The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-07-17

SARATOGA, July 8, 1875.
II you think John Morrissey's views of no
consequence, because one Of his avocations is
gambling you do not know the man. He is
one of the powers in New York politics.
Many years sgo, refusing to be tractable, and
bend the knee to Tweed, he was tabooed by
the Tammany of that day. He picked out
Tilden as a man to rally under, and stuck to
him through thick and thin, until he saw him
elected Governor of the State. When Tllden
was running against Dix, Morrissey was the
only man in the State of New York who
wagered money wildly upon him.
The election filled his pocket and enlarged
his confidence. He was delegate in the con-
vention which nominated Tilden. After the
election it seemed convenient for the reorgan-
izedl Tammany, of which John Kelley was
head, to put such a man as Fitz John Porter
to the front. and forget the claims OF the man
who fought Sullivan, Poole, Heenan and all
the species that would accept his challenge.
In short, Morrissey was Morrissey, and power
had got to be respectable. But there was
this advantage possessed by the ex-pounder
of the physical constitutions: He wouldn't
scare. If there is man above the crust of
the earth to-day who can not scare, it is this
towboatman of Troy. The kick of mule,
newspaper cut, double barreled shotgun, or
CApuiolou liOu 1auuuhny ahil, HAS uO tcIIOIS
for him. His courage is physical, moral,
mental, organic. Achilles was his inferior in
that Morrissey had his heel dipped, whereas
Achilles, held by the heel, weakened just
there.
John Morrissey as far as their conditions
will allow, is still Gov. Tilden's friend, as
truly as Controller Green, Who'll placardei
John Kelley as dishonest hypocrite, and
lost none of his popularity with Gov. Tilden
by doing SO. see the lmpossibility of recon.
Cling in your mind the two ideas of gam
bier and man of public aft 4irs, and shall not
attempt it. He is, however, one of the public
men of the country. Four years he sat in the
Congress of the United Safes. He is the
principal man in Saratoga, not excepting A.
L. Stewart. He is bold, crude, original, IN
obtrusive man, taking his views from obser-
walton and naturally strong intellect borrow
ing nothing from other heads, and as little
from books, rather selfrespecting, an original
Democrat, hard-money Democrat, acquisi-
tive, entorprising, and, if in good temper, al
ways interesting
AS walked into the pool room to-day to
pay my respects, the late champion of Ameri-
ca said:
"What did 1 tell you last summer, sir Do
you remember that / was the only man in
Saratoga who asserted that Tllden would beat
Dix ?"
Every we'll thought it was bullheaded-
ness. How did you reason it out?"
81 said to myself, nobody can beat man
like Dix but one who can neutralize his good
qualities by others equally good. Tilden can
do it. He is just as honest. He has pursued
Tweed and corruption. The Republican pa
pers have all praised him, and if they abuse
him after he is nominated, can be answered
back by their own articles. And he is the best
organizer of political campaign in the Uni
ted States. There ia merit; there is capacity
On that I took of my jacket and bet my
money"
The great chief, whose yello wish hazel eyes
are very wide apart, here gripped me into his
glance with sort Of smiling ferocity of the
will l asked him to tell me wherein Tilden
was q great organizer.
'Sir," he said, she wrote and received an
swers in that campaign to $1,000 letters, em-
ploying thirty-s'x secretaries, to whom he die |
tated He wrote, for example, to a RESPONSE |
BILE man in each school district of the State of |
New York: Send me the number of Repub-
licans in your precinct? Tue number of dis
affected Republicans The number of Liberal
Republican The number of Democrats
What do you wantY Opposite each question
came the answers in numbers we want
change in the chairman of our primary. We
want Judge Smith sent here to address US.
1t was done"
asked the late great athlete # Tilden him.
self believed be would be elected.
'"Well, sir, )" he said, "Gov. Tilden was walk.
ing one evening past the Hoffman House,
New York, where often take my stand. Said
[: What are you looking for at this hour Of