New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-10-12
DEMOCRATIC FACTIONS FIGHTING.
GREAT BITTERNESS AND HOSTILITY or SPIRIT
sHowN-wHAT TIE PAPERS SAY ABOUT

The contest for the MayoTalty between the two
Democratic rganlzalions-rammsay Hall and the
County DcmOcracy-is young yet, but II has do
vcoped a sentiment more bitter and resenifu than has
been known I'm New-York politics for many years.
Although but g few days have passed since Mr.. IIew-
TT and Mr.. Grant placed in nomination, harsh
language IS used by the members OF the Count.
Democracy against Mr. Grant, and some Of Mr.. Grants
friends have begun a savage warfare upon Mr..
Hewitt. Already the animoses uncovered and the
bad blood shown give evidence OF campaign Of
merciless severity. The rancor and malice exhibited
against each other thus early In the by these
two factions of the Democracy are painful for the
members of the party outside OF the city cOmtem-
plate, but the Republicans look with com
placency while the Democratic factions trying to
icnd each other into fragments. The failure Of the
efforts OF Secretary Whitney Private Score ary Lamont.
Colonel Brce and otcr leaders OF The parry
union of the factions has left legacy OF bad blood
and bad feeling which vii! become stu more heated
and angry as the campaign advances. The active
men I'm tho County Democracy and Tammany Hall
are trying to get the papers TO publish daily
interviews and letters which will increase the s'r.f,
already stirred up. The Democratic papers are not
working in harmony by any means, and editorials
ard other articles of much ferociy on the Mayoralty
contest frequently appear
The Worlds opposition TO the Mayor has been
in harmony with the style Of warfare which has
been begun, and IL has let occasion slip for dis
playing the deep-seaed hostility that evidently has
toward the nominee of the County Democracy In yes
terday far to insist that hr Hewitt
nad not shown his personal honesty, his QuixO,ic
courage pragmatical Independence In the con
duct Of the Mayors Office. OF what good" II asks,
is an honesty which hobnobs politically with and
accepts a nomination from men like Police Justice
Tower, whose partisan activity tho Mayor rebuked
in bis annual message, and Richard 900 Cunnin gham
Of corrupt contract fame and Tom COstigan, Fatty
Walsh, William +. Mitchell. Maurice H. Flynn and
their associates In the County Democracy? What
benefit docs the city receive from an honesty which
o5structs Ignores Investigations into the misman-
agement of city Offices because the Mayor fancics he
has occasion to dislike the newspaper which exposes
the wrOng.n
The SUM- not to be behind the rest in this inter
estng hunt for scaips on large scale, opens its
batteries upon tho WINS Logan combination"
and the Mugwump factory AT No. 45 Pinc-st7
When IL IS remembered that this Mugwump crowd >
which " The SUM mathematics are generally SUD
p0ricrs of Mr. Hewitt In the contest for Mayor and
while fighting Hill, whom The sum champions are
making common cause with Hewitt, The suns can
ddatc for Mayor, the nature and amount Of Cross FIR
ing which Republicans VIII be compelled TO cOntcm-
plate during the next few weeks may lo fairly
imagined.