The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1871-10-09
DAILY PRESS
PORTLAND
MONDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1871.


HWee0 MOI ExCOtuhAssAt
The first impression as to the result OF the
Rochester Democratic Convention was that
Tammany had been in good faith rejected
and cast out of the Democrtic councils. III
seemed likely that Democracy would gam
Considerable credit for its prompt reDectioh VI
tie offending member. But the whole trans
action was fraud like the "new departure
Not an element of good Iaitn III l'' Ane
Iammany delegates waived 'nelr risht 10
teats. but their opponents, the reform Demo-
,.rats. were rejected The protfered aid of
,c,mmany in the coming campaign was re-
t.ived with degree of enthusiasm which
showed bnt too clearly the good feeling still
subsisting between the nominally belligerent
factions. 1t was much like the pretended es-
arrangement between the Kimball progress
size and Marcellus Emery conservative Dem
o,ratic factions in this State during the last
campaign. Secretly they laugh in each 9TH
ers faces, when TO third parties are by to look
ON and jeer at the imposture. Tammany
money and Tammany power are necessary to
the Democracy of New York this fall, and no
attempt will be made to get on without them.
Berett of Tammany the Democracy of the
Empire state would be like that of Maine
with the rumselers and the sold Guard"
Bourbons excluded. The following extract
from the New York Tribune shows how the
Republicans of New York regard the pretend
ed arrangement and the sham exclusion of
Tweed and his cohorts:
We were morally certain that the Demo
cratic party would not venture UPON an cleo
ton in our State without the powerful help
Of the money stolen from our taxpayers and
the fraudulent votes and false counting which
that money would buy; and yet Tweed's vic
Tory at Rochester yesterday is more complete
than our worst antlcpations foreboded. lie
was virtually recognized as the leader OF our
City Democrats; his Committee is still its ac-
credited organ; his ticket is the regular Dem
ocracy ticket; and our plundered cltzgHs and
their baIlot-boxes are delivered over by the
Sham Democracy to the uncovenanted mer-
cies OF his satellite thieves and ruffians. Their
was never more disgraceiul back down than
that OF the Seymours and Kernans and Ill
dens, qHaling before the audacity OF this en-
budiment OF wholesale corruption and vulgar
profigacy.
We saw, three days ago, that the habtual
misleaders OF the German Democrats of our
City were preparing to knuckle to Tweed; we
knew tnat the Democratic managers Of this
emporium were rotten to the core; yet we
still put faith in the resolution and the pow
er OF Seymour and the rural chiefs. At last
we saw that they, too, would give way or bf
overborne-that Tweed would not be de
nounced aud communicated in earnest
and yet we supposed that sense of decency
and OF party necessity would impel the Con-
vention to put him in Coventry in appear
ance, though not in reality.
We believed and trusted too far. Tweed
went, AID saw, and conquered. The Con-
vention proved plaything in his hands.
Tilden's empty talk about Democratic purity
was turned to ridcule by the action which
Immediately followed. Ii ever party was
dIsgraced ny gigantic peculaton, then Tweed
& Co. have shamed the Democratic party be-
yond all precedent. Yet his immense wealth
SO foully won, his unmeasured power to make
ballot-boxes lie, his lavish disbursements, and
his matchless audacity, have enabled him tt
triumph over public indignation, and for
midable array Of adversaries, and he returns
from Rochester master of the situation
Whatever Democratic success she'll be achiev
ed this Fall will be his success; if Demo
cratic Legislature shall be chosen, it will b.
his Legislature; and no Democratic judge
will dare to convic5 him of any of his crime.
if he should be returned to the Senate to pass
new charters and tax-levies as he passed
those which have ravaeed our city for the
last four years. The Democratic State Con-
vention has aimed him with power to reward
his friends and punish his enemies, and he
will not hesitate TO Use it to the utmost.