The Lake County star., 1877-06-21

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In spite of oil the efforts Of q few
soldiers Of fortune and others wbel-
ly devoted to self-aggrandiscme ent,
to get up quarrel with Mexico, !,
very little apprehension is felt here
that they will be successful. =
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The event Of the week was the re-
ception Of Tilden and Hendricks by
the Tammauy Society and the Man
haitian Club. There are always
wheels within wheels, and in this
there were . great many whselsin-
side of each other. The splurge
was originally intended BY the anti
Tilden Democracy of this city MS
the beginning Of smovomens to put
Hendricks on the track three years
from now, Originally it was in-
tended to leave Tiden out Of the
demonstration 1.-The excuse being
that it was merely a goodbye to
Hendricks who was en- route for
Europe. But Uncle Sammy is al
together toe astutc for anything Of
this kind, aad he quietly notified
the managers that they had better
invite him or there would be trouble.
He had no idea of permitting Hen
bricks to get that per cent. on him.
1t was done accordingly, and then
Sammy put himself at the front and
what was intended to be a demon
stration in favor of Hendricks was
converted into q demonstration in
favor of Tildsn. Then came the
usual fight between the local poll
tioians. John Kelly, the head Of
Tamrnany. was bound that Morri-
sey, his ancient enemy, should net
have an opportunity to air himself;
and he so manipulated the demon
stration as, to be everywhere recog-
nizea as the central figure, even
though to do it he had to lionize
Tilden, whom he hates most cor
daily. But he cut the comb Of
Morrisey most effectually. The
speeches. Of slippery Sam make
amusing reading. In the crowd
who stsod close beside him while he
was dsnouncing fraud in politics,
were Pelton who engineered the at
tempt to buy q Republican elector
in Oregon, Twoed's district attor-
ney and two Of his deputies, score
ofTweed's bcst-known officials, men
who grew rich out Of his stealings |
by Tilden's help, and every polite
al shyster and sdventurer in the
city. And to such q crowd, the |
shameless man who stands first on |
the list of political corruptionists,
who spent Ave, millions Of stolen
money in an attempt to buy him
self inte 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. Tildcn
still intends to be a candidate in
1880. l~tap Gaesi Hss'fet
The ring robbers viii all get out
with the most Of their plundcr, sx.
cept Tweed. The District Attor-
ney read his confession and has d<-
cided that there is not enough in it
to Justify his release, and so Tweed
stays to chafc his soul out, in du-
ress. Sweeney gets. through byre-
storing about onc-twentiethi Of his |
stealings, and Connolly ditto. It's
rumored that a proposition from |
Oakley Hall is on the way to this |
country, which will be of course ac-
cepted, and he will come back.
Oakley played it very smart on the
city, and got away ~ we'll as those
who went sooner, and he will cemc
back covered with glory. Tweed
says he has been used very unfairly.
lie claims that it was understood
that when he made confession lie
was TO be released, which was true,
only his confession was no 'confes-
sion. The sly old rat only told on
those who were past saving, and
with whom he had a bone to pick,
but the real culprits who could be
issrviceable to the Boss hereafter,
lie did not say q word about. 7 And
so District Attorney Fairchild re-
fuses to lot him go till he tells the
whole story. IL is amusing to hear
men talk Of tho cruelty Of keeping |
Tweed in prison, ~ though he were
a martyr, suffering for rightsous-
ness sake, instead Of being the most
gigantic irobbsr Of modern times.
And Tweed himself thinks that he
is being psrsccated. He hasn't the
faintcst idea that he has dens any
thing wrong. .,ila hiis Tsissi,'in ! 81 |
There isn't the slightest pfotec.
itiea against crime in the city. rIfs
man charged with crime is arrested,
he has no difficulty in making his
escape, il he has money enough.
Within week four men charged
with grave crimes and under arrest,
dslibsrately walked of, one ont oil
IMdlow 81. -Jail, one cut rof the
Tombs Police Court, and two out Of
the Court House. In, each case the
officers in charge Of the prisoners
were conveniently blind, or conven-