New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-12-11

attacking his personal favorites in the AT
tennis To remove Gumbleton, Reilly anu
Loew. This Is established by the tact that
even after the removal of Gumbeton ana inc
detection from his ranks of Reilly and Loew
TO save themselves, he maintained con-
stantly losing fight in behalf of the rap
idlv weakening organization which he
led II is shown by the numerous blunders
into which the maintenance of this partisan
prlnciple led him,-for this, even more than
his blind loyalty to his friends prompted 'he
repeated and unpopular denominations OF
Smyth. Gumbeton and others, which brought
him defeat in some instances and nearly de-
feated his combined local party In the 81
election. Mr.. Kelly has been an obstinate
man: he has been domineering, always I'M
patient of advice and generally deaf
TO it. But in his obstnacy he has
never ceased to be loyal to his friends,
and in his imperiousness he has always been
unselfsh Politics has been no trade with
him. He may have loved Office for the sake
of power but never for the spoils which per-
sonaly fell to him; and his regret at having
TO lay down his Office will be greatly. II not
wholly. Modified if it does not also compel
him to abdicate the Dictatorship of Tammany
Hall.
II is this latter view Of the consequences OF
the revolution in city affairs yesterday which
now most concerns and interests Mr.. Nelly,
his party and its opponents, and the pubic
generally. We may well believe that with
Mr.. Allan Campbell who is no politician ana
is a man largely experienced in public admin
lstration of the next most important de-
partment to tnat of Controller, affairs there
will 20 on without hindrance OF friction. Mr..
Campbell will discharge the duties OF the
Office well and he will have no load OF point
ical odium from a corrupt machine ana d w
ranaica leadership to embarrass his work. But
whether Mr. Kelly can reOrganize Tammany
Hall whether he must 90 down and ont IA
consequence of his defeat; whether anew leader
will arise who can combine the two factions
be has failed TO unite or VIII 'ther Irving Hall
will now become the dominant Democratic
faction and Tammanv minority power these
are the questions of the hour. lh"y must
remain for some time subjects for speculation,
for the reorganization of Tammany Hall, 10y
the election of a new General Committee. does
not take place for some weeks yet. Naturally.
decentralization will aliliet Tammany for awhile;
but that il will go to pieces, or even cease 10
be strong faction, even without patronage
TO sustain it, is not 20 he anticipated.
Success Will naturally give strong lmpe-
tus to Irving Hall, and the reorganization
which is to follow will be likely to result III
a separate committee from that OF Tammany.
1t will, for n time at least. be a stronger or
eanizatlon than ever before; and our anticipa-
ton. in which the wish may possibly be the
father to the thought, is that the 10000
Democrats of tins county will be about equally
divided on all local questions for an election
or two Ii is {" good politics from this point
of view for the eighty odd thousand Republic
cals to remain compactly united as they
now are and free from entangling alliances
with either WING Of the Democracy.