New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-08-03

tured to dispute rights OF the Tammany pretenders 10
seats therein, to demonstrate against the exclusion Oh
the Democ voters OF this city from any voice In tho
council Of the great party TO whose success their votes
are Indispensable, some selected tool from another
county was ready to force without debate,
bv calling the previous question, the admission OF
the Ring, without even pretensc OF consider
ing the claims OF the contestants. Able ana honest
Democrats justly, entitled to take leading part III
political affairs not only observed with apprehension this
lsurped power but made resOlute efforts 10 prehk
the Capitalization by which it existed and dispol
the illusion Of its regularity. When that great
statesman, Horatio Seymour, was Governor, he
procured the passage Of resolution ty
the Democratic State Convention. providing that tho
delegates from this city to State conventions should
thereafter be chosen by conventions In the several
Assembly districts But the Ring. which was then as
powerful as IL INSCRIPTIONS, was not 10 DC
overthrown in that way. 1t laid its plans
with such effect that it controlled absolutely
the next succeeding State Convention, ana
treated the resolution intended TO subject the control
of the people with undisgsed contempt Gov seymour
also addressed public meetings in this city called IN de-
fance Of the Ring, by Democrats who denounced It's
rule HIS Efforts although they proclaimed to the people
that in his opinion, the corrupt magnates OF Iammany
Hall not the Democratic party, were not successful
in breaking their power, and upon his retirement from
office their rule became intensely despotie and corrupt
Gov Seymour however has persisted in his efforts to
the inquitOus Capitalization OF power ny winch
the Democracy OF this city deprived Of representa-
ton At The last Democratic state Convention II was
proposed to allow q county called before New-iork to
cast a solid vote, instead OF voting by Assembly dis-
tricts, but he insisted that the vote should
lie by districts At that state Convention through the
influence of Gov. Tden cheers whose hostility to cor
ruptio and jobbery directed his attention TO the e'
effects OF centrazation another resolution was passed
providing hat delegates Democratic state Conventions
horc flor no i'm
the several Assembly districts in other counties OF the
State We propose give the Democracy OF this city an
opportunity to give full effect to that resolution when
the former Ring crushed by the people in 1871,
three Of its most prominent benefeiaries Iacd rouhd
those who had been most serye tools OF the former
Ring they formed new Ring, less dangerous only U!
reason Of their lesser ability.
The Society of Tamnany owns Tammany Hall, and the
Council Of Sachems for the time being s vested Win inc
whole power OF the Society The Council is not even
subject to the corrective action OF the Society bu only
to the dictation Of it's MASTER The Sachems may indeed
he changed at the annual election in April but the dill
cult emoving by the votes OF the members so largely
influenced by patronage, officers who appoint the III
spcctors and in all otcr respects control the machinery
of the election will readily be perceived Holding aDso-
lutev tie power OF landlord over Tamnany Hall, Kelly
has the privilege Of prescribing who may enter the Du
ing Except that members OF the Society nave the
barren right to be present at the empty formaes of
house has to select his guests He exercises his power
through body of about so persons styled Committee
on Organization, nOminally selected by pre-
tended General Committee Of the Democracy
Of this city The power OF the Committee
on Organization is managed by Committee
on Discipline consisting OF five persons. appointed By
Kelly as Chairman of the Committee OIL Organization
Tie Committee on Organization outasts the pretended
General Committee by which 1t nonnaliy was
selected, and designates the persons VINO snaii
constitute the pretended General Committee Tor the
ensuing year. Each year Kelly allows certain persons IN
each Assembly District TO select the persons who are
nomnay represent the district IN the pretended Gen
era Committee These said TO be voted for at pre-
tended PRIMARY election for the Assembly District but
that held by three inspectors appointed by the central
power II the persons selected in advance or those re-
turned acceptable TO Kelly an ntima;ion given
to the other persons TO make up contestng list ana the
Committee on Organization then dcsignatcs what per-
from the Assembly District arc to he admitted into
the pretended General Committee for the ensuing year.
real election in Assembly District containing nearly
5000 Democrats within hour at most, the two
hours allowed for voting. would be impossible
Last year Fox was marked out for sacrifice. He
avoided the appearance Of humiliation by resigning but
his friends who had nominally been elected by the
Democracy Of the First Assembly District put out
and other persons installed in their places Moissey
and have lately been marched out execution
KelIys Committee Discipline reported to Kelly as
Chairman Of the Committee on Organization that Nor
rsey and his friends had had too much to do with the
wOrkingnen, and Kely's Committee on Organization
voted that they should no longer be members OF the pre-
tended General Committee Then the newspapers and
the streets were full OF reports That certain
persons soliciting from Kelly be put in the vacant
places and that Kelly considering their petitions.
The landlord of Taminany Hall said that Nor
rssey and his friends should go out, and
that certain other persons should come in.
1t may seem strange that Fox and Morrissey were
equal win Kelly when they seized the power OF the
fallen Ring he should have been able to dispose OF
them as he has done; but that is easily ex-
planned. Kelly, perhaps not more than Fox,
but than Morrisscy, was aIavore OF the dcfunct
men who had been its active Instruments in the
management OF the Tammany Society; and while he
OF the pretended General Committee he also took care to
secure for himself inc power o. me Inany Society oy
eecng his own adherenls as sachems Being possessed
Of the chief power as Fox and Morrissey were enemies
and remain undspnied master
A disclaimer is made in the address Of any desire to
count claimed Of his being the chief perpetrator OF
gross frauds upon the D.lnocrcy OF the city; while
and desire "O for fair dealing, lie has stub
bornly resisted every propc; in to devise
Of the party and he has used his WI insured
p no DESIRE s to pM nre Fox ana Mossss but
they like too many other men, seem to fight only TO get
which Is really mOnstrOus sham IL Ia be Oyerthrown
must be by who have higher motive than crawl
under its wings"
1t l. stated further in the address, that this year. for the
first time in le annals Of Tdmmany, not the pre-
tended General Committee il allowed 10 pass resolutions.
while Tweed would have been ashamed 10 be afraid
Of committee he constituted. No ut'crance can
be made except by packed Committee rs may best ac
cord with Koys pejudces, when the voice Of the De
mocracy of this city should lead aud encourage the
Democracy Of the whole country The life and vgor Of
the par: arc thus paralyzed. Independent men, what
ever thcif hge, become objects of hatred and
hcs.ii.v, 1t must be plain that such state of affairs
cannot last Its overthrow the first duty OF every
Democrat He II To his brtbrig and his manhood
resist IL to the uttermOs Whatever may he the result
But defeat IL impossible, II the Democrats Of this city
will do their duty to themselves and their party.