The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1875-07-06


| your sewerage streets, police, water, docks FIRE
! Department, improvements and local taxation
/ The truth Is, New York city charters, Ike many
Others, instead Of being constitution TOT me ny
thus authorizing city Liquidation by the city. 0aYe
become themselves elaborate codes OF leglslauon
They are full OF restrictions, permits ana author-
ties These rIgntiullJ belong 10 local rule
| But for this home rule DO you suppose tnat the
couple Of dozen OF dollars would 30 have COM
! pounded It's increases as 10 be worth to-day over
81 0O0, 600 600, not counting the Westchester an
! nexaTion what has raised our population since
1900 from the NUMBER OF this crowd TO l250,OOO 7
hornoaysra1tps. say. atty Years ago 1s9S"the
properly OF New YORK was only $lO0 600. 900.
''Homs ruler raised II skiold IN forty years Had
home rule, IN rs honesty, been continued along
with fair federal policies AZ TO elections state in
dependence IN North and south, customs dues ana
currency, New YORK would not now be grooming
under diverted trade, shrinking values, less
assessments, weak exports despsiled commerce
and paralyZsd industries We boast OF our COM
merce; but VINO does the earning trade winch
brings nearly $500 600 900 OF the products OF
O. ner landau Is the $500 600 900 paid for It's trans
portatlon received at nome We boast OF half
million people, having nearly 100000 900 in
savings o.S Ak mere; na nose fault - it that
daily bread and use. instead OF ddng TO them
LETTERS OF Sympathy
Major Quincy read large number OF letters
from prominent democrats all over she country
doing honor 70 the society and sympathiZing with
Baltimore that in recent years he old principles
OF our forefathers had besn practically discarded,
and That there now Sh0uld De but one party, 10
restore the old bulwarks of liberty. Governor
Porter, or Tennessee, hoped that the country
would have mo moro military Presidents
without craftsmanship aud with no acqualn-
lance with civil administration" Il agree
with you in the belief" he closed. "ihat
the next year Will be marked by q reunited
America and great democratic victory IN the
Preside tlal contest" Governor Vance, OF North
Carolna, recognized ia the democratic party o
true intei prefer '4of the great charter OF our
rights, OF great, unpoluted constitutional bsrty.h
Orher letters ia similar strain OF democratic
cad from PnAna a u1t nj
Connecticut; senator Francis Herman, Congress-
man-eleet Joan Goode Jr, OF Virginia; Fernando
Y. Simons, OF the National Democratic Executive
Committee, and others.
The Glee Club sung an impressive ode, "Fourtn
OF July, 1879" written expressly for the OCCASION
to the air 'Red, White and Blue,h the band and
audience joining IN the chorus, the last verse
endlng:-
May each year in triumph returning,
SIN ind US In brotherhood true,
One heart meath the ' Red White ana Blue"
twas sung standing by the entire gathering and
enthusiastically encored.
sHoRT TALK BY D. G. CALVIN.
Mr.. DelanO @. Calvin expressed the conviction
that the next democratic victory would Tree TINS
nation from the thraldom OF Its present Oppres-
sion NJ. Gavin contrasted the TWO great
parties. Zen years of republican rule, and what
were the resutsS union dissolved, sovereign
States trampled upon, corruption everywhere,
salary grabs, Credit Mobihers, the integrity OF
iican rule. Contrast This with the luminous rec
ord OF the democratic party, always main tanning
the sovereignty Of states It's Kind consideration
for the welfare OF the masses and its respect Tor
justice. de had always been the true friend of
the laborlng man, always been the poor mans
friend. (Appause.l Ii was very wrong TO seek
relief rom The burden OF taxes by reducing the
wages OF those who mad only bare subsistence
IApplause.) In the name OF the Tammany Society
he protested against this act OF injustice. Ore.
mendous applause.l
The band played a lively tuae, after which
Sachem william A. Boyd gave another short
talk.H For elghty-six years liberty, patriotism
society. me democracy stood to-day, as 1t ever
did, a rebuke 10 treason and guardian OF public
liberty. (Applause.) Ana why should they, then,
MOI come nftner 10 celebrate the day In all this
vast city there was no place but TINS where the
csIeprated. He urged his audience to stand by
the principles oil this society They had very few
OF the old wise heads lei. TWO years ago when
nag or the democratic party was stnl upheld by
that grand old democrat OF old, JOAN Kelly.
glowing ailuslon TO the Centennial and the band
refreshed the audience with one OF strauss galops
TIE Glee club sung the "Sword OF Bunker Hll-n
MARYLANDER's SPEECH.
A. Leo Knott, OF Maryland, was received with
cheers. He said IL nave come from the pleasant
hunting grounas Of the Soutn-irom the land OF
Carroll and Howard, OF Paca and Smalwood,
whose wlfdom and valor contributed 30 largely TO
nIversary you celebrate to-day. nave travelled
far TO be with you TO-DAY At the bidding OF your
known and honored throughout our land as the
ore AMER of redeemed and Tegenerated
Tammany, Hon. JOnn Kelly. MY ears drank
in the WISE counsels and great woras OF
your orators and chieitains ieel strength
ened by them, ana Will take them back
prosperous and powerful; that whatever little
differences there may De among you about the
division Of the game, you will settle them around
your own council fires and be united and harmo.
NOUS when you again enter on the warpath. l
looked toward the great wlgwam OF the nation
before / left; saw no smoke arising; the nres
were extingulsned; tne Great Father had gone
away on his annual nunt around your waters.
M N Ia mi nA Vln m al N
him 20 away shortly on long hunt never
TO return, aHd put another Great Father
be as wise as brave, and will attend the AFFAIRS OF
the nation under the winters cold and summers
heat, and Will always be In when the people call
upon him. as 1t was in the great and happy days Of
the nation. Fellow democrats, the signs indeed,
are suspicious every Every hing indicates
that the Victorious career ON which the democracy
entered Two years ago viii not stop short but
will keep right on until the work OF restoring good
government Is fully accomplished; that the rdal
wave which swept over your State last fall
and lifted into once on It's mighty bosom
the sagacious statesman VINO is now your
whose ICY current and propulsve force
knows no retiring ebb. The old and frau iulent
usefulness 1t may have mad, but still clings to
once, have their taismanc power over the people.
A PATRIOTIC FRESHMAN.
Mr.. ". f. Robinson sara ne claimed TO be an
Irishman- (applause) and long ago be had tried
toprove that everything Rood and noble IN tsIs
country was due to the IRISH. lApplause.l SO,
for instance, 1ammany vas founded Dy Thomas
Meany, an lrishman-people pronounced IL TAM
Many. (Greas laughter.) He would admit that
other nations had also good stun IN them, some al
most as good the irish. Laugner and APP
plause) But It would not be aifficult to prove
that every Sachem on the platform had some irish
blood In him (applausel even john Kelly had
lite. Great laug1ter1 II IL mad not
been for the Irish there would have
been no Declaration OF Independence, no
Fourth OF July aud hence no Tammany SO.
city 4; FOR what would Psmmany Society be without
Fourth oil yulyg (Applause.l The Friendly sons
OF st. Patrick lsturalized George wasnIngtoD and
made him az Irisbmau. (LsuRhter Some Ger
mans, Frencnmen and Dutchmea had done some
service, but IL was due to ITishmen that they mad
this county to-day and the Centennial oratOry
would all be palderdasn II 1t did not set iorth that
fact. Appiauae.) IL mad been proposed TO- bring
Queen Victoria over to the Ce1tennial-and, sure
enough she would be good for nousenelp in Brook
lyn-but 10 would be much better 10 invite the
granddaughter Of Charles Thompson, OF Maghers,
In the county OF Londonderry, or the wife OF John
Mitchell, tban descendant OF the Wrapped george
Nv. Great applause.l
The band struck up "Dlxie" amid loud cheering
and the giee club sang my Country, 'us OF Thee"
which closed the exercises. boenteOOs Tepast,