The New York Herald

The Municipal Election And The Candidates.-In an article on the coming municipal election, the Tribune advises the republicans to exhibit in the selection of a candidate for Mayor the same disregard of party which characterized their course in adopting Mayor Tiemann and giving him their support at the last charter election. But it insists that this time the candidate shall be from the republican ranks, and that the democracy shall sustain him. That certainly is a very curious mode of disregarding party. The organ of a party which is largely in the minority modestly insists that the candidate on which all classes of citizens shall unite must be chosen from that party. How would the Tribune like the same kind of arrangement as regards the Presidential election? Would it and its party of the North be satisfied to accept a candidate for the White House selected from the democracy of the South, which is as much in a minority in point of population as are the republicans in the city of New York? We give the republicans no credit for disregard of party spirit in adopting Mayor Tiemann. They knew very well that they could not elect a man of their own party, and the next best thing they could do for their party was just what they did-to upset the regular nomination of their opponents by playing off against him a stump candidate of the same party, and making a bargain with him for a fair division of the spoils of office. Mayor Tiemann is now accused of selling the republicans and disregarding his pledges to share with them the loaves and fishes. Now, according to the Tribune, the republicans will not trust a democrat again, and will set up a man of their own party, and that man the Tribune already puts in nomination. He is no other than Simeon Draper, one of the most decided party men to be found in the republican army, an active leader of its hosts, and many years an official in the corrupt government of the Almshouse. Could not the Tribune hit upon some fresher man-one not so hackneyed in the ways of party? What guarantee have the democrats that Simeon Draper, if elected, would not serve them as Tiemann served the republicans? As regards partisanship Greeley himself would not be more objectionable, and would just be as likely to make a fair distribution of the public plunder. If we are to have a republican partisan Mayor, therefore, let us, by all means, have Horace Greeley, who in many respects is a better man than Draper. But of that there is very small probability. The democrats have the game in their own hands, and if they agree in selecting the right man they can elect him, despite of all opposition from republicans or others. Would it not be better, therefore, for the republicans, like the conservative classes, to wait and see what democratic candidates will loom up, and to give their support to the best of them? Thus they would in a measure hold the balance of power. Unless the democracy goes into the contest split into two equal factions, the republicans cannot hope to elect a man of their own stripe. There is one point on which we fully agree with the Tribune, and that is that the chief magistrate and the Board of Aldermen be selected from among the wealthy and respectable men of the city; but then they must not be fools and noodles, the passive tools of men of inferior education, but of stronger intellect and of more energy and experience. The Mayor should be an able man, as well as a man of wealth and respectability.