New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-12-20
4 BROKEN COLUMN.

William NJ. Tweed is not as happy as
he was six months ago. We dare saw.
Then he held in his hands the guiding
strings that gave direction to great po-
litical organization, and the prospect that
revealed itself to his ambitious vision did
not stop until it ended at the capital of
the nation. Through the use of vast
sums of money the body of politicians
who held sway in New York, and were
known to the country generally as the
Iammany Sachems, We're gradually de-
termining the color of the Democratic
mind in the South so as to control it in
the interest Of Mr. Tweed and his friends.
and there is very little doubt but that the
next nomination Of the Democracy would
have been made in the interest of Tam
many if it had not been discovered that
the managers Of the movement We're ut
| terly profigate and unworthy. If Mr..
Tweed could have suppressed the frauds
which he has been committing and
| others which he meditated in New York
for another year, he would have then
been 50 thoroughly entrenched that he
might have defed attack. The success
that attended the onslaught upon Tam
many was materially assisted by the alb
sence of any political excitement to
engrOss til 9 public mind and make it even
forgiving toward corruption which could
defend itself by assuming that it was
committed in the interest of the people. |
Tweed was attacked in the midst of a |
calm, when there was nothing superior
to his conduct to challenge public discus
sion. If he could have delayed the out
break until the country had become
involved III the vortex of a Presiden-
tial canvass, he might have outlived
the revelations against himself by
advising the people that
they could not stop to swap horses in
crossing the stream, but promising to
submit to every proper investigation after
the main fight was over. If he had been
allowed to do this and the Democracy
had been successful in electing its ticket
this year, through the liberal disburse-
nent Of Tweed's money, does any rea
man suppose that this great poiit-
cal criminal would have been unseated?
IN the contrary, the field of his opera
ions would have been enlarged, and the
gigantic plunderef who has taken millions
hroned at Washington within reach of
he national treasury. Can any man
stimate when his frauds would have
nded in that event?
1t is safe to say that Tweed himself
ealizes the full extent Of his own dis
sters. There is no doubt but that he is
graspins and ambitious man, bold and
INNING, and that he fully measured the
hances before him. His INSCRIPTIONS
lsposltion of the municipal funds in &
le city OF New York was not made in
1ch greedy and selfish spirit as to pro-
oke the enmity or jealousy of his asso-
ates, but was made with that cunning
Inch, while it enriched himself, also +
ltisfied and attached his friends to his a
'ture fortunes. All things were possible
the coalition which he was seeking,
al which was we'll nigh perfected when il
le trouble came. Almost in day his al
rosperlty was shattered. Even while he q,
as reaching out to grasp the nation by IL
e throat the foundation that he stood re-
Don gave way and left him fallen if
lien, until the hand that hoped to grasp nc
palace was chilled by the touch of the ar
1of 'nefclless grasp Indeed, William pr