The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1875-10-22
OUR NEW YORK LETTER.
PaIiliraI-The Situation in the City-A life we'll
~pent-Re -Reli.ioas-BusineSS.
NEW YORK., Oct. 20, 1875.


money platform, gives more satisfaction
in New York than any piece ofnews that
has reached US since the taking of Nicks-
burg The majority is small, but 1t Is
enough. The battle was fought on the
square issue of honesty US. dishonesty.
and the vote of Ohio settles the question.
The money manufacturers are pushed to
the wall, the government Will pay It's
debts; imitation, with repudiation lurk-
ing in it, shadow. i dead. and business
ueu breath, more easily. Al. honor TO
the honest men of Ohio. All honor to
the noble Republicans of that noble
state, who placed themselves between
their country and ruin, and fought 20
well the battle upon the result of which
the huSIuess of the country depended.
The news was received here as you
may suppose, with the liveliest satisfac-
ton. The decent Democrats were quite
rs well pleased as the Republicans, in
fact, among the business men, there was
no diversity OF sentiment All were glad
that the rag baby had died bornin,
and that it got its quietus before 1t got
large and strong enough to do any
harm.
Now let Pennsylvania follow suit, and
the question as to which party will elect
the next President, and the principles
that will govern its action, as regards the
finances of the country, is settled.
Speaking of political success, the
SITUATION IN THE CITY
is not only entertaining, but instructive.
John Kelly, brawling, pot-house, cor
ner-grocery politician, occupies the place
lately held by Tweed as the head OF
Tammany. and whoever is the head OF
Tamnlany controls tie Democracy OF the
city
The best Judge the city has ever had is
Recorder Haciett, who for ten years has
been the terror of the dangerous classes.
He has never allowed politics to come
into his court. Criminals brought before
him have been tried by law, and not by
the necessities of tie Democratic party.
Consequently, he has hung a score of
them. and has sent hundreds and hun
dreds to Sing Sing. So ably, honestly
and impartialIy has lie discharged the
duties of his office, that he has earned
the undyiug hatred of every thief, and
the equally undying gratitude of every
reputable man in New York.
Two years ago Tammany undertook
to stock his court with its creatures.
The appointments of clerks and other
officials were distributed among the
wards, and Judge Hackett was notified
that he was expected to remove his sub
ordinates and appoint those selected by
Tammany. lie refused. He wrote
letter TO those making this insolent de
mand that it was absolutely necessary
to the proper administration of the law
that the courts should be kept free from
political influence: that his clerks, ETC.,
were good. reliable well-qualified men,
and lie should retain them. This action
coupled with the fact that years ago,
when Hackett was the Corporation
Counsel, lie stopped the payment of a
fraudulent claim to Kelly, amounting to
800. 600, so annoyed the Boss, that when
Hackett, the other day, came up for re-
nomination, he was defeated, and a tool
of Tammany nominated in his stead.
The same sauce was served to Phelps,
also a good ofiicer-the prosecuting at
torney.
might write a newspaper page and
be unable to give so good a reason for
the necessity of sQuelching the Demo
cratic party, as Mr. Kelly has furnished
by this action. Hackett is the especial
dread of the thieyes-Hackett, therefore,
must be put out of office. Hackett is an
upright judge-Tammany will support
none like him. Hackett hangs murder
ers-Tammany wants man in his place
who will shut his eyes to the misdeeds
of Tammany's chief supporters. In brief,
and to put it in the shortest possible
way, the chief support, the strength of
Tammany, is the rum-mills, the thieves,
and those who make money cut of the
thieves: and as Hackett was in their
way. Hackett must be.slaughtered.
lie was slaughtered. john Kelly, in
The Democratic Convention, rose and
insisted that he should not be renomi
mated. Nay, more, he read a list of those
whom he desired to be nominated, and
his dictum was affirmed by the conven-
ton. He made the nominations, and
New York knows what his object was,
and why he did it. Every man on the
ticket is his tool, and the humble, obedi-
ent servant of the worst classes in the
city.
And let me say that the throwing
overheard of Hackett was done in def
ance of every paper in New York except
the Tribune, which is now the only
paper in the city entirely devoted to
Democratic Tammany. Kelly wants
only one paper, and that is the Tribune.
The moral to all this is: John Kelly
controls Tammany, Tammany controls
the city, the city controls the State, and
the State has powerful influence in the
nation. John Kelly as the head of Tam
many, will have, in the event of Dem
ocratic success next year, a control in the
affair of the nation greater than any
other man in the nation. 1t behoOyes
the Republicans VI the country outside
to see that 40 matter of merely LEGAL
Importance stands between them and
Republican success. | hope my Repub-
lican readers in the States holding elec-
tions in November will take this warn
ing home to themselves, and do all that
is in them TO prevent the Democracy
from cap uriDg those States. More de
pends upon their action than they are
aware of.
The Republican conventions of this
cityrenominated Hackett al d Phelps for
the positions they are now occupying,
and we hope to elect them despite Tam
many aud the rum-mils and thieves. 1t
will be bad day for the city and the
country if we do not. All the States
should follow Ohio in a decent condem-
nation of all that is bad and vile in gov
ernmentai matters.
A LIFE WELL SPENT.
What a world of time most of us let
run TO waste, which, rightly used, would
enable us to become wiser and betteri-
This excellent sentiment is at least as old
as Confucius; hundred successive gen
erations of our ancestors have each, in
turn, indorsed its respectibility, until it
has got itself adopted into a calendar Of
truths which all venerate, and pretty
much all give the go by.
Even that division of the twenty-four
hours of the day by the masonic craft,
which attributes eight hours to acts of
worship and benevolence, eight TO af-
fairs. and the remaining eight to refresh
ment and repose, would seem to be, with
the vast majority of persons, more fam
ciful than real, and the actual rule would
be more nearly expressed by merging the
portion set apart for piety and good
works with that for rest and refresh
ment. thus giving two thirds of each day
To tie qualification of merely physical
wants and desires. Indeed, $50 much
the fashion, and we are so well used to
dawdle over our business, and run to ex-
cesses in our recreations and pleasures,
that we wonder at the ease with which
an exceptional man, like Mr.. 4. t. Stew
art, carries the great weight of his bus
ineSs affairs, and can with difficulty be-
lieve that he still finds time each day to
read portion of some Greek author in
his original tongue, and that he still cher
islpS and praiifips his taste of art and