Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1877-06-23
OUR NEW YORK LETTER.


OUR NEW YORK LETTER.
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POLITICAL.
The event of the week was the
reception OF Tilden aud Hendricks
by the TamMany Society and the
Manhattan Club. There are always
wheels within wheels, aud In this
there were q great many wheels in
side of each other. The spluIge
was originally Intended by the anti
Tilden Democracy Of this city as
the beginning of q movement TO put
Hendricks on the track three years
from now. Originally it was in'
tended 10 leave Tilden out Of the
demon stratiOn the excuse being
that it was merely o goodbye to
Hendricks who was en- route for Eu'
rope. But Uncle Sammy is alto
gether too astute for anything OF
this kind, aud he quietly notified
the managers that they had better
invite him or there would be trou'
BILE. He had no idea of permitting
Hendricks to get that per cent. on
him. 1t was done accordingly, and
then Sammy put himself ut the
front aud what was intended to be
a demonstration in favor of Hen.
bricks was converted into demon
stration in favor of Tilden. Then
came the usual fight between the
local politicians. John Kelly, the
head of Tammany, was bound that
MOrrisey, his ancient enemy, should
not have an opportunity TO air him.
self; and he so manipulated the
demonstration as to be everywhere
recognized as the central figure,
even though to do it he had to lion.
ize Tilden, whom he hates most cor
daily. But he cut the comb OF
MOrrissey most effectually. The
speeches of Slippery Sam make
amusing reading. In the crowd
who stood close beside him while he
was denouncing fraud in politics,
were PeltOn who engineered the at.
tempt to buy u Republican electOr
in Oregon, Tweed's District AttOr'
ney and two of his deputies, a score
of Tweed's best.knOwn officials, men
who grew rich out of his stealings
by Tilden's help, and every political
shyster and adventuler in the city.
And to such crowd, the shameless
man who stands first on the list nf
political corruptionists, who spent
five millions of stolen money in an
attempt to buy himself into the
Presidency, spoke gravely OF the
terrible frauds that had kept him
out of the Presidency 1t was the
checklist performance that New
York ever saw. Tilden still intends
to he candidate in 1880.
THE RING ROBBERS.
The Ring robbers will all get out
with the most of their plumber, ex'
cent Tweed. The District Attor.
new read his confession and has de.
cided that there is not enough in it
to Justify his release, and so Tweed
STAYS to chafe his soul out, in duress.
Sweeney gets through by restoring
about one twentieth of his steaIingS.
and Connolly ditto. 1t is rumored
that proposition from Oakley Hall
is on the way to this country, which
will be of course accepted, and he
will come back. Oakley played it
very smart on the city, and got
away as we'll as those who went
sooner, and he will come back COW
cred with glory. Tweed says he
has been used very unfairly. He
claims that it was understood that
when he made a confession he was
to be released, which was true, only
his confession was no confession.
The sly old rat only told OH those
who were past saving, and with
whom he had bone to pick, but
the real culprits who could be ser
viceable to the Boss hereafter, he
did nos say word about. And so
District Attorney Fairchild refuses
to let him go till he tells the whole
story. 1t is amusing to hear men
talk of the cruelty of keeping Tweed
in prison, as though he were mar
tyr. suffering for righteousne SIS
sake, instead Of being the most gi'
rohhor of modern times.
And Tweed himself thinks that he
is being prosecuted. He has not
the faintest idea that he has done
wrong.
PROTECTION AGAINST CRIME.
There isn't the slightest protec
ton against crime in the city. If