Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1880-04-30
Tammany Declares its Purpose.

+ II is reported that Tammany Hall
declares its determination to send a
Delegation to Cincinnati to oppose
the nomination OF Mr.. Tilden. Per-
haps it is to Chicago the Delegation
will 90 instead. At any rate, it is
not to Cincinnati the Delegates from
Tammany ought to go, because the
Democratic Convention will meet
there, and as Tammany Hail now
stands politically, its supporters have
no right or just reason to expect to
be allowed to participate in Demo-
cratic Convention. The Democratic
party has never embraced in it's
broad groundwork of principles the
odious doctrine of rule or ruin. 1t
has never been the policy Of the par
,ty to treat with recreants, apostates
and traitors; certainly not to the
suicidal extremity of surrendering
to handful of base conspirators,
who have deliberately planned to
break down the organization and for
that infamous purpose have struck
hands with it's most vindictive and
implacablc enemy, as John Kelley
and Tammany have done. The mis-
sion OF the Delegates who shall go
TO the Cincinnati Conven ion is to
there meet and act III thorough har-
mony with their bret hren, from
every portion of the Republic in the
great duty of selecting for candidacy
the eminent Democratic statesmen
who shall act IS stauaard-bearers of
the Democracy in the Presidential
campaign. In the performance of
this paramount duty personal or
partisan considerations have no ap-
propriate place. The main consid-
Grafton is the nomination for Presi-
dent and Vice President of the most
worthy and the most popular states
men within the party. To go there
for the satisfaction Of venting per-
sonal or partisan spleen against any
particular Democrat is to abuse the
Office of Delegate, and to outrage
the time-bonored regulations and
usage of the great Democratic party.
II the Taminany Delegation shall be
admitsOd, to oppose Tilden, then the
doors Of the Convention must be
,sAroszn wide open for Delegations to
oppose Hendrics. to oppose Thur
man, to oppose Bayard, to oppose
Hancock, and to oppose every dis
tinguished Democrat whom the De-
mocracy would delight to honor un-
til there should be left only the can
didate whom Roscoe Conkling might
designate to John Kelly as the only
one the Convention might agree
upon, so that General Grant should
have "walk over to reach the
goal of his coveted "third term
or term for life. 1t cannot be; it
must not be. Tammany chose, last
Fail, to make an infamous coalition
with Conkling and tho Stalwarts,
and the fruits of that unholy alliance
is now in full bloom in the Empire
Safe, with Stalwart State Admin
istra.ion, Stalwart Legislature, and
the standing menace Of Senator
ConklinG 70 assure to Grant the
thirty-live Presidential Electoral
votes of the State by appointment
of the Legislature. Should John
Kelly live out the years of the
Patriarchs, and henceforth devote
his whole time and study TO promot-
ing Democratic cause, lie could not
i'll all that lon, space make repa,ation
for the enormous crime against the
organization Cf his own State and to
the damage Of the Democracy every
were which he and Tammany COM
mittel il the last campaign. Hence
forth he and Iummany have no ust
claim TO seats or voice III Z hemocrat-
ic National Convention until !ustra-
tion shall lave hoen satisfactorily
performed. lie Is 40 more to be
trusted at Cincinnati than Benedict
Arnold would have been in Il Coun-
Gil of War il Washin.ton's camp
after his treasonable attempt to sur
render West Point to Sir Henry
Clinton. He will be almost certain
to WELD his whole inilue nee to defeat
the Democratic party III any event,
and to maintain bis iniquitious coali-
tion with Roscoe Conkhng to the end
that Grant shall bo the victor, and
hence it would be rs the surrender
which the em;grant band made to
their Norman Iostroyers at the
Mountain Meadow massacre for the
Democracy to compromise with him
at Cincinnati. The same Is quite
true of the clement which is repre-
sented by the N7r York Uorid, now
generally believed to be owned by
Jay Gould and run in the interest of
the money king and corporation
magnates. To read it and John
keliy's organ, the STIR, one can
come TO no other conclusion than
that, while each pretend TO advocate
Democracy, their real purpose is TO
break down the party and to iucess-
an.ly blaze away AZ Mr.. Ti!den.
Were either of them to devote 10