New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-10-16
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aside all their former ULueIchccS anu ui'P"N'
came together with an earnest determination
to agree upon some fair rule of division OF
the plumber of a great city, was one Oh the
most touching and tender interest. IL was Us
if the tiger, fox and jackal had come together
saving; Let us not be ut odds with each
other, lest the prey escape us. In the love Oh
fresh meat we are harmonious and united.
II was really q millennia) occasion. 1t was
worth going great many miles III sV2ruiy
night to see Mr. Edward Cooper assist Mr.
John Kelly to alight from his carriage ana
then escort that distinguished chieitaln to the
place of meeting; and the spectacle afforded
by Mr.. John E. Develin and Mr.. Peter Is.
Olney, who two years ago set on foot the
great popular uprising against Tammany hall,
listening in subdued and reverent silence while
Mr.. Kelly laid down the rules under which
Tammany would consent to their coming III
for share in the prospective spoils, was
one calculated to bring tears to the eyes OF
the taxpayer. Had any one told Mr. John t.
Develin and Mr.. Peter B. Olney, when they en-
gagged in the great undertaking of extermlnat-
ing Tammany Hall, that i'll each OF the two sue
ceeding wears they would be found uniting
with Tammany in division of municipal spolls,
they would have scOrnfully denied the posi-
bilitv. But they did not know Mr.. Kelly so
well then as they do now. Nor themselves,
indeed.
1t was a very delightful gathering. Several
statesmen made remarks at long range upon
the matter in hand, but there was obvious
embarrassment on the part of those who could
not help remarking that they were negotiating
Tor a division of spoils with men whom they
had been de1ouncing for the past two years as
an unprincipled gang of plunderers whom all
good citizens should unite in putting down.
Mr.. Kelly. however, experienced no such en-
barrassment Why should he, since the present
occasion was in itself an apology larger
than could be expressed in words for the
treatment lie and Tammany Hall had
experienced at the hands of the Organlza-
ton represented by Messrs. Develln and
Olney7 He, at least, had no need to be en-
barrassed. He had not changed. lie had
neither repented nor recanted. What he was
when they set price upon his head he is to-
day. Theirs was the repentance. They had
come over to him. 1t was not strange then
that, after much shufiling and evasion on their
part, Mr.. Kelly came boldly up to the matter
in hand, and, with uncommon dlstinctness and
precision, laid down the terms of Tammany.
"Here are names of persons mentioned
for the Office of Mayor said he, "who
care totally unacquainted with the du-
" ties appertaining to our municipal Offices.
"They are entirely unfit TO discharge
them, and would have to trust to others for
direction. ! do not think that kind OF q
imam should he chosen, simply because he
"would not know who was who" In these
brief sentences Mr. Kelly set forth succinctly
the nature of Tammany's requirements in the
candidate for Mayor He must be man who
knows "who is who" There are citizens who
believe that in order to have good govern
ment and honest administration we should
have Mayor who knows what is what. Many
of the leaders of the County Democracy pri-
vately express the same conviction. But that
is not the notion of Mr.. Kelly or of Tammany
Hall. What they want Is man who knows
"who is who"
"You should keep in mind" he continued
"that no man should be chosen unless we feel
"assured that he will be suitable and honor
cable man and act fairly to all divisions In the
| Getty" This is straight-out, plain, business
statement. There is nothing evasive or cir
cuitous about it. Somebody who knows "who
is whon and will act fairly to all divisions Of
the party in the appOrtiOnment of the spolls
is the sort Of candidate Tammany demands.
Here is no nonsense about having Mayor
who will administer the government OF this
great city in the interests all the citizens or
all the taxpayers. That is of no consequence.
What Mr.. Kelly and Tammany want is
Mayor who knows "who is who" and will
divide the offices and the plumber fairly among
the Democratic factions. Mr.. Kelly has caught
up in @ single sentence the whole spirit
aud purpose the actuating principle, the
mission, end and aim of the organization of
which he is chief. All that it requires in a
candldate-and this it does require as an alb
solute essential for its supports that he
shall know "who is who" Tiden did not
know "who was who" in some of his appoint
ments, and Tammany made relentless war on
him. Governor Robinson did not know "whO
was whon in the case of Gumbleton, and it
knitted him. General Hancock did not know
"whO was who" when he consulted Illden
instead of Kelly, and it "went back on him."
And now Mr.. Kelly offers as his ultimatum III
the nomination for Mayor that he shall be
man who knows who is who"
Very well. Let this unnatural combination
go ahead and nominate such a ticket of men
that know who is who. Then let us have against
them men who know what is what, and lev
taxpayers choose between them.
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