fall campaign might
be going In the States Of which Chicago ID the chief
city, first met Edgar Mills, brother OF
D. o. MILLS, THE PRESIDENT OF THE BANK OF CALI
F0RNIA.
He was his way to the Pacific coast to take posi-
ton at the head OF his great branch bank In sacrA
ment0.
Glow does Mr. Greeley stand on your coast Mr..
Millssv
"He can't carry there, In my Judgment am
surprised to see what Roadway the thing has got In
the East. We don't think everything of Grant, but
Greeley can make very little impression on him.
The coast IL republican; the party Is well gathered
up with u.s. the newspaper press holds by the regu-
lar ticket and the democrats will not poll their full
VOTE What we call the ''Mck" eement-the Irish
will support Greeley but the ''chiv." rebel chiv-
alry) element which is strong and stubborn, takes
askant look at the platform OF their recantati0n.
Very wealthy democrats IN parts OF our country
have come gradually to be identified with CONNER
cial enterprises which are dependent upon federal
stability and therefore you will meet old Mississip-
pisns Tenneseeans, Georgians and Texans, long
residents among us, who are building railroads,
fumes, canals anchOrages &C., and will support
Grant on business grounds though they don't much
like him."
"How does Ralston. the cashier OF the bank ana
ruling influence on the coast "a some say stand ON
this issueS"
"Ralston Is not very ardent Grant man, but no
will not do anything for Greeley"
at may be-" said Mr.. Mills, "that this Greeley
tide will rise our way; but when LETT home 1t was
hardly ebb and now. I must confess that tho
fervor for Greeley In the East Is more general and
decided than supposed.
VERMONT TENDENCIES.
Meeting Mr.. Daniel Roberts and some Vermont
ers from the city OF Burlington they attested az
follOws:-
Mr.. Roberts, an abolltlonlst formerly, a republi-
can still and lawyer OF clear head and reasoning
force, said 1--WE have nominated in Vermont
fusion State ticket, which, we expect, will draw
5000 votes from tho regular ticket, making q
change OF 10000 ana reducing the republican ma
jOrity to say $4,000 This change will be all, under
the circumstances, desired at the State election.
AS the other States declare In their State elections
for Greeley we shall expect to keep up the fire here
and reduce the republican vote to an equal thing
or less by November. We had q harmonious State
Convention at Burlington, where fitzpatrick made
the popular speech, but James s. Thayer Of New
York, made the reasoning speech. We want this
State to be canvasscd by men like Mr.. Thayer.
Vermont is almost immemOrially ant,-democratic;
but Greelcy's Tribune Is the farmers campaign
document. He has got 1t for year and must read
II to save his money"
Mr. George II. Biglow, o public man and edits r,
also of Burlington, w. who supports Grant, gave
still fair view OF the situation as follows:-Thefo
is some detection here, but In the city OF Burug-
ton believe that only 1fty-slx voters claimed
by the Greeley republicans, and OF these only about
a dozen have shown their hands. 1t Is not assumed
a1 sHere vote anS tSere wi win IN sS
he republicans who will vote neither for
Grant nor Greeley. Adams would have been
republican boilers. The ablest democrat In this
State, and in point OF tone ana bearing the fore
party party Is Edward Phelps, lawyer, Of Burin gton.
He was Fillmore and Bell man formerly. Hill wlfo
Of ne Is in Ss he
ticket hos no ghost OF chance, though ir has
pie of good names on it. Vermont IS for Grant By
is too strong to go down with horn,blowing, ike
Jericho. When 1t gets as weak as Jericho appears
to have been Greeley may unnx a battlement or
two that way"
At the Clifton House, on the Canada side OF the
Niagara Fals-that spot OF ground by the gorge OF
the deep river which has just leaped the cataract
ana been borne again into +. sort 81 purgatorai
and yet wrinkled look, nOrid hair and beard near
sighted eyes and glasses and professional SOL
prepossessing, as Pickett, the exrebel officer who
had just precipitated the country back into ugly
memories and opened the bloody chasm by trading
in Confederate documents to the high figure OF
$4,000. ~
being told that Mr.. or "Colonel' Pickett was tho
recipient OF it, twas paid by the United States on
the same principle that husband might pay 1t to
be assured that his wife had been formerly q
lcman. 1t was no ground for divorce, but merely
acquired to promote household strife" The
properly suited to the spot-the Smuggers
BOrder-the worst place In many respects in North
most @ aons ha
Niagara line with all the forms OF human error and
vice-war, men over the Falls, international
imposition upon travellers, Punishment Fenian In
vasions, Canadian revolt spies, custom-house
abuses and the sale OF smallpox clothes and docu-
ments.
"Interview any of these people," said I to myself;
cos OF Sane r or OK
No! 1t would be the propagation of social, moral
and national epidemic after the Dr. Backbura
fashion, would rather deal In the old clothes OF
Judas than with any OF these dealers in the rags Of
dead treasons."
1t is not to be doubted that the Greeley men in
Western New York arc respondent. They claim
nuences are vastly IN their favor, and that they
ought to realize the 100000 majority pr0phcseu at
baltimore by Governor Hoffman, and yet they
'There said the Hoo. Joseph Warren. "wc have
everything but q COMMANDER. The MY thousand
majority we ought to be assured OF is likely to be
FILTERED away by the incompetency OF the new
directory OF the democratic forces to sodfy un-
willing masses and control them in the face OF tho
d,sntegrating labors of O'Brien ana Murphy. I
mean that when Tammany Hall was made re-
spectacle In names It's organization was not kept
IN aud It's machincry-the same machinery which
OBricn and Murphy have added TO the Custom
House party, that which puts voters In discipline
and brings them out to yOtc-was abandoned.N
NEW YORK CITY WATERING.
This opinion prevailed from Albany to Buffalo,.
rnat the new Tammany Hall Is deficient In men or
political marshalshp. Another democrat said that
1t was the simplest thing in the world
to give vitality and direction to the great
Greeley majority OF New York, and that
was to reinstate some one capable gcneralissimo at
the head or the Tamnany C0mmandcry-nou OF
the Old trio, but one acquainted with their method
OF organization, as O'Brien, in an inferior degree,
got to be when he put the said system into tue
hands OF the republicans
by this MEANS" said q veteran politician, "wo
merely give cOmmandery and battalion discipline
to a host OF simple men who do not act unless leei
Ing themselves part Of the general respons,ollty."
subject OF general complaint ana apprehension
among the democrats and liberals Is the mysterious