New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-04-29
TIE NEW FtCTION.

TIE NEU FACTION.
Irving Hall has soughcd. This the largest
and most important of the factions opposed to
Tommany, appears hereafter under new name
and with an elaborate organization, to the per
lection of which the best local state'maislhp OF
the party has been strenuOusly devoted for the
past three months. The rump of the old organ
zatiOn is left with lease of the old hall. most
of the old machinery and a considerable mum
Der Of dissatisfied leaders. To nucleus to which
| the inevitable discOrtPLts and chickering's which
will presently arise in the new concern will begin
| before long to send endorsements. The Lew
faction appears jus, now 10 be in the ascend
| ant in the party far as numb, are con-
cerned. The cOnvulsive efforts o. the leaders
! in the movement to stir up the misses of the
| party and bring out a large vote at he pIima-
| ries were so far successful that the I"tanns il
dictate much larger vote than usually appears
on such occasions, and the leaders are core
| spondingly jubilaat. ont % the $4,000 Demo
+, Gratis who voted for Hancock last November
there appear to have been between 5000 and
| 10000 who took part in the primaries. His
is only a little more than ouc-SXtl of what is
claimed 10 be the full Democratic vote of the
city; probably less than onc-siXth of the regis
tered vote. Ii does not seem 10 h" an Occa-
sion for great coHgratulati,n that the ndustli-
Gus working up Of the scheme, 10y combining
all the clements hostile to Tammany hy con
slant appeals through the press and by mass
meetings and persistent personal effort, h.-
brought out so SNAIL a proportion of the
voters.
But the leaders contrast the result with the
| l. IL In. e.
politicians made the Arrangements and got ont
runners enough to DO thc voting aud cou2rlt-
ulate themselves upon an cuJrnoIs success.
To an impartial observer il look Very much ~
though the oly thing accomplished III the way
of harmonizing AID uniting the pdrjy-whcl
was hcr,lldcd a. the object in Nicw-wa, the
addition Of one to the number OF factions al
ready in existence. with, perhaps, a s.all in
crease in membership due 90 Dissatisfaction
III tho older organizations. 1t had every thing to
favor it III the circumstances attending IL III
itiation. 1t nhrlits from Irving Hail. If which
it is substantially continuation, the prestige
of sort of regularity, whieh with the hold it
| is known to have through tie pcrsounu Of its
leadership upon the STATE organization and
State COMMITTEE, gives il stroac claim upon
those who study the main chance; it has the
| advantage of the general dissatisfaction with
| Tammany and it's management and, unlike
| any existing faction, it has no record to
carry circumstances more favorable to the
| launching of new Organization C"uld
| hardly be desired. The one thing lacking
| to bring about the movement Of the
people" which Mr.. Waterbury called for in
| his late manifesto, vas something u believe in
| and arouse enthusiasm, in the aims and pur-
poses of the party itself Of which the new or
| ganzation is a part. So far a the fight inside
the party is concerned. everything favored it.
The trouble is that the people who were to be
moved have lost all faith in the party. Hence
the faction fight called out only fifth of the
| voters.
The most that can he said for the new
| organization is that it is just now, under the
most favorable conditions, the strongest of all
the Democratic factonsin the city. The question
| is how long it will continue to be so. We do not
| understand that any of the existing bodies, not
even the Irving Hall wing, which forms the sub
stantal basis of the new combination, has actually
| merged in this or ceased to exist. Enough Of
| the machinery and membership of each is left
to offer constant temptations TO the dssats-
fed and disappointed, and the returning
tide is sure To begin so soon as the nominal
tons come TO be made and the Offices divided.
That there has been great rush of Office
seekers and ambitious young politicians to the
new concern is very evident. Indeed, The
Herald, which has ably engineered the whole
movement, ard deserves whatever credit be-
longs to its present apparent success, recOg-
nizes this fact and counts it as a good sign,
" for il implies the forecast OF those sharp
"witted old fellows that the new machinery is
"to he elective" Our contemporary is hopeful,
however, that "the new organization will
"know how to distinguish between politicians
"whom the people may use, and politicians
| "who want TO use the people" Possibly will /;
but we venture the prediction that whichever
this discrimination begins to be exercised, the
scattering of the politicians who are supposed
to "want to use the people " will leave this
promising new organization in precisely the
came condition the old halls have been in
these many years.
The new organization starts off with a con-
siderable flourish of trumpets, but the slngune
souls who indulge in hopes of great revou-
ton to be effected by it will do well to re-
member that the same politicians who have
been engaged in the faction fights of Demo
crazy for the past dozen years or more are
buddled together in the new concern. aud