The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1879-01-19
ANTI-TAMMANY DEMOCRATS.

A UNION OF THE DIFFERENT ORGANIZATIONS
AGREED UPoN-THE TAMMANY SOCIETY AND
COMPTROLLER KELLY ovERHAULED.
A meeting of the General Committee Of the Irving
Hall Democracy was held last evening at Irving Hail.
Mr.. James f. Morrison in the chair. Mr. Nelson j.
Waterbury on behalf of the Executive Committee
stated that a subcommittee had been appointed
to confer with the organizations known as
the city democracy and the county democracy. and
after several they had agreed upon plan
OF union and that when the plan is adopted by the
different organizations antagonistic to Taminany
Hall IL will be adopted already published, with a
few slight variations Mr.. Robert u. Roosevelt then
offered the following resolution
Resolved That this organization will accept union
With rsmmany except on condition that ,he Tamman,
ranmany Hall he opened t. the Of all aud that one
exercise exclusive ruc over the party in this city and tia,
warn the democrats Of the State thar continued
will endanger the democratic majority in this city.
THAT DINNER At THE LoTos cLUB.
Mr. Roosevelt spoke for some time on this rcso,r.
ZION. He alluded to the late dinner at the Lotos
Club and said that he never saw such an OK
hibiton in his life The financial officer of the city
actually patronizcd the Mayor, its chief executive
officer. 1t was magnaniinous offer for
Mr. Kelly to make that he would reduce.
of the city ss.ooO.OO0 Mr.. Roosevelt then
followed up tho onslaught on Mr.. Kelly by saving
that the name OF Tainmany Hall aud its corruptions
stinks the nostrls OF the nation; that New York
city has always been the sport of legislative bodies
Albany and in the Congresses of the nation az Wash.
ington, and that the bad rcpute Of Taminany Hall
and its secret organization has been tho cause of all
the trouble.
After Mr. Roosevelt left the platform Mr. Nelson J.
Waterbury offered the following resolutions to
which he spoke at length, a did also Colonel John
X. Fellows:--
Resolved That this committee welcome with heartfelt
qualification the able aud comprehensive
therein upheld with earnest determination the policy 81
reform and retrcnchncnt which has been
ing fca, lure of his administration.
Resolved, That Edward Cooper the Mayor Of this
In his first message To the Common Counci has shown
that the people not mistaken in their choice
leader In the battle Tor relief iron, the burden Of
axauns aud the evils OF waste folly and neglect
which they have suffered and Il is Of the sgnin
cant results Of the ~ the people tho
their champion that the espotc which has hereto
fore ruled processes Willingness - sustain the
who Is pledged To- overcome and destroy its whole
policy and practice OF corruption and extray agnnce.
That this committee rciterates the
policy Of the Office holders who have heretofore governed
the city, but also To the niquous system by which
party has been ruled by the and
dan power of an oath bound and society
Mr.. Fellows speech fierce TRADE against John
Kelly and the present Father OF the Council Tam
many Hail. Henry H. Clinton. The meeting adjourned
tn be convened again at the call OF the Chair. -