Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1871-09-22
The Tammany Party.

As THE developments of the downfall of
the Tammany Hall party in New York
progresses; as the thieves prepare to drop
such portions of their plunder as they
cannot safely keep; as Hall attempts to
draw the knife across the throat of Con-
molly, and Sweeney openly avows his in
tention of destroying Tweed to save him
self-the Republic of the United Safes is
made witness to a spectacle not unlike the
fOulest corruption of the disgraced French
Empire-a spectacle never presented to the
honest people of these United States, ex-
cept bye the Democratic party. and one
that in all human probability, judging the
future by the past, will never be witness
ed again, save where and when the Demo
cratic party succeed in getting the supreme
power into its own hands, In all the rec.
ord of the pagan republics Of Greece and
Rome, more shameful robbery was never
commit ed than that verified day after day
by the Democratic exposures in New
York, and actually admitted, even while
the thieves are on the eve of criminal
prosecution, by the voluntary conduct of
Hall and Connolly. Even the maddened
Reds ofthe Commune declared the inviola-
bility of private rights and the sacredness
of the peoples property; and fearful as
was their conduct Otherwise, the Commune
leaders did not rob Paris TO enrich them
selves. Every man of this Democratic
quartettee is on the conservative side of
morals and politics, and found no denuncia-
tion great enough to measure his wrath at
| the sacrilegious Jewelers. of church cant
and NapOleonism. If these four men
now escape penitentiary tolls for their
years of official villainy, whose depths
! each is so willing TO show for the damna-
ton of the other, it will only be because
| The Democratic party in New York city
has become so help essly sunk in the vice
engenuered by their conduct that neither
Democrats nor Republicans believe it is
poss Bile to pulish Democratic criminal.
That the power OF the Ring is broken
there is no longer reason to doubt. The
promptly telegrGphed denial of Mrs Con-
nolly's transfer of $500,00O of bonds to
her s nin-laW, TO save them from a
SherifTs writ, was exposed with equal
pr mplness, and the official record Of the
transfer of the United States Treasury
books is at once proof that the bonds were
first stolen from the people of New York /;
and now that the thief has attempted to
hide his booty, when here was danger Of
It's being recovered. Halls braZen demand
: for Connolly's resignation indicates the
desperate strait in which that literary
mountebank discovt rs himself, while Con-
nolly's connivance at the burglary of his
own Office will, let us hope, increase his
penitentiary term without accomplishing
the concealment of facts or papers calcu-
: la! ed TO confirm his guilt. The peculiar
; position which Sweeney assumed some
months ago, and which he has maintained
with curious retlcence amid the excite
ment, turmoil, and disgrace that have fol
lowed one another in quick succession
} indicates that if he did not deliberately
: plan the betrayal of his cOnfreres, he fore
, saw their ultimate defeat, and put himself
: in such relations with the more d6cent
3 men of New York as would subject him
? TO the least share OF the shame, and NJ
I part of its punishment.
p The lesson of Tammany's fall is not
g loca one for New York. These four men
: now selfconvicted for the most monstrou
n proshtu ion of political Office for privat
r, gain, do not represent four kinds OF indi
G vidual villiany. They were chosen yea
d after year by Democratic votes. Yea
T. after year they spoke from the highes
o Democratic rontrums, and year aiter yea
e the Democratic party of that city an
n State applauded their sentiments, tollowt
d their advice, and gave them their suiiragei
st They represented the Democratic party {
Of the country juat as well as OF New Iori
le In their administration OF municipal a
Il, fairs, they confirmed Democratic practic'
as wherever Democrats have been In power
10 aud Democratic National Adminislr II
II, ton, elected in 1879, will follow In II
y footsteps Of these plundering thieves
le surely as the people commit the iolly
st electng them. Let not the lesson
d. TammaDy be thrown away Chicago 10