The Daily state register. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1870-1872, 1871-11-15
rAMMANY AND THE NEW ERA.

Seymour will be admitted to the
Assembly seat from that district.
Governor Seymour cares nothing
personally fer the position. but as
he has entered earnestly into the
fight to cast out the scoundrels who
have disgraced New York under the
cloak of the Democracy, he will pro-
badly contest the seat. Governor
ISeymour's residence is in the interior
of the State, in a Republican county.
Had the Republicans of the interior
been as sincere in the work ef re-
form as the Democracy of the State
proved themselves, they would not
have allowed one of their most dis
tinguished citizens, and one Of the
purest statesmen in the Union, to be
nominated for that paltry Office by
citizens hundreds of miles distant.
The Republicans of his own county
had a splendid opportunity to prove
their disipterested desire for a gen.
eral reformation in State politics,
and the installation of a new and
better element into political life but
they allowed the opportunity to pass.
P~artizanship was stronger than re-
form. But. Notwithstanding this, it
is to be hoped that the State will
have the advantage of his experience,
wisdGm and moderation in the adop-
ton OF the most important Legislative
work that has ever vet come before a
Legislative bedy in this country.
The TammIny Society has been a
power in New York for nearly
hundred years. 1t is remarkable
that its final overthrow has been ac-
complished by the Democracy which
in past times it did SC much to
strengthen. From the dayscf Wash
ington it has borne the assaults of its
foes, serene and immovable beaten
often. but never conquered. Even
with all the corruption and rapacitv
of the INSCRIPTIONS demagOgues.
who have lately used it for their own
base purposes, it could not have been
beaten had not the Democracy itself
arisen in rebellion and struck it down
with the powerful hands of a Sey-
mour, a Tilden, an O'ConOr, and the
Democratic hosts who followed them
in the crusade. All Of the great
chiefs of the Democracy of New
York, mel OF National o and
undoubted purity and patriotism,
struck hands together to bring the
guilty to punishment, and to cleanse
the party of the plunderers who have
dishonored the name. The Repub-
lean party in New York City is in
significant in numbers and influence.
Without the aid Of the Reform De
mocracy their efforts would have
amounted to nothing at all.
While this violent purging has
lest Us the State for the present, it
has securely placed it uponthe basis
of future success. New York is I'M
doubtedly Democratic, and next
year it viii cast its electoral vote for
the choice of the Democracy. This
temporary defeatin the interior has
made success all the more possible
and certain in the future.
These political storms are occa-
sionally necessary in every State,
whatever may be the prevailing
party They purify the atmosphere,
and bring into political life G
younger and better class of men.
We have no regrets for Tammany.
The war corrupted it, as it corrupted
the old Republican party, and final
ly d~emoral:zed the whole nation. 1t
was an ally of the Republicans
during the war. and was never fully
able to shake off the contamination
of that contact. Tweed had his
hartman In Mnrnhc the Eelnral Col