Year: 1872




their joint stock State ticket their Presiden-


tial electors and their Congressman at Large,


and have proclaimed the State and national


issues and objects upon which they intend to
| fight through the campaign in this Common
wealth till the November election. The two
great parties, therefore, in this contest-the
administration republican party and the oppo-
sition coalition party-are now fairly before
the people of the Empire State for their suf-
frages. The republicans have strong State
ticket throughout; but it is particularly strong
with General Dix at the head of it for Cover
nor. The opposition alliance against General
Dix have nominated Francis Herman, of Utica
for Governor-a distinguished democrat, an
able party leader and in every respect popu-
lar man-after Judge Church, perhaps, the
most generally acceptable nomination that
could have been made. and particularly in
view of democratic harmony on their State
ticket in this city. !;


Briefly, for the present it may be said that
If the republican State ticket, Presidential
electoral ticket and candidate for Congress-
man at Large are perfectly satisfactory to the
rank and file of the supporters of the national
administration, the opposing nominations
from Syracuse are calculated to give satisfac-
ton as broad and general to democrats and
liberal republicans. AS between the "glitter-
ing generaities" of the platforms Of the two
parties the intelligent voter will Judge for
himself and to the voter who is without in
telligence the platform which goes with his
party ticket represents his principles against
the world But in New York, in every politi-
cal crisis embracing the momentous issue of
national political revolution there is float
ing balance of power which, in reference to
coming State election, drifts with the pressure
Of intervening political events; and it is in
relation to this floating element, this twen-
| tieth vote from the people, that we have to
| consider the probabilities Of our November
election.


What then, is the prospect in the Empire
State? In the Overwhelming hue and cry
against the astounding and abounding corrup-
tons of the Tammany Ring the State was car
ried by the republicans last November by
majority of nearly twenty thousand But the
democrats were disheartened and demoralized
by the Tammany exposures, and many of
them, with the anti Grant republicans gener-
ally, supported the regular republican ticket
as rebuke to the 'Ring" and in view of re-
form. Many democrats, oh the other hand,
from sheer demoralization or disgust remained
at home on election day, so that the figures of
our last November election will not apply to
the present political situation in New York
city and State. With Mr.. Greeley as the
coalition candidate for President the condi-
tions of the battle may be greatly changed.
MIR. Greeley for many years prime favorte
among the republicans of the rural districts as
q political reformer and evangelist of the party
has in this State carried over with him into the
coalition against General Grant considerable
body of devoted republican followers. In the
Presidential election of 1868 Seymour
against Grant carried New York by
ten thousand majority, on by far the
largest vote over cast in the State Taking |
this vote, then, as fair test at that time
between the two parties, the ascertained
desertions from Grant to Greeley in this State
would settle the question now in favor of
Greeley, were there no drawbacks to be con-
sidered in the estimate.


But there are certain drawbacks against Mr.. |
Greeley even in New York, which, in fair
treatment of the subject, cannot be overlooked.
There are, for example, tho anti-Greeley
democrats. They have shown no strength
so far In any quarter; but the HERALD cor
respondents who have been canvassing the |
State report that these democratic Bourbons,
as sullen neutrals at least in the regular party |
camp, can be found in any place throughout
the interior without difficulty. They sent a
delegation from this city to Louisville respecta-
BILE in part, and however small faction or frac-
ton they may be in the State at large, they are
vet, more OF less, dead weight upon Mr..
Greeley. Next, there is to Mr.. Greeley the
discouragement of the Vermont election,
and the apparently inextricable confusion
into which the parties, factions and cliques
of this city have drifted upon municipal affairs.
We may have three or four candidates for
Mayor this year, and the divisions among the
democrats upon these candidates may affect
more or less the State and Presidential tickets
Grant and Greeley, one way or the other. In
the absence of these disturbing elements New
York might be safely set down as good for the
opposition coalition by on overwhelming
majority but while these disturbing forces
exist the vote of New York in November cam
not be assumed as absolutely certain for MIR.
Greeley and the State ticket associated with
him in this contest


The republicans evidently have strong hopes
of holding New York. They may count too
much upon their victory Of last November
against Tammany and too largely upon the
anti-Greeley democrats and upon democratic
divisions in this city, and they may under
estimate the strength Of the anti-Grant repub-
licans but the Grant managers are never