New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-11-12
TAMMANY AMT DEAD YIT,"

One of our Democratic moralists con-
graduated the country the other day that
the corrupt organization known as the
Tammany mutual admiration society had
been broken up and broken down, and
would no longer constitute stencil and
reproach as in the days of Tweed.
AS it has devolved upon the REPUBII-
CAN to communicate many facts of which
the average Democrat is ignorant, we
have faithfully given the results of the
recent State elections. We now give the
evidence that Tammany is not dead, nor
does it even sleep. 1t has met, since the
New York election, under the same officers
and auspices as before. Mr.. Boss Kelly
has made speech which is thoroughly
soaked and saturated with tears for the
degeneracy of the times. He charges the
Republican party with misleading the
people on all issues, and denounces the
Hon. John Morrissey as follows:
Here is John Morrissey; of course, you
all know he is keeper OF a gambling house
in this city. and has been connected with a
lottery business, too, and would 90 into it
again if he had an opportunity, l have no
doubt, because when he was elected TO
Congress and promised that he would torego
his business altogether, the first thing that
he did when he got to Washington was to
set up gambling house on toe corner of
Thirteenth street and Pennsy lvania avenue.
These are uhdenable facts We know that
he has been keeping one of the largest gam
bling houses in America at Saratoga, where
the youth of this city, who go there to
spend the summer, are inveigled into that
den and their manhood corrupted and their
characters destroyed, until many of them
become disreputable citizens instead of rep
utable citizens. Now, will you tell me how
it is possible for the people, knowing all
these things, to go madly to the polls and
vote for man like that to represent the
city and county of New York! And yet
they have done it.
When We remember that Democracy
first helped the honorable John to remove
his faro box from his own constituer is to
a place in Washington, which Mr.. Kelly
seems to know exactly, it seems little
cheeky to condemn this man for ''nation-
alizing"-as our Mr.. Mari would call it
the game of faro under representative
auspices. This anathema is even more
inconsistent when we learn even from
Boss Kelly himself that Morrissey was a
member of Tammany within the last six
months, and that he was expelled for TAX
ing the part Of the laborers, whose wages
had been shamefully scaled by Demo-
cratic city administration. 1t was these
oppressed and grateful laborers that
"would know the reason why" and so
rebuked Tammany with majority of
more than three thousand votes. The
theory of Democracy is perfectly illus
trated in this sanctimonious philippe
against faro dealers. Does any one believe
Boss Kelly regards dealing faro as democrat
izing to society? Not at all. Boss Kelly
is of opinion that honest men condemn
this practice. So, having enjoyed the.
popularity and borne with the ruin to the
youth, so long as Hon. John paid part
of his splits to the Democratic campaign
fund, the Boss wrestled with the wrong
and prayed earnestly for his conversion to
the ways of total abstinence from cards
and whisky. Tammany, however, can
endure this wrong no longer. 1t must
throw down this abominable burden, 80
Boss Kelly denounces Hon. John, even
while contributions derived from the
'splits" of the faro box may jingle in the
cash box of Tamnany.
This vein of morality, however. can not
be permitted to divert our thoughts from
the fact that Tammany is far from dead,
and that it does not even sleep. It is
alive again, and asking to eat more of the
public dumping.
The Democratic organ hers says ithat