Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-08-19
whoUDboIds Tammnnys


ment to prove that the Irish voters OF New Yor
city are not responsible for the smpendous rot
berries perpstrated BY Tweed, Tammany 4 Co.
admits that there are great many Irish voters |
the CITY, and that most OF them are so fearful
democratic" as to be recognized under all Gil
cumstanoes as the trusted cold guard of Tam
many" The drift Of the Republics argupen
requires 1t to make the number as small as pos
sible, and yet Il estimates the whole number o
voters, of this nationality, at $1,000. The actua
number is much larger; and the buccaneers
who rule and rob the city, can be sure that tn
Irish cold guard of Tammany" will stand BY
them under all circumstances. If these voter
were accustomed to perform the duties of citizen
ship in thoughtful, selfrespecting way, i
would be different; but they are not accustomed
TO do this; therefore, in looking about them fol
Supporters, the buccanesTlng ring always begin
with these men, who never fail IL do their bid
ding. This Is not complimentary to the class o.
Irish voters Immediately concerned, and does
not prove their fitness to be voters.
Nevertheless, we agree With the Irish Repub-
lie. that others besides these voters are reSpon-
sibs for the robberies, and, also, that only a
pittapee of the stealings find Its way to the rank
aud file Of this Irish cold guard" even in the
shape of rewards which are confined chiefly to
ward and corner grocery politicians. Roughs
and vulgar rascals of all sorts and all nation
alities come next in the calculations of the
thieviug rulers of Tammany. Long standing
partiEan Erejudices and passions, in people
claiming to be intelligent and respectable, are
counted on as sure to vote for Tammany and
tolerate the robbers. Here 10 q force sufficient
40 carry municipal electioa, under ordinary
circumstances; but II would fail to make the
rule OF robbery permanent, If the political OPP
ponent OF the Tanmany thieves, the republic
cans, did not play into their hands. These
thieves keep in their pay considerable number
OF men, whose appointed business Is TO be pro-
fsssedly republicans, operate in republican eau
auses, foment dissensions in the party, and de-
feat the election OF republican candidates.
These hired operators Of the ring would swiftly
join some Tammany brigade of rsscals, if oc-
casion for their special work should cease. They
are no more republicans than paid 'informers"
are honest members Of the party or association
they are hired to betray And yet we hear Of
1Heu III ItpubAlSah hSHbpdpClbI ub Aahuiaug
republicans" To us, looking on from distance,
II 10 surprising that they are able to influence
any genuine republican, or get control Of any
agency by which movements Of any section Of
the party are directed.
Here is an organized conspiracy of scoundrel-
1sm, which is without parallel in the history
Of any American community. Will the Repub-
10 consider for Ynomanf rrhof xould hacouna
OF it, II that Irish "old guard of Tammany"
should withdraw in body, and refuse evermore
% vote for Tsmmany thieves9 Such rebellion
~ this would GENE upon it like q thunder
stroke. 1t would break up at once, for all con-
eerned in it would feel that itS very foundations
had given way. All the chief robbers, and all
the clever scAmps Including the so-called Tam
many republicansl, believe 1t is entirely safe,
because they are confident that nothing below
the sun Is 80 sure as the ignorant, blind, and
stupid fidelity of this "old guard" to Tammsny.
All their calculations are based on this; they
count upon il as they count upon the regularity
and persistency of the forces OF nature. They
are quite certain that II will uphold their vii
lainy and fight to defend them, with never-csas-
ing shouts Of partizan devotion, working partly
for very small pay to their leading managers,
but chiefly for the "honor Of the thing" They
are not the men who directly rob the treasury
of millions, every year or quarter; but they
furnish most Of this men who do so much fraud
ulent voting and stuff ballot boxes, to keep the
great thieves In power, and perpetuate the reign
OF seoundrelism.
or course, nothing said here has any appliea-
tion to intelligent aud respectable Irishmen !;
but New York city has a great army Of the
other sort-more of them in proportion than
any other city or town in the country, and these
speedily bring all their fellows who arrive In
the city, TO adopt the political ways in which
they themselves are 80 firmly fixed. To see how
little their political behavior Is regulated by
consistency or thought, one needs do no more
than consider how blindly they work in behalf
Of free traders These Irishmen cherish I'M
dying hatred Of England, which has oppressed
ireland, ruined its manufactures, and con-
femned its people; and yet. in New York city
as elsewhere in this country, to a considerable
extent, they psrsistently support the only Amer
lean party that works steadily in behalf of Eng
lish interests. At every presidential and con-
gressional election, they vote, eide by side with
free traders and claquers OF the English manu-
facturers, for candidates who would destroy our
industrial system. and make this country a
commercial province Of England. 1t is certain
ly an amazing spectacle, to see Fenians aud
other Irish patriots, who talk vehemently of
erusades to humiliate England and rescue Ire
land, electioneering and voting for party and
for candidates that favor English interests
against the industrial system of the United
States. One is tempted to ask, do they really
mean great zeal for Ireland, or great zeal for
England7
In another place, we print an article taken
from the Irish Republic, in which this matter
of free trade, and its relation to Irish voters,
are very Justly set forth. 1t will give Irishmen
who have not forgotten the green Isle and Eng
land's behavior towards it, something to think
about. If they can persist in voting in support
OF EaGlish free trade, and still talk of being
Irish patriots, no one should be surprised to see
them become partisan iunaties in support OF
fhieving Tammany.