Year: 1870

state and City Politlcs-Stnto OF Parties.
We present In our usual article under the
sition of the events which have marked the
crooked and devious course of politics for
some time past up to the present moment.
A truthful, but deplorable picture 1t is
exhibiting the slow estate" into which the
leaders of the once great party of ''moral
ideas" has fallen, and the dishonorable sub
terfuges and doubling they adopt and pursue
to gain personal ends at the expense of sound
policy and inherent principles. On the side
of the republicans facts incontestably prove
that the political stake played for is one of
place and patronage, at ths Sacrifice Of party
and all the higher objects Of political ambition.
Principles and the public welfare, even from
their standpoint, are absolutely tabooed; the
title of citizens to the honest suffrages of their
peers is ignored, and the young and aspiring
men of the day have inculcated into them
the demoralizing fact that chicanery and de-
ceit and the prostitution Of all the higher at
tributes of youthful and laudable ambition
present the only road to such political emil
nence as is now attainable in the republican
ranks.


This truth is exhibited not only in the in-
testine strifes waged among the republicans
themselves, but is most flagrantly patent,
from our expose of the secret machina-
tions for coalition and fraternal alliance
carried on between them and the lead
ers of the dangerous classes in our
midst, the Messrs. Morrissey, O'Brien d Go.
This state of things is pitiable in the extreme.
The party of moral ideas is rotten to the core.
Their offence smells rank to heaven and
stinks in the nostrils of all men. The present
leaders, ignoring the great principles which
inspired and stimulated the inaugurators of
the republican movement, now crave unholy
alliance with their ancient and natural foes,
with the men who got up and participated in
the Real funeral demonstration few weeks
ago, and from which they have been most
appropriately dubbed the ''Real democracy"
They enter into an alliance offensive and de-
fensive with the standard bearers of the pro-
cessionists who on that occasion marched
under banners inscribed sin mem0rSGn"
of ono whom outraged law and public
sentiment justly consigned to felon's doom;
inscription as the most expressive that could
be devised to identify themselves with the
contemners and violators Of the law; with
that class of whom Real was the characteristic
tyne and representative. ssWe mourn our
loss" Such is republicanism and republican
affiliations to-day.


The farce enacted at Sar atoga on the 7th
instant is now deemed too farcical. The
leaders who bolted from Greeley on that occa-
sion would gladly substitute his name or that
of ''any other man" on their 'bll" for that of
Woodford; but this ''bright particular star" is
determined to ''star" it to the end, no matter
how detrimental the great mistake may
be to the managers and to the company gene
rally. 1t was a delicate strategy by which
the ''peace general" was for the first time
placed in the front rank, and as there is no
personal danger in the situation he will fight
it out on that line all the fall, to the decline
and fall of all republican hopes of supremacy
in the future.


The Tammany democracy hold their nomi-
mating Convention on Wednesday next, when
they will present as their standard bearer for
Governor the name of the present Executive,
John T. Hoffman, as against Woodford, the
republican. There is no doubt of the success
of the whole Tammany ticket, from Governor
down to that Of Coroner, as the democratic
masses are a unit for good government and
for the supremacy of law and order in their
midst.