New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-06-20
THE BUGLE can or SACHEM scHELL

in several wards in this city makes the two
eyes of leading Democrats like stars start from
their spheres, as they set their tumbers down
on the bar and cry aloud Fraud Fraud"
Mr.. Schell is, as is well known, the Grand
Sachem of the "Society Of Tammany, or
Columbian ORDER lie has now got the
Fourth of July on his mind. 1t seems to
make deal of worry for him. Now, no one
would suppose, to see him in State Con-
vcution half way up the middle aisle, just
behind John Kelly, with his features in
repose, waiting for his seat to be contested by
Ira Shafer, that MIR. Schell was very lively
or cxcitabe person. And on such occasions he
isn't. Few men can rise at such times, and
with so little visible emotion move the appoint
ment Of one delegate from each judicial
district on credentials. In this depart
ment OF political activity he is without
a peer. Alderman Waehner, who comes nearest
to him, is more melodramatic, but never so i'm
pressiyc. in conventions, Mr.. Schell is always
cool and unimpassiOncd. lie has been so ever
since 7S0, whcnat the request of Thomas Jcitcr-
son he founded Tammany Hall and discovered
Isaiah Rynders. Bnt once let him get any
thing on his mind like the Fourth of July and
the necessity for holding the country together
through tho day, and ne is very
war-horse, chapping his bit with impa-
thence, and neighing for the fray. Give
him pen at such times, and he sings a
trumpct call to the braves Of the Tammany
Society which fires the blood like sour mash,
and which many of the leading members
Of tho Society manage to spell out only
through pain and Precipitation.
The present year is one which Mr.. Schell
can look upon as peculiarly his own. 1t has
furnished so many things to stir him up to
set of, az it were, the sky-rockcts and
Roman candles Of his rhetoric, and kindle
into n blaze the tar-barTels of his love Of cOun-
try and the innammable empty drygoods boxes
of his devotion 70 the rights of man. Things
have been going wrong for a good many
years. Each year of the past eighteen
Mr.. Schcll and the Tammany Society have
assembled on tho Fourth of July and
lamented, as they only can lament who
stand and wait on the outside, while
they strive 10 encourage themselves by look
ing ut the future through tumblers of the
greatest possible magnifying power. This year
things are worse than ever. Last year they
were feeling very bad, because Mr.. Tilden
had been defeated by fraud. Only one thing
could have made them feel worse than his de-
feat, and that was his election. Since then
Mr.. Schell himself has been defeated for the
State Senate and the Tammany Society has
been obliged to choose between seeing
Fraud Triumphant and attempting to
seat Mr.. Tilden in the Presidency; and
they all said they would rather see Fraud
"Triumphant.n Here's trouble enough to fill
Mr. Schell's cup to OVERLOOKING, and
set his bugle call to its most pathetic key.
With the sense of burning wrong engendered
by the suspicion that there has been fraud by
which the Democracy have not proiited and
that there is still stealing going on
somewhere in which Tammany has no
hand, he has called the Columbian
Order together for the Fourth of July, to talk
il over. And united with him in the call are
Wiskinlies and Sagamores and Scribcs and
Sachems, among whom we notice with salts
faction and pride the name Of Henry ID.
Purroy, who lately indicated /" the principles
" of evil liberty by breaking Delegate Jones's
jaw at Nyack
The purpose Of Mr.. Schell and the
Wisknlies and SagamOres, etc, Is TO com
"memorate the day and all il symbolizes."
Mr.. Schel says that sclfshhess and injustice
"menace freedom" and that 4" the friends of
freedom must keep sleepless vigil" That one
sentence is enough to keep the Sixth Ward
awake for a week. He says the Society was
founded "tO match the compass, lest the
needle vary from the Pole star" The meta
pbor is not pursued, but there is no doubt
that if they ever should catch the needle vary
ing from the Pole star they would either
smash the compass or blow out the star or 90
behind the returns, or some such thing. They
propose also to review the useful history and
" biographies of past generation, and apply
"their lessons to the duties of the present"
and " from the spirits of the great departed
invoke blessings on our beloved land"
There's a theological bias in the last sentence
which we do not clearly comprehend, but the
biographies we presume include the generation
that kept "sleeplcss vigil" in Tammany Hall
lust prior to 1872. There never Irds such
watching the compass as some of those fellows
did. With regard to the recent Presidential
election, Mr.. Schell says, in his warm-hearted
way: "Therencyer iCas such fraud. There never
- ,ras such wicked and murderous blow at free
" government. Liberty's temple lead this
slow" Iiberty's temple was turned into a den
"of thieves who have stolen the muniments
"aud emoluments Of power" This is pow
erfully stated. The phrase " emoluments Of
"power," when translated to the Society, Is
pregnant with wailing. IL must be admit
ted that when Mr.. Schell gets fairly at work
nj the emotions he can make more actual dis
Lnrbance than any other modern statesman,