The Portland daily press., 1872-04-16

The Schmz Trumbuu Meeting-0 tice-Seekers
and Tammany Repstblicans-Hoao Vice Presi-
dents are nan,ed-The Grant Meeting.
New YORK, April IL, 1872
The Schurz-T rumbull meeting at Cooper In
stitute last night makes fine show, dressed
up in the columns of the Tribune, but an anal
ysis of the $50 names in its list of officers, gives
one acquainted with local affairs a clear idea
of the ~ 1@i -
INHERENT WEAKNESS a5E .di
of the anti-Grant movement in this city.
Among those recognizable at all one finds sew
eral disappointed candidates for every Federal
Office in New York, from Collector down. To
these add the Tammany Police Commissioners
with sprinkling of captains, sergeants, sur
geons, &C., of that force, and pretty much all
the Tammanyi Republican ofice-holders of the
country and you get a fair idea of this
HYBRID CoNvocATIoN.
Occasionally there appears the name of some
respectable merchant, but its presence in the
list by no means denotes that he is in SYM
pathy with the cause. These lists are made up
in this way. A gentleman receives a printed
circular informing him that he has been nom
mated as
of the meeting and unless he sends in by mail
a declination, it will be taken for granted that
he serves, and his name will be printed in the
proceedings. A friend of mine, thorough
Grant man received one of these circulars, but
threw IL, las he does all such things coming as
they do in dozens every day, into the waste
basket. Imagine his surprise and disgust at
finding this morning his name paraded as
bolter. The discovery led to an overhauling of
the waste basket, where he found out the pro-
cess of manufacturing Vice Presidents. Being
asdifident man, he will make no public ex-.
PLANTATION of the facts though he is exceedingly
annoyed about it, the more so as he is sure to
be mercilessly chaffed by his neighbors and
heads" 81 asiniH - ,ia9ail II At
On the platform there sat lawyer who has
entirely,sacrificed his reputation by acting as
e LEGAL ADVISER TO THE ERIE RING
and colluding with Judge Barnard to legalize
the swindling atrocities of Fisk and Gould, and
an ex-Confederate Colonel who holds an Office
under the Tweed-Ring and was the standing
stump orator at all the Tammany meetings
that were held last autumn to break the fall of
that infamous dynasty. One of the Vice Pres
idents was formerly supervisor confederated
with Tweed and enriched himself out of the
spoils. of the county Court House, the building
of which was commenced eleven years ago,
has cost fifteen millions of dollars and is yet
unfinished. You can imagine with what unc-
ton he must have cried out against the corrup-
tions of the Grant administration and how lus-
tily he beloved for reform
recognize in the array of names great
number who are still holding over in the places
to which they were appointed, at the time the
bargain was arranged between
TWEED AND CERTAIN REPUBLICANS,
whereby the support of the latter was vouch-
safed to the former, in consideration of GER
tain specified amount of patronage treaty
that has done more than all other things COM
bined to corrupt, demoralize and weaken the
Republican party in the city of New York. 1t
will take a long time 10 purge the party of this
fearful faint. But it is a hopeful sign that the
Tammany element seems inclined to read itself
out of the ranks 1t is pity, to be sure, that
it should take with it the few good men whom
DISAPPOINTMENT OR REVENGE IS
has induced to act as figure heads for the con-
Germ, but publications. boon worth acquiring
at any cost.
From the burden of their song last evening,
one might suppose these disaffected gentlemen,
one and all, leaders and followers, to be deeply
impressed with a sense of the necessity of
rescuing this government from the despotism
of Grant and the dishonesty of Boutwell,!
Fancy Gould's counsellor declaiming like
ANOTHER HAMPDEN
against the unfaithfulness to his trust of the
President of the United States Fancy
Tweed's attorney, friend and eulogist demand
ing sweeping reformation of Mr. Boutwells
administration of the national finances! The
whole thing is such r
sTUPENDOUs JOKE nn.I
that it puzzles me to see how these new Pledged
reformers keep sober faces while they are en-
acting SO broad a farce. IaJ
Next week you will hear from the people
from men who never held an Office and neyer
sought one; and then you will get an express
ion of the opinion of our citizens respecting
Grants administration that will be significant
and effact;va .iara YARMOUTH.