New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-10-09

bosom of destruction, the hail ana farcwell 10
Tammany That ancient body was no longer
to have any power for mischief.
Mr.. Abram s. Hewitt was one OF the speakers
on the occasion. "Tammany Hail." sad ne,
ais n thing of tho past 1t has done Its good
@and it has done its evil work, and in finally
"dcfeating the Democratic party 1t has tie
"stroyed itself and can no longer be recognized
"except IA n warning against method OF organ
gization which Is ut war with the representa-
@tive principles of free government. The
"moyement which has produced this assemblage
"of independent aud thinking Democrats Is
tho final sentence of condemnation against
ian institution which of late years has
I" only been powerful for evil" In
similar strain spoke Mr. John L. Develin,
who presided over the demonstration,
Mr.. Rufus Peckham, of Albany, Colonel John
II. Fellows and other eminent Democrats.
Through all the proceedings there breathed the
same confident spirit, the same sanguine
assurance that Tamnany Hall was thing of
the past" And they thought there was good
reason for believing their confidence well
founded No Democratic organization had ever
done what Tammany had and survived, and it
was quite incredible that Tammany, with so
many forces arrayed against it, could continue
to exist. Except for AZ occasional visible wink
ing of the corpse, the public might have con-
sidered it dead.
Almost year after these Obsequies ;
after Tanmany had been formally de-
clared oblterated and u thing OF
the past" and after its cotfin-lid had
been screwed down by State Convention,
there was an election, and the dead body had
the indecency to rise up and assume to take
part in it, 1t was aggravating, of course, to
the eminent Democrats who had taken part in
the funeral ceremonies in entire good faith TO
see the @demntion body" stalking up to the
polls in its grave-clothes in this unseemly way,
but they treated the matter with becoming
philosophy and said: Only wait until the votes
@are counted The result will be such rebuke
ito this posthumous performance that the I'M
"wholesome body will stink back into its grave
lin final disappearance" The pubic uiu
wait for the votes to be counted, but so far
from disappearing finally, the thing OF the
past =" actually exhibited more life and activity
than the gentlemen who had declared 1t extinct
and were preparing to administer upon It's
estate For "thing of the past" it main
tains an uncOmmOnly strong clutch Oh The
affairs of the present. To-day it sits grlnnlng on
the front seats, the same organization upon which
the "independent and thinking Democrats pro-
pounced the final sentence of condemnation v:
the same that of late years has only been pow
erful for evil; the same that was solemnlV
pronounced dead and II thing OF the past"
1t does not seem to have disappeared. The
thing of the past" now is the thing that MIR.
Develn presided over and Mr. Hewitt
addressed. When that thing was started to OPP
pose Tammany, it was confidently given cut
that it was to be nothing less than fight fora
funeral" Perhaps it was, but from present
appearances the corpse is on the box and the
party that appointed the funeral is inside the