Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1871-07-15
REPUBLICAN NOMINATION.
An ACCOUNT TO SETTLE.

comes the necessity of settlement between
Tammany and Hoffman. The grand sa'
chems of the old wigwam have heavy
bill against the governor for overruling
their proclamation of surrender to the
mob, which they will present and demand
satisfaction for to the full. Those grizzly
old warriors are not the men to be hunted
down in their familiar haunts by gov
ernor who owes his official existence Il
them. That little bill must be settled
Governor Hoffman must face the indig
nant chiefs and explain his conduct. They
know full well that the reckoning involves
their official aud political life or his. Ii
he is sustained then the braves of Tam
many must strip off their paint and feath-
ers and begin to wall their death song.
On the other hand, if they can control the
city by the element which they sought to
appease through the order forbidding
the Orangemen to parade, the present
governor will be the victim and furnish
the corpse for the funeral.
The city authorities undoubtedly kept
faith with those to whom they owe their
election The gangs of roughs to whom
they succumbed are those who furnish the
votes, do the ballot-box stuffing, repeating,
and practise the other accomplishments
by which Tammany rules New York city
and Hoffman is governor of the State.
Having favored Mr.. Oakley Hall and his
associates in the government with their
assistance at the polls, they thought they
had right to claim some favor in return
at his hands, and so they asked him to
suppress the Orangemen and save them
the trouble of doing it with brickbats and
bludgeons on the 18th Remembering
his friends and their pleasing ways as they
appear about election time, the Mayor
served them to the best Of his ability in
his proclamation, virtually informing
them that if the Orangemen dared to show
their heads the police would make quick
work with them. MY friends he might
have said did say in substance-to the
mob, '.you have stuffed ballot-boxes for
me, and will crush out civil and religious
freedom in this city at your request and
dictation. know my masters and will
do your bidding
But the governor has other expectations
than those depending upon the vote of
the city alone. He is an embryo demo-
cratic candidate for President. A broader
field is his to run in. He seeks the favor
of larger constituency. His acts in re-
lation to the Orangemen of New York
would be judged by the Protestant and
freedom loving people of the nation,
whose good or bad opinion as produced
by his course might make OF ruin him
politically And SO the governor, at the
eleventh hour, too late to prevent the riot,
issued his order countermanding the edict
Of the Tammany sachems. While Tam
many declared the Orangemen had no
right to parade, and should be dispersed
by the police if they undertook it, the gov
ernor very decidedly asserted that the
celebration should take place if desired,
and he would defend it with all the power
of the State. Of course anybody can see
that this eross-firing and routing his own
friends at the point of the bayonet must
destroy the harmony of the party. The
Irish Catholics are MORALLY offended, and
the influence of Tammany, which has
been the central power of democracy in
the State and Nation will not accept the
situation without struggle.
The end of the matter will be that Gov
erner Hoffman will close his career as a
democratic politician 1t would be folly
to take him up rs the candidate of party
whose largest element he is at war with.
1t is solemn fact, which he will learn,
that no man can strike against the elements
OF the New York mob, and be an available
candidate for the democracy for President.
Hence while we applaud Hoffman's course
we see that his doom is sealed 1t is only
IN the republican party that men can strike
ior civil and religious freedom, and against
'he mctation Of DULLES, grogshops, cut
throats, and rise to positions of honor il
ene gilt OF the people. Herein is lessor
worth bordering, especially by young
men That act which is the most honor
aoie OF Hoifman's whole life, and for which
ne VIII receive the endorsement of al
good and true men, is the one act which
completely units him as Il democratic can
aida'e Tor anything in the. State of New
1ork or IN the United States.
IL Is probable that Oakley Hall and su
perintendent Kelso will retreat inf,
the shade for while, but they win still
shape and control the democracy Of No,
York, and all the more effectuallv bacans
of their surrender to the mob Th;s ;
about the way matters will stand when tb
accounts of Hoffman and Tammany. h
reason of the riot are settled
The Philadelphia Press" suggests that Il