The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1871-11-10
Tweed's District and the Democratic
PaTty---Thelr Connection and Mu.
tual Dependency.

TWeed's District and the Democratic
PaEty-.-Their Connection and Mu.
tuaI Dependency.
From the Providence Journal.
The New York World, the organ OF the
Democratic party in that city, makes the
following declaration, touching the moral,
social and political character Of the dls'
triCt represented in the State Senate ny
William N. Tweed, whose reelection TO-
day the World predicts rs the natural re-
suit Of the harmony between the con-
stitueney and the man who represents IT;
"The Fourth District Is the most loathsomo po.
litical scab In the United btAtes' IL rs only NO
Ccssary TO look at itH boundaries and SEQ OF what
materials its population Is composed.
ExCept few respectable permanent bOardGrs at
iho AstOr House, and ono or two small hotels on
Cortlandt street this distEict has no respectable
Of people who have any regard for the dGcencies
Of life or the esteem and good opinion Of rcspcc'
table society. Thevery drcgs and scam Of our
population, the of securing of this country and
all others inhabitlt
Mr., Tweed quotes this in q speech to
his admlring constituents, and declares
that "the answering loyalty" Of the
Democracy of the district "has, time and
again, secured the success Of the party in
State contests"
Both arc true. The district IS all that
the World represents it TO be, and 1t has
done all that Mr.. Tweed claims for It, 1t
Is the "most loathsome political district
in the country; "it Is not, with few eX.
Cepti0ns) the residence OF people who
have any regard for the decencies of liie;'
and ii has, "time and again." given the
State 10 the Democratic party, when but
for that district the State would have gone
the other way. "Time and again" has the
rest of the State, the portions where peo-
pie do "ObserVe the dGCenCies Of life"
where the enterprise, the industry, the
virtue of tho people control, given
q Republican majority, and that has
been overrued by "the very dregs and
scum of our population, the olIscouring of
this country and all others" ." At the last
Presidential election, the decent portion Of
New York gave u majority for Grant; but
TweGd's district, the "scupl," the "dregs,p
the "olIscouring Of this andall other cOun.
tries" gave majority for Seymour that
0verbalancGd 1t, and in the language of
Tweed, secured the success OI the party"
The vile district, the worst In the whole
country. as the WOrid says, and truly, we
doubt not, gave thirty. three electoral Votes
To the Democratic candidate Tor President,
lacking but seven Oi 0ne.hAlt the whole
number that he received. The electoral
vote stood for Grant 2l4; Tor Seymour 80;
and but for that infamous district, 1t would
pNn II ~ GnuUNRNR
What picture OF the Democratic
party is this, drawn by It's own organ
And because the Democratic party cannot
have n show Of success without this vile
district, II follows that this district must
continue to exert q controlling power In
the Democratic party. Without New
York the Democratic party cannot make
fight in the coming national struggle,
and without TwGGd's district, without
Tweed and his friends, or other men of
the same character New York cannot
make n fight. Tweed may have been
mistaken, for little while, when, In
taking control OF the Rochester Con.
venton. he said, 1--WE can get on very
we'll without YOU" but they made no
answer, they cannot make answer, when
he asks, "CGn you get on without lis ?"
The condition OF New York City Is the
natural, the inevitable result Of the con.
troll Of the Democratic party. II is the |
stronghold of its principles and Its prac.
tlces, the central power Of It's great or.
ganization, and Tammany is It's perfect |
fruit. From the time when it cheated |
the Wings out of the election Of Henry |
Clay to the last election, It's reliance has |
been upon fraud and violence, and when |
It gives up these, or when II Is deprived |
Of them, II has nothing left to fight with |
at the point where success Is indlspensa.
able to It's existence.