The New York herald., 1874-10-06
Our Latest Disappotntmen ent.


Jimmy Hayes to be Register. When the
saints of the reformed Tammany came into
the high places of the synagogue, their hats
labelled with honesty. like cabmen at a
ferry, and all the world ran after them, cheer
ing Honest" John Kelly and Honest John
Morrissey, the HERALD followed and cheered
with the crowd For how could we resist the
sweet, seductive blarney, the cooling and the
purring OF these transformed saints? We not
only cheered, but, in the fulness Of our new
born love, we aided and advised, and
went SO TAR as to name certain prominent
and able men whose candidature would
be recognition of worth and qua
rantee Of popular approval. For we be-
Heved in the saints The HERALD has always
been contiding paper, apt to regard gilt as
gold until it hears the metal ring. We for
got, however, in the ardor of our precipitate
affection, that there was more than one side to
Tammany Hall questions; that while honesty,
probity, character, experience and popular
fame were desirable qualities in candidate,
there were other qualities far more important.
We did not remember the golden rule of mod
ern politics, no less powerful in Washington
than in New York, that Office is not for the
people nor for eminent fitness, but for ones
self first, and, after, ones cronies and bosom
friends.
We might have remembered, if we had not
been so needless in our enthusiasm, that this
was also the maxim of our absent Tweed;
that under the reign of that leader it was
necessary to be a other-in-law or son-in-
law or fellow hummer in freman's bunk
to receive recognition, and that in the blazing
days of the Amerlcus Club there was always
kinship among the candidates that made
everything comfortable and pleasant Some
thing like this we saw in our national admins
tration when our incumbent Washington began
to make his nominations to Office from the
family Bible of the houses Of Grant and Dent
It might have occurred to us that, although
Tweed is absent, his spirit remains. Napo-
leon was an exile in st. Helena, but Napoleon
ism dominated France. Tweed is an exile
on Blackwells Island, but Tweedism rules in
Tammany We do not see the diamonds, the
tigers head, the club houses, the rosewood
stables, the Americus balls, or court houses
costing thousand dollars brick, for there
are later phenomena, and we must not expect
the pupil to rival his master in year. We
mean Tweedism in a political sense, especially
in it's illustration of the departed leaders
golden maxim that Office belongs first to ones
self and then to ones relatives, cronies and
bosom friends.
So it is all settled and the HERALD is out in
the cold like the rest Of them, and the saints
Of reformed Tammany are parcelling out
their Offices to bosom friends just as Tweed
and Sxeeny did in the old days-keeping
the best slices for cronies and throwing
bone or two out of the window to the Irish
men below. Mr.. Tilden was nominated for
Governor against the best party sense, be-
cause he was bosom friend of Kelly.
Mr.. Wickham is to be nominated for
Mayor for no other reason than to crafty the
affections of the admiring John. Jimmy
Hayes, who is q rich man, is to be nominated
to an Office that would be comfort and o
blessing to many poor men-to turn out the
gallant Sigel from his beer money-simply be-
cause he is the bosom friend of Honest John
Morrissey. 1t is the old, old way, just as it
was in the happy days Of big Six" The
saints take all the tenderloins and juicy
morsels to themselves and cronies and throw
the bones out to the bowling crowd who wait
expectant under the windows.
1t is the old, old way and will, no doubt,
end in the old, old fashion. Reformed Tam
many will live about as long as Tweed's Tam
many and fall as it fell. One dynasty simply
succeeds another !! Tweed is dead-long live
Kelly The exile is more powerful in his
st. Helena of Blackwell's Island than he was
when he waddled through the gilded saloons
of the Americus Club and all Tammany hud-
ding at his heels. Men die or 60 to Jail, but
principles live, and the honest men who now
rule Tammany have too much respect for their
master to ignore his teachings. Weall thought
they would do SO; hoped for it, at least, and
believed in their political honesty as we be-
lieve in cabman, who has shack" written
on his hat. Honest John Kelly, like Colonel
MuDerry OelleIs, loohS uPoA 1aHuiHauy only
as speculation. "Theres millions in it."
Millions for his friends and relatives and
cronies-for "Honest John Morrssey,"
"Honest Jimmy Hayes" "Honest Ned
Shandley'' and the ten tribes of saints who
have transferred to him the affection they once
layished on Tweed. And we, with all of our
suggestions and hints, and words of en-
couragement and sympathy-why we are out
in the cold, with the crowd who know that the
saints are giving the fat slices to bosom
friends, and waiting until they throw them
the bones.
Recorder Hackett ON Grand Jury
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