The New York herald., 1875-11-29
The Next President Must Oppose Tam
many-An Eastern Speaker Wanted.

The Next President Must Oppose Tam
many-An Eastern Speaker Wanted.
In few days hence the House Of Repre-
sentatives, by electing q Speaker, will de-
termine whether the next President of the
United States shall be an Eastern or
Western man. Let no Congressman forget
that his vote for Western candidate for
Speaker will strengthen the influence of
Tammany, not only in the next campaign,
but also in the next administration. Every
worker in Tammany who hopes to get some
thing from the Custom House or from an
Indian ring is in favor of Mr.. Kerr for
Speaker and Of an Eastern man for Presi-
dent But the conscience of the democratic
party cries out against the impending evil of
a President who has ever been under the in
huence Of Tammany Hall. The election OF
Mr.. Kerr for Speaker would throw the choice
of Presidential candidate upon the East,
and Governor Tilden, who is a Tammany
man of the past as we'll as of the present,
would undoubtedly receive the nomination.
The election of Mr.. Kerr as Speaker would
fasten Tammany like the Old Man of the
Sea, upon the shoulders of the party and the
nation. Nor are the qualities of Mr.. Kerr
for moral bravery in political action, or for
consistency of political principle, sufficient to
overbalance his disqualifcations as the vir-
tual candidate of Tammany for Speaker. On
the contrary, he is weak in council and
evasive in contest. The democrats need
progressive man and not trimmer.
BY their very first action in Congress, in
their initial campaign against corruption,
the democrats may destroy the ulcered tiger
Of Tammany and give expression to the
stifed sentiment of their party A careful
reading of the best wishes of people who
are willing to be democrats without Tam
many indicates that they lean toward Mr..
Randall, of Pennsylvania, for Speaker. The
South favors him because it wants Presi-
dent from the West. The West favors him for
The same reason. and because it has never
forgotten the stupid blunders originated in
Tammany which forced the nominations
of Seymour and Greeley Mr.. Randall is the
best parlimentarian in the democratic
party; his action in the affair of salary
raising was the outspoken action of man
who never doubted that he was right.
He neither conceals his motives nor pre-
varicates concerning his political history, as
Mr.. Kerr naturally does; and he lives remote
from the political and social Influences of
Tammany. But in the present emergency
Mr.. Randalls paramount qualification as
candidate for Speaker is that his election
will decide that the next President shall,
like Young Lochinvar, come 'tout OF the
West" His election would not only place over
the deliberations of the House parliament
tartan who outranks his party breth-
rem in merit as an executive officer, but
it would for aye an d for ever destroy the
Tammany tiger, which long ago earned the
right to die The claws of that tiger were
clipped by Mr.. Tilden, but Mr. Tilden has
let them grow again. The tiger is crouching
supinely, ready for another spring. 1t mat
ters very little whether Mr.. Tweed or Mr..
Tilden loosens the leash Mr.. Tilden, whose
province is New York, knows very well that
either openly or covertly he must always
court the aid, and that means the meretri-
cious politics, of Tammany. He who served
his apprenticeship assiduously, and for many
years in Tammany, knows better than most
men that there could never be such an
anomaly as o reformed Tammany. He
knows the story of the monkeys who took
possession of legislation and appeared very
humanlike until bystander threw hand
full of nuts on the stage, and they suddenly
scrambled about monkeys again, on all
fours Let Mr.. Tilden throw an Office to his
constituents and he knows that the quies-
cent Tammany thief will jump for it.