New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-01-09

| the scheme to death. If Sprggs had only been
there Spriggs of Utica, to inspire them to go
on and finish the ticket" the gathering would
have been quite complete.
The time is evidently ripe for this movement
by Mr. Bowe and his friends. There is room
| for several more Democratic parties III this
city. We have only half a dozen now am
many Hall, with John Kelly at the head the
Anti-Kclly Tammany- Hall, with Henry ~
Purroy and Andrew J. White for leaders, the
County Democracy, with Hubert o. Thompson
William c. Whitney, ex-Mayor Cooper, John
+. Develin, Maurice J. Power, Thomas COStlgan,
Michael Norton and other leaders too numerous
to mention; Mayor Grace's party, composed
chiefly of the Mayor his private secretary ana
The Ae,r- Tork HerdId Irving Hall, all leaders
and no followers and Peter Mitchell's party,
made up solely of Peter Mitchell Let Mr..
Bowe and Mr. Fox go on by all means. II
they cannot succeed in splitting the Irving
Hall faction into three or four minor factions
they will not do as well as most Democratic
reorganzcr7
There is likely to be another split in Tam
many Hall speedily. Mr.. Kclly's antl-monopoly
PRINCIPLES pleased his followers well enough so
long as they felt sure that they were only
canDaign cry. 1t did not disturb them a blt
| to hear Mr.. Grady, Tammany's representative
| orator. denounce with all the wealth of his
unbounded rhetoric the blOOdsuckers who were
draining the vitals of the people. They felt
ouict confidence that Mr.. Grady, when he got
TO Albany would vote as steadily as in the past
| for all the bills that pleased the blOOdSuckers
and against all which they did not like-if it
II |. Ittt hon n
Tammany Senator began declining railway
passc. in the public prints with much virtu-
ous indignation; when Mr.. Kelly went on day
after day talking anti-mOnOpOly as II he
meant it; when they saw Mr.. Boyd raised to
the chair in Tammany Hall graccd for so
many years by MI Augustus Schcll and when
they heard him from that bad en- ncnce go on
breathing ont thrcatcnugS and slaughter
| against the corporations the average Tam
many statesmen were pcrpcycd and con-
| founded. Mr.. Boyd and Mr. Kelly arc going
altogether too fast and too far for them. The
notion Of Il legislator or any other man re-
fusiuc q railroad pass Is to them the
height of absUrlity. They never refuse
ANYTHING II chs sort OF nonsense does
rot stop they will scale off into Tam
many Hall Anti-to-tbc- -Monopoly-P
ciplcs-of-thc-Kc Boyd party, and run
lively race with the Purroy-Whitc Ant-Kclly
combination. Things are beginning to look
! ,qaally for Nh. Kelly IN his easerncs5 to
make the most of bis little Autobiography
party in the Legislature he must be careful
not to alternate hi, followers at home. He has
come ont wonderfully we'll from his troubles
thus far, aud the seces,ions from Tammany
have seemed only to make him stronger But
the men at his back are not of n character to
command public confidence in any claims on
their part Of viItuou> hostility 10 corporate
| aggression. lie viii weaken rather than
strengthen himself by his present course.
Meanwhile the Republicans can afford to look
| on philosophically at all the Tammany divis-
ions present and prospective, and at all the
efforts of M Bowc and his friends. The more
factions among their opponents the mcrier
ft.rt ltlrp