Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-11-13

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or 5000 if need were So in 1868 it carried thu
state by 10000 for Seymour for president
against Grant. This was not much, but it wa,
enough for the occasion. Last year greater
show was wanted, and so the returns gave abou
"a 900 majority for Hoffman as governor. This
year they wanted more; $4,000 was the number
fixed upon, and owing TO dissenslon among thu
republicans, it seemed that they would get i
without any unusual frauds.
Bat there was an under-current of iudigna
ton against Tammany. 1t first found breatl
on occasion of the "Orangc riot of July ~
This would possibly have blown OVER Tamma
ny was sure that it would-nobOdy so sure as
poor Oakley Hall, our silly mayor. But soor
after came the first Of the fierce attacks by tht
Times, showing that the "rng" were not only
scoundrels which nobody doubted, but arran
thieves as well. That too we were inclined Il
believe; but we did not suppose the fact coulC
be proved. But the Times did prove it by &
continuous array of figures One 10y one the
newspapers came round. Even the World mao
10 own up that its old enemies, and Of late las
friends, were thieves The press had come tc
be wholly on the right side. think the only
exception was that of disreputable sheet, the
editor of which was a convicted iorger of what
| purported to be official documents. How its ed
itor happens now to be at large is mystery.
| The Times with its figures found an able coad-
| tutor in Harpcr's Weekly. The rogues exposed
by figures of the Times found their villainouS fca
lures set forth week after week in pictorial form.
| TO Thomas Mast, quiet artist, il was given to
strike some of the sharpcSt blows at the ring.
Fortune in way favored the artist; for if TWO
men ever lived upon whose faces were written
the names OF rogue and scoundrel, these two
men are Tweed and Swecny To carricature
them was impossible. Mast did better. lie
showed them just as they show themselves.
Mast has rather carricatured the poor fellow
Oakley Hall; he really does not look half as big
fool as he is. But Nast's pictures of Tweed
and Sweeny are absolutely fearful. They show
the villains Just as they are. In all the Satire
pictures of Gilray and Cruikshank, there is
nothing to be compared with this series by Mast
Now, with this Tammany gang we had to try
to do. The result you know. Ii was to the best
Judgment very dubious on the morning Of our
election day. had made up my mind that the
real test vote in the city would be that for regis
ter, between Shandley and Sigel. The Off c is
of itself of no very special Importance, except
that it involves large emouments. Shandley
was known as Tweed's man Friday. | do not
think he knew Of all Tweed's rogueries; but
what he did know he endorsed. So every vote
that Tweed could command was sure for Shand-
ley. Sigel, on the other hand was endorsed by
all opposed TO Tammany Thus the two men
would likely call out the full vote of the two
sides. Considering the old Tammany majority
of some 10000 in the city, and bearing in mind
that Tweed asked for 10000 majority in his own
district, in place of the % 900 which he had two
years ago, made up my mind that if Shandey
failed to have 10000 majority over Sigel, it
would be a substantial victory over Tammany
Judge, then, of my surprise, when | find that
instead of Shandley having amalority of 10000,
| Sigel las majority of $4,000 In other words,
in vote Of about 1870 OOO We have on the test
vote done better by $4,000 than | dared to hope
As :or the rest, we have achieved everything
worth achieving. The board of aldermen i,
ours. The present rum.selling gang is swept
away by an average majority of not much less
than 10000. decent man may not, next year
| be ashamed TO acknowledge an alderman as an
acquaintance.
There was sort of side issue in our city vote
which is of immense import for the future
Here the voters of foreign birth outnumber those
of native birth. The voters of Irish and German
birth have heretofore gone squarely together for
| 1ammany. For some time the Germans have
been dissatisfied with Irish supremacy. They
have now, as is shown by the vote for Sigel
broken away from the old alliance The German
vote is mainly an honest one. do not venture
to say that the great German vote, hitherto
democratic, will hereafterbe republican; but | do
believe that it will not hereafter go lorrogues II
we republicans prove ourselves to be honest, this
| German vote viii so with us If we do not, We
shall not deserve it, and will not, as hope and
believe, have it.
| Ourgreat victory in the city would havebeen o.
little real value unless we had also carried the
state. By that do not mean wha, is commonly
called the State ticket" which this year con
ssts of officials whose functions are not properly
| political. That we have carried this by some
| 10000, instead Of losing it by three times as
many, is of course matter of congratulation
But the test question was the legislature, and tc
| gain majority here was the one point to which
Tammany bent itself. If they could get this, or
failing in majority, could come so near it thai
| ny buying up three or four men CT the raScally
| Winans stamp, we could do nothing. Spite Of
all that we could do, our Infamous city charter
| would remain, and the ring would STILL through
its superserVicable tool, the mayor, hold control
| OF everything. But we have gained the legisla
ture, and by majority in both branches, which
| puts everything in our power. We can not have
much less than two to one in each house How
long our present charter shall exist after the
meeting OF the legislature is only question o.
| days
| Tweed Is, of course, elected as senator from
that district which even the democratic Worlt
| pronounceS to be "scab" on the CITY, Ii is
i said that an effort will be made to prevent him
from taking his seat. hope that, unless in th,
meanwhile hciS not sent TO state prison, he will
be allowed to take his seat. He will be power.
less for evil, and his seat will be worse than &
pillory to him.
1t is to be hoped that among the first acts OF
the legislature will be one directing a tablet II
be placed in our court house, inscribed with th,
names of those who had charge of its erection
and furnishing, with the amounts paid to then
and the actual value of what they furnished
The result will be that of the So 100000 whicl
that structure has cost, not less than SO 900 O0C
has been absolutely stolen. 1t would be instruc
tive to have the names of the thieves, and tn,
amount of the stealings of each, thus handed
down to posterity. | do not imagine that ever
Charles O'ConOr viii be able TO recover for n,
much of the stolen money, and perhaps not sue
coed in sending the thieves to Sing Sing; bu
the legislature can brand them in this way.
There is one man who has gone down politi
cally, for whom we may feel somewhat sorry
Ledwth, the Tammany candidate for Judge o
the supreme court, is young man of good pri
vate character. Having mastered enough law
TO enable him 20 be admitted to the bar he pu
up his single; but soon went into politics, as a
democrat. In time he was elected police jus
uce; and | think there is no question that he
performed his duties well and faithfully. Two
OF three years ago, when there was sort OF
| split in the party, be took the anti.Tammany
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