New-York tribune., 1881-10-13

| traditional wrongs is more passionate and the
hatred OF the dominant race more unreasoning.
WILL THEY KISS THE RODf
The movement that resulted in the Organi-
zation OF what is called the County Democracy
! was nothing more more nor less than an AZ
raienmrnt OF Tammauy Hall upon a charge
of having committed the mcaDcst and most
despirable of crimes, to wit, of treach-
crously conspiring against and defeating
! tie candidates OF their own party whom
they hypocrticaIy pretended to support.
| That arragnmcnt has been justified by the
| Democratic State Convention and Tammany
Hall Is <icked ont of the party for nothing less
chan treason. And yet there are Democrats
simple enough to express the belief that Mr..
John Kelly, with this stigmo upon his personal.
character, and Tammany Hall thus branded with
the most shameful offence of which it Is pos
| siblc to accuse n political Organization. will
gracefully submit, ard for the sake of party
| harmony walk M 10 the support Of the ticket
nominated for thum by the men who have
pronounced them dishoEcrcd and dsgraced.
! This would bc licking the hand that smites in
a most astonishing way. Even the early
| Christians were hardly expected to sup
port the party that thrust them in
prison for treason, iiogi.td them for scdition,
and ostracizcd then. on account pl their dis
| reputable character. And there is a prevalent
| belief that the Tammany people, though they
! may be Christians, aie very imperfect Chris
ti.ns. II when smitten on one cheek they
| turn the other, it is by no means to invite
another blow, but rather 10 show tnat IN the
matter of check their resources are boundcss.
Pcorlc who suppose that Tammdny Hall,
after being bounced from the State Convcn-
lion i'm this manner is gonl to lie down and
a.h Mr.. Tildeu and Lester i. Faulkner to
waltz on its stomach would do well to recall
! for a moment the circumstances of the s,ua-
ton. The rejection of Tammany under eX-
i,ting circumstances is ar indignity and an
| insult hat the most craycn-spiritcd could mo-
| pass Oyer without resentment Had this occurred
! at q state Convention Immediately following
the rammany bolt in 1873, the rejected dele
cation would have had no ause for complaint.
| They would simply be gathering frui; Of their
own planting. They could not reasonably COM
plan if, after voluntarily going out of Oae
! state Convention, the next Ouo decided
70 take them at their word and leave
| them out. But this il not the case. There
! has intcrycucd since then another Convention.
| and what Mr.. Hildcn calls n conformation has
! taken place. In the stress OF the Presidential
canvass that wing of tho party styling itself
| ,.gular made oycrturcs 70 the boiling Tam
| many wing which were accepted 10y the latter.
| The basis of the agreement then reached was
| the wiping ont of old differences, the
restoration and rehabilitation of Iammany,
and the unon of Tammany and anti TammaDy
| in suppcrt of Hancock and pretty much the
entire ticket. TammIny was given "A repre-
septation on the State Committee. There was
q love feast of the factions. Old scores were
wiped out, and all was apparently serene.
| Tammanys offence was condOncd, and what
ever forfeiture of regularity it had incurred by
| boiling was restored.
What followed was the defeat of Hancock
and disastrous rout for the party. Then be-
can he movement which resulted IN the tOrma
] tiop of the new faction which has just received
| the stamp of regularity. Does anyone ask
now why Tammany cannot dccently yield
| its position and support the action of
State Convention that rejected its dele
gatcs2 The answer is plain. The sole
prftcxt upon which the new movement
WAS started was thnt John Kelly had
| bctrayed Hancock, and TImmany Hall
had been guilty Of trcachcry to the party, and
that it was solely through them that Hancock
had been defeated. serious charge this
against the personal integrity of an influential
leader, a very grave accusation against an old
political organization in which there wore GER
| tainly some men of decent lives and reputable
character But the cry went ont, " Down with
| Tammauy lit betrayed us Down with
| Kelly he cheated us y SO the new Organiza-
| ton grew up. 1t originated in the party
discontinue IL the Presidential! election and the
clainor that tnat discontinue was due to the dis
honesty Of John Kelly and the treachery of Tam
many Hall. From the outset the Struggle was 20
politically kill John Kelly and extinguish Tam
many Hall, not merely because Z" Bosses
were dan. .erous and " Halls mischevous, but
because, distinctly and positively, this particu-
| lar Boss and this particular Hall had
played the party false and basoly betrayed 1t.
The fight was "fOr funeral" The merits Of
the contest lie in the nutshell of the question
whether or not Kelly and Tammany con-
spired against and betrayed their own
party and their own candidate.
The State Convention has, by its ruling out
of Tammany and its leader, pronounced them
guilty of the most dish0noraDle and Disgrace
full crimes and justified the movement
whose sole object Was to crush them. And
there are those who say that the in