The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1867-09-02

barnines aad divisions VIII b. engsndersd BY their
determination. NO matter What form IL may assume
which cannot fail to rend asunder the long overstrsned
and enormously complex piece or mechanism called
me rammany party Il is noteworthy in this connec.
ton that Tammany Hall has not for many years elected
apure Tammany candidate % position OF importance
Sheriff John Kelly vas nominated three years ago by
the Independent antring democracy, then hgnting
under no particular standard, but now consolidated and
rapidly adding to their strength the democratic Union
party; and il under OF this nomination and
from the h)peessness OF defeating him that Tam
many Hall, the eleventh hour consented to- take him
up and has since mpudenty strven 10 claim the credit
OF his election Corporation Counsel German, as must
be fresh 10 the recollection OF every reader was or@
naly taken up bv the Citizens Association and was then
adopted by the Miles Reilly democracy as their chosen
representative his defeat being at the time rem
dered impossible by astonishing somersanlt OF the
venerable Horace Greeley, who fine morning came
out in the Tribune demanding that the republicans
without distinction OF party, should support TINS
candidate Under these circumstances Mr. OGorman,
as matter Of course, was not opposed by lammany
Hail. but the fact remains whoever else may have for
gotten it) that his success was wholly and solely TO
the Miles u Reilly element County Clerk VIM c. Con-
the joint nominee OF the old and the young
coons Of Mozart Hall aud OF the general instruction
elements, which have now their headquarters at the
Cooper Institute, this being fair pitched battle be-
tween these elements and the regular machine OF Tam
many Hail. which put forward the name Of the then
County Clerk, Henry W. Genet for reelection, getting
heavily hammered and knocked over the ropes in that
trial OF strength The present Register is also another
signal example OF the evil fortune attending straight
out rainmany nomination, General Halpne having been
elected TO his present Office by over twenty thousand
majority against the combination in which the rammany
Halt Mozart and conservative republican machines we're
united upon ex-Register Mr. John McCool Going back
little further. may point to the fact that ex-sherif
has never been for the last eight years, any democratic
contest, in which Tammany Hall ran straight ticket
against the outside democratic nominations, IN which
the nominees OF the Wgwam have not been either igno
miDously defeated or in which the republican candidate
has not slipped into between The warning fac
tons witness the of the republican Regis
Ter. John Keiser when running between James Lynch,
or the anti rammany democracy. and NJ. l. Brennan.
the regular wigwam candidate. 1t under similar
circumstances that ex Comptroller Robert Haws now
deceased, achieved his triumph for that Office.
RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE EXCISE LAW.
Revolutions never go backward, and. unless all pre-
vious experience in political life proves deceitfa, the
combination OF anti-ring elements will be overwhelm.
ney successful this fall against the candidates OF that
machine which has been proclaimed 'the only regular
organization Of the democratic party in the city and
county OF New York; bv such high rural authority
Mr. Peter Caeger. Of 81 State street, Albany: San
fGFd aoc sao1 nsd ones OF sa
eere and played Tho responsibility for the
passage OF the Excise law undoubtedly rests upon the
republican party, and will finally be found milestone
round s neck, too heavy TO be carried but the direct
responsibility for the odous. tyranncai and inqnis-
toral execution Of that law in this city and within the
Metropolitan district must be properly placed where it
belongs on the shoulders OF he Tammany chiefs Self
ishv and ANXIOUS 10 increase the demo-
cratic vote for the nominees and tools OF their own
Lunch Club ring, they have used their influence with
their chief ally, Mr. rhurlow Weed whose influence IN
the Police Commission irresistible and only too well
known to require COMMENT for the purpose Of making
this odious law yet more odious and oppressive 60 all
classes of citizens, by system OF enforcement
equally based upon the perured spy and the blud
geon of bluecoated authority 1t is well known
that Governor Fenton and other leaders Of the radical
interest have openly and again and again. vanly at
tempted to moderate the superservceabe zeal of
President Acton and his coadutors in their headquarer
at Mulberry They have said that believing some
restraint upon ndiecrminate tipping Of the vile poison
sold in Thousands of our lower class groggercs to be
great and humane necessity, and also aiming in this
Christian country more dcferentia observance
OF the Sabbath at least its external aspect SO that The
from church should not be- shocked they did certainly
urge the passage OF, and the Governor did certainly
sign the present Excise law as stands in the statute
book But they further say, and with every apparent
evidence OF truth flor why should politicians
so shrewd and wide awake, be coveious Of
committing Aari kari upon their party?) that the
members Of both houses who urged and passed
the bill, and the Governor who signed II,
had idea whatever that its provisions would
carried out with such iudscrininate perncious and
tyrannica violence have lately SEEN II vas to
be- as they regarded it, large source Of revenue to the
public treasury from business making enormous pro-
6s and abundsntly able pay II also to bave the
further effect Of closing up the miserable doggeres and
wealthy districts, which derium tremens and death
are aded out to the and more ignorant classes at
should offend the deceness Of the sabbath this law was
to be held over them ia terrorcm agency by which
that house could be closed and any blue ruin kennel
noisy, the depraved and the vicious then |
the provisions of the pressu, Excise Law nigh, |
be practically put in operation for closing
IT, and turning It's trade into decent hands.
Ih. was all at least so claimed he radical leaders and
the friends OF Governor Fenton that ever contem
plated by than in regard TO this most unfortunate and
obnoxious measure. and they distinctly charge with
what truth for those most Interested TO udge) that
the and cruel enforcement OF the Excise law as
10 operation TO-DAY, has been tho direct work OF the
Tammany Hall chiefs and their conservative ally Mr.
Thurov Weed having for direct agency the strong total
abstinence convictions of Mr. President Acton and the
ready scquiescence in his views Of the only direct
Hall representative the Police Board
Judge Bosworth OF this city. Certain IT 10 that no
opposition to the most rigorous enforcement. OF the
in any Tammany quarter; and during the last
session OF the Legislature, whatever was done
.1so nature holding oa. any possibility Of success
came from such members OF Assembly as Mr. Owen
mittee on Cities and Villages; Mr. Charles Bauvet
OF the Eighth ward and from their other democratic as
socates, who had been elected directly on the demo-
cratic Union or Miles Reilly ticket, aud In opposition
To the nominees and policy OF the Tammany ring We /
do not mean to say that the Tammnny Hall members OF
Assembly and the Tammany Hall Senator, Charles G. |
Cornell did not protest against and denourc the Excise
law and did not propose its total repeal but we do
charge and the record Of the las, Legislature proves
that they advocated in this connection which
they knew could not by any possibility be carried tand
which in true policy and for the welfare Of the human
family. and even for that OF all the respectable men In
the liquor trade, should no, DO carriedl. ana |
that they violently opposed and did their utmost |
20 defeat the more wise and moderate amendments |
TO the Excise Law which would have relieved " OF its
most obnoxious features and which were advocated by
the democratic Union members OF Assembly, with GER
tainty that they would have been passed. " IL hsd not
been for the opposition Of the democrats representing
the Tammany ring. and the City Hall Lunch Club more
directly IL 10 with this issue to very great extent
that the democratic Union members Of Assembly will
make their appeal 10 the people next fall not by
demagoRical circulars 10 German dealers lager beer
or Hbernsn dealers IN stronger potaons. but by the
public production ana recitation OF ncontesabie facts.
and BY showing from the records OF the last Legislature
that very importatH notifications of the Excise law
could have been obtained, the republicans standing |
ready to grant them " the onlv so-csed democratic
representatives OF Tammsny Hall could have been |
brought to join In the demand OF such Mr. Owen
Murphy.
THE LATEST VARIATIONS N TB. MARKET.
AZ 10 the most recent quotations In the political stock
market the greet extent Of this report requires that
shall be brief For the Office OF District Attorney Oakley
Hall will he rcnomira,ed by the wigwam people, and |
will most probably be supported by .he General Commit
tee OF conservative ghosts who assemble 81 the OF
Twenty third street aud Broadway while against him,
~ the most incorporating enemy o! The ring and
officer whose chief ambipon will I've 90 bring all the
leading members Of that ring to condigr punishment,
the independent democrats will put forward the Of
exDistnct Attorney Nelson Jarvis Waterbury. For 81.
pcrvisor the anti ring people divided between
er-supervisor smith Ely, Jr, o. anti.uew Court |
House and antrng celebrity who can have the nomi.
nation II he wishes It, and Mr. Patrick Mclean Of the
Thirteenth ward, who was their unsuccessful notni-