Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-09-08
JOHN KELLY,s CHIP.
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10tE to the Tan,nany Braves Last Sdtur-
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Talk to the Tanamany Braves Last Satur-
day Night.
"Mr. Chairman and Fellow Members This
meeting is the first after our vacation, and 1t
has been preceded by the call made by the
chairman of your State committee to meet in
this city to select the place in which the State
convention shall be held This event will mark
the opening of the fall campaign. Unfortun-
ately there seems at present to be disposition
on the part of portion of the Democratic
press of the city and State to ignore the great
Democracy of this city, We are told-al-
though, OF course, we can believe nothing
said on the subject until we have met with
our brother Democrats and learned the result
of their delberations-we are told that we are
to be ignored in favor of a number of disin-
terested gentlemen who met not long ago in
Cooper institute. These gentlemen issu-
ed a call, which was addressed to
all Democrats. Everything was conducted
fairly. we are told, and nothing had been pre-
viously arranged. If we did not attend that
meeting let ours be the loss. The facts are
that they objected very strongly to our exist
ence. They felt that they could not control
this organization, and SO it became necessary
to hold meeting for the purpose of securing
greater unanimity.' They appointed a COM
mittee of fifty, or rather they would have ap-
pointed fifty had they not learned in advance
that the name of one of the gentlemen on the
list would be objected to if presented ,and they
had not the courage to offer 1t. This com
mittee was afterward magnanimously increased
to 100; but were those 100 openly nominated?
Oh, no! Some names might be proposed
which would be Objectionable to the
secret star chamber, and the work of
nominating the committee was turned
oyer to a subcommittee. This committee
of One Hundred, after holding many meetings
Id their parlor in Twenty fourth street, decid-
ed to hold primary elections. Elections were
held in every district, they say; but many of
them were held SO mysteriOusly that even the
most indefatigable reporters could uot discov-
er where the election places were. These men
tell us that they possess more honesty than
any other Democrats in the city. AS mat
ter of fact, their organization is conglomer-
alton of the elements which for the past
twenty five or thirty years have been creating
divisions and dissensions in the Democratic
party, and if many of them had received their
deserts, they would now be doing the State
service in one of its penitentiaries.
PURER DEMOCRACY NEEDED.
"Our people soon forget the past. 1t is
Christian-like to forget and forgive; but such
forgiveness pre-suppOses repentance and
amendment. We are not required to forget
when men who have robbed the city of mil
lions come before the people and again ask to
be placed in positions of trust. These .men
boast of their pure Intentions, and of the gen
uineness of their Democracy, and wish us to
forget that for the past ten or twelve years
they have been making bargains with the Re-
publicans in order that they might share in
the plunder and patronage. One of their mem
bers obtained money from a newspaper
proprietor to bribe the common council.
The same man taxed the employees in his
Office to add to his bribery fund. Is such
man lit leader of the Democracy No. You
must find better and purer men than these to
conduct reformation, if reformation you
need. 1t is not in such men as Messrs. Good
win or Foster, who sold their votes for money,
that you will find leaders in reformation.
''The defeat of the Democratic party last
fall is said to have been brought about by the
loss of this State, and the loss of the State is
charged to this city. Well, the Democratic
vote in this city increased 1000. In every
other county in the State, excepting two, the
Democratic vote fell off 12K per cent: These
figures tell the tale. The story has been an
invention of the enemy, AMI, unfortunately,
there is portion of the press ready to echo
such ISLANDERS. 1t shows growing disposition
towards Misrepresentation whenever its preju-
dices are aroused. The press is said to be
more powerful than the sword, and so it is;
but it is when tits conducted with truth and
justice that this power is manifest. The enc
mics who would bar out Tammany hall from
the State convention charge that we defeated
the Democratic party through myself
in 1879. Our action then was in
accordance with the principle. implanted
in human nature, when our organization was
assailed and threatened with destruction, be-
cause we presumed to have opinions of our
own, every instinct of manhood prompted US
to rise and oppose the attacks made upon us.
He who would not have acted thus would be
less than man. But these questions belong
to the past, and we would be willing. to leave
them buried did not our enemies persist in
dragging them from the grave for the pur-
pose of creating dlscord IN the Democratic
ranks. We are anxious to forget and put
aside mutual differences, and to unite in pro-
noting harmony and goodwill. .efs
PARTY UNION ADVOCATED.
ain the comming fight we shonld present
unbroken ranks to the divided and distracted
hosts Of the enemy. At the convention, when
it meets, we wish only TO aid in selecting
nominees whose characters are clear and whose
regulations are good-men who cannot be as
sailed except by slander. Tammany hall has
rarely presented candidates TO the Democrats
of the State, nor does it seek to do SO now. 1t
is not easy to urge the claims of candidates
from this city. It is satisfied with good men,
wherever they may come from, and when they
are nominated it is never false to such candi-
dates. If wisdom prevails in the coming con-
vention, there can be no doubt of the result of
the fall elections. Let men bury passion and
hate and prejudice, for time at least, and
repeat there can be no doubt of the result.
THE REPUBLICAN FACTIONS AND THE PREsI-
i3A DENT.
YThe sad and unfortunate calamity which
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assassinate the President of the United States
can be directly traced to the bitter and ma
lignant strife between the two wing of the
Republican party. The contest in Albany was
watched with interest as close in Oregon aud
California as in this State. 1t created bitter
ness and hostility. The man who made the
attempt upon the life of the President was
said to be insane; bat he acted with method
when he strove by his base crime to seat in the
Presidential chair the head of the faction of
which he declared himself an adherent Party
strife may divide the people; but they all unite
in eondemning the act of the infamous as
sassin, and they desire that the seyerest penalty
of the law be meted out to the criminal. Ap-
plause.]
cat the last election the people of this
country elected to place the Republican party
in power, but they have since had time to dis
cover the mistake they made, and to acknowl-
edge that enough of corruption was proven
during the last campaign to make itunwise to
continue the Republican party in power. This
country is daily growing in wealth and power
and its people demand that those who govern
it shall be pure and honest. ..'a.,..
DEMOCRACY THE PARTY OF POPULAR RIGHTS.
ssIn Democratic principles they possess their
guarantee of safety and to them they must
ultimately turn for protection. Tammany
hall has ever maintained the principles
which secure the rights of the people, and to-
dav it still stands ready to maintain them and
make them the vital force of the governing
power of the State and country. We intend,
when the convention meets, to enter 1t as the
representatives of the great Democracy of the
city, and there need be no fear that any Dem
ocratic convention will attempt to Ignore the
representatives of Tammany hall. We utter
no menace; we make no threats; our only pur-
nose IA to 90 to the convention simply as