Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1873-11-13
uEcENERxrED TAMmANy.

A. the meeting of the Pickwicl
.,nb where the chairman and Mr.
nIotton. of Aldgate, got into an I'M
,oomIv wrangle, and the gentleman
rom Aldgate called the honorable chair
non a humbug, Mr.. Pickwick felt
aaIled upon to do something terrible
- the offending Blotton until that
-ortleman acknowledged that person,
slIv he felt great respect for the
,ooder. and he merely considered him q
E,mbug from q Pickwickian point OF
,isw This explanation was satisfacto
~ and the matter dropped, but thi:
anrided and regenerated Tammany
,,ciety of New York that we have
hoard so much about, takes an oppo-
silo method of dealing with their
,,froctory members. On Tuesday
oIgbt the virtuous Tammany expelled
oiivcr Charlick, because, in the con.
joot of the redoubtable Charlick as
noIice commissioner, he had not been
,,,p to principle from a Tammany
.,odpoint. There is do doubt but
what Cbarlick made use of fraud in
,hr election, which, to common people,
+. extremely reprehensible on moral
rounds. but that was no offence in the
.,gs Of Tammany until it was mani
..st that these violations of the rights
# Suffrage and the stuffing of the bal
,i boxes, had been directed against
rJse Ledwith, the candidate of
T.mn.any for State Senator in one
NJ the city districts, then the offence
ca, an enormous one from Tam
nany standpoint, and they plucked the
a,,p feathers from Charlick's head
gar.
The popular opinion and oft-repcated
boasts of the opposition, that the revela-
finn Of the Tweed and Connolly frauds,
two wears ago, had overthrown the
mower of Tammany, is very far from
me. The Society is now stronger in
Influence and in iniquity than it was in
,5e heyday of Tweed's power and pres
ire Apollo Hall combined with the
whole Republican vote of the city is no
match for this old den of thieves. The
downfall of Tweed and his fellow plum
jerars, with the general condemnation
Of their practices, did very little to-
wards reforming the old sachems of
Tommany, and under the lead of the
Hon. John Morrissey and his friendly
shirts. it is about as successful in its
careero of fraud, plumber and iniquity as
il ever was, and the few respectable
names like that of Samuel j. 'Filden,
can do but very little towards creating
anv real reform in the Society, while
they do much injury by adding kind OF
reputation for responsibility to Society
that they are powerless to improve.
At the Tuesday night meeting the
society were jubilant over the result
Of the elections, and each report of a
Democratic victory was received with
renewed cheers and applause. 1t was
currently talked that Charlick had been
Keen in the performance of his duty, and
It was especially mentioned how on the
norning of the election the inspectors
bad been changed by Charlick as Police
Commissioner, and thieves and bad men
put in their places, but John Morrissey set
fire to the wrath of the braves when he
showed that Charlick had used the police
force under his control, to defeat Judge
Ledwith, his denunciations were better
and were applauded, and he ended up
by motion to expel the offender from
the Society. Ledwith however pro-
cured the motion to be amended so that
acommittee was appointed to bring in
charges. After the committee to draw
the resolution of expulsion had retired,
Colonel Fellows occupied the interim
with telling the details of the election
that came under his own observation,
and the proof that Charlick was using
hspolice to influence the election against
Ledwith and in favor of Everard, the re-
publican candidate for Senator. He
was at the police headquarters where no
returns from the district in question
were received up to three o'clock in the
morning. The agent of the associated
press, who had charge of the returns
said, that in that district the police cap
tains had orders from the commissioners
not to deliver the returns to him, but to
send them in by officers in the service of
The commissioners, so there was album
dant opportunity of fraud. The gist of
this account, with charges of intimida-
ton and arbitrary conduct generally,
was embodied in the report of the COM
mjttee, with a statement of the fact that
Charck had said that if Ledwith should
be nominated he should not be elected.
Thereupon the offending Charlick was
unanimously expelled, for using his OPP
portunity to commit fraud against the
wrong man.
Probably the expulsion of Charlick
has not hurt the moral character of the
Iammany Society, nor has it improved
1t. His offence was not violation of
the ordinary rules of common honesty,
CT of the purity and sanctity of the citi-
lens right of suffrage. He was expect
ed to control these things in the interest
Of his party friends, and when he did
That he was commended, but when he
asumed the right to bolt nominations,
md brought the machinery of fraud and
crcumvention, with which he was cloth
Cd, against his party nominee, he made
amistake, and as penalty for that he
turned out of the wigwam, and must
lose forever, unless he obtains absolu-
ton, the sweet communion of the con-
genial spirits of Tammany Hall. Poor
Uarlick We hope his punishment is
not greater than he can bear, and that
when he gets re-instated, he will be
careful how he INDUCES in his little
I okes in a Pickwickian sense, from a
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