The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-09-20
THE TANIMANY MUDDLE-NEw YORK
DEMOCRACY-NEGR SUFFRAGE.


THE TAMMANY MUDDLE-NEw YORK |
DEMOCRACY-NEGRO SUFFRAGE.
From the NJ y. Herald
The Tammany Tweed-Belmont muddle is
settled. 1t was settled with the return of
Sweeny-Peter the Great The hare-up by
the Tweed organizations in certain wards
against Belmont was trick from the begin
ming to work certain little wires for certain
ward nominations, including aldermen and
assistant aldermen, Offices worth hedging and
ditching for. The idea was to tickle the Grand
Sachem at the expense of the bondholder of
the Manhattan Club, who is not in the Tam
many inside ring. The game was preposter-
Gus, and as it threatened to be dangerous
Sweeney at once blocked it, and Tweed is
satisfied. His particular friends in the pre-
misses, in the excess of their admiration and
devotion, were getting him into a bad box,
and he was thankful to be helped out of it, The
contest however, for the city spoils, fat places
and lean places waxed warmer, and the little
party cliques of the wards and election dis
tricts of this island, which overhows with
milk and honey at this season of the year, are
all mining and pipe-laying for the spoils. 1t
seems to be understood, however, that Tam
many will not make up her local states till
after the State Convention at Syracuse this
week; for Tammany wishes to go into that
gathering with an unbroken front. The
sachems have discovered that the rural dis
tricts have taken the alarm and are likely to
show some opposition to the Tammany pro-
gramme for regulating-frst, the Democracy
of the State, and secondly, through the State,
the National Democratic Convention of 1872
under the banner of Hoffman. The interior
likes Hoffman, but does not like the idea of
being gobbled up by Tammany. Conse-
quently Tammany at Syracuse must present
compact front and be prepared to play skill
full game, or her story may be that of the
maid with the milking pail.
The Tammany leaders, we understand, had
resolved upon fighting niger suffrage on the
fifteenth amendment, under the idea that as
the Governor intended to forget to forward to
Washington the ratification by our last Legis-
lature of said amendment, it could not be
counted, and that so, with the election of
an anti-negro suffrage Legislature this fall
said amendment would be squelched perhaps
entirely But as the Governors trans
mission of the New York ratification, on
the application of the Acting Secretary
of State at Washington, has settled the
action of New York on said amendment, it
| will have to be dropped at Syracuse. There
are red-hot Democrats, of the New Jersey
| school, who are in favor of fighting for Legis-
| lature to repeal said ratification but as the
| State Department under Mr.. Seward has de-
| cined to recognize such proceedings,i it might
do so again under Mr.. Fish. On the negro
suffrage proposition of the new State Consti-
| tuition, however, we presume that Tammany
will take her stand, and that the Syracuse
| Convention will second the motion against
the almighty niger. And why? Because in
the event of the failure to secure three-fourths
of all the States to the fifteenth amendment
proposed to the Federal Constitution, ''the
supreme law of the land, the action upon
nigger suffrage in the State Constitution be-
comes a matter of some Importance.
| In sny event we expect an interesting fight
in this State this fall on negro suffrage. Under
the old state of things there would be nc
doubt of an overwhelming majority against
the nigger. But the new departure of the
Southern Democracy Virginia leading off il
support of the fifteenth amendment, and the
surrender of this question by the Wisconsin
Democracy have changed the whole face O.
things on negro suffrage. 1t is sure to come
and under this general belief the tide viii
probably be in favor of the everlasting niger
even in New York. General Grant is EN-
phatically in favor of universal negro suffrage
and it must not be forgotten by Tamman,
that now, for the first time since 1865, tn
national administration and all its retainer
work with the Republican party. All thi
Federal power in New York city and State i
clear gain to the party since last year, and
will be felt in the election on this issue o
negro suffrage. ALE.-
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