New-York tribune., 1870-10-29
DEMOCR1TIC DEFENDERS.

1t is familiar adage that misery makes
strange bcd-fellows, and perhaps we should
take it as a sign of the distressed condition of
the Democratic party that when a great meet
ing is held to mtify the nomination of John
II. Hoffman, we should find among the Gov
ernor's defenders, side by side on the same
platform two such uncongenial civilian states
men as Horatio Seymour and Bill Tweed and
two such military commanders as George b..
Mcclellan and Col. Jim Fisk. If it was neces-
sary in the course of the evening as we dare
say it was, that these great lights should meet
in social intercourse with the leading spirits of
the Ring, and that the whole happy family,
including August Belmont, Michael Norton,
Thomas C.. Fields, and Mr.. Water Policeman
John Glennon, should sit together around the
festive board, we can only hope Mcssrs. Sey-
mour Belmont, and Mcclellan relished the en-
tertainment, and that the other leaders con-
Quoted themselves with rs much decOrum rs
they knew how to practice.
But if the spectacle of fastidious gentlemen
hobnobbing with pot-hOuse ruilians is an in
teresting one, what shall we say of the inti-
mate relations into which stress of politics has
driven Mr.. VIM. Nj. Tweed, Mr.. Oakley Hall,
and Mr.. Jim Fisk with the editor of The
World newspaper The campaign in the State
of New York is nOtOriOusly % struggle on the
part of that illustriOus triumyirate to per-
petuate the system of shameless and cunning
"fraud' by which they have obtained control
of the public purse and placed their Obedient
slave in the Governors chair at Albany to sign
bills for them. No one has denounced their
rascality more explicitly, no one has more ear
nestly melted the people to turn them out of
power, than the editor of 1he World. Yet to-
day that paper is their most efficient organ.
To-day that paper asks US to support them as
honest ana patriotic men who will s.1minister
their offices in the public interest. To-day
that paper turns its back upon its own
warnings, and kisses the feet of the
very rogues who have been pio-
ried in its columns. Six months ago The
World told us how its editor had been witness
of the shameless election frauds of the Tam
many managers, and tho men whom it
denounced by name rs guilty OF these crimes
were William NJ. Tweed and A. Oakley Hall ;
to-day The World declares that the charge of
fraud is a Radical lie. Six months ago The
World called William M. Tweed disgrace to
the city; to-day The World is Dir. Tweed's
supporter. Six months ago The World rebuked
Gov. Hoffman for signing Fisks out
rageous and indefensibler Erie bill; to-day
The World defends the Erie bill as wise
and patriotic measure, and stOops TO ally
itself with Mr.. Fisk in laboring for HofIman's
reelection. Six months ago The World said:
ave are asked to accept the incredible
assumption that the voters and Taxpayers
"Of the City of NewYork are 30 stupidity
vicious that they insist upon renewing
"the reposal of betrayed trusts and granting
Office to man whose whole incumbency of
" it has been spent in the successful effort of
" devising new modes for swindling them;r
to-day The World is urging the people of
New York to reGlect the Ring of which this
same man is the acknowledged leader. Last
April this newspaper called Mr. Tweed man