Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1874-05-12
Democratic Reunions.

At the supreme moment when the Manhst
tan Club in spotless kids and immaculate neck
ties was congratulating itself, amid the exhil
arations Of chinking glass and rafting china,
upon the political rev olution just begun. which
is to drive out the disreputable persons now
in possession of the Government, and install
in their places the ADLER and honester and
more reputable gentlemen who direct the for
tunes OF the Democratic party, the Hon. John
Fox, Democratic law giver, was calling the
attention of the Tammany General Committee
to the fact that the Hon. John Morrissey, al
so Democratic law-giver, had lately called
him thief. The Hon. John Fox desired to
have the matter Investigated. There seems
TO have been great fitness in the act and APP
propriateness in the term. For if the Gov
eminent is to be turned over to the care and
keeping of the Democratic party, as at pres
ent organized the two eminent lawglvers
above mentioned will be of great influence.
They are at present two of the leading states
men Of the party. They are both members
OF the TammaDy Society and the Tammany
General Committee. At a time when the par
ty in power is about to be turned out because
il is corrupt and its leading statesmen are awk-
wardly dishonest, and the Democracy is to be
restored because it is clean and pure and its
leading statesmen never take anything out of
their reach, it is quite proper that these little
authority.
We judge from the tone of the Hon. Mr.
Fox that he denies the charge which it is said
the Hon. Mr.. Morrissey preferred with much
earnestness accompanied by gestures. The
Hon. Mr.. Morrissey, if memory serves us,
was known during his career as a law-gver
as the Democrat who paid his bets and never
told lie. 1t is proper to infer accordingly
that the Hon. Mr.. Morrissey was sincere in
his casual reference to the Hon. Mr.. Fox as
thief. When the Hon. Mr.. Morrissey added
the remark that the Tammany General Com
mittes had to send two men to Albany to
watch the Hon. Mr.. Fox during his recent ca
reer as lawgiver and keep him from stealing,
1t was understood that he had covered the
whole case; and the Hon. Mr.. Morrissey is a
man Of such veracity and muscuarity that it
is not deemed q wholesome exercise to dispute
his statements when he has set his heart on
them. 1t is stated by parties no listened to
the debate that the Hon. Mr.. Fox addressed
the Hon. Mr.. Morrissey as a gambler, and as
there is dash before the word gambler in the
printed reports, it is believed that he prefxed
thereto some term of endearment. The re-
mark was accompanied, it is said, by IA move
ment of the Hon. Mr.. Fox's hand, with the
fingers in eighty folded condition, usder
the Hon. MIR. Morrissey's nose, much as
though there were altar OF roses, or some such
perfume, on his knuckles. We believe we
use the precise phrase in vogue among Dem
ocratie Law givers to express what follow ed,
when we say that the Hon. Mr.. Mo-rissey
thereupon "warmed his jaw for him" After
which, contrary to the received impression
that the Hon. Mr.. Morrssey's best hold is in
his heart rather than his hand that gentleman
lowered his massive brow and proceeded to
punch the Hon. Mr.. Fox with it.
1t will be generally remarked, we think,
that neither of these Democratic law givers,
in the course of the debate, INDUCED in any
reflections upon the others ancestry. The |
most common remark OF the democratic law |
over on such occasions relates TO the family |
OF the debater, and has in it a favor of un. |
kindness toward that sagscious and faithful |
animal, the dog. The omission of this STYLE |
OF address by Tammany statesman and law
giyer Is one Of the most remarkable proofs of
the purihcaiion Of politics. The Hon. Mr. |
Fox raised no question, we understand. as 10 |
any part Of the high debate except that where. |
10 the Hon. Mr.. Morrissey addressed him as