, 1873-09-09
Long Debate as to Whether tho
Democratic: Party Is
Dead or Alive.
Anxious Inquiries for the Party
Treasurer and the
Assets.
Opinions as to tho Result Of The nIu-
nicipal Election.
The Committee Decides to Hold Itself in
Allegiance, and Await De-
velopments.

Who that il familiar with local politics can
sver forgot tho heroic leaders Of tho Democratic
purity who stuck to tho old organization through
evil and good report, maintained itB integrity aa
= party against overwhelming odds and dis
Mentioning defoata often repeated? As sure as
tho yoar came round they came to tho front,
smiling and conhdont, full Of plnck, and pre-
pared to do or dio In dofenso Of tho immortal
principles Of Jefferson or any othor man. What
pictures Gun DO conjured up Of those old DOM
ocratic Conventions, with all the familiar faces
around the hall Thoro was Dan O'Hara, known
of nil mon; Bill strumK, tho German Democratic
autocrat Of tho North Side; ex-Ald. schintz. who
wasaoting Mayor during tho ointorrognum in Mayor
dason's administration J. @. Richborg, who
rose to DO School Inspector, and is ono still;
N. B. Doyden, now Il Justice Of tho poace, md
An adl,c1ent Of the Hosing- Hibernian combina-
tion Charley Kor11, who las boon running for
shogiff for tho last hundred yoars; John Conis-
key, the once prominent Alderman, who used to
bo President Of tho Council, but has retired to
private 1ifo in a bank Mark Sheridan, Alderman
md Police Commissioner; Billy Onnhan, tho
handsome ox-City Collector Adam Baer, who
rallied the boys around tho foau1ng beor-
glass; P. MoHugh, onco candidate for City
Attorney, now rising young limb Of
tile law; Phil Conloy, Of hotel fano,
On o1-Aldormau Tom Shirley; Bill
Goggin, Of tho North Side Jim Lyman, from
the samo Division; Bob Kennoy, who has loft
the Democracy for, and is q shining light in, tho
Bismarck Hall combination; Charley Dennihey,
Of of1oe-holding famo; Horny Z. Hamilton, who
ran for Senator and was boaton, aud who is now
spoken Of as probable candidato on tho condition
ticket for County Clork; John Armstrong, arohi-
toct OF the County Jail; Larry 0'Brion, Woat
Side Assessor; Michael Kooley, County TrcaB-
urer in 1859, and now talked Of by tho Hesing
crowd as probable candidate for tho same Of
fec; N1iko Casey, tho over"faithful delegate
to conventions. still alivo and kicking; Tom
Moran, who was honored last year by a
nomination for state-Attornoy, which ho subso-
quently declined botore boing waved at the
polls; Tom Brennan, one Of Dan O'Hara's
truost henchmen. whose gray suit was always to
bo aeen in conventions John @. Partridge Mr.
Bollonhauser, tho monoy-keopor OF the organi-
cation Albert Nicholson. who haa forsaken bis
old love, and taken up with new inamorata in
the shape Of Mr.. Hosting; VIM. 7. Daniels,
now in PHILADELPHIA; George Mcoeh, IN 0'con.
Ward, now rolegated to obHcurtty; Charley
Bloh1uo B. Loowenthal John II. Peck Dan
iel Booth ; St. Clair Sutherland, . small but
epunhy war-horao Redmond Sheridan, clear
choat; the distinguished illumination, John q.
Dnuicls, who always seemed to disappear whom
politics were fiat, and to t1oat to the surfsce
again when the pot began to boil John Garrick,
upon him and others too numerous to cnta.
logue, who, like the Domocratio party, have
<'n1oved to tho pale realms Of shado."
These mon kept up the Democratic party In
tea Of t s II 5 5 pt9 pstE9aBP B es + xs h rule thos
tl,e - end end sud aim Of iii politicians, no
matter Of wbnt rarty.. The organiza-
jon vas preserved intaes taea hiah nntii the ta
tic timo oblitoratod party lines, and gave such q
shock to tho System Of making party nomina-
tions for local Offices, that tho usefulness OF tho
party organization for local purposes was greatly
inter, vas another shock, and though party lines
wore drawn last year, It WAS on account Of the
Presidential election. The more advanced load-
ors Of tho Democratic party hhvo long since
reached tho conclusion that the party ia dead ;
that It Las boen duly walked. and tho corpae
lcd into tho new movement inaugurated
by Mr. Heaing. They knew they could moi
resuscitate tho party in this locality, and what
eyor hopo they had Of sharing the plunder lay
by whom It was led; so it WAS really God send
to them when Mr. HoBing abandoned the Hepub'
!icans and ntarted movement on his own hook,
Whether they can draw after them the yotore
who followed their fortunes in days gone by il
n9ueatlon to he yet settled.
But that ID neithor horo nor there in this
connection. When, the Democratic corpse
was laid IN tue cold, cold ground
md the earth piled above it
hiding It from the algnt q mortal m men, theEe
were u.oa!he.h .l wy saoIbus tno outial Ptene
tnre, and that thn body had been buried alive
;cAoy hold = moetlng Yesterday to take measures
to rosurrect It, ana' y 1no aa o. ga!Yan.sm o. o.
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