Daniel Tiemann, a fusion candidate, won the mayoralty over Wood with Tammany aid. Photograph by Brady, the new-york historical SOCIETY. these principles!'24 Many Tammany leaders did not feel obliged to espouse this view. Prior to 1857, Tammany Hall had been restrained from breaking with Wood because of the coincidence of state and national elections with municipal elections. In 1857, when the municipal elections were held separately, Tammany leaders no longer felt the necessity to endorse Wood. The Wood partisans needed no call to party unity. Since the Tammany leaders had joined the "black republicans" and nativists, the Irish—as in Wood's previous campaigns—fervently supported him. Wood's championing of home rule, particularly the right of the city to maintain its own police force, increased his popularity among the immigrants, whose European experiences made this issue an extremely meaningful one to them.25 Wood hoped, in addition, to attract followers from the propertied groups who leaned toward Tiemann. Yet despite his contention that a victory by the People's party would result in increased assessments, the well-to-do helped Tiemann win a narrow victory, 43,216 to 40,889, as many Democrats, notwithstanding the attitude of the Tammany leaders, voted the Wood ticket.26 Most of the city's newspapers rejoiced over the defeat of Wood and the triumph of the reform party. The New York Daily News took a partisan view, however, and bemoaned not only the loss of the mayoralty but also of "the immense patronage of the Police establishment, 24 Daily News, November 20, 1857; Leader, November 28, 1857; Evening Post, November 24,1857. 25 Tribune, December 4, 1857; Times, November 24, 1857. i6Times, November 28, 1857; Diary of Edward N. Tailer, Jr., November 30, 1857, The New-York Historical Society (hereafter cited as NYHS); James A. Hamilton, Reminiscences of James A. Hamilton; or Men and Events, at Home and Abroad during Three Quarters of a Century (New York: 1869), 432> Tribune, December 14, 1857.