The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1880-12-14

How the News was Recsived.
(By Telegraph 10 the New York .Herald1


The Evening Telegraph (Rep,) of to-
night says,-''No little credit for this
revolution in metropolitan politics is due
to the New York Herald, which, in its
contest with the basest kind of ring rule
as exemph6edsin thezkelly tyranny, has
shown the power of the press in manner
that has meyer been surpassed. The
Herald's fight with Boss Kelly has been
from frat to last 8 splendid exhibition of
nerve force and tGnesse,
NEWSPAPER COMMENTS.
The Times lind. Dem.), under the
heading, The Dethronement of the
Boss" will say
The Tammany Boss was completely
overthrown. There was no laundering
IN any detail of the work. and Kelly. look
ing back npon the seat OF power and
patronage from which he has been driven
is further discounted with the knowledge
that he has been displaced by those whom
last of all he could have desired to see
lifted into position. There can be no
doubt that the power of John Kelly is
completely destroyed. Without the
influence which patronage gave he cannot
hope longer to keep his place as the
loader of the Tammauy party. The men
who have made up the powerful machin-
cry of that Organizery are not the kind
to follow man who has no plumber tC
throw in their way. They will speedily
seek new leader and new organization,
where there may be a reasonable prospect
of gain. 1t ia good time now to take
the Tammany Society out of spolitios. Il
has never been greater disturber than il
the hands of John Kelly. AS for the
rest, DIR. Grace, who will be inauguratec
Mayor on January l. may well congratu-
late himself that the Boss has been taken
off his shoulders. -
DEATH OF ''BossIsM."
The Public Ledger (neutral) under the
head Death of New York Bosslsm,' -
will say to-morrow:-"J Kelly, the
Boss of New York city, he departed yes
terdsy. as his power and his Office of
Comptroller departed from him by the
nomination OF bis successor. Thus another
of the worst of bad Influences is removed
from the municipal affairs of New York
city. Kelly has been power because the
Democrats of that city allowed themselves
TO be passed under his yoke. The nomin-
sting machinery in his hands, the men he
put forward for office at the public eiec-
tions had the trade mark regularity
and the greater part of the Democratic
party submissively followed the stale cry
regular nominations, though they know
perfectly well that regularity was
nothing but Kelly's machine work They
have reaped their tull crop of evils and
bitter disapDOintments. But this is moth.
Jog to the Generalization Of the public
service, everything being surrendered to
the Boss Everybody who desired TO get
into place, or to get big share Of the CITY
patronage or little bit nf the drippings.
had to go to the Boss or to his lieutenants
Their allegiance went to him and not to
their party or to the city. whose officers or
employees or servants they were. The
public welfare and public opinion were
nothing to them so long as they had the
favor of the Boss His approving word
or act was worth more 20 them than the
favor of all the good citizenship Of New
York combined. That's the way the
surrender of the citizens to bossism'
worked in New York. 1t is the way i. |
works here aud everywhere 1t was
because everybody in the branches |
of municipal employment within his |
ates. and because everybody who desired |
90 get in had to do the same thing. that he
was power. Those oyer whom be had |
this control numbered many thousands |
In Philadelphia the same classes. who can
always be relied on toI delegate and other
election work. are estimated at fifteen
thousand to twenty thousand. They en-
brace not only direct employees of the de-
partments. but ramify far out among con
tractors, pipe layers, graders. PAYERS, sto-
kers, teamsters, street sweepers, and 10
numeraoie others in all directions. Not
these only. but those who expect TO get
within the charmed circle. They have
become ail-powerfuiin their numbers here.
though not to be compared to those in our
sister city. That is the power that was
1truck down in New York yesterday when
John Kelly fell. The blow has been a
long time coming. but it has come. Anil
examnle." -