New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-10-05

pudiated. The old set is back. IL WAS WI
liam NJ Tweed and Jarvis Lord who
tTiumphed yesterday at Albany, and reyenged
themselves upon the reformers for
long course of prosecutions. Never. since the
old Boss bought and sold Legislatures IN the
lump, have the vilest most disreputable ana
most corrupt elements of the Democratic party
rlsked such an open assault upon decency as
they have Just committed IN the State Conven-
ton They made no secret of their purposes,
no secret of the causes of their rage There
is not q canal thief in the State who did not
appear, in person or by proxy, III the
ranks of the victors. There is not an
old Tammany leader able to show
himself in public who was not seen III the
thick of the riot at Twcddle Hall, cam0rlng
for revenge on the reformers who sent his
friends to Jail and put guard about the pub
lie treasury. Tweed appeared by his counsel,
Mr.. Townsend-to say nothing of the service
he received from Mr.. John Kelly. Denison
and Belden, the great unbalanced bidders, had
their attorney among the delegates, lighting
with might and main against the promoters OF
the Canal Ring indictments. SpnOa brought
his bounty jumpers to their aid; ana
when the test vote was taken which
decided the defeat of honesty and respecta-
bility and the whole rabble of frauds, swind-
dlers and ruflans started to their feet shout
ing and waving hats, the great head of the
Canal Ring was the lOudest and most cor
spcuous person in the crowd. They can cheer
now with good heart. The old set is back.
1t makes no difference under what specious
phrases the Democracy may try to disguise
no # no Yesterday
the people will not misunderstood them. 1t
makes no difference upon what pretext they
may seek to explain their opposition to the Til
den wing; the people will not, cannot fail to
COMPREHENSIVE The issue has been too distinctly
defined. not only by the quarrel III the Con-
ventiOn and the personal character OF the
combatants, but by the course OF local politics
during several months past The alliance be-
tween the new Tammany led by Mr.. John
Kelly, the fragments of the old Tammany, led
by William Nj. Tweed, and the Canal Ring
led by the Lords and their associates,
is a plain fact, to which no man can
shut his eyes. And even if some of the lead
ers of this shameless coalition should wish to
keep the party which they are forming toler-
ably clean and quiet, it would be folly to hope
they could do so. The price of such bargains
must always be paid. Most of the Tammany
embezzlers have already made their peace
Sweeny is at large. Connolly is looked
for at home. Woodward, unabashed, lives in
luxury upon the proceeds of his crimes. Ar
rangements have been made for the speedy
restoration of Tweed to his place in society.
The Attorney General, who refused to release
Tweed and prosecuted the Canal thieves has
been turned out of Office. The Deputy State
Treasurer who took appointment part in the great
Bclden and DenisOn suits for the recovery of
stolen money, was howled down when he APP
peared before the Convention, and 1t was pro-
posed to exclude him from the platform.
BY way of paying special COM
pliment to Messrs. Lord, Bcldcn and
Denison the Convention has placed ut the head
of tire ticket the gentleman who, when chair
man of the State Committee, publicly de-
nounccd tie action of Governor Tildrn'S Canal
Commission as unjust, and its reports as un-
founded and who, being thereupon called
before the Commission as witness,
WAS confuted out of his own mouth.
and proved to have facilitated the frauds by
his own action, when member of the Canal
Board.
The boys may well cheer. The old set is
back again. The farce of Democratic reform is
over; and the curtain now rises upon the favor
ite drama of the Forty Thieves, revived after
months of preparation, with its original cast.