New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-06-01
TAMMANY PADDLES CLEVELAND.

Tammany Hall evidently believes with Sol
ONION that to spare the rod is to spoil the
child. If Grover Cleveland spells, it will not be
her fault On Tuesday evening at meeting
of her General Committee she called up her
faithful son, Senator Grady, and placing stout
paddle in his hands. remarked: "NOw you just
"whack 1t to Governor Cleveland. Hit him
"hard, my son, in order that he shall not soon
"forget this testimonial of my deep anxiety fol
"his welfare. Lay il on to him more in sorrow
ethan in anger, but see that you lay it on to
"him."
To hear with the loyal Grady was to obey.
And 90, with the suggestive remark that Tam
many had the courage of her convictions, he
reached for tho paddle. During the half-hour
that followed. the offending Cleveland caught
1t and kept catching 1t, no intermission being
allowed which would have afforded him an
opportunity to supply himself with arnica or
court. plaster. Grady did his more-in.sorrow-
than in anger work so thoroughly that the
sound Of the paddle rs it impinged against
Governor Cleveland must have been
distinctly heard as far as the Executive
Chamber at Albany. In order that there may
be no doubt about the precise sound of the
paddle, we reproduce from Tammany's organ,
Tho Star, the following extract from the
speech which Senator Grady made at this
meeting of the General Committee:
When the Governor, no doubt sctuated by the best
motiyes undertook to import man from Brooklyn for
tho position Of Emigration Commissioners, We offered
him tho million and half Inhabitants Of New-York City
TO choose FROM and resented what We considered an
insult to the people OF NewYork When the time for
fioua M
pared TO stand to tho record denominations not Our
friends Of tho other Democratic organization say this 10
State Office and while It would be better to have II
filled by Q NowYork man. still Brooklyn Is near enough
The State Superintendent Of Public Works has to I'LL
many offices along the limo Of the canals. These are
state Offices but tho Superintendent always appoints
men who know something Of the locality In which they
arc appointed n we were willing to admi: that there
WA not In ell New.York 0 man at to oil this position,
then We would DO justified in sitting silent In our seats
There was tho list Of Harbor Masters and Port
wardens and understand this the rock on which the
Democratic party 10 to split Let me. ~ friend OF Gov
ernor Cleveland, say that tho Democratic party was
savsd from Ito greatest by failure TO confirm
The people Of New.York City will not tolerate, what
ever the means methods employed, that thoir public
oces shall DO turned into hospital for the lame poll
tcIans Of tho State. We tired OF It, We have had
this Same medicine given In allopathic doses since
"a
will be no war and no division OF there men
who want dsunion for their selfish purposes, but
the heart OF tho Democratic party with this Organise
ton It has been with In the battles OF the past 1t
will DO with Us In the battles Of tho future. We want
Democratic unity and success but II we are forced to
defend ourselves by who jealous Of our hold
tho popular heart would be untrue to our traditions
II We were to lay down our standard and and confs do
feat
This, it will be seen, is O severe case of
padding. When 1t Is remembered that the
paddler and tho paddlee are both members Of
the same political household, it becomes posi-
lively heartrending. The Democratic Senator
Grady tells the Democratic Governor Cleve-
land that In nominating Mr.. Murtha he offered
Insult" to the people of this great city |,
and that his list of Harbor Masters and, Port
Wardens was disgrace to the Democratic
party. And as If this was not large enough
dose of the paddle, he In effect accuses
the Governor Of the intention of turning the
public offices of the State into "a hospital for
lame politicians" and assures him that "the
heart of the Democracy" is with Tammany,
and that the Tammany Senators that prevented
the confirmation of Mr.. Murtha, instead Of
being sorry for what they did and prepared to
give bonds that they will never do 90 again,
"are prepared to stand to the record" which
they made.
We take 1t that every regular" Democrat
in the State will DO filed with indignation -
he reads the account Of this meeting Of Tam
many's General Committee, and viii make
haste to telegraph his sympathy to Governor
Cleveland. Both wings Of the Democracy, %
represented In the last Legislature, gave tho
public to understand that they were opposed
on principle to padding certainly to
excessive padding. :. But IL II evil.
dsnt that on this issue, - on the tariff,
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