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Show 'Siting huts life. Th Very Exis'enre of tie Tamrcaaj Society is at Stake in the Pre-sent Pre-sent IfiTonliy Cutest. TO WIFE CUT THE ELACT STAIS. Orcker DeUsrained that Ea?h J. Cnnt Should be Elected Major la Spit of the Fasaett IoTsstigjUoa. New York. Oct. ST. Special. )-Th most exciting political contest taat this city has ever witnessed la now being waged here. The Tammsny society i not fighting for supremacy alone; It U fighting fur Its rtlsteuc. Agint It "" i"i lie riiweace. AgAinst it are arrayed a majority of the mmbr of the county detmcracy. the citizen's party, and the republican. Th con-tending; con-tending; parties are working night and day to win victory for thetuseive a ad to defeat their opponent. When tha onto com mi tire M summer, by lu Investigation of Tammany methods, sought to accomplish the political destruction de-struction of Mayor Grant by Impugning his honety as a puhlio official, it Incidentally Inci-dentally revealed the relation between Grant when sheriff and Richard Croktr. who la now th leader of the most powerful pow-erful secret organization of a political character that any city baa ever known. It wm then resolved by Crokcr to wip oat the (tain on Tammany, on Grant, and on himself by renominating; and t electing Grant to th mayoralty. Slany Tainmaiy iters wens opposed to this cours-i. a they deemed it better politic to have their men in control of the administration, than to jcopardl the tenure of their olflc by nominating a man again! whom a Urge and Inllu-enlist Inllu-enlist body of people went In revolt. Crocker, however, directed the renomi- " nation of Grant, and hla order olteyed. The content ha iwo tha itrangeal in many rexpect that New York has sver known Joseph Cboate, the counael for Tammany Iwfor tha Senate committee, now U n leader la the eltiwn movement, in hi p h he treat Grant very courtonty, la fact, they deal almoal eicluelvely with national subject. Tammany i undoubtedly un-doubtedly going through the Brrt battle In which It ha ever bean n gaged. F.aeh member, however. Pro-! Pro-! fe' I ' tiaelf a confident that th re-i re-i suit wiii lemonatrat the fact thai for manv ream to eme Tamrr.sy ni I the aofe and uuuiaimUd rul vi ii'aw Yoik. . |