The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-09-06

In too section o. tue ntatS snere 10 hos ms &c
..nanos Tor the Governors ren0minatiOn" anu
toe Senator from rural district also remarked,
Fenton that has been going on, but Pm apaid 1t
means mischief The party VIII compel the re,
s Of 10 sn s sa may S
ton, Tor lear his second election Will make him
too prominent for greater things to come:
Assemblymen, with Fenton's aid, they
viii cut nm at the pOiis and thus get
would get the Legislature, a United States senator
as q consequence. ana accomplish Dix's setting
aside. But, II am not mistaken, the people our
TO say about Fenton as well as Governor Dix" 1t
would thus seem ae though, after all, the dis
that no opposition Will be made to Governor DIX
i'll convention may cover design TO slaughter him
at the polls. The aspirants for high ONCE are
as 1t may seem, they look upon the Governor as
A DANGEROUS YOUNG MAN;
the race Tor the United States senatorship not
only, but also Tor the Presidency. Conkhng DE.
The delegates to the Convention in 1876. At all
events the latest indications are that Mr. A. b.
Cornell aud all the other wouldbe Governors or
United States senators will keep out OF the way at
Utica, and allow, as the sentiment OF their party
demands they must, Governor DIX to be renoml-
Now, as to the democrats. There was never,
probably, IN me annals Of the party q
there was less o csrsanty or to put "eH il
more to the point, less OF strong probability az to
what the acton OF the Convention would be than
inside track, and that he has already
been nominated up IN one of the interior counties
giving ali FOUND among the rank and file that - the
leaders, in the country districts especially so far
as heard from, are sorely perPexed The fact Is
about him, and the very ones who advocate his
claims and who are well posted as to the drift OF
the political WINDS shake their heads when asked
10 State
think he will.E They doubt. One OF the demo-
cratic state Senators from the interior, whom the
writer met In town yesterday, IN speaking OF I'll.
den said:-"lf he is nominated we will go Into the
ngnt with milestone about our necks. / acknowl-
put your finger on wrong act OF his during his
whole public career; that lie sent his circular
about the WORK ne dld IN pulling down the ring,
he doesn't take to use trite saying All the
people know about him In the country districts Is
that he Is Sammy Iilden, a nice old gentleman,
who makes long speeches at State conventions
and whose name once year is seen appended to
circular concerning the triumph in store Tor the
country have written to gentlemen IN this city to
the same effect, that Tilden would not pun
through, and that II Dix should be renOmlnated
Tllden would really be nowhere in the race.
The New York delegation will, Of course, ii no
Syracuse solid lor Mr. Hlden. and the influence OF
JOhn Kelly and one or two other magnates, such
as Amasa J. Parker and Governor seymour, may
in the end make his nomination sure. Yet they
Will go, Say some OF the democrats OF prominence
here with the conviction that Tllden runs the risk
OF being badly used IN some districts In TINS city,
THE BEST OF CHANCES IN THE COUNTRY,
the backsliding hereabouts would OutOalance them
all. On the other hand, it Is asserted that his
ant-Tammany record would stand HIM well IN
this city as against even Dix with republicans,
can be judged now, even t1e very men who Will
work Tor him in this city, II he should be nom-
mated IN tne "a te SIMPLY ne his
nomination will be tore2one defeat; ana GER
talnly an army that goes into battle with the half
conviction that 1T ID to be defeated cannot be
blamed II it does in the END get badly thrashed.
In the face OF all this it seems rather strange That
MIR. Tilden should still be talked about by the man.
and yet it Is not strange The lact Is the party is
in predicament. The country members, as well
and they know not which way to steer.
DO what they will they cannot get apiot whom
IL IS true they had cast about for one, and done
their best to secure the best to be haa IN their
opinionEJudge Church But ne wilt WIN not IT., accept.
too, are engaged. 1t is no wonder, then, that
they are in a muddle. White the republicans are
trying to cut one anothers throats because they
have too many strong men to choose from their OPP
pOnents are obliged to select so long as they persist
in selecting from the political arena alone, from
called really strong men. And yet there are but
'few among the republican managers VINO. SIX
weeks ago, were not fearful lest Vhey would meet
hour hour were against them, and sae BEST proof Of
sion in trying to make terms with Fenton. "Even
with DIX I'm AFRAID we'n have uphill work this
fall' was the remark OF prominent republican
last July. ms same gentleman yested day re-
marked, 1--WE will make clean sweep or the state,
eaT tine disgust
many Of the country voters with the administra-
ton; but tue way the Southern democrats
ing their political opponents and the out
RACES III Tennessee and Louisiana have settled
the business. they have aroused the party again,
Whatever
foundation Tor nope on this score there may be 1t
is pretty certain that the democratic leaders do not
talk confidently now as they dld lew weeks
ago, and that in speaking OF the outrages they
speak in a way that shows now much they deplore
TINS time. "It's pity" SAID one Of the Tammany
leaders yesterday, "those crazy men down there
can't be kept quiet; we all suffer by their acts
here, North. Do what they Will they are looked
upon as democrats fighting republicans like as
sasslns."
AS to what really will be done BY the cOnven-
tions in the way OF nominations it would be haZar-
dous to more t9an conjecture Just now Il Is the
renonnated General Robinson will get the Lieu
tenant Governorship, and it is surmsed that
Canal Commissioner, Alexander S. Johnson for
Judge OF the Court OF Appeals and Thomas Kirk.
IT'S DeieveG win nominate Tiiden and poss,n;
George W. Schuyler, John o. Whiteh0use or Henry
r. selden for Lieutenant Governor. As the
erty to make their choice. Ii they
should not see d. to take the bait
offered them for the liberal support tue liberal
candidate for Lieutenant Governor, then Mr.. Fem
ton, II he has anything to do with the Convention
will have an opportunity OF inviting the KepuD-
lican Convention to come up to the captains
office ana settle. But doubtless, Thurow Weed,
Robert Pruyn and Comptroller Hopkins, who are
working Tor Governor Dixs denomination will
know as much about the liberal plans and
strength by that time Fenton himself and Will
act wisely II not too well. AS there is host OF
ptrants In the democratic party for the Lieutenant
Governorshipi it Will certainly be no easy matter
for the leaders to induce the democrats to give the
place to the liberals but II the latter should nOm-
nate either Tilden or Church or Seymour (the two
latter 1t Is said to be 'iorced" to run II the
trymen can't be otherwise appeased) and the
second place not to be given them the democrats
would nave sure guarantee that the
support they would get from the liberals
would indeed be very small. One thing about
the canvass In the State Is certain; that
1t Will be one OF the livelest known for years. es-
peciay in the Assembly districts, where II every
thing is not made satisfactory by the administra-
ton, between now and the opening OF the cam
paign, FentOn's little tactics may have damaging