The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-07-08
TANINIANY HALL ON THE NEXT PRESI-
DENCY,
From the N. Y. Herald.


TANINIANY HALL ON THE NEXT PRESI-
DENCY.
From the NJ Y Herald
Tammany Hall is a power in the land. The
city tax levy of twenty odd millions is enough
to show it; for Tammany rules the city, and
the city has become strong enough to carry
the State, and the State is the mainstay of the
Democratic party of the United States. Hence
the outgivings Of Tammany on the political
situation mean something. Accordingly the
party views, doctrines and hints thrown out
from Tammany on the GLORIOUS Fourth" are
entitled to special attention, foreshadowing,
as they do the present position and future
course of the irrepressible Democracy.
First, then, after q solemn, a very solemn
ode from De Witt Van Buren-and there is a
poet among the Van Burens, as there have
been statesmen, politicians, wits, and philoso-
phers-after poem from Van Buren,, calling
us to
'Look where broken laws neglected oaths and shat
tered States proclaim
The triumph OF the hollow heart, the glory of its
shame
Judge Garvin proceeded to the nomination of
Governor Hoffman as the Democratic candi-
date for President in 1872, and at the same
| time defined his platform. The learned Judge
| in the course of his remarks said:-'But the
! day will come-when the soldier who now
occupies the White House, when his term Of
Jffice shall expire-that we will send TO be
! President man from the city of New York,
by the aid of the votes of the people of this
great country who will do honor to that posi-
ton, and who will demand atonement from
| England and from Spain for the terrible out
RACES which they have perpetrated upon this
country" all of which was received with en-
thusiastic applause. Having thus cleared the
ground for Governor Hoffman and his foreign
| policy to the satisfaction of the assembled
| OF folra
domestic affairs in foreshadowing the Demo-
cratic programme for 1872.
Senator Stockton, of New Jersey was as
signed to this important duty, and discharged
it with the ability of a regular old-time Demo-
cratic constitutional expounder. He took the
ground that from the mode adopted by Con-
gress of enforcing upon the late Rebel States
the condition precedent of the adoption of
the fifteenth constitutional amendment estab-
fishing universal manhood suffrage of all
colors the ratification of this amendment will
be null and void ''and the attempt to enforce
it revolution" Speaking of the States re-
quired by law to adopt it, Mr.. Stockton said:-
''These States are deprived of free vote.
They are to be coerced to a vote that alters
the constitutions of the United States
and of New Jersey fundamentally" and
81 pronounce it violence and revolution. y
He further said that ''the question of who
} votes and who does not vote sinks into insig-
, nifcance compared with the fundamental
alteration of our system of government which
is proposed, and the fraud and violence by
} which our home-born liberties are to be
/ wrested from u.s." This is plain and strong
7 speaking; but where do these opinions of Mr.
Stockton stop? They carry us back to 1860
They cover not only the fifteenth amendment
3 establishing universal negro suffrage, but the
3 fourteenth in reference to civil rights, the ma
= tional debt, the Rebel debt, ETC., and the
\ o1nli cla fhax,
l all carried by an enforced ratification upon
the unreconstructed Southern States. We
know too, that it was General Frank Blairi
letter, declaring all these reconstruction pro
} ceedings unconstitutional, revolutionary
null, and void" that killed last years Tam
= many Presidential ticket of Seymour and
9 Blair from the start. And that ought to b,
e the last of this question.
: But there is still another point and incident
a in Mr.. Stockton's speech deserving of notice
Q In his reference to recent decision of Chic
1 Justice Chase, leaning towards the Jeferso
y nian dogma of State sovereignty, our reporte
r assures us that there was a spontaneous out
t break of applause in Tammany among tn
D small and the ''big Indians" which was tn,
D special incident of the days proceedings
n From this we infer that Mr.. Chase, as a stronl
0 and thoroughly acceptable candidate for tn
: Democracy, has gained hold among the ram
: and file of the party which places him to-da
n far ahead of all other competitors, not except
B ing Governor Hoffman.
e Mayor Hall followed the regular orator O
2 the day. Mr.. Stockton in one of his neve
s failing, facetious, and pungent speeches. Th
It salient points of his somewhat discursive an(
b miscellaneous remarks were these - Tha
S ''the Army of the Potomac is keeping aliv
s the embers of civil war Ga very suggestiv
: remark; that General Grant is responsible
! for the lack of anything like practical sym
Q pathy from the Government for the Cubans
d and that we (the Democracy must make a
y issue of this in the coming fall campaign
y that, like Andrew Johnson, General Grant
n before the end of his term, will be turned on
IS of his party, and on account of his division O
l. the spois; that 'four-ffths of what is sal
o about the Alabama claims is the sheeres
d humbug in the world" that give the Demo
q cratic party chance and there will be practi
~ cal sympathy, and to some purpose, for boil
% CUBA and Ireland; that the Democracy expec
something from the Virginia election, ant
Iiiat IN the fall they will be wide awake il
20 pennsylvania and New York.
le thus 1t will be seen that the powerful fff
"a teen-lnch columbiads-Cuba and the Alabam
A. elalms-apparently neglected by the admins
"a tration, are to be turned in New York agains
y 1t this fall, and that impracticable as are tn
y views of Senator Stockton on reconstruction
es the issues suggested by Mayor Hall are such a
10 VIII be apt, IN the coming October and No
ID vember elections, to bring out the ful
lt strength of the Democracy against the demo
ID rallied and disorganized Republicans. If, q