The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1875-10-05
the o,Rothera,,om cnmpaign.


To use the rhetoric Of the old political
times, the ''pot is beginning to boil" We
are to have witches caldron before we are
through, if we do not mistake the character
of the ingredients. All the ex-office-holders
in town are at work either to compel ex-
Sheriff O'Kelly to put them into fat places or
to 60 over and join the "reformers Here
we have O'Creamer and the Ham Stealers,
| O'Rooseyelt and the Kniclxerbockers,
| O'Waterbury and the Descamisados, as they
are called in Spain, 1.-the people without
shirts, to use free translation O'Andrews
with the Teetotalers, OTomlinson and the
.Transcendentalsts, who do not know exactly
what they want; O'Wood with his Confed-
crates; O'Schell with his Clamshell and
Paper Collar Democrats, who believe in q.
universal circulation and in giving every
voter a thousand dollars in greenbacks
Behind this we have the great party of
O'Botheration, which is what the people
without distinction of politics are disposed
to regard as the reform" combination.
If we were to give our people the history
of these Observation-Disclosures we should find
that they have been hanging over the troughs
of political patronage ever since they were
able to grunt. Sometimes, as in the case of
O'Waterbury, they have seized bone or a
cornhusk in the shape of an Office. But one
bone or one husk will never satisfy the
animal who has been at the trough. Once
there he is sure to come back again, and to
grunt and grunt until for mere peace sake we
throw him bone as we threw Wickham the
Mayoralty when he had exhausted the pa
thence of the people in the echoing council
chambers of Apollo Hall. We see this and
nothing more in the reform " movement
as far as it has gone The offices to
be filled are not the Offices craved by
politicians. They are mainly judicial, and
will naturally be filed with the best
men Tammany can find. O'Kelly is not
disposed to risk his new leadership by
elevating his own favorites to the Bench;
he will keep them for the Coronerships and
Common Councils He sees beyond the
scrambling around the trough of patronage
the democratic control of the State and be-
hind that the democratic control of the ma
ton He will not throw away this imperial
prize for his own personal fancy. If the
Performers" were sincere they would initiate
his example. Let them remember that no
party ever won campaign when the soldiers
insisted upon dividing the spoils before the
field was won. The democrats have their
great battle to fight now and here If they
lose New York the political prestige of the
metropolis is gone, and the impulse which
the great city gave to the cause of reform
when the Tammany Ring and the Canal
Ring were broken will fail. We must not
allow this failure or the hands of our striving
Governor to be stricken down to crafty the
hunger of mob of striving, squealing
office-seekers Let the observation-disclosures wait
until the great battle is won before they
insist upon their own claims. Let O'Morris-
sey, O'Creamer, OSchell, O'Roosevelt and
the rest calamity sustain Tammany Hall
until the national battle is won. Let them
sink their own personal aspirations until the
country is saved, and we have that assurance
Of good government which can only come
with the overthrow of corruption, mis-
management and the election of the best men
to the highest posts in the State and nation.
When that fight is over we shall be only too
happy to listen to the hopes and grievances
Of the observation-disclosures without saying, as
we do now whenever we hear them squealing
about reform, "Oh, botheration r