New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-11-03
DAILY TRIBUNE SATURDAY NOVEMBER

ing no other use for the book-and wheh 'ney
discovered just how large country n"9or'y
they had 10 overcome, their inspectors "inapo'
"tbe votes. and declared the result WITHOUT
Counting them.r This huge swinde, OF course
could not defeat General Grant but 1t gave
John r. Hoffman an Office to which nc "''u
not been elected and it made Alien " D'"'"
Lieutenant Governor.
Tweed. having thus let Mr.. Beach in, patu-
rally expects Mr.. Beach and his associates III
turn TO let him out; and 80 1T happens 'n"'
the great issue involved in the contest LOT III
least two of the State Offices next week is'
whether the old Tammany Boss shall De as
charged from imprisonment, and resume the
comfortable place in society to which so many
of his accomplces have already returned In
the convention at Albany, Tweed appeared by
counsel and worked hard for Mr. Beachs
nomination. All Tweeds old friends have
been brought I'D to Mr.. Beach's support. The
rilf-raff of the lower wards, the regular
place-hunters who hang upon the heeiS
of every influential Democrat, and hurrah by
turns for Tweed, for O'Brlen. for Morrlssey, Ior
John Kelly, for anybody who Is supposed 10
have anything to give away, begin 10 see the
opproaching dawn of the Boss's improving Tor
tunes; they crowd around his carriage when
he drives I'D to the City Hall for his cam
naion confessions to the Aldermen, and cheer
him heartily when he goes back to jail. III
Reach is elected. Tweed may be man again.
II is unfortunate for Mr.. Beach's reputation
that the worst elements of the Democratic
marty should long ago have agreed to make
him n fayorite candidate. We have seen how
they counted him in, at the election of 1868,
and during his term of Office they seem to
have been constantly at his side. Thus, when
Mr.. Tiden began his onslaught upon the
rings, Mr.. Beach seemed to fall natu-
rally and almost inevitably into a po-
sition of hostility toward the Governor
and il was not long before he made scan
daous attack upon the Canal investigating
Commission. That remarkable episode in the
history of Cana Reform will not soon be Tor
gotten. 1t ended for the time IN the complete
discontinue of Mr.. Beach, and the exposure
of his own delinquences as member OF
the Canal Board but it made Mr.. Beach
the next candidate of all the antl-ln-
den and anti-RefOrm Democrats, and OF
all that great dangerous multitude OF IN
vertebrate Democrats who, while person
ally honest, are opposed to forcing honesty
upon other peOple-thOse in other words, VINO
wink at theft lest they should hurt the party.
Hence, the whole Canal Ring rushed to Albany
to vote for Mr.. Beach Hence, every contractor
who is in dread of the State Prison Is working
with might and main to secure his election.
Hence, if he win, the party will have received
notice that there must be no more prosecutions
of Democrats, and that this business of reform
must come to full stop.
Mr.. Tiden showed very plainly what he
thought of the conduct of the Albany Con-
yention, when he limited TO the serenaders, the
other night, that the Democratic masses ought
to repudate every nomination which did not
promise a cordial cooperation with the cause
Of reform Mr.. Beach has set his face
resolutely against reform; whether he
has done so from free choice, or from
weak concession to the bad in
huences around him, is not to the
purpose it is enough that he represents the
corrupt opposition which fought Governor Til
den all through his term. and is now burning
to be revenged for all that it suffered during
the Tammaay and Canal wars. The better
class of Democrats who so nearly won the
Presidency by the prestige of Mr.. Tilden's vic
tory of the rings will hesitate before they
place the rings again in power. Let them
take the advice of Mr. Tlden and disown
those names on the ticket which do not prom
Use cordial cooperation in the policy of re-
form.