The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1876-03-15
AMovE TOWARD HARMONY.
What Democrats Lose by the Rupture Re
tween Tnmmany aud Anti-rammany.

What Democrats Lose by the Rupture Re
tween Tnnmany aud Anti-Tammany.
ALBANY, March 14.-The meeting here OF
the Democratic State Central Committee to-
morrow has already drawn from all parts OF the
State flock of politicians, conspicuous mong
whom are Frank Spinola and his wonderful shirt
collar. lilo represents the advance guard Of
Tammany, which he SAYS will run the machine
just as it pleases. Among rumors as to what
the committee will do Is one to the effect that IL
will reorganize the Executive Committee. The
reason for this Il said to be the buneling man.
ner In which they engineered the canvass last
fall and nearly lost the State to the Democrats +;
that they are without experience aud lack good
judgment, and that II would not be
safe to trust the management of the
canvass to their hands this fall. II Is also
understood that the committee will be called
upon to act with view to harmonizlng the
troubles In the party In New York. Meeting
Senator Morrissey to-day, asked; at ia said
that an effort will be made tomorrow to induce
the state Central Committee to take into con-
tideratiun the condition OF the party In New
York city, with view to harmonizlnR tho
troubles there. Do you know anything
about III"
Mr.. MorrisseyI do not. I hope, however.
that they will act more wisely than they did in
Syracuse last fall, when they refused 70 listen to
any delegation outside OF Tammany Hail.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES would you propose I o
have done to reconcile the differences In New
York;
Mr.. Morrissey-I would propose that thcv APP
point a committee from the state Central Com
mittoe, the members Of which should live out
side Of New York. to hear arguments from Dem
ocrlts belonging to both the Tammany and
anti-Tammany organizations.
Correspondent DO you think that would bring
about n union Of the party In New York;
Mr.. Morrissey-lt would, beyond doubt. There
are from 1900 10 5000 Democrats In the city
who want 60 work with the party providing
Tammany Hall and state conventions will allow
them TO do so, but they Will not do Il IN my
Of treatment they were last fall. People In tho
State AZ large 10 not understand what disas-
trous affair to the party the differences In tho
city were last fall. The Assembly was lost to
the Democrats by the city alone. There arc
eleven Republicans IN that body from the city,
whilo " the party had been united there could
not be more th7n two. Tamnany Hall lost four
Senators out Of i've they lost seven OF Tire nine
tvil Justices, when they should have elected all
but two Of them. They lost the whole judiciary
ticket for terms ranging from six to fourteen
years, and they lost 5000 votes on the state
Cores pendent DO Won think there has been
any change in the feeling toward Tammany
Mr.. Morrssey-l think the opposition to Tam
many Is stronger than IL was before the cleo
tion. There has been no spirit OF reconciliation
shown by the leaders in lammany Hall since
that time. The city Is Democratic bv 30 90 ma
jority. Gov. 1ilden carried II by 600 but IL
there was election in the cItv to-day with the
feeling as II now is, Tammany Hall would elect
scarcely man, and the state ticket would not
pie Ia the country got the idea out OF their
heads that the more lighting 10 the party there
II in the city, the more votes will be polled for
the State ticket The result last fall ought to
show them that, on the contrary, the more
trouble there Is In the party the fewer votes tho
State ticket Will receive. think IL IL the duty
Of the state Central Committee to- m orrow to x
some plan for the settlement Of the differences
In the city. When you settle this differences
there you strengthen the party throughout the
state. as " IA fact that trouble In the party in
that city has demoralzing effect upon the party
elsewhere. Every one except few individuals
in the citv VINO are artuated by personal feeling
desires to see these differences harnonized al q
II IA the duty OF the State Central Committee To
see to II that those persons are not allowed To-
stand In the way Of the good of the whole party
at this time when We are on the eve Of a Presl-
dental election.
Inc question OF when and where the State
Convention shall be held II also likely to take ~
"A good deal OF the committees time. 1t is us
serted that Gov. riden and his friends desire
that IL shall bo held in Albany at an early day.
possibly before the adjournment Of the LeRisla-
ture, while those who oppose the Governor
want to go to syracuse. and to postpone the
Convention as long as possible in order TO give
them Time to make capital against the Governor
with the rag-money Democrats and those who
have been hurt by his reform measures. IL Is
safe to say, however, that II the Governor de-
sues that the Convention sh all ne held here
10 VIII no. The committee are I'm harmony with
tue Governor, while the opposition IL morgan
lied. and has as yet put forward no man around
whom they can rally as a standard bearer.