New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-07-05
HE WILL TAKE HIS SEAT.


Mr. John Kelly made a Enthusiastically frank
snecch the other night at the Democratic Tati-
fication meeting. After the somewhat surpris-
inc st stement that the decision of the Electoral
Commission in 1877 was influenced by money,
Mr.. Kelly went on to say Fellow-cltlzens,
there can be no question as to what we ought
q to do now. We want no more Electoral Com
emissions no more 7 to business. The
simple question for the consideration of our
people at the coming election will be Has
"General Hancock been fairly and honestly
elected by the people of this cOuntIyY And If
$50. | know that the gallant soldier, Winfield
Scott Hancock. will take his seat" And
thereupon the crowd applauded, and screamed
ave will all help him - If the speech had
been uttered by one of the loose Jawed states
men who abound in Tammany Hall-by MI.
Samuel Cox fol- instance-IC might have passed
fol- nothing more than specimen or tnc
effusiye rhetoric with which irresponsible
orators are accustomed to entertain the hard
headed masses; but Nh Kelly is a deliberate
and self-pOssessed person, who generally means
what he SAYS. We may take it to be the fixed
purpose of Tammany that in case of close vote
next November the Democratic party shall
If General Hancock thinks lie has been elected,
he is to take his seat"
The contingency to which Mr. Kelly refers
| is bv no means remote. The contest Will prob
| ably lie close one and there are several States
in which the result may well be made more
! OF less doubtful. After the Democratic per
Torrance lately in Maine we are at no loss to
understand how the Democracy can make a
result doubtful whenever they please. Now
| suppose they see fit to introduce a number OF
| contesting Ietuns-tO pretend, as they dld III
| Maine that capital p in somebody's name has
SO long n curl that it is tantamOunt TO an X, and
| therefore that votes must be thrown out; or 70
argue, as they did in the Florida case before
| the Electoral Commission, that an elect0r II
| ineligible because he once held Federal office
although he had resigned that Office
and another had been put in his place previous
| 10 the November balloting; or TO build up {
| bogus electoral college with the aid of money
as they did in Oregon; or suppose they repeat
the almost incredible impudence of their ples
in the South Carolina case, where, after frs
letting loose their rifle Clubs aud their "bes
bows well heeled on election day, then trying
, to buy the Canvassing Board, next INSTALLING
their State candidates by force, and finally
attempting to put the Hayes electors in jai
on pretext, so thai the vote of the State coult
not be cast at all, they went before the Electora
Commission and asked 1t TO declare that Their
had been no valid election in South Caroiini
because the public order was so much dis
turbed Any or all of these tricks they car
repeat next time We need not assume tina
General Hancock will be privy to the frauds
He probably will not direct his own campaign
and if the men who manage it for the part.
tell him that he has been fairly elected" b
will be glad to believe them. Very well, say
Tammany Hall then he must take his seat,
and We will all help him do it.
The American people will observe just wha
this declaration means. In case of disputes
returns next November, Tammany Hall doe