Year: 1869

The contest among the politicians, the
ofice-hoiders and ofice-seekers owing party
allegiance to the Tammany Regency, is each
day growing in proportion and strength. The
long talked about and anxiously expected
slate will be announced within the present


week, when much Of the individual conflict


will terminate, and the struggle will from


thenceforward be confined to the representa-


tive men or candidates Of the opposing parties


Tammany, with the policy and foresight which


has marked its course since controlled by Peter


Bismarck Sweeny, has been unusually reti-


cent with regard to its nominations to the
numerous offices within its gift. This secrecy
arises, not only from tho multiplicity of the
offices, and the corresponding number Of can
didates therefor; but the Importance and high
responsibility attaching to many of them, and
to the yet moro influential fact that the oppos-
ing parties are likely to combine, if not upon
fusion ticket, upon a course Of action that
threatens to defeat some Of the Regenoy's
plans. The democratic Union leader, Smith
Ely, Jr., is very likely to heal the differences
Of late subsisting between shat party proper
and the seeding branch thereof, known as
the Waterbury faction. On the othor hand the
republicans, while they must, for party pur-
poses and political identity, nominate an inde-
pendent ticket, will nevertheless cast their
votes for any nominee of the combined demo-
cratic Union party commended to their judg-
ments as politically and intellectually qualified
for place, the same kind Offices to ba reciprO-
Gated by the democratic Union in districts
the republican ticket. This is the secret of
Tammany's hesitation and delay in naming its
men for the Offices to be filed In November
and December. An unpopular candidate for
any single office may, through the complica-
ton and diversity of interests and the political
jerrymandering of partisan leaders, indict
severe loss upon Tammany and leave her in
a minority in the Senate, the place above all
others she is anxious to secure majority in.
1t is this fact that invests the Senatorial fight
in the Fifth, Sixth and Eighth districts with
an absorbing interest to Tammany aud its
chieftain, Peter Bismarck.


The Judiciary slate comes in for full share
of anxious consideration, for here, too, the
republican and outside democratic organiza-
tions are after the redmen OF the wigwam with
''big stick" The first vacancy in the courts,
as it is first in Importance influence and public
interest, is that occurring on the bench of the
Supreme Court. Judge Clerkes term expires
this year, but tho Judge is a candidate for
denomination. Tammany has been casting
around for suitable successor, and several
candidates have been named whose claims and
qualifications for the Office have been briefly
referred to in our articles under the head of City
Politics. 1t was supposed for some time past
that Judge Clerke had no chance for Tam
many denomination but this was not so, as the
Tammany leaders felt that he was not man
they could afford to slight OF reject in matter
on which the people had something to say.
Should Tammany in this instance step aside
from its ''young men for Office" policy, and
renominate Judge Clerke to the high Office he
has 80 ably, justly and independently filed for
years past and is now filing, they would
strengthen the slate nominations, and deprive
the opposing parties of the card they intend to
play in opposition should Tammany fail to
present the name Of Judge Clerke for the suf-
frages of the people. The denomination of the
present incumbent would commend itself to all
classes of our citizens, and would insure with
out doubt the election of the whole Tammany
Judiciary ticket.