Daily Republican., 1879-10-01
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The "kv0ry Evsniuk Id "fonb
accusing the Republicans Of New York
City with combining in conspiracy to|
disfranchiss that city. The plain facts
of the case are these There are now
two Democratic parties in New York
and one Republican making three IN ALL
the other outshoots Of the parties being
too small to be recognized. The one
portion Of the Democracy Is styled the
Robinson or anti Tammany wing, and
the other the Kelley or Tammapy wing
According to the vote cast at the last
election in New York, tho vote stood In
round numbers as follows Tammany
60, 900, nti-Tammany $4,000, and Re-
publicans $1,000. The Police Board
which appoints the inspectors to hold
the election Is composed Of two anti
Tammany Democrats and two Republi-
cans. The law requires that the inspec-
tors must be appointed before the first
of October, and the general interpreta-
ton of the law is, that II the inspectors
are not appointed in September there
could be no election held, and the city
Of New YORK in consequence be disfran-
chised. The police Board has bsen in
session some ten days or two weeks
trying to appoint inspectors. The Re-
publicans being united there was no
difficulty in confirming their nomina-
tions, but when the two anti-Tammany
Democrats in the Board choose all the
Democratic inspectors from the anti
Tammany wing, which only represented
20 900, aud none at all from the Tamma-
ny wing which represented $4,000 votes,
the two Republicans in the Board in
terfered with the anti-Tammany pro-
gramme, by refusing to confirm the
nominations because they were not
made In the interest of justice and
honesty. They could not see why these
GO, 900 Democrats, though they did be-
long to the Tammany wing Of the party
should be totally disfranchised.
This is the whole trr th in a nut shell,
and we are very much a.''t&ken il all
intelligent we'll thinking people ,divest-
ing themselves Of partisan bias will
no: say that the two Republican Com
missioners in the Board did not do
right. The corruptions of Tammany
have been urged by the " Every E7en-
ing" as reason why that party should
bs deprived Of the inspectors TO which
| it was entitled, but that is question
with which the police Board had moth
ing to do; but even if it had, as Samuel
J. Tilden is supposed to be the very in
carnate embodiment of the Ant; Tam
many ring, Its claim for purity and hor-
esty is about as thin as gossamer web,
and we cannot see that the Republi-
ans had any choics between the two
rings. We most emphatically deny
that the Republicans are the cause of
the dead lock in the Police Board an
| if New York is to be disfranchised let
the blame rest with the'two Anti-Tam-
many Democratic Commissioners who
refuse to recognize the Tammany ring
which ia twice as strong as the ring to
which the two Commissioners happen
to belong. The two Republicans in the
Board have simply refused to allow
Their selves to be used as tools for the
ignoring of 10000 Democrats. To
show that the "Every Evening" was
wrong in its charges, it remains but to
he shown that the Republicans would
have more to gain by an election being
held in New York city than if none
were held. If one was held the Repub-
licans would in all probability have
from 10000 to $4,000 majority over
Robinson the Anti -Tamnany Democrats
who will no doubt lead Kelly in the
State while without an election they
would have no majority. The Repub-
licans are not to be blamed.