New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-05-09
STATE POLITICS.
uNop THE FALL CAMPAIGN.

THE COMiNu NH'4i' N-'N-'
cIprp-Gov. DIX TO Re RENoMNATED by THE
rrrn,Jc,Ns-rREsIDENr GRANTS ORDER TO
rHr cUsroM-HoUsE-RIvM CANDIDATES FOR
IIEUrENANT-GO vERNoR, ETC.
lrRox rHK REGULAR CORRESPONDENT OF TF TRlhuNE'I
ALBANY May 7.-Whatever may be the final YER
dict to the superior honesty and virtue of the late
Legislature, there is no longer question that IN
one respect at least it was failure and source OF
great disappointment TO several of its leading men,
bers Ii did not produce Governor or even can
didate for Governor, for either of the two great
political parties Neither the facetious Ganson, the
ungrammatcal Lord the voluble and aggressive
johnson, the discreet Bradley, nor the ahaDle
Robertson all of whom had high gubernatoriai aSpi-
rations AT the beginning of the session, appears TO
have succeeded in impresSing upon the people aV
large upon the politicians who are supposedto Iead
the people by the nose the proprety OF transferring
HIM from his Senatorial seat TO the Executive CHAIR
For some reason or another the Senate does not
seem to be eligible steppng-stone to the Govern
ship; at all events, past experience shows that the
people are not III the habit of looking to that body
for candidates for the higher office. With tho eX-
ception Of Myron Ii. Clark, no man has been trans
ferred directly from office to the other since the
State was founded. The above-named gentlemen
may therefore, console themselves that they fare no
worse than their predecessors, and that possibly
their only mistake has been in not needing the iegt-
innate order of succession 1t is not impossible that
some one of them may yet fill the second place on
TIE ticket of his party for the coming campaign and
in that case should the ticket be successful he
will have the distinction of presiding at the next
sessim over the body of which he was lately only
member
HOPES AND PLANS OF THE DEMOCRACY.
is still too early in the to forecast with
any great degree of certainty the attitude which
tho,,
campaign in this State much moro to name the
candidates that may be put in the field, although
political gossip has been abundant in Albany during
the last two or three weeks and the political wires
have been and IN active operation day and night
The Democrats are particularly active, as becomes
the minority party which has everything TO gain
and nothing to lose. They have already established
their permanent political headquarters in this city,
with A. b. Weaver, late Superintendent Of
Public Instruction, in charge, and are
organizing for active, energetic and
thorough canvass of the entire State. Perhaps
the most marked feature of the political gossip thus
far is the entire confidence expressed by Democrats
everywhere that their party is going to carry the
State next Fall On what they base their conf
dence il is hard to tell except it be the general
disafectiOn assumed TO exist in the ranks of their
opponents lt may be true that If every electOr in
the State who is more or less dissatisfied with the
present Administration were TO vote the Democratic
ticket next Fall it would be successful. whoever
might be the opposing candidate; but whether the
Democratic party will be able to unite all the dis
affected is another question II will require more
wisdom and prudence than the leaders of the party
have shown in the past and their present over
confidence in their strength is not a hopeful ndica-
ton of improvement. Taking it for granted that
Gen. Dix to be the Republican candidate for re-
election, they admit that they must put forward
their strongest man 10 oppose him.
PROBABLE DEMOCRATIC NOMINATIONS.
But who is their strongest menf There's the rub
Chef-Justice Sandford +. Church is generally con-
coded TO be as strong any, but he positively de-
clincs TO take the nomination. Not that he Is 10th
to leave the bench the contrary, he is anxious
leave 1T and get back into the political But
he prefers the United States Senate to the Governor
SHIP as less likely to result in failure for himself
and more likely to improve his chances for the Pres
dency. To which lie aspires in 1876 at subse
0uen time. If he were to be elected Governor, and
the Democrats were to carry the Assembly as TO
the United States SenatOIship his rivals for
that Office could object with great force to his being
candidate on the ground that the people had
already designated the place they wished
him to occupy and he had no business to
desert the post Besides it is probable that
the candidate for Leutenant-GOvernOr Oh
and in that the Democracy would object to the
GOvernorship falling into the hands of a party for
which they have not hitherto shown the most disn-
terested affection Chief-Justce Church. therefore,
will not accept nomination for Governor under
any circumstances. HIS candidate is William +.
Allen, also Of the Court of Appeals, who is of
less partisan strength than Judge Church. but of
irreproachable character and unbemished record
Outside of Judge Church himself the Democrats
loudeSt in favor of Judge Allen are the men who
have most interest in the control Of the Office Of
Governor. The next formidable candidate for the
Democratic nomination is Samuel j. Tilden of New
York, who is strongly opposed by the Allen men on
tho ground they allege, that he would in the
city many thousand votes behind the rest of the
ticket. Mr.. Tilden, however has the support of
Charles OConor John Kelly, Controller Green,
and other strong leaders of the party in New
York who will probably succeed in sending
united delegation for him to the State Conven-
ton. Ex-Gov. Seymour is also urged by many
prominent Democrats in the interior Of the State
but tho objection raised against him is that his war
record would not enable him to compete successfully
with Gen. Dix. Francis Herman, too has many
supporters for the nomination, who say that if Dix
is to be the opposing candidate Herman should have
another chance for measuring swords with him,
freed from the excitements and frauds Of Presden-
tia canvass which worked to his disadvantage be-
fore. 1t is probable. however that Alr Herman will
gladly exchange his chances for the Governorship for
Q unanimous nomination to the vacant Judgeship on
the Court of Appeals bench which will doubtless be
given him by the Democratic Convention. From
present indications the contest for the nomination
is to be mainly between Allen and Tilden with the
bare possibility that Church may be forced at the
last moment to accept the nomination as the CON-