The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1875-08-09

Boss O'Morrissey has shown IN more eMi-
nent manner than any living statesman what
blood can do. His muscular interviews with
our reporters, like previous experiments OF
that nature, show that he knows the value
of first blood. Here we have the descendant
of Heremon, son of Milesius, in Boss
O'Murphy. We have the representatives Of
! Brian Boroihme, through two branches
O'Kelly and O'Creamer Upton Slasher
the great monarch of Denny brook, was the
lineal ancestor of OMorrissey. So there
can be no doubt that the best blood of Ire
land is to the front Boss OCreamer's array
is gratifying in other respects. Here wa
have the O'Roosevelt, descendant by mater
nal branch from that great Irish prince
Dondubhan, the "brown-haired chief" who
hourished in Tipperary in the tenth century
and who was killed by Brian Boroihme, and
descended by his father from the original
O'Roosevelt or Garden of Roses, who landed
in New York with Stuyvesant and who Guilt
voted cabbages and smoked the consoling
meerschaum to the end of his days In
O'Roosevelt we have the best Irish and the
best Dutch blood, which makes a powerful
combination. Then we have those distin-
guished statesmen, Gideon ]. Quicker,
Emanuel b. O'Hart and Rufus +. O'Andrews
and Harry ONTurray, who came into tho
movement to give it character" and whose
virtue has so long been the emulation and
the glory of New York According to these
statesmen New York is to be thoroughly re-
formed. The ORoosevelt means it, while
the O'Creamer insists upon ''war to the knife
and from the knife to the hilt." In the
address we have pathetic narrative of the
woes of O'Fox and O'Morrissey, and an APP
peal made to democrats, without distinction
of party, to rally round the new movement
and put an end to the domination of O'Kelly.
In royal phrase, OMorrissey has toed the
mark and O'Creamer and O'Roosevelt, with
the brandy and the sponges, stand in his
corner
The difficulty that we now see about this
new movement is that there are more leaders
than followers. But it has contagious quail
tics. We are Saxon enough to like fight.
If ORoosevelt can bring all the descendants
of the Hollanders, OCreamer the followers
of his ancestral princes and Rufe O'Andrews
all the temperance people who now glory IN
his extraordinary reformation, and Benjamin
O'Wood all his old friends who took sides
with the South during the war; there is nc
reason why the anti-Tammany movement
may not succeed in reforming the city OF
New York and in giving these ambitious and
hungry leaders a share of the public spoils.
Our readers must remember that the great
question in all these controversies is moi
what is best for tho people, but what is most
available for the politicians. By never for.
getting that all these local movements are
simply the scrambling of hungry and selfish
professional politicians for power; that ono
crowd has about as much honesty rs the
other, the campaign for the fall will assume
many amusing features. AS we, the people,
are sure to be plucked anyhow, and as moth
ing is certain in the government of New
York except that the taxes will be increased,
we must have as much fun out of these move-
ments as we can while they last. We must
keep on hoping for that good time, which
seems to get further and further off, when
New York will be ruled with economy and
fidelity and when these descendants of the
Irish kings will do what they have never
done yet-earn an honest days pay by q
hard, honest days work.