New-York tribune., 1873-07-29

those organs-alas! they are very few-which
dare to speak, and so palpable ana confessed
il il that those whose interest 1t Is to deny
its existence take refuge in silence. III rules
every part of the municipal government ltS
power for evil being concentrated just as ih
Tammany days here, in few desper-
alto individuals banded together. Here
il WAS Commissioners and AudItors
and Controllers, with few Judges as auxlii-
aries. There, it IS 'Sheriffs, and Receivers, and
Treasurers, and as master of all, District
Attorney. with staff of Judges who take care
that criminal justice shall do convenient WORK.
This enginery has been for years IN full
operation, and it is working still. When
il is arrested, as it soon and suddenly
will be, then come dislocatiOn and dis
coyery, and then tho plundered Phila-
delphians will know, in dollars and cents,
of how much this affiliated gang has robbed
them. We do not pretend to say that the
Philadelphia "Ringn will ever be found to
have fed itself as bountifuly as our rogues
did. The Philadelphia nav is not quite so
ravenous, and their plunder Will bear about
the same relation to ours as does
house in Walnut-st. or Girard-aye. to one of our
Fifth-ave. palaces. 1t is not, however, OF
mere pecuniary considerations that we care to
speak. Il is the thorough social and polltlcal
decentralization that reaches to every branch
of government in Philadelphia which Is
alarming; and more appalling still Is,
not the apathy (Which we do not be-
lieye exists. but the discipline which
seems to awe everybody to silence and acqul-
escence. If any individual or newspaper
within the Republican organization ventures
to murmur, he or it is Immediately admonlshed
by some Federal plutocrat or bank agent OF
broker that he is doing harm to the President
and endangering credit, aud he sinks back
rebuked Actually the party Of Reform
calls for and is grateful for assistance from a
distance This being the state OF things-Set-
ting worse, too, every moment 1t IS aliOWeu
TO 90 on unchecked-what is the remedyf Ii
we could have our wish it would be, as we
have said, that from within the Republican
marty the rescue should come. 1t is due to can
dor. for u.s. in striving to deal squareiy with
tbe suhiect. to say that of this we have
faint hone. We remember last October,
and. recalling the desperate and pr0hlgate
uses then made of party discipline and organ
izatiOn, at the bidding and for the purposes OF
rhc Federal Administration, we despair Re
spectabe Republican Philadelphia acqulesced'
nav. almost rejoiced, in an election fraud con-
summated by corrupt leaders and agents or both
parties, the like of which even Philadelphia had
never seen; and when the President pardons
one of the ringleaders and removes the prose-
cuting officer who convicted him, and this, too,
1T the instance of men whose names he Is
| ashamed to give, respectable Republican Phil
adelphia has not word to say. Hence IS 1t
that we have no hope from this quarter
though right glad shall we be to find ourselves
mistaken.
But there is q Reform Party! An active,
compact, but we suspect not very large
party. It would be rash for us to pretend
to measure its extent but to 1t and Its
leaders we venture, from our own experience,
TO give a word of counsel. 1t may be summed
M in this: "Beware of too much confidence
Gin Yourselves, and, above all. do not from
"preiudice or temper reject affiliations with
| "those who have the same great object IN
"yiewn New parties are apt to be over
confident. This party was so, last Autumn,
and failed. Such a party would have
failed here in New-York had it rejected
co0peration. Here, tho fight was against
cabal of Democratic leaders; the Reformers-
Democrats we concede, assistlng-called on the
masses of the Republicans and triumphed. In
Philadelphia, mutGtiS mutdndiS, the policy should
be the same.