The New York herald., 1873-10-23
A New Departure at Last in Allegheny,
Wyoming, Livingston, Niagara,
Genesce and Orleans Counties.
What the Republicans Think Of the Cutlery
Against 'the Five Tweed Senator's"
Why the denomination Dodge of
1871 Was Not Repeated,
The Six Counties to Send Seven Repub-
licans to the Assembly.

lcans to the Assembly.
ArrI0A wyoming County, Oct. %, 1873
The hopes and aspirations Of those virtuous dem
ocrats who have done SO much during the past
three years to loment trouble and engender heart
burnings among the stanch adherents Of that
portion Of the party OF great moral ideas which
moves and has it's prosperous being within the
confines Of the Twenty-ninth and Thirtieth Senate
rial districts, by their unstinted denunciatons OF
The corrupt men the people OF these same districts
have persisted in foising upon the State Senate
their proper representatives, have Deen at last
Rratifed; for the nomination OF republican cand-
date for Senator has been made in each, and
George Bowen and General James Wood are not
the men selected. Yet II the democrats OF these
two districts are really happy over tue lact am
seriously at loss to find out in what manner they
generally express their feelings when they
feel particularly elevated over good
thing. Indeed, l half incline to the belief
that after all they would have preferred
this year that both Bowen and Wood should have
again been put in the field. True, this would not
be consistent with their loud-mouthed professions
OF reform and their denunciations OF the past but
then consistency, we all know is jewel OF very
small value in politics. Had those two men been
renOminatcd the democrats would have, as of DID,
good ground to work upon during the campaign,
and they might easily have turned the tide, II not
altogether in their favor, in the districts most
cerned at least have so wrought upon. the reform
feelings OF the republicans outside Of the districts
during the campaign as to force them on election
day to cast their votes against the party that dared
to approve OF the nomination OF men whose names
have been
KISSING AND A BY WORD
with every democratic paper IN the State since
1870. 1t is true that three candidates, whose re.
putati0ns have been seriously questioned in COM
mon with that OF Bowen and that OF Wood, have
been renominated in three other districts for the
Senate by the republicans, thus leaving the demo-
Gratis ample occasion their old style of attack;
but as will have something to say about them in
future letter will now confne myself to dealing
with Bowen and Woods districts excu.
sively. / have travelled through them
parties in tine two districts and therefore am
able to speak as to the prospects by the card.
Il will be borne In mind that Bowen and Wood
were members OF that notorious band OF i've
Senators borne into the Senate 1870 and destined
s s @ e
pure minded all things are not always pure.
hghtfully or wronRtuiy-I will not stop here to
two men, ever since Tweed got his famous charter
through the Senate, have been considered, as were
Lewis and Winsl0w and Woodin, ut targets for
every good democrat to have his ding at, in and out
pl place.
), THE HUE AND CRY
In 1871 was taken up even by some OF the repub-
movement swept over the State like whirlwind,
tearing up root and branch everything rotten in
the democratic camp, 1t carried into the Senate by
larger majoritieS than even those i've suspected
issues their enemies had draggeG up against them.
There Is probably nothing IN the political annals OF
this State, which presents SO many phases Of mys-
terry, as that which seems to surround this band OF
brothers. The charges made against four OF them
have only been made by assertion without positive
proof and, Notwithstanding the Investigations
that have been started from time to time by legls-
latlve committees into various questionable trans
actions that apparently concerned j them M not yet
against them, not particle OF positive proof has
ever been dragged to light fixing upon any one OF
and yet in the face oft ALL do not believe there can
be found one man in five, even among the republic
cans in their own districts, VINO does not believe
ls justly founded The strangest part OF the whole
thing is that but one OF the five has ever taken
q step 10 relute the charges so openly made in
the newspapers, and we all know how he came
out OF the Investigation. The other four have
against them, and have time and again met asser-
tion without positive proof with assertion alone,
as res s nuy 20 e
the cool way IN which the charges are treated by
some OF the republicans In the two districts have
REPUBLICAN IDEAS OF REFORM
Meet one OF them on the street and ask him what
he thinks about them, and, ten to one, If he is in
talking mood, he win frankly tell you that he thinks
there Is something in them, but dts too late now
making luss about the matter" ! met gentle
man IN Attica, here in Woods district, VINO is
quite prominent in politics, and o republican, aud
he said ~ think that every one OF the five Senators
VINO have been charged with being bribed by Tweed
were briDed. have always believed they were.
was at a meeting one night couple OF years ago,
Judge in New York, say openly that there were
now IN the Senate i've republican Senators who mad
mention any names, but he might as well have done
30. lor 1t so happened that OF the republican Sena
tors OF the Senate OF 1870 only five were members
"And do you think, y asked, "that q majority OF
the republicans in the five districts concerned
believed during the campaign Of 1877, that the
a won't say a majority believed them to be
the % 70 pu. Ss nae sSey
candidate in this district he would have been
Overwhelmingly defeated"
'And yet tnat was the great reform year :"
81 know 1t; but 1t was, strange as IT may seem,
that very reform movement that carried him, and
to trust any democrat, and 50 stood by our own.
with sll their alleged sins fresh In our MINDS Then
there we're certain doings In the district, that
looked to us like malicious persecution on the part
Of MS enemies, which helped him but his election
was not, as given ont by his friends q popular
Others.n
In Mr.. Bowen's district found large number OF
republicans who also confessed they were little
'doubtfuln OF him, but who as frankly remarked
that mad he desired rcnomlnaton, he could
have obtained 1t, .'and what's more" one added
'been elected by larger majority than ever.u
In Batavia and its immediate vicinity his friends
appear to be quite numerous, and many OF them,
though not quite free from suspicion as to all that
had been said about him being true, declared tnat
even II they knew them to be true by positive
proof, they would vote for him all the same Yet
again met others who told me that Mr. bowen
would not have dared to ask for q denomination,
and that II he had he would have suffered most
humiliating defeat. ''This was what prevented
him. said a Balavian, whom met at the MOTEL
ssfrom being candidate. lie was shrewd enough
TO let well enough alone.r Mr.. Bowen,s successor
will be Daniel ). Cole, OF Albion, who has already
served In the Senate, The Convention nominated
him by accamation.
A OPPOSED GENERAL.
Probably there is no one man IN the Thirtteth
district who has taken the charges against him so
much to heart az General Wood himself. This, OF
course, under ike circumstances, would be the
case with any public man accused OF wrong doing;
but what mean TO say Ia that the accused IN TINS
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