The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-07-24
President Johnson and Tammany Hall.

From, The ". Y. Herald.
Ii ever without party at his back there
was a happy man in the White House it was
John yleI; if there has ever been man i'll
the White House who has unnecessarily and
profitlessly kept himself in hot water in search
of party, it is Andrew Johnson. From his
first message to Congress in December, 1865,
down to this day he has thus kept himself in
hot water. But there was method in his
madness and an object in his conflict with
Congress from the beginning, which, though
long time mystery to many inquiring
minds. is at length as completely solved as
the problems OF the sources and the annual
overflow of the Nile. We have only to as
sumo that from the date of his rupture with
sold Thad. Stevens'' Mr.. Johnson began to
work for the Democratic nomination of 1868,
in order to get perfect solution of his hereto
and persistent struggle TOR State rights and
the Constitution.
His first positive and unqualified movement
in this direction was i'll the Philadelphia
Johnson conservative experimental national
Convention of August, 1866 (see Mr.. Ray
mond's speech), and that was a failure. His
next adventure, a month later was in that
famous pilgrimage to the tomb of Douglas,
Swinging round the circle, " and that was
failure; for i'll the State elections which fol-
lowed my policy" against the fourteenth
amendment policy of Congress was voted
down from Maine to California. In 1867 in
consequence OF the departure OF Congress from
said fourteenth amendment and the adoption
of the military and universal negro suffrage
policy of Southern reconstruction, a popular
reaction set in against the Republican party
from Connecticut TO the Pacific, and Mr..
Johnson rejoiced greatly thereat in his mes
ssges to Congress. He was getting to the
windward of his enemies. In 1865 unani-
mously sustained by the Democracy in Con-
gress and throughout the country against the
radicals and in the matter of Impeachment, he
had some ground for the impression, with his
acquittal, that the Democrats, in casting about
for their most available candidate, would be
inevitably drawn, as their only alternative, to
! Andrew Johnson, the man who had done more
! to bring them out of the Dismal Swamp and
to put them on their legs again than all their
party leaders and managers put together.
Party conventions however, like republics,
are ungratelul. The recent proceedings in
Tsmmany Hall have thoroughly convinced Mr..
Johnson that this is true. The shock, how
| ever, thus sustained instead of diverting his
| mind TO the consultations OF religion or phi
losOphy, seems to have awakened in the Pre-
sident something OF the direful wrath OF King
1 TheodoIus. lis will trife no longer with pre-
| tended friends, but will slay them right and
left. A certain letter from Washington in
Yesterdays Herald upon the subject shows
that he has no more fish to fry in Tammany
Hall, and that he is no longer in the mood to
turn the grindstOne to grind the axes and
tomshawks of the Tammany sachems. 1t ap-
pears, in short, that Mr.. Johnson has not yet
made up his mind whether to take hand in
this Presidential conflict or to stand aloof, a
neutral spectator, like the Tennessee hunter in
the deadly struggle between his wife and the