San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1879-11-29
HlONTGOalERY Ds.AlR's
THEORY.


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70 TIE EDrToa OF THE SuN-SIR'
| I desire briefly 70 ssll pablo attention
| h ths true cause Of John Kelly's open
| Ibplt II New York. and Of the stimuli.
| llnSsops secret dsfestaoc in Psnnsyl-
vstia, 10 which tn. recent reut Of the
Dnpsvssyia. both Slatds = due. In
bolh Statss the neminSes were friends
Of Tildsn. and tho object Of the de.
| fsaioH IN both States wis 70 defeat
| hin - . candidate for rsnomiuation.
This was proclaimed In New York BY
Nj. Kelly. The removal Of Gumble.
ton, which he made the prstext for
opposing Robinson. had nothing to do
with his opposition, and certainly Il
weighed nothing with his associates In
The interior Of the State. Kelly's ~.
fusal TO accept the Governors over.
turs to suspend the proceedings
against Gumblston, if Gumbletoa
would conform TO the law. shows that
his bolt had already besn determined
on, for reasons he could not assign,
and that hs seized upon the removal
merely % prstsxt. And the fact that
the detection extended throughout the
State, and to $1,000 voters. i conolu-
sivs that il was due to . adeepsr and far
more pervadins influence. .ass
/. What that influence was. Mr.. Kelly
points to in . recent interview reported
in tho Boston Herald. and republish.
ed in last Wednesdays Sun. His
statement that hs intends to have .
delssation present at the DemocIatic
National Convention. and expects to
be allowed one. half Of the seats as.
signed in that body to New York, is
an avowal that his bolt was made BY
order of those by whom he expects
that Convention will be controlled.
And the fact that he was able to
carry away from the regular ticket in
the i-.--.'Ss'avueo, 600 voters, end that
Gov. Seymour himself gave iust trvk.
ct . half. hearted support. makes it but
too evident that Kelly had secret a..
surauces from those regarded By him
and by Seymour as controlling iu the
Democratic national organization that
be would be sustained by the National
Convention. When We reeollect that
Tilden was ousted from the Office to
which the people had elected him BY
those in control Of the organization,
and has. been since vindiotively pur'
sued and opposed by them, and that in
both Pennsylvania and New York his
friends had nevertheless obtained con-
troll Of the State organization, and that
his denomination was assured IL his
friends succeeded in those elections.
the only rational explanstion Of the
extent Of the detsctions in these States
from the State ticket is.i that it was
melted by thit influence. 1t was Til.
den's anti. Southern claims letter which
dsafected the Southern politicians
generally toward him in 1876, and
they surrendered his election for that
reason. Senator Frslinghuysen's dsc
laration in the debate on the Electoral
bill that the Republicans were es-|
topped to deny the power Of the House
to exclude the fraudulent votes from
the count land therefore estopped to
deny Tilden's eleotion,) is itself suf-
6sient to show that the grounds upon |
which. they pretended to make that
surrender and the terms made By them
With Hayes for their recognition and
The appointment Of one Of their number
10 the Cabinet, furnishes full expla.
nation Of the ability Of the radicals to
revive the sectional issue by which
they have carried the elections this
fall. The people Of the North could
not fail to be aroused against party
"a which the South holds such ascend
sncy and manifssts in 30 pronounced
its determination to exercise IL
Ior such purposes. The fast that the
,nti.claims letter had the effect 70 con.
,olidste the politicians Of the South
against Tildsa and rallied their sym.
pathissrs in the North to defeat his