New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-06-21
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T1HH5NY'S LATEST

Tammany has broken loose again. IL is not
Governor Clevelands cruel and persistent re-
fusal to recognize her "caims" that wakes
her TO ecstacy this time. 1t is a provision of
the Fourth of July. Annually, as our readers
are aware, Tammany makes formal proclama-
ton Of her intention to celebrate the day
which we all celebrate. These thrilling an
nouncements have generally been character
lied by a generous display of partisanship and
by a desperate endeavor to accumulate party
capital at the expense of truth.
That is peculiarly what is the matter with
the announcement for the coming Fourth.
TO read it is to recall for Tammany's benefit
the remark of the Quaker TO an interruptions
horse jockey: Friend, it is pity that it Is
a sin TO lie, seeing how necessary it would
seem to be to thy business" Tammany in
forms its friends who are expected to make
merry and be glad with her on the Fourth
that :" the Republican party is now staggering
in its death thrOes under the load of hypo-
critical pretenses and false teachings" Verify,
if independence Day were meant to inculcate
independence of the claims of common veracity
upon the opponents of the Democratic party,
the sentence which we have quoted might
confidently be adduccd rs demonstrating that
Tammany was an apt pupil of the ethical
lesson of the occasion. OF equal richness
with this prcposterous reference to the Re-
publican party is Tammany's solemn admoni-
ton to her own sons to "renew the pledges
of devotion to the principles for which they
"Uhe fathers of the Republic) fought, and for
"whose maintenance this Columbian Order was
"established.n When these pledge of
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is not stated. There is suspicion abroad
in the public mind that they never
were taken to any appreciate extent. But
il they ever were taken, this one thing is GER
tain-it is a long time since they were ere
newcd" BY all means then, let them be re-
newed next Fourth. Tammany may indeed
have been established to maintain the patriotic
principles referred to, but is that what she is
now really being maintained for 7 SagaciOus
students of politics sometimes half suspect that
" this Columbian Order exists to-day for the
purpose of exercising q Christening influence
upon regular Democracy, of securing fair
divide of the party spoils, and of cutting out
work for the Committee on Contested Seats in
Democratic State Conventions. BY all means
let those pledges of devotion" be either
taken or renewed" at the time specified.
1t goes without saying that the announcement
contains some nebulous premedItated idiocy.
For instance "The time is oppOrtune for one
grand rally tor constitutional rights" This
sounds like The Wonderful Shirt Collar at his
best. Here is another gem; " With one more
effort on the part of the people, the enemy
of progress will be defeated and Liberty re-
established on the foundation laid in 1776."
We cannot imagine who wrote that. II proba-
bly, is not to be credited to any one man, being
the outcome of the strength of the entire COM
pany.
After such forerunner, Tammany's celebra-
ton of the high festival of patriotism will be
looked forward to with appropriate interest
meaning the interest which is excited by a
broad but rather tedious farce.