The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1876-04-18
Proscriptfve TnmmanY.

The editor of the Evening Epress-the Sir
Charles Grandson of New York journalism,
and now the official organ of Tammany
Hall-has been at great pains to explain to
us that the dark lantern Know Nothing con-
Germ on Fourteenth street, where respectable
citizens meet and call themselves Indians"
is not in any way connected with the Tam
many organization which claims to be the
regular democratic organization in New York.
In other words, this urbane and eminent
editor would have us believe that there is no
relation between the two concerns. We have
always believed that the Indian dark lantern
branch of the Tammany machine was in
tended to control tire political machine We
think so still, with all Difference to the En-
Democracy had Tweed Mt their mercy and
proposed to throw him out of Tammany Hall,
the dark-lantern Sachems interfered and
saved Tweed, and now we read the following
suggestive paragraph in the Sum
TAMNASy's BRAvRs.-The Tammany Society will hold
It's election Tor Sachcms tomorrow evening The
Sachcms In Office arc John Kelly. William II.
Wickham, Henry l.. Clinton, William G. Conner
William Walsh, Bernard Reilly, Abram s. Hewitt
Thomas Dunlap. Miles H. Andrus, Nathaniel JARVIS, Jr,
Edward /. Donnclly, George Forrest and Frederick
Smythe. All OF tho Sachems except William Walsh
will PROBABLY be reelected. Mr.. Walsh having sup
ported Senator Morrissey last fall, will be permitted to
resume his place among tho braves Mr.. Dclano q.
Calvin IL spoken Of his successor a member or
the Council
Let us read this paragraph between the
lines and see how far it bears out the asser-
ton Of the polite editor of the Express, that
the dark lantern crowd is not part Of
Kclly's machine, and used by him to over
awe and punish tho Independent democrats
of New York when they arc not in accord
with the Boss.
Note, FIRST that every one of these Sachcms
is Tammany follower and as much under
the control Of Kelly as his coachman. They
are all Tammany men in good standing and
will vote to keep Kelly in power and NOM
mate whoever he wishes to have in Office.
Note, second, that it is proposed to remove
William Walsh from the Board of Sachems,
not because he is incompetent or in antagon-
ism to democratic principles, but because he
is friend of Morrissey. He is to be pun
ished for refusing to bow to the will of Boss
Kelly.
if Mr.. Kelly wanted the aid of these Sachems
to do for him what they did for Tweed few
years ago there would be any opposition?
Not at all; they would be as willing to aid
him in his enterprises rs they were to aid
Tweed in his war upon the Young Democ-
racy. The whole business is anti-demo-
cratic, anti-republican and in violation of
the elementary principles of honest party
discipline. 1t will result in defeat of Tam
many as overwhelming rs the defeat of last
autumn unless Kelly should take the lesson
of that defeat to heart and reorganizc tho
democracy on some other platform than that
which gave us Tweed once and may give US
worse than Tweed again.
The DIFFERENCE between home ruler
and nationalist in Ireland is such that any
discussion about the relative merits Of their
views upon Irish politics must be conducted
at the shillelah's point. Yesterday, in the
city of Limerick, o body of nationalists, one
hundred strong, disputed with some ten
thousand home rulers. Such was the force
of their arguments that tho brass band Of
the home rulers had their music knocked
into cooked hat and their trombones into
smithereens. For a time, indeed, it looked
as though the argument was to be all on the
nationalist side, but the home rulers soon
presented such an array OF irresistible facts
that the controversy was ultimately decided
in their favor.