New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-10-08
IA NMfNY At ALBANY.

1t having been settled by a judicial decision
that the new organization calling itself the
New \ DIRK County Democracy is Irregular
by reason of its being the lineal successor of
the Irving Hall Democracy which, according
to Chairman Lester b. Faulkner, had the
stamp of regularity put upon it at the last
State Convention, some of the frcsher and
more innocent of the Ccnturions who invented
the new concern may suppose that what is some
times described Mr.. John Kelly's goose
has undergone the culinary process of being
'cooked.' Mr.. John Kelly himself and several
other statesmen connected with Tammany
Hall do not so view it. Although 1t
would be a very graceful act on the part
of Mr.. Kelly and the Tammany fac
ton to acknowledge that judge Blatchford
had given them the coup de QrGce and quietly
retire from the field, they seem to be by no
means entertaining any such purpose. On the
contrary, there is an evident intention on their
part ID lily in the faces of both Judge Batch
ford and Lester b. Faulkner and present them
selves tn the State Convention ut Albany next
Tuesday just as though Lester b. had not abol-
ished them and Judge Blatchford had not APP
pointed administrators on their estate. Ofcourse
this is all wrong. Mr.. Kelly and Tammany Hall
having been sat down on by Lester b. in n thor
oughly impartial historical resume, aud decid-
ed by Judge Batchford not to he, ought to take n
header and disappear Ii is very inharmo-
NOUS in them not To do it, But we may per-
haps he permitted to suggest reason or two
why Mr. Kelly and Tammany Hall will not
either subsde or permit themselves to be made
tenders to the new organization.
In the first place, Mr.. Kelly is not diving
sort of man. He does not permit Mr.. Hewitt
or any other man to pronounce his death war
rant without entering a lively protest Nor
does Tammany Hall abdicate it's supremacy
without having some extraordinarily good
reason for it. Mr.. Kelly and Tamnany Hail.
notwithstanding all the preambles and resolu-
tions and constitutions and bylaws that have
been Illuminated against them, and notwith-
standing the dictum of the courts, continue
to assert that they have not only an organized
existence but claim to what is called "rcgu-
larity" in the seating of delegates in q State
Convention which can neither be overlooked
nor ignored. Whatever Mr. Faulkner may saw
and cite the record for it about Tammany
Hall having organized an opposition to
the regular nominations, and put itself ont
side the party by that act, the fact remains
that at the last Convention Of the party, Tam
many was recognized and readmitted to full
fellowship in the party The State Committee
was recognized in order to bring that ancient
organization into full fellowship with the party
and everything was done that could be to
rchabilitate the organization within the party
That rehabilitation and reconciliation was the
chief work within the Democratic party i'm this
State in 1880 Mr.. Kelly and Tammany Hall
have nothing to do but to appeal from Mr.
Faulkners historical resume, which does not
include this important circumstance, to the
actual history of the party in the last Presi-
dental campaign. No judicial decision nor
any ruling of n State Committee sitting in
Judgment upon the credentials of delegates
can bar out the simple fact that Tammany
Hall had full and copious recognition--a rec
0gnltion that carried with it all the sanctions
of regularity-at the last State Convention .of
the party.
1t is quite neutrality-suspicious. teaches us
that in the Democratic party of this State all
things are possible--it is quite possible that
Mr.. Faulkner's Convention next week may re-
fuse to recognize Mr.. Kelly and the Tammany
delegation. We rather think they will. But
with the record of the party in its relations
to Iammany staring in the face we are
free to say that we cannot discern any reason
able pretext for it, except that John Kelly and
rammany Hall played the party false in the
Presidential campaign. There can be no other
earthly excuse for keeping Tammany out of
the Convention except that John Kelly and
Tammany Hall were untrue to Hancock and
| treacherous to the party. To prove that it will
take some little time; but if Tammany Hall is
to be barred out we do hope that there will
be fair and full hearing and that all the
facts bearing on the treason will be brought
out