Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1875-10-22

,ratitude of every reputable man in New S
York. +
Two years ago Tammany undertook to !
tock his court with its creatures. The t
appointments of clerks and other officials
we're distributed among the wards, and I
Judge Hackett was notified that he was '
expected to remove his subordl mates and
appoint those selected by Tammany. He
refused. He wrote letter to those making
this insoent demand 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-qualitied
men, and he should retain them. This ac-
ton, coupled with the fact that years ago,
when Hackett was the Corporation C"un-
sci, he stopped the payment ola fraudulent
claim to Kelly, amounting to $1,000, so
ANNOYED the Boss, that when Hackett, the
other day, came up for denomination, he
was defeated, and tool OF Tammany nomi-
mated in his stead. The same sauce was |
served to Phelps, also good officer-the
prosecuting attorney.
L might write newspaper page aud be
unable to give so good reason for the ne
cessity of squelching the Democratic party
as Mr.. Kelly has furnished by this action.
Hackett is the especial dread of the thieves
-Hackett, therefore, must be put out of
office. Hackett is an upright judge-Tam-
many will none of him. Hackett hangs
murderers-Tammany wants man in his
place who will shut bis 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 out of the thieves; and as
Hackett was in their way, Hackett must
be slaughtered.
He was slaughtered. John Kelly in the
Democratic Convention, rose and insisted
that he should be renominated. Nay, more
| he read list of those whom he desired to
be nominated, and his dictum was affirmed
by the convention. He made the nomina-
tions, and New York knows what his OBJ
iect was, and why he did it. Every man
on the ticket is his tool, and the humble,
obedient servant of the worst classes in the
city.
And let me say that the throwing over
board of HacketU was done in defiance OF
e very paper in New York except the Tii-
bune, 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 Demo
cratic succ ess next year, control in the
, affairs of the nation greater than any othel
man in the nation. 1t behooves the Repub
) licans of the country outside to see that NJ
, matter of merely local Importance stand
between them and Republican success,
/ hope my Republican readers in the States
holding elections in November will take
this warning home to themselves, and d.
all that is in them to prevent the Democ
racy from capturing those States. Nor
depends upon their action than they ar
, aware of.
! The Republican conventions OF the city
renominated Hackett and Phelps for th'
positions they are now occupying, and W
hope to elect them dispite Tammany AM
the rum-milis and thieves. Il will be
bad day for the city and the country If W
q do it. All the States should follow Obi
o. in a decent condemnation of all that is ba
Y vile in governmental matters.
D LIFE WELL SPENT.
= What a world of time most of US let ru
to waste, which, rightly used, would enab
h US to become wiser and better This e2
}, cellent sentiment is at least as old as Cor
= fucius a hundred successive generations
G our ancestors have each, i'll turn, indorset
Il its respectabitv, until it has got itse
adopted into calendar of truths which a
!. venerate, and pretty much all give the 9
d by.
e Even that division of the twenty -fou
|, hours Of the day by the masonic Graf
. which attributes eight hours to acts ofwo
It ship and benevoence, eight to affairs, an
), the remaining eight to refreshments an
e repose, would seem to be, with the vas
e majority of persons, more fancitul tina
b real, and the actual rule would be mo
b nearly expressed by merging the rortio
e set apart for gaiety and good works wit
It that for rest and refreshment, thus giviu
two thirds of each day to the gratiticatio
: of merely physical wants and desires. Ii
deed, tits so much the fashion, and we ar
- so well used to dawdle-over our busines
and run to excesses in our recreations an
V pleasures, that we wonder at the ease vii
- an exceptional man, like Mr.. A. T. Stey
art, carries the great weight of his busine
affairs, and can with difficulty believe th
he still finds time each day to read a po
n ton of some Greek author in his origin
= tongue, and that he still chershes an
y gratifies his taste for art, and surround
W himself in his leisure hours with persol
IS eminent in the various intellectual wal
:. of life.
]. All this is Introductory to saying tn
Ie last week death took away well-kuow
Of business man of this city, whose life VT
y illustrates the attainments possible to al
le business man of fair intellectual gifts, al
!, points the moral of my foregoing sermC
is on the value of time. Mr.. William Heg
'. man, born in 1916, was educated dru
IL gist, and when he died was head of q
D. widely known firm of Hegeman Il Ca
n whose several attractive stores of Broa
Ill way have been familiar to the public for
l. many years. Now it is not remarkab
that man should become a successf
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