New-York tribune., 1882-02-20
GRIEVFD AND INDIGNANT.


The Couaty Democracy of this city had
what they call an "earnest and crowded
meeting" Saturday night, the purpose Of
which, apparently, was to relieve their minds
with reference to the last exhibition of pure
cussedness on the part of the Tammany
branch of the party. John E. Develin, who
presided, was again profoundly grieved. At
his last appearance as presiding officer he was
laboring under great depression of spirits, be-
cause two places on the bench worth $15, 900
a year each had been or were about to be
filed by Republicans. His grief on Saturday was
on account of the great disappointment which
the people would experience because the action
of the Tammany men at Albany would pre-
vent the DemOcracy's "inaugurating such re-
forms as would introduce improvements in the
municipal affairs of the cities of the State"
They had been thwarted, he said, "by "A fac
ton which was excluded from the State Con-
venton because it did not properly represent
the Democracy of this city" 1t was through
the "bad faith of the representatives of this
faction, who, in place OF falling in with the
regular Democracy, have gone to work and
handed over the framing of legislation to the
Republicans" that the Democrats had lost
the opportunity of securing those reforms that
the people have looked for, and have waited
so many years to obtain"
Mr. Develin, for man of such jolly exte-
rior, and one who wears in private life such an
aspect of comfort and content, has an unac-
countable prediction for wailing in public.
There is always something the matter with him
the unbidden tear starts just as soon as he be-
gins to consider the widowed condition of the
country, with the Democracy out of power and
Republicans sitting in $4,000 places. We
could have wished, however, that Mr.. Dcve-
lin had been a triie more definite as to the
reforms for which the people have yearned SO
long only to be disappointed, and had in
formed us how the "framng of legislation =,
has been "handed over to the Republicans"
The Democratic majority in the Legislature is,
so far as one can see, the same as
when the session began and the promises were
made. A few of them have resented cheat
that was practised upon them in the only way
they could resent it-by voting for Republi-
cans for subordinate Offices; but it by no
means follows that they will not vote for the
great Democratic reforms so tOuchingly re-
ferred to by Mr.. Develin. We do not quite un-
derstand, either, what Mr.. Develn means by
charging the Tammany men with "bad faith"
in not falling in with the regular Democracy"
He had already called them ga faction which
was excluded from the State Convention be-
cause it did not properly represent the
Democracy of the city," and it is
well known that the regular Democracy op-
posed them in the election, notwithstanding
which they proved that they did represent the
Democracy of the city by polling majority
of the popular vote How in this state of
things these persons could have been guilty of
"bad faith in not failing in with" those
with whom they had so openly and decidedly
fallen out, we do not quite understand Mr..
Develin seems to think that after he and his
friends had fought Tammany III the election
insulted them afterward, treated them with
undisguised contempt, aud TO crown all,
cheated them, ii was the duty of the Tammany
men to fall in and do their bidding, and that
their not doing it was n violation of good
faith This is an exhibition OF assurance and
GOODNESS about equal to that shown by
the Rebels early in the war when they charged
our Government with violating the Constitu-
ton in refusing to return fugitive slaves to be
employed OH Rebel Notifications.
After Mr.. Develin had ceased his lament, L.
Ellery Anderson took the floor, and poured
into Tammany the hot shot of his denunca-
ton, charging that organization with treason,
and with being ready "at any moment and
"for any price to sell ont the grand old Demo-
"cratc party, which has stood so long as a
"bulwark around The Constitution and the lib
"erties of the people" Several other earnest
ot,in tha viz nf tIo ctin
the Tammany representatives, Mr.. Schnabel
denonncing them as political pirates" and ply