New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-01-07
THE TAMMANY PRIMARIES.

Roth Tammany Hall and the County Democracy
are strengthening their ranks a. iai as ~,
view of the approaching PRESIDENTIAL campaign diiI
the MayoTalty election. la!namy pl lldlV? oi ~
on saturday developed practically no oppoSslllopI ~
the present leaders. and most OF the Ola, lalhlld
faces will he seen when the Committee meets Oh
SATURDAY evening, January 2d For the ias' l1 H
wears JOhu Kelly has been one OF tne deIoSd'lVn
from the XAIst Assembly District inns year he
rcoins his old workers IN the ANIlltI DIsulSt'
Ii IS understood that TINS step was caused w W.
sire II the part of his old associates u u' So'c
ono as the head of the district oIgdhZdHop Nuo
will be a match fOT Hubert o. Thompson, the ieauel
OF the County Democracy III that 1lsHlLt.i ~ ot
NTH District Bryan keill and john GAVIN nOth
of whom have been Tor several years opposing am
many Hall are the delegation this year II u
beueved that before many inonths nave eIa!stu
Alderman Thomas Shells will be again ~ annahy'
and if so he will control the delegation III tHc
With District Edward McCG9 who ran lol senator ,d
against Timothy j. Campbell is once more III lne
Tamlnany ranks He was friend OF Judse DOIo'
hue and when the latter qnarrclIed with Joh4
he w. McCue was depOsrd IRON the ieddeIsu VI
the delegation from the With District to the am
many General Committee. 1t was expected WUth
General +. Is. SpnOla was so 0adiy oeStch lIi e 1mo
Assembly last fall that he would be deposed from
tnc leadership of the &NIth District delegation anu
that il would be given to some OF the really oiohS
men ID the district Tho can cop o TIn n" change
has been made however. General JOhn CochIahc
political change of front caused some conhnen,
among the politicians. II was geneIallN lSII lnd'
+bs .tIect of thc change wOuld bc confined 10 tEe
General himself The XNIst District Is already
nrettv we'll provided with Democratic stat sHcn
Among these are Aqueduct-C Commissioner James -
Spencer Judge Larremorr, eX-Srr"gatS Dei9h1 -
CALVIN. Joseph j. ODonohGc. aud number o. VIVA
are known as working politicians. III - kuo"h
as the brown stone" district and Is good ioT from
600 to 500 Republican majority. NeEerIhcT,S, Il
good proportion of the Judiciary i've inert oUnt
the Democratic candidates Tor supreme OogII
Judge at the recent election live there as does ans"
one of tine Republican candidates for the same
pace. John Kelly lives III the district
TEMPERANCE WORK AMONG FREEDMEN.
The Rev. c. II. Meade. of Homclsville, New
York delivered an address, on temperance MoIh
among Freedmen" at the meeting OF the American
TeulpCrance Union held in Chlckcrng Han ycstel-
dav Mr. Meade an agent OF the National lem
reTance Association. has spent many years among
H. cnlorrd p,ople of the south. As the result Of
his observations he stated that ii the POLITICIANS
would keep their hands OF the negroes the IatteI
he said. to learn aud they crowd the schools to
OVERLOOKING: but there IS a great Idc5
OF educational facilities for the c4i"If ta
people. The negroes are not naturally abducted 10
The use of spTituOus Liquors, but, OF lalc, ne
through hat the influence Of unprnclpled whlte
men who have settled among them hau dGECIopeu
a taste for strong drink among them. When at
Augusta. MI. Meade visited the postmaster ana
made some inquiries III regard 70 tIo co'olcu pe9PJ
who called for letters. lie was lOu
that there were hundreds OF negroes VINO
had called at the office every day 1Or ten
wears for letter. and had never received one
Thcreupon Mr.. Meade procured the names OF wen
ty-Gye or thirty, and Oh his return hOne nc "loIe
them each pleasant letter MhHe talking 10 .
nUreVatiOn on one OCCASION MI. Meade sald, me
tears rolled down his checks. NhereupOn an oId
colOred woman sitting on the front scat shouted
oHt: II knows you's a Baptist from de way dc
water runs out yer eyes" i. IL.
An audience of 200 was present at the meeting
of the Manhattan Temperance Association %tslJi-
day afternoon The address was delivered by the
Rev. s. Thomas Williams, and brief speeches were
made by several others. A vote OF thanks was
passed by the meeting to the newborn dairy papers
That have taken up the temperance cause. In the
evening a sermon on Sowing and Reaplng was
dciivcred before the Association az the Union
Taherracle, No. 1879 West Thirty -Gfth-st., by the
Rev. George j. Mingins.