The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1871-10-03

the delegation from this city to the Convention next
week his views about
WHAT MAY HAPPEN
ana what he and the 900 voters at his back think
ought to be done at the Convention win be Of ex-
ceeding interest 10 every democrat In the State.
Judge Comstock is so well known to all New York.
ers, and has sucn an extended reputation through
out the State as leading light In the party, that
need only mention his name. without going into
details about his services TO tine party In the past or
the strong nold he has upon the affections OF all
persons OF both parties west Of the metropolis.
General Green Is TALL soldlerlylooking man, with
q look OF determination about him that promises no
gentle treatment OF Tammany at his hands at the
Convention, should she undertake to kick against
the pricks.
swell, sir,n said he. in answer to one Ct my ques-
tions, "the people in the country are determined
that Tammany
MUST TAKE BACK SEAT
at the Convention, II she gets any at all, and II she
wont take o back seat OF her own accord we VIII
compel her to do 80; and II we have to do that you
can depend upon It she will be roughly handled
The country democrats are In no mood to be trined
WITH They are. as party, honest to the backbone,
and VIII have nothing to do with men who have
made their fortunes out OF the peoples money with
out working honestly for 1t. / know those men
down in New York ike book, aud the country
democrats have got their eyes opened so lately that
they Will hereafter make no mistakes about then
identity. IL is only few years ago-seven or eight
think-shat remember Dick Connolly stood in
front OF Crook & Duf,s restaurant In New York and
didn't have money
ENOUGH TO PAY FOR DRINKS
for small party that were with him. Yet he and
tho Others since then count their wealth by mil
hons, and do you suppose the people In the country
can be made to believe that thew made it oil hon.
estlyf Not bit Of it, They believe the charges to
be true that have been made against them, and all
the talk from now till doomsday will not be able to
shake that belief. And why Anould 1t, ia like to
knows For the last two years or SO Tammany has
assumed to control the conventions, but she win
mot do 1t this time don't think she dare attempt
IT and II those men do they VIII be buried so deep
that you and and generation to come, for that
matter, will not live long enough to hear Of them
ADO you think she win get into the Convention as
Q CeegatiOnf"
.I doubt 1t very mucn.
THE TEMPER OF TIE COUNTRY DELEGATES
ID such that they will very little what they do
tol0re represented her would be to stay at home and
not dare to show their faces at the Convention or
snoua Gp be
IKE lhat winch we nave been accustomed TO OF late
Of 70 IS the
Of r0unders who have been thrust upon us from
year to year. ana IN speaking about tn.m as DO
York, and know as well as any man there to-day
what and what is not the respectable part OF the
party. You should know, sir, that the democratic
party OF the country Is thoroughly honest one in
every respect; II Is COMPOSED 81 men who vote the
ere driven into It's ranks under the whip and spur
Of anybody who
or pulled into IL by the attraction OF being well paid
Tor tnelr votes. Nothing OF the kind. ANY person
democrats through principle, that ana nothing else
Knows nothing about II. This being the case, IS 1t
70 be wondered az than they not only denounce the
ciate with her on any conditions; that they decline
to have the slight est communication with the men
who claim to be her leaders, and who, in their eyes,
are ralde0 as men who have
STOLEN THEIR WAY TO WEALTH
and power? The only thing TO be wondered at Is
That the country people have been so long blinded
70 what these men really were, and that they have
allowed them in times past an apparenG control
that they, IN point OF fact never possessed. IL is
high time that their career was put an end
m sy 0R Of
thg to reign over The state IN the way they
become too ambitious They have overieaped them
selves and result has been disastrous them.
selves AS 1t IS Just mat II should be- Tney have en-
Of the democratic party to Uuil themselves up; but
Ihe glilt OF the frauds perpetrated In New YORK a.
tAches TO them anu mol to the democratic party. /
know that an effort has been made BY our Opp0-
nentS 10
against us on the strength OF the conduct OF these
men, Uut IL VIII fall for the democratic party, IN
have nothing to 10 with them m any shape or form,
md Will dcnoance them SO strongly that no charge
non For myself cannot Imagine how any good
democrat will vote In the Convention 10 take these
fellows into their company d ana, what's more
70 the scratch, who won't become exceedingly in.
guisitive about any delegation Tammany may send.
Whatever men she sends, u she has the presumption
70 send any body, must be able TO SHOW beyond all
reasonable doubt, that they, In the first place,
DO NOT SUSTAIN THE RING
and secondly and above ALL that they were fairly
elected and actually represent The majority Of dem.
Dcratc voters IN the city.n
''She might send good delegation composed Of
men OF high charactc!.n
..She might but the chances are against her being
Able 10 do There Is no use OF Disgusting the
fact-and every country democrat Is determined 10
bring the consumlnallon abcut-tnat Iammany, as
. power In tie party, Is doomed. She Will never
AGAIN have voice IN the councils Of the party that
win be listened to, and when say Iammany
chine US it Is called. What may be done by other
AMI better men In the future under the name Of
.s.1nmah5 Know ~. eat Y strikes me tnat there
FEW HONEST MEN IN THE STATE
VINO won't be willing, II they want to act good
part in the party aud for the party to take up with
most any other name than that which is now scoH
"Ihe Governor seems to be very silent about the
hubbuD in New York, GeneTalp'
"he Is silent, and SO well he might be. lie is a
gone man. politically dead for all time. 1 don't
Governors honesty as far as the swindles OF Tam
many are concerned, but he cannot escape the
oblivion which Is sure TO envelope his masters.i'
Masters, GeneralY'
Eyes, Sir, masters. There Is no doubt about II
that Governor Holman was under the control OF
the Ring; that Is II a bill passed the Legislature
which they wanted signed, no matter how VILLAIN
Gus thing II was, ne had to sign 1t. need not
specify Instances. l have heard that he had often
endeav0red to
BREAK THE CHAINS WHICH BOUND HIM,
but that he found the shackles too strong and had
in the end 10 succunb to the men who made him.
He can never retrieve himself.n
"But uonlIan General, Ii considered quite
popular man,
$50 he IS, TO certain extent He has done much
shat pc Is entitled 10 credit Tor But what was he
when these men o! the Ring TOOK hold OF hm2
Absolutely nothing. Why did they take him pp as
they did and push MIN along ahead Of them as they
themselves waxed strongerf Is there man who
knows any thing about the politics OF the past few
years who was SO blind that he did not see through
IL allY Why lie was used simply as
A CLOAK OF RESPECTABILITY,
IN The neonleS ~nfLenfIon frof hcr