New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-06-09
THE TMO-MAN POWER.

A FEW WORDS TO THE CUSTOM-HOUsE REOR-
GAMERS.
To the Bos. JACKSON s. SCHULTZ and he Hon. WM. Or
IoE, Committee, de-, de-
SIRs | direct this communication publicly TO
you proper to hold you responsible
agents Your principals, the State Committee, Will no
doubt be called account hereafter by their masters
the people in State Convention assembled Acknowledge
Of the high position you have occupied in this commu-
nifty leads ask you whether you have fairly consd
cred tho business you have undertaken. You are not
now dealing with the occupants OF crowded tenement
houses as the Director OF Metropolitan Board OF
Health. with powers amply defined by statute,
nor you experimenting the paid en-
poyes of vast telegraph corporation, but the
objects of your acon 10000 free and intelligent Re
publican voters every Of whom is your political
equal and over Of whom you have any law
m control except by his express consent The apparent
readiness with which you have undertaken your present
business indicates degree Of confidence in your
Judgment and capacity which excites remark among
Chose who supposed they knew you well. The plan
which YOU have designed contempates the entire over
throw Of party organization, comprising the whole
of Republicans in this city, established by the
seope themselves and recognized by the very last State
Convention The plan further includes the destruction
OF q distinct local organizations, established
Sn the like manner 1t further includes the abolition OF
the q written constitutions drawn and adopted by those
local organizations venture the assertion that no
other private individuals in this or in any other city
or country ever attempted such business without
having first prepared themselves, as true revouonsts,
80 support their pretensions by force
Your plan further includes the manufacture OF party
organzaon and this end you have put forth mani
festo with rules and regulations, and appointed your
subordinate agents 1t will be noticed that up TO this
point the voters had literally part in the proceed
ings You, two individuals, to obterate the poh
organizations Of 10000 Republican voters, to brush
their written constitutions from existence, and your
Ia apdg in fhpir MIA
ganic law as you choose. Your manifesto announces
that you have prepared the constitutions for the Dis
tct Associations and the Central Committee" In what
school of American satesmanshp politics have you
studied that you could to the intel
hgsnt electors of the Republican party of this city that
batch Of sOpnade constitutions ready for Organi
cations not yet in exstence The only defense yet sug
geted by the which defends is that these
posed constitutions all alike" Pray by that argu
ment would you justify Congress in appointing Com
mittee to abolish the constitutions Of the several States
that the Committee might furnish them with
winch should have that unheard-Of recommendation
that they ell alikel"
What do you propose to do In OF
your District Associations when formed, refuses
adopt the constitution you have made for it and
dishes different for itself That, perhaps would be
sufficient for you refuse to recognize the regu
arty OF the association So minute the REGULATIONS
Of tyranny. But probably no one OF the associations
that will he born under your rules will venture upon the
audacous insoence Of making constitution for itself
Your plans contemplate the purging the party of the in
depcndentthinking Republicans. Under your rules,
personal presence necessary at the enrolment but the
application may be made in writing. Is that your idea
OF fainess IN regstry-thA no voter need appear, but
names may be banded IN on paper No doubt in that way
your rolls viii be well filed; but is it hOnestl
Would you consent that the trcksters who run the
1ammany machine should amend Registry law so |
mat any Democrat could be enrolled written
pcati0ui II is not enough 10 say that YOUR subord
mates fair men the rights you seize upon belong 20
The people, and you have no authority 70 leopard |
them You 70 have emulaed the worst features Of
the Iammany ohgarchy In abstIactng al primary au
hOrty nom the people and concentrating A. IN the
smallest Ring ever yet known in city politics In
your whole scheme you show dsrust OF the people
the most fatal weakness that can happen 10 an Ameri
can politician Nowhere In your whole plan have you
provided for submitting single one Of your acts to the
SOeis You DO everything yourselves But injustice IN
tne details TO be expected when the original plan is
This is an axom-that the people have the right to form
WI .ohuatng associations IN their own way, ana
te usuCt associations nothing but convenient IN
euuinenIo oF sseertaining who entitled TO vote in
certain men who by yonr gr3cions permission
may vote u caucus You assume 10 reject whOmsoever
you wan in - ss ossls 81 your plan. 1t is wrong IN
pflnclpe ana VIII vitality be Tepudiaed ut last by
The people 1t Is useless TO attempt 10 deceive the
v vnnr scbe9o are e,hs tna1 all who oppose
or "deluded but honest men" When You bolted from
me parry o s Sea t has the popular indignation
necessary 10 that unfair of All noitical
with the common enemy You took adyantaSs ~ ny
just gnaton felt by the community against the Pam
many Democracy to backen unjusty the character Of
your own political associates You know very well mat
the opposition you now meet with ls from true Repub-
cans, who have brains and know what they are abou
who be ruled Of the party by chance officials
by scurrlOus epthets flung al them by British scrib
blers. The men who most strenuousy OPPOSE
yon and your stupid schemes are 'pp the
btieres opponents OF the Sham Democracy which
sOne Of the prominent leaders in your laundering blot
were on TamInaDy commissions and receiving Tammany
pay You cannot frghten them by malicious ana I'M
These unjust charges compel ~ call public atien-
IlI- NJ fugo and md