Daily Republican., 1879-10-06
TsmmaDy's Triumph.

TsmmaDy's Triumph.
As an evidence that the two Rspub-
lican members Of the Police Board Of
New York, Messrs. Wheeler and French,
had acted in the proper spirit and in an
impartial manner, the Supreme Court
has issued a mandamus to compel the
Board to do the very thing that the two
members named have along been try.
inc to do. The whole business is SC
complicated that unless our readers
have kept posted from day to day, it is
hard to understand, but to condense
matters to make it ineligible let it he
known that the Police Board OF New
York which has not only the regulation
of all affairs pertaining to the police Of
that City, but the appointment OF all
election inspectors and clerks as well,
is composed of four persons chosen two
each from the two leading political par
ties Of the day, which were the Repub-
lican and Democratic parties. In the
selection Of Inspectors, two Republicans
and two Democrats have always been
chosen but in the present instance a
formidable division in the Democratic
party in New York has caused trou-
ble. The Democracy is split in
to two opposing wings called re-
spectivsly Tammany and anti-Tam-
many Democrats. The first comprises
two-thirds OF the Democrats OF New
York, but it happens that Samuel J.
Tilden, Mayor Cooper and Governor
Robinson are arrsyed on the side OF
anti-Tammany. The hand Of thesags Of
Grammercy Park and Cipher. Alley is
seen in the whole movement. Tammany
is opposed to Tilden, and Tilden must
crush out Tammany or lose New YORK
in the nomipation for President at the
next Democratic National Convention.
One of the first movements of Tilden,
therefore, was against the Police Board,
which contained two Tammany Demo
Gratis, Messrs. Nichols and Smith. These
men h ad to be removed, and having
the Mayor and Governor on his side,
Tilden at last succeeded, and filed
their places with two anti-Tammany
Democrats, Messrs. Mclean and Morri-
son, who it was known would not allow
the appointment of any inspectors
or clerks from the Tammany wing
Of the Democratic party. Another
obstacle still stared Tilden in the face.
The two Republicans in the Board 1t
was found would not vote TO distran-
chise sixty thousand Democrats TO
please Mr.. Tilden and twenty five thous-
and Democrats, hence charges were
trumped up against Mr.. Wheeler and
every effort was made to have him
removed, but the courts interfered and
blocked the Tild game. Mr.. French
had but recently been appoint ed to the
Board in place Of Republican whose
term had expired and no charge at that
time had been preferred against him.
This police Board has been in session
about two weeks, and have appointed
the Republican and Anti-Tammapy ap
portionment in each of the election polls,
but the Republicans insisted that the
Tammany wing which represented the
greater number of the Democracy of
New York, should have the remaining
inspectors. To this the two Anti-Tam
many Democrats in the Board objected
and hence the dead lock which it was
feared would disfranchise the whole
city of New York. We refer to
this minutely because the "Every
Evening" of our city has Wig
orously assailed the Republican mem
bers of the Board and charged them with
desire to prevent an election. The
time having gone by in which the law
provided that the appointments should
be made though three inspectors could
hold an election, the Tammany Demo-
Gratis who thus far through the chican-
cry of Mr.. Tilden, Governor Robinson
and Mayor Cooper had been deprived OF
representation in the Board, made an
appeal to the Supreme Court, aud that
body has ordered that the remaining
inspecttrs shall be chosen from the
Tammany Democrats, thereby support
ing the Republicans in the stand they
had taken to secure fairness and i'm
partially at the election. In this
whole muddle we have an evidence OF
what Tilden reform is, and what might
have been expected if the elections of
New York had been allowed to be con-
trolled by Tilden and his friends. The
firm stand taken by the two Republi-
cans on the Police Board of New York
now that it is supported by the unani-
nous voice of the Supreme Court Of the
State should be a cause for congratula-
tion instead of censure, and it is diff
cult TO see what argument could le