New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-02-02
ANOTHER CHANCE F0R .uEDITITTON

ANOTHER CHANCE FOR NADIIiiiON'
If il is to be the fashion to open the cXcr-
cises at Democratic State Committee meetings
with the public reading of a current emana-
ton of wisdom from some eminent Demo
cratic authority, we see no reason why the
Tammany State Committee should not have
the same privilege with their rivals. There Is
no reason to believe that the Tammany Com
mittee would not appreciate such an intellec-
tual exercise 10 jEst as great n degree as the
Tilden group, and there IL undoubtedly just
as much capacity in the former rs IN
the latter for the silent aud notion
d" less meditation which is recommended
TO follow the reading. The programme
proposed for the Tilden COmmittee-unlor-
tunately too late to be adopted at the
last meeting-began, it will be remembered,
with the reading OF Mr.. O'Conor's letter Civ
ing that gentlemans reasons for the assur-
ance that Democratic success in the Presi-
dental election is absolutely impossible. The
purpose, we presume, was To chasten the
minds of the Committee and sdbdue any ten
dency there might be to hilarity and the
fifteen minutes of silent and motlonless
" meditation" were intended to c!inch,
as 1t were, the solemnizing influence.
Now il is well known that between these two
Committees there il Il feeling OF rivalry very
much like that which existed between General
Bob Tyer's First Connecticut Artillery and an
Ohio regiment in the same brigade during the
late war, which WAS illustrated by story
of General Tyler's ordering his Adjutant to
detail fifteen men to be baptized one Monday,
in order to get ahead of the rival regiment
,:.bt had Ia, A,
day before In this spirit of competition it
is quite likely that the Tammany Committee
are looking about for some document TO be
read Mt their next meeting, which, if not so
long as the O'Conor letter, shall beat that "all
"hollow in its Christening influence, and be
followed by not less than half an hours silent
and motioness meditation.
We venture to assist them in the search,
and to recommend to their favorable CON
sideration u double-leaded article in recent
issue of The Louisville COurier-JOarndl, from
the pen, no doubt, of that stalwart Democrat,
Mr.. Henry WattersOn, who, if not so philo-
sophic, is q much more energetic statesman
than Mr.. OConor. The article is not SO long
as the letter, but it is more epigrammatic
and pointed. II treats of the circnar lately
issued to "the Democracy of the Union - by
the Tammany Committee, and is entitled,
"The Climax of InsOlence." We need not
quote it in full few extracts will sufficiently
indicate its spirit and prove satisfactorily, We
think, that as an opening exercise 1t is fully
nm TO the mark Of the 0'CODor letter. The
Tammany Committee are spoken of in the
article as traitors and their "impudence
is said to be " unparalleled The writer SAYS
they are boilers and rebels" Also. that
"thev are without political honor or Gdety.r
Also. that "they are the secret tools Of the
"enemy." Also, that /" they are owned body
"and soul by the Republicans" Also, that
ono decent Democrat can recognize them.n
Also. that " they are the SCOT, scorn, and by
Z" word of the great party they have betrayed
They are told to "take themselves off TO
those who own them and, since they have
"not the courage TO hang themselves" to
make merit-that of courage-Out Of Tie
" only cafe course which is left them, and de-
." clare boldly for Grant" Never again. says
Mr. Watterson-speaking, no doubt, by the
authority of the National Committee" shall
" the face of one of them darken the interior
I" of a Democratic National Convention" "As
"Republicans,n he says. they may be al
"lowed to pick up a little offal. But the
Democracy of the Union to which they
"appeal, knows them not, except as a gang
of odious rencgades, whom to remember is
to despise."
These extracts are sufficient, we think, to
show that it is just as well adapted to the
use of the Tammany Committee for an open
ing exercise as the O'Conor letter lie to the
Tilden Committeeman perhaps better.
It has the advantage Of being more easily
comprehended, and it would certainly DO as