Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1879-10-02
[Lctter to tho Philadelphia Times.
Boss Kelly and His Ways.

| SS ~ASAAy ttAN AAAS ways.
TIE RULE OF TIE AuTocRAr OF TAM.
MANY HALL.
NEW York, September l9.-The Kelly
Robinson quarrel does not get into tho
newspapers jn all its bitterness. Newspa-
per words could not express tho uuotiou
| with which tho rank and iie of the Tam
many hosts pronounce against MIR. Tildeu
and Alr. Robinson, There vas waycrins
all along the limo until Kelly returned on
Monday, and then the column presented. a
solid front, and it still maintains it, There
is discipline in Tammony as in no other
political organization in New York S,a.o.
Kclly's word is law, and very freely is it
spoken. Not candidate runs on local
ticket without his permission. 1t man
becomes ambitious to get into tho board Of
aldcrmers or to be sent to tho Legislature,
he goes first to Kelly and opens his heart
to the great chief "Wcll, get out into
your district" Kelly responds, in his quick,
gruif way. "Fly around, SEQ what you can
do, come to me two weeks honce, aud lets
hear how much Of a supporting you have"
on goes tho encouraged candidate on n
hunt for support. Kelly calls trusted
lieutenant, tells him what the candidate
has said and otarts him off, too. to SEQ
whether tho man has any backing at all
y week before the nominating convention
all the Tammany candidates are scratching
around in search Of favorable information
to return to Kelly. At the appointed
hour the man makes his report. Kelly
simply says: "You can't have it; want
John Doe nominated" There arc no
explanations. The candidate hasn't been
treated even courtcousy by the big chief,
but there's nothing to be done about it, and
away he goes to work for the man WHO has
beaten him. This treatment has made
Kelly hosts of enemies in Tammany Hall;
yet not one OF them has dared to admit it
above o whisper. Kelly is boss; KclIs has
all the influential men of the organization ut
his back. Kelly must be obcyed. Tho
least kick in the traces results in the cxpul-
sion of the refractory member. 1t has
been tried now aud then; it always fails
Kelly is not coaxcr or sly schooner. What
he has to say lie blurts out in thundcrbolts;
it is III want so aud so;' II must have
this" ~ must have that" There would
have been revolt in Tammany months ago
had the opposition been possessed of man
of enough brains to lead them, bat the men
of influence were OH Kclly'e 81 !c. 1t
cannot be learned that moro than two or
three men Ind anything to do with tho
action of last week in boiling the Syracuse
convention Nobody, even among the
leaders of the party, was consulted BY
the score they acknowledge this when
pressed The first some OF Them kn2w of
the intended action was month ago, when
the EOeniny Express, Kellys organ, an
nounced that Tammany would not vote for
Lucius Robinson in the event of his rcnou-
in'tion. She S'ar, KclIy's morning organ,
repeated the threat. Nobody in Tammany
knew what it meant, they did know that it
came from headquarters. A week before
the convention Kelly called the committee
on organization together and said "Tam.
many will not vote for Lucius Robinson if
he is renominated for Governor. lie wrote
it out as a resolution and called for vote.
Every member voted ia favor of it. What
else could they do? It ono had opposed he
would have been expelled. Next pight
Kelly called the Tammany general commit
tee together. This body is made I'D of the
charmeu of the Tammany district commit
tees, of whioh there is one in every clcc.
ton district nnd several hundreds in all.
Kelly said: 81 want each man to rise 10 his
place and pledge that in the ovcnt of I.ucius
Robinson's renominosiop hc vii, vote
against him, and to pledge that his district
will vote against him" Every man did as
he was bid, md 20 one dared to question
Ilely's right to make tho demand. Then
Kelly ordered that every delegate on being
elected to 80 to Syracuse should pledge
himself to walk out of the convention if it
became plain that Robinson was to be the
! candidate, and this was done, and also by
his order the delegation met on tho cvo OF
starting for Syracuse and repeated the
pledge. An this without dissent from any
one, although no one had been consulted
How we'll they obeycd is political history.
TIE DIFFICULTIES KELLY HAS TO ENcovN-
Now that it is done Tammany holds fast
Of the $4,000 persons who voted with the
organization last fall half dozen have
resigned. Very little is said by others save
that they will stand by the bolt. Wcrc the
election to be held Tomorrow Kelly would
most experienced politicians say, poll 50,-
600 votes in the city alone, for Tnmmany
would sustain him to man. But the same
experienced men sny that rod is in pickle
for Mr. Kelly, aud this is tho way they
demonstrate tho truth of tho prediction
There is always scramble for local Offices
in Tammany Hail. Candidates by tho
score turn up from every election district
1t has always dcvolved upon Kolly to nnmt
tho man who is to run. AS outlined above