New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-05-15
rl,,vtyY AND 1YTETAMn4NY.

Governor Cleveland need not be greatly sur
nrised if thousands of Democrats throughout
the State sympathize with Tammany III the
present warliko attitude she has assumed
These Democrats argue that Tammany has not
been fairly treated by his Excelency, aud that II
she had been all would still be peace and mar
monv in the party. Has she been fairly dealt
with In order to answer this question it Is nee
.ss,rv to look at what she has done and how
she has been done by.
Last wear she was admitted to the Syracuse
Convention. and in spite of the fact that she
had been refused admittance to the preceding
convention, she showed her capacity for
letting bygones be bygoncs by declining 10
make trouble of any kind. Indeed so deter
mined was she not to indulge IN anything Dor
dering on fractional opposition that when H. ID
Hill was presented for Northumberland as
- a friend of Samuel J. Tilden and Lucus koD-
insou" she swallowed the dose without muir
MR. even going so far rs to second the nom
ination. And in the campaign that followed ana
she not pull true? Did she not roll up big ma
iority for Cleveland ard the rest of the State
ticket Turning next to her record IN the Leg
islaturc up 10 the time that the Governor sent III
the nomination of Murtha, we find that, As IN
convention and campaign, she behaved herself
in a most creditable manner. The "reGulars
presented for Clerk of the Assembly the very
man whose election she had so bitterly opposed
fine wear before and General SpinOla, IN the
interests of harmony" moved to make his
nomination unanimous. The Assembly com
mittees were organized with the evident inten-
ton of keeping her in the background, but she
lnr vttp
onpo,ition to the programme laid out by the
"rcgulars.' Her representatives III the senate
voted for the Editor of The Argls for Regent OF
the University. voted 70 confirm another pro-
nounccd Irregular" for superintendent OF
Public Works, voted TO confirm a third Tor
member of the Railroad Commission, ana Il
fourth for Superintendent Of the OnondaSa Salt
Springs. In short. not further to particu arlze,
tbe Tammanv Senators, although they saw prac-
ticolly NIL the patronage at the Governors COM
mond bestowed upon the -Tammany wing
&c fine partv. abstained from deadlJcbing,
kent their temper as best they could, confirmed
all the Governors nominees rs they came along
and presumably kept hoping that in due time
Tammany herself would be duly recognized.
This il what Tammany has done and now She
has been done by. No wonder, therefore, that
levcl-hcaded Democrats in all parts of the state
arcuc either that she did not sin at all in oppOs-
ing the nomination of Murtha, or that if She did
sin il was only after she had received power
fnl amount Ct provocaton. She respected the
things that made for peace aud harmOny-why
did not the Governor also respect themP Was
there any Justice in Tammany receiving all the
suuhs of the session and Anti Tammany all the
DAD? Did he act the part Of a true and Iutell-
GENT pacfcator, the part of a shrcwd party
leader. the part of a fair aud just Democrat
when. after keeping Tammany's nose to the
grind,tone all through the session, he en-
deavored to tie the .rindstone about her neck
by nominating regular" to an Office in her
own stronghold involving a vast amount OF
patronage
That is the way Tammany's friends talk. SO
on tho whole the "rcgulars' had better not
count too confidently on the party " standing
n, one man" in condemnation of Tammany.
Tammany was struck on the right check
struck several times during the session. Every
time but the last she turned the left check. The
! last time she hit the Governor bad one be-
tween the eyes. And that IL all there is of it.
Let the REGULARS" therefore, if they would
avoid the jeers of IN apprcciatlve general pub
lie. not dilatc on Tammany's conduct As if she
had committed heinous crime not only against
| Democracy but against ethics. She has merely
entered an effective protest against the reg
ulars" getting all the good things at the dis
posal Of the Governor. She il profoundly i'm
PRESSED with :he conviction that her own plate
ought not 20 be held up in vain. The wal is a
rap-war pure and simple All Efforts to make
if out anything different or more disuiiied will
fail.