New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-03-21
eENERAL POLITICS.

CONTROL PATRONAGE. - IT,.
rba Efforts of the Committee OF One hun
drnd 10 reorganze the Democratio party 10 TINS e &
,ne souroe of q good deal OF amusement 70 tno Pon
clans OF Tonimany and Irving Halls. a. wen y
.h.,a Who do NOT affiliate with sny hali More tnaA na
~ .h ebers Of the party In this city are just now
might be called independent Democrats, sucn
: word can be appropriately used in designating Demo
erats Of any kind Many Of these have left Iammany
Hall either because Of It's loss OF patronage OF because Oh
aIs9ust with the rule Of John Kelly Ohers LETT irving
han because tt came 10 merely the means By which
few selfsh leaders helped themselves 70 patronage
st, others never belonged to any hail. or we're dis
.ra,aedp ont beeauee not docile enough TO submit
,.neiv % ossD rule In this condition OF Affairs the
party Is sadly in need Of reOrgeniaauicn.
old politicinBs recognize fact that large and In
reasu0 percentage Of the persons who have heretofore
voted the Democratic ticket In this city wall act here
after with the Republicans and that the latter party by
taking advantage Of the opportunities now before It,
might become the majority party IN this city Last year
the Republican party passed the Public Burdens pll
which brought slight relef 10 the taxpayers ana rlu
the city OF ct least expensive and inefficient depart
ment that Of Buildings. With the Denefs OF TINS ana
one or two other email Of local REFORM ana
with the prestige Of President Hayes Administration
and good local candidates. the largo aOrtes cass fof
the Democratic party heretofore In this city almost
melted away ct the last election. SnreWd ponteians
claim that with similar influences OF work IN the next
campaign they will be- all that is nesded 70 give tue
Republicans majority is for the Legislature TO pass
proper measures Of reform In the City Government
with such legislation will make the City Government
reasonably enBoleat, down expenses Onethird In
accordance with the Governors suggestion and prevent
the departments from being managed In the interests
Of local bosses" thu Republicans can, with good can
didae barry the next election aud throw into the party
lines great majority Of those Democrats now known as
Independents"
IT'S safe TO say that the efforts at REORGANIZATION
within the Democratic ranks win amount to little
more than talk. The party cannot be reorganzed on
principles for apparently IL has none Nothing Is said
about principles In the efforts REORGANIZATION Irving
Hall was the fret 60 "reoreanize after the late cleo
! ton. Il considered "plans" aud hessrS Power
| THOMPSON COstigan and the other leaders held numer
GUS secret meetings for consultation. Finally plan was
adopted and primaries held and the various CON-
mitfces were elected. 1t was announced with
a great flourish that $4,000 Democrats had
voted at the primaries. which was claimed
TO be an unusually large number although tho party
managed somehow 10 have 1880 votes counted for
Tqlden four years before. The movement for Feoran
lzing the party said to be completely successful
OF course &c was the point OF view OF MesaFs Power
Thompson and Costigan. They had "reorganiEed" out
OF Irving Hall Messrs. Bowe, Fox Parser. Waterbury
and other leaders with their following. who would not
| recognize Power, Thompson and Costigan az the
| bosses" This was Irving Halls reorganization
During all this mighty effort nothing was said OF prlnc
peshe exlravagance waste lrresponsbiity OF tho
CITY Government net 30 much as referred to- and
| there was nothing In view bot patronage.
Not TO be recognizing the great ueces
si,y OF reorganization" Mr.. Kelly began to labor m
Tannany Hall even before Irving Hall haG got through
The hroes that mighty effort are In me paD
| lie mind For some time II was apparently matter OF
doubt whether Mr. Kelly would be re0rgnnlzed out OF
Tampiany Hail. or whether he would succeed In reor-
onuzlnR out Messrs Shells keenan,, Gale, Morrison aud
others Mr. Kelly finally riumphed He held his pri-
maries elected his new committses ana adopted = new
plan" by which no concentrated tue power IN com
tittee of wentyfour instead Of committee oil 2OO he
then announced public speech that the Democranc
marty IN this city had reorgAnzed and purified an
vas now arOnger than eVerbecause, probably, no had
succeeded In forcing largo number OF msn out OF Tam
many HALL In all Mr.. Kellys reorganization however,
nothing was of principles Of tho necessity OF re-
fora in the City Government but there was good deal
said about patronage aud the reacheEy OF the Tour
Juaasesp who had VOsed 10 ooHfrn successor TO r'
| Kelly as Controller,
The men VINO had been reorganlzed out OF TAmmAay
4 fFal and Irynx HALL who had Ief those orEanSa0ns
because they we're not sufficiently recOEniEed there hao
| ovnin which they were assisted BY the Young
Meas Meas Democratic Club THIS collection Of Dem,
f the Hotel sruSsxtc ana also aaoHsas, a.
plan As they h han no % ryan sde sno8 ~
authority for their proceeding They a;
Dem0crsts az Cooper Institute "to provide plan 81
reorganization and appoint committee 90 carry IL out
the resolutions TO be adopted and the committee to be
appointed ali arranged oeforenand 90 tnat oa
thF night when the meeting was called the printed
proceedings we're Distributed before the meeting sas
called 70 order Thus the oopmites OF cn
Is mas held frequent neetinRs since and aSgsoenleo I've
nVpaprny, as nothng NE full meeting of this COM
| u,ttee has ever been held. - ,-. -.
oIMsSoT Cooper, ex,Pocs Commissioners voOrhis. z,
Eory Anderson, Corporation Counsel whitney and :
f.. o GsSsis 1 Tnis committee has hired
three dne parlOrs 10 convenient street In which %
CARPETS lace curtains, cushioned chairs Paintin % and
sculpture and here the ten or twelve men %t0 are seS
Ino members talk about Wnat sh@' dons ~
SSI never make any reference principles or proposed
reforms. They occupied several nshts ~ Sn0Ahg
Voters VINO CONS their primaries One OF the members
serousiy proposed that each voter In order 70 partc
pare 10 ami hon and write bis name and address
book 20 kept each primary for that purpose err
fact that ouy about Onehal Of the Democratic voters
bis city can read ana %Ee tae TS IN any lam
cuaVe consequently tins propositlon was
should DC f Democratic party in this city
nly an evidence OF the kind OF heozng hht mas Iounu
yepta ~ drawn mn scheme OF reorganElt bat
| only small minority OF the Democra~ IN '"o eiS
hs TouSe vita all these efforts that they lack the
one essential OF sueeess PATRONAGE enough 70 20 mn
never be successfully reorganzed Inc ieaaers 40 s
the movements recognize that principles OF tue
Of pubo grievances such as unclean streets an
gant Clly Government ETC., nave no lhnuenoo w 20
cratic voters and therefore they are not feefreu 70
| Wien Tweed was ia power and h9 heard lnath Iebue
VIZ dissaiished or kicking" he sent for him and 10
S9Ired what he wanted. II he could. not give hin
xSghat ne wanted he would give HIN sonethE eise
| Hence M was that Tweed was not much u0upleo ~
Iemocrafo reOrganizers until his crimes were
Nv the Republicans. When some Democratic leader
s civ can take the place OF Tweed aud gyn eheh uls
saisned Dem0ct what he wants TO Keep h luie5 ,ns,
aud not tn than viii the party % sneoessny ,bs
Sed but tue taxpayers will suffer even more tnsh taT
nnv do In the meantime IL behoOYes the hepupnonh
y, h,Sna about reform In the city Government thsl
wtsh 10 get IN poYof and stay there.
VIRGINIAS DEBT AND POLITICS.
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