Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-05-16
TIE CAUSE OF TIE TROUBLE III
Few YORK.

The immediate cause of the disruption
of the Democratic party in New York and
the split between Governor Cleveland and
Tammany, and which is apparently be.
yond all healing, may be very briefly
stated, and is not uninteresting. There
are two "bossss in the Democratic party
IN New York" boss" Mclaughlin and
"boss" Kelly. Governor Cleveland sides
with boss Mclaughlin Tammany sides
with boss Kelly. Both bosses desire TO
fatten upon the pickinga of Castle Gar
den It is not large enough for both-hinc
iILg lacrSaae. Under the guire of reform
it was sought to reform the immigration
Commission, and to improve the condition
of alien immigration. Governor Cleveland
assaulted the management of the Commits
sion violently, and declared its administra-
ton to be a scandal and disgrace. A
Senate committee investigated the matter,
and found no serious ground for censure.
and this, though the Governor had a ma
jority OF his psrtisans on the committee.
! Such suggestions of reform as it made were
adopted by the Commission. On the 4th
of May, the last day Of the Legislature,
the Governor sent to the Senate a most
remarkable message. It pronounced the
| Castle Garden management Sc a scandal
and reproach to civilization )" that it
squandered State money, engaged in bare.
faced jobbery." and permitted imposition
and swindling." He declared that the de-
mand for reform was above all partisan
considerations, and one in which every
right minded man should be enlisted. He
had selected as Commissioner man Of in
tegrity and ability man of broad benev-
olence, enjoying the respect of all who
know him. The Senate, said the Governor,
had intimated that it would not confirm
him, and some of the beneiciaries of the
abuses were lobbying to retain a hold Of
their abused advantages" The situation
had its rise, he said, in an oyerweening
greed for patronage that pertains to place.
he warned members to recall their con-
sciences, and not perpetuate oppression
and the practice of unblushing peculation.
The Tammany Senators, Grady, Mccarthy,
Browning and Treanor attacked the mes
cage bitterly and stood up for "boss i"
Kelly valiantly, while I" boss " McLaugh.
Inns friends, Senators Jacobs, Covert and
Nelson defended the Governor. Grady
moved, with contempt, to refer the message
to the Committee on Grievances, and then,
without action, the Senate adjourned sine
die. Without the support of both factions
the Governor could not win they divided,
and his plans fell. From this factional
quarrel the Republicans wisely kept aloof
It began to brew with the first day of the
session; it illuminated with the last, and
the breach is now wide, deep and not to be
bridged. The Castle Garden matter was
but one of the incidents of long and Bit
ter fight over the distribution of the pat
ronsge. The Governor, in his anger and
defeat, or the last day adopted tie extra
ordinary method of addressing to the Sen
ate the unprecedented message described.
In it he held up to public reprobation the
motives and acts of those who disagreed
with him. In many respects he was right
in his judgment, but his methad has made
breach, and again the fact is made appa.
rent and the truth again presented for pub
lie digestion, that the principles of the
Democratic party are all expressed in the
party motto "To the victors belong the
anoils.