Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1884-10-01
Grand Sachsm KelIy's Schemes and
Bargains.
POSITION OF HIS ORGAN, THE STAR
Cleveland to be Traded for the Tammary
City Tieket--DisclOsures Of Interest
to the Voters of All Parties.
THE REPUBLICAN, BOSS OF NEW YORK.

| to be seen, and when II Is seen 1t will De ap-
preciated. The word Of promise has been
made to the ear. To the ear it may be
Kept. Is it to be broken to the hope2 Time
will show, and thinking men will judge.
This much is a fact: John Kelly has
nominated a straight Tammany city and
county ticket
Tammany From Top to Bottom.
This he expects, and requires the county
and the Irving Hall Democracy to indorSe
from top to bottom, as the condition to the
united support of the Democratic electoral
ticket in the metropolis. He viii listen to
no other programme. He will agree to no
consultation or union or division of local
nominations. New York City is to be
passed over intact, entire and helpless, to
Tammany with the aid of the rest of the
Democracy. This is Mr.. kellys ultima
tum.
In return for this, Mr.. Kelly will make
no concessions His paper, the Star, is in
reality Butler paper Mr.. Kelly has alb
solute control Of it, and sees the proofs
every day. He will not direct that its pol
icy be changed or modified He regards it
las very valuable property" He is con-
tent to stand his chances for recognition
By the National Democracy on his power to
injure it, on his record Of having effectively
done so in the past, and on the formal de-
claration of Tammany Hall that it will
support the ticket" The S:ar will
Continue to Assan Cleveland,
to predict his defeat, to regret his nomina-
| tion, TO wish for his withdrawal, and to
boom General Butler. The Butler COM
mittee has everywhere advertised the fact
that "the Star will be sent free until after
election to every voter who supplies his ad-
dress"
To any representations Of the effect Of
running a straight-out Tammany ticket,
Mr. Kelly is stolidly Indifferent. He does
not consider the effect of it on Independent
and Reform Republicans voters in the city,
state and country worth regarding He
| does not agree to take into consideration
the effect OF it on the Democracy of the
State--who are strongly averse to the pre-
| dominance of Tammany in the party. He
refuses to estimate the result upon the
minds of the Democrats of other organiza-
tiops, or of those connected with no organi-
| cations. He declines TO view the conse-
quences to the National Democracy Of the
evidence that the campaign for Cleveland
in the republic could have charged truth
fully against it the purposeot
| Handing over the Metropolis
to Mr. Kelly, bound hand and foot. Re
form in the nation a tender to bossism in
the metropolis is his demand, coupled with
the requirement that everybody and every
thing Democratic must bow to il and help
it on.
1t is well for the Democracy of the
| United States to look this fact in the face.
| 1t is fact, and the disclosures of every re-
| naming day in the canvass will show that
| it is a fact. do not characterize it. 9th
ers NAV do that i state but the fact. Up
on the representatives Of the Democracy
rests
ssThe Duty of Conducting and Estimating"
the canvass hereafter with reference to that
| fact.
Mr.. Kelly does not hesitate to say why
he takes this position. He declares that he
does not believe Cleveland will be elected,
and that the main concern of Tammany is
with and for New York City. He main
tsins that Butler will poll 10000 votes in
New York City, and that those votes, added
to the Tammaay vote, will elect the Tam
many ticket in the city, with the absolute
powers created by the reform legislation OF
last winter thrown into Tammany hands.
| The organization which made reform neces-
sary is TO have
All the Spoils
under the name of reform. If Mr. kelly's
| demand was complied with he does not deny
that Tammany might vote and work honest
w. vigorously and hopefully for Cleveland;
| but he insists Cleveland will be defeated,
that the defeat will disintegrate the Democ-
racy in November and that it will be recon
structed under the leaders and on the prin-
ciples of the Peoples party and sweep the
country, with Gen. Butler, IN 1888.
There is a step further in this programme.
The Republican machine in New York, led
BY John ]. 0'Brien, with the Democrats,
surely for loot, led by James 0'Brien will
each run separate ticket to trade with it
for electoral votes for Blaine or to trade out
the electoral ticket for the local ticket,
whichever is most profitable. Tammany
and
John j. O'Brien
have three out Of every four election inspec-
tors at every polling place in New York:
| The entente cordiale between Mr.. Kelly and
John j, OBrien has been established BY
James j. Belden the notorious rngster Of
Syracuse, and broker by profession in the
souls and vices oflegislators and New York
common councilmen. He arranged the
deal between Cornell and Kelly in the Leg;
islature OF 1882, and between Kelly and
OBrien and Bigln in the Legislature of
1888 and that Of 1894.
This is the programme and this ID the ex-
pectation to beat Cleveland in the metropolis
in 1884, as Hancock was beaten there in
1880.
There are Democrats who advise buying
Mr.. Kelly's support at his own terms now
as was done in 1880 They do not remem-
Der that though Tammany was bought In,
Hancock was sold out all the same. They
do not take into account the moral and po-
litical effect of such deal on reform Demo
Gratis, reform Republicans and independent
voters, who must see something different
from this in Clevelands success-else they
will not contribute to it
What the Democratic organization Will do,
or ought to do, is not for Jour correspond
eut to say. l do not profess to have any
means Of learning what that organization
thinks it ought to do or viii do.
| The Situation
which the Democrats are called on to meet
should FIRST be clearly understood. The sit.
uation has here been laid bare. The duty
it imposes is for politicians not news getters
ito determine. @
| By exercising the logical faculty, how
ever, one may not 90 far astray IN consider
| ing what the Cleveland Democracy win De
tEkely to do. 1t is, Of al things, the most
unlikely that the canvass and candidacy
VII be made to wear any different charac-
ter from thai which they have worn from the
FIRST. -. -
4 rhs canssss for New York State
and for thirtyseven other States win not il
is very probable, be reduced to plot en-
CINE to 90 ahead, or to baggage crate to
run behind Tammany esmpsigr for the
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