New national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1870-1874, 1872-04-25
The Captains Of Reforms.

The anti-Repubcan leaders and Journal
lists point to the New York meeting as the
evidence that the honest masses of the party
| are overwhelmingly upon their side, and that
the overthrow of the Administration and of
General Grant, if he should be renominated
at Philadelphia, is inevitable. The New
York Times, in an analysis of the vice presi-
dents and secretaries of the Cooper Institute
meeting, finds the following Tammany office
holders
J. Soils Ritterband, S. Waterman. David
Miller, Benjamin T. Shafer, James l.. HASTE,
Joseph Bagot. John $. Gilmore, Edmund G..
Lee, Eli Taylor, w. G. Hanna, Edward T.
Rorke, Geo. Elliot, j. Cowenhovon, lothian
Wilson, w. A. Smalley, Francis Heuel, w.
II. Burrill, Henry Hauser, Patrick Golden,
Geo. M. Mitchell, John Collier, Charles At
kinson, Mathew Wilson, Philip T.. Herrlich.
James, p. Walker, John Norton, James Britt.
Henry Beeny, Eugene Sollyett, and James
M. Boyd. Every one of these reformers"
holds office under the ring. Associated with
these are number of Tammany Republi-
cans, who have for years done the work of
Tweed & Co., but whether they are in offices
or not we cannot say. If they are not it is
not their fault. Many of them belong also to
other classes we have referred to, having
been removed from office under the National
Administration or unsuccessfully sought
places under it.
The Tammany Republicans for whom Fem
ton speaks are as follows:
Among such Tammany Republicans we
note Charles A. Lamont, ex-bOunty broker ;
Robert Murray, denounced by the Tribune as
being all that is bad; M. b. Wilson, w. T.
Ashman, John Quigley, Benjamin Firth,
Henry Bausher, w. II. Mckinney, James w.
McCortin, Thomas w. Love, Amasa, Hig-
oiDS BENJAMIN A Willie Hbo,.,,, u;
mire, Mortz Ellinger, George A. Mackay, r.
I. Adams, Benjamin Merritt, H. S. Jennings,
Lorenz BONNER, Ira o. Miller, Charles T.
POlhamus, w. r. Stewart, John Fitch, and
at least dozen others.
The gentlemen whom President Grant re-
moved from office, and who went to the
Liberal mass meeting to scream for Schurz
and reform, and who were set among its vice
presidents, are:
Moses II. Grinnell, George w. Palmer.
William Atkinson, b. F. Mudgett-champion
Refomer-R. w. De Grushe, George II. Van
Cleft, Benjamin Merritt, j. S. Gilmore, r.
q. Hunt, Lorenz BONNER, w. J. Geary,
Charles Bathnan, Patrick c. Casey, H. Nj.
Williams, John Batterboro, Amasa Higgins,
Robert Rohde, Joseph Hazel, p. Franken-
henner, and others while among the unsuc-
cessful petitioners for its favor are Ethan
Allen, notorious as assistant district attor-
ney Christopher Pullman, James NJ. Boyd,
Charles Carrick, Francis Snyder, w. Van
Wyck, and many others. Sandwiched among
them we notice Oakley Halls partner,
Augustus d. Brown, who was Cardozo's
receiver in the Gold bank case; Hugo
Wesendonck, who has pecuniary cause not to
like the enforcement of the laws; Samuel
Sinclair, of the Tribune, and his friend c. A
Runkle, the partner of Dttenhoefer, of the
whisky ring; the notorious A. J. Plumb,
Frank Leslie, and j. N. Hegeman, Senator
FentOn's son-in-law.
1t was certainly queer gathering. Only
for an instant suppose that this gang were let
loose in the Treasury Department! We are
sadly afraid that Mr.. Boutwel's monthly
reduction of the public debt would grow
beautifully less.