The New York herald., 1878-12-31
TAMSIANY PRIMARIES.
CHOOSING AN OLD NEW GENERAL COMMITTEE
FOR 1879.

CHOOSING AN OLD NEW GENERAL COMMITTEE
FOR 1879
While it does not follow that the Same apparent
result obtained by the methods, it is to be
remarked tl,at not in the palmy days of Tweed
and Sweeny. when the rank and file Of the clans
met to learn who had been designated their
chiefs for q year. and when harmony had
been arranged for in advance, did the Tammany
primaries proceed with machine. like precision
than last night. As a rule. the attendance at the
various Assembly districts small, and the
interest manifested was by means of demonstra-
tive kind. In the Sixteenth Eighteenth, Twentieth
and Twenty-hrst districts the attendance much
larger proportion than in of the Others though
it is difficult to any reason for this fact other
than the paradoxical that there the troubles in
the republican party had been most marked. There
was not an opposition ticket in any district
in the city, and little scratching, ex-
cept in the First. Second. Third and Fourth
Assembly districts where name Of no political i'm
port was occasionally struck of from purely per-
sonxl motives. glance at some Of the names in
the various Assembly districts will show that
nosition OF the body chosen last evening TO
represent Tamrnany Hall in the General Committee
Of 1879: In the First Assembly district Patrick G.
and James II. Aladigan were, OF course
among the delegates. In the SECOND district
Ias KrR. ae' Jeramsh ~ Hartisan. Jimmy" Oliver Oliver
aud Mark Lanigan appear. James J. slcvin and >
long list Of others unknown to fame yet will add
their Glimmer to the TamiDany Hall blaze Of high
souled statcsmanship Tommy Sheils--thc Di-
ogenes Of the Board OF Aldermen. the innocent who
wants tho press to tell him where the "jobs'
come in-s at the head Of the ticket in
the Fourth Assembly district, ''av coorsc." The
long array of other names from the same district
shows them to be of the same as Tammsny, but,
perhaps. not OF the same kidney. County Clerk
umbeton and Peter Mitchell from the Fifth district,
are among those still willing to sacrifice themselves for
the welfare OF Tammany. Tim" Campbell. offorensc
fame is here from the sixth. and Alfred Wsgstaf
and James Riley from the Seventh. The Eighth,
Ninth Tenth and Eleventh districts sent delegates
not AZ yet noted in Tammany councils but the Elcv
enth brought TO the front Augustus Schel, John I.
Agnew William Sauer and Townsend Cox,
Henry Woltman and Patrick Keenan, and
array of delegates about equally selected from Teuton
and Celt are the standard bearers of the Twelfth.
In the Thirteenth district rho of Police Com
missioner Sidney p. Nichols loomcd mp at the head
of the ticket sheriff Reilly and Peter Gillespie
headed the ticket in the Fourteenth Richard ].
Morrison in the Fifteenth, Frank Spirola from the
Sixteenth. Frederick Smyth from the Seventeenth.
John Kelly from the Eighteenth and Henry l.. Clin-
ton OF course; Thomas q. Ecclesne, sheppard +.
Knapp and John 4. Devlin arc among the delegates
from the Nineteenth: Michael Tnomey and Charles
H. Locw from the Twentieth, John McQnsde from
the Twenty first while. finally, the Twenty-second
district comprising the Twentythird and Twenty
fourth wars) had Samuel g. Courtney at the head Of
its ticket.