Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1879-09-02
Nrw YorK. aur1st o. 1870

Mr.. Edit0T.-Now York is rent ny faction
| fights So it has always been since the day that
Thomas Jefferson, after landing ut Norfolk
| from France, came to this city to accept tho
| Portfolio of tho State Department under George
| Washington in his first Presidency in 1890 At
| this tinIe the minor com bntanUs Oh the Demo-
cratic side, tho stronger side, have all ranged
| themselves under two great lcaders-the one
party aTraYcd with John Kelly, and the other
| with Samuel j. TIlten.
VINO arc those men, Kelly and Tiden, that
We the American people. should care for them'
what Is IIDcubi to mo or | to il@cubi that we
shOnld care for each Otheri This is the question
of questions. In Now England, they are asking
themselves this question: i'll the Middle States,
they arc asking themselves this question; in the
West, they are asking themselves this question:
and in the South, you are asking yourselves tho
same question.
Who are these men that tie fate of the 1fmeri-
can people, the result of the next Presidential
Radicalism, should depend on either ono or the
other of tnem7 Mr.: Editor, do yon remember
ger That New York has decided the Presidon-
tiGl election ever since 1874? Clay was beaten
by New York: Cas las by the pertilieus treason of
Democratic Convention and union with William
Lloyd GarrIson's Aholitionists at Buffaloi;was,
Buchanan only succeeded because tho Abo-
litionists, having discovered the cyprianic char
actcr of the Van Burcn-Tilden boilers. had
thrown thern off. and they had to support DOM
ocrats their only chance for getting Office. Z!
IL you remember these memorable facts YOU
have the answer to my question. Tildcn is a
Puritan of the Puritans.r f1c hates the South
saving lie would never consent to the payment
of any Rebel war claims" he wrote tho only
thing i'll that campaign which spranE from his
heart.
Kelly, portion of whose FIRMLY are South
Carolinians' on the contrary loves the South
tine only Northern Democrat who never had
any ifs OF "buts to his friendship for the
Tilden consequently hates Kelly, and Kelly
rs cordially hates Tlldcn. Kelly, strange as it
York in 1874. lie had become disguised with
the doing Gf the Tweed Ring and had gone 10
FcG Samuel j. p Mf s
proclaming that Tilden had helped to over
What he read, When he returned to New York
from Europe, Charles O'COuer, HOratiO Scy-
Democrats in the State of New York, asked him
to take hold of poor down,trodden Tammany
In establishing eight years before, and to res
cue it from its fallen State Mr.. Kelly is the
BIsnark of America. A giant in statue and
politics. The overthrow of the South and the
supremacy of the Black Republican party had
sickencd him with politics but these trIo old
fashioned State rights Democrats O'Conor,
Seymour, Church. and Othcrs-fna'lv OvcrcaIne
his objections and Kelly took hold of Talnmany.
He throw ont every man tainted with Ring as
ISOLATION He fought never New York poll
tician has fought, 10 restore Tammanv TO its
PRINTING rrnown. He succeeded. At tho next
election the people rose up and hailed him rs
Regenerator. Tho Judiciary, the State govern
and, in the eloquent words of Choato when !'e
said wo all kept step to the music Of tho
rammany under John Kelly IS lead; Tildon saw
Kelly, and Kelly. who was in Europe when Til
den was trading with Tweed. and therefore was
cnrcd The nomination OF TiIdcn as Governor in
1874. and that being the groat tidal year; TilIe9
formerly received, $4,000, as Governor of New
York
did rildcn do as soon as he became Governor
Why he simply did what lo had done in 1918,
joined WIN. Lloyd Garrison and the Disnni lou
lists at Bnftalo-he dronped Kelly and tho Dc
OF tho New YORK Times after the death Of Henry
| j. Raymond, and LnColn's Minister to Franco
| rs successor of Hon. Charles james Faulkner,
| your own illustrious statesman and he took
| up also with Lucius Robinson, the most furious
Black Republican during the lato war, as he
whole boiling crowd in 1915, as we'll as Ere
monter and Know Nothing and as member of tho
Fremont Convention in l556-thc most defama-
tory enemy of the South and tho Democratic
party in in that trying year. ThSse men Bigelow
but sample of the class with whom Tidcn
began again to affiliate as he had in lSis. when
Interested but illconsidered advocacy Of his
election by tho Hon. John Kelly
Kelly at length had found out his man. The
scales had fallen from his eyes. Alexander 81.
stephens and other veteran Southern Statcs-
men, who bad served with Mr. Kelly in Congress
Sc an@ o,n e s IN" sses Sad
produced, were filed with alarm and tried to
make him pause. He at length responded to
At st. Louis in 1876 he faced Tilden's packed
convention their bowls. their els their threats,
their demonacal-or rather, be it said, their
monkey Shines. and finally silenced them into
hearing him. Sunset Cox had t5ied 10 vain
effort to speak to silence the deIvithes of Tilden,
and failed; Dan voorhees, had tried to silence
them, and failed; Tom Ewing b ad tried to silence
them aDd failed; John Kelly, tho man of Iron iron
them and succeeded They tossed amt reared
and fairly foamed at tho mouth. but Kelly held
on. and moved not, and finally Senator Herman,
Tildcn man, begged the howlcrs, the hired
claquorE to desist, and John Kelly made his
speech! He told them that Tilden was q fraud.
That If they nominated him they would regret
it; that he was not n Democrat, but an old ls4s
FTecSoiler who had bolteI Cass. that he was not