The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1884-08-16

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OUR LETTER FROM BROADBRiM.
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Good Brooklyn Men Gone Wrong-Home
Missionaries Wanted-Busy Actors.
New YoRK. August 9, 1884,.
EDITOR CHEF:
The clouds are heavy in the political sky,
and there are low rEmblings of distant
thunder; and Tammany cohorts are sulking
il neie tents, and It IS getting to be mat
ter of exceeding interest what the great
Sycamore is going to do. Banners sky
rockets, professions and monster meetings,
are all very well to provoke an appetite,
but back of that is solid body whose polit-
ical register is 10000 votes-votes that face
about, wheel and march as if they were a
single man, and no one knows better than
John Kelly that the only salvation for
Tammany is in its positive autonomy. It
must be g law unto itself. Outside of its
own councils there must be no court of ap-
peal and no judge of its policy or acts, and
the law of self preservation, which is par
amount law of nature, binds the adherents
of Tammany together with hooks of steel.
It is immaterial to Mr.. Kelly who governs
the United States, SO long as that person.
whoever he may be, is not an impIacable
political enemy; and after the bitter con-
test carried from this State into the Ma
tional convention, it is evident that John
Kelly does not consider Grover Cleveland
his friend. The first blow fell the other
day, on the assembling of the State Com
mittee at Albany, where four empty chairs
marked the spot where the Tammany dele
cation should share in the councils of the
party. heavier shock was experienced
ON Tuesday, when representative Demo-
Gratis from every portion Of the Union as
sembled at Albany to officially notify Gov
ernor Cleveland of his nomination. Among
that distinguished assembly there was not
a single badge that marked member of
the Tammany delegation. Yet Mr.. Kelly,
whose voice will be more potential in de-
Gliding the next presidential election than
all the members of that respectable and in
fuential assemblage, was sitting quietly on
the balcony of his hotel at Saratoga only
few miles distant. as calm and as content
as though the fate of great party did not
hang upon his word. There is no question
but Mr.. Kelly is master of the situation. It
has been loudly proclaimed that at the next
National love feast the TammaDy Saga
more would be invited to a dish of crow.
that he does not like crow, and he is very
fond of turkey; so Tammany has come to
the conclusion that they will take the tur-
key and let whoever likes the dish eat the
crow. It is a long time yet to November
the 4th, but it certainly has decidedly un-
comfortable outlook for some one. It is
fortunate for US that the thermometer fell to
about 60 degrees in the middle of the week,
or otherwise, when some of our patriots
fully recognized the Tammany detection,
we might have perished of spontaneous
combustion.
happened to stroll down by the West
side the other night, and where the trains
departed for the west on all the great rail-
road lines, saw hundreds and hundreds OF
children assembled, just about to depart on
two weeks vacation, the means for which
had been provided by the Tribune Fresh
Air Fund. It gave me better and bright
er view of my kind, of whom I confess on
general principles, have very poor opin-
ion. I said myself, here is great jour-
nal engaged in q National battle which
taxes its every energy and resource. It is
attacked on all sides-it is fighting as it
were for its life, and yet it finds time to
turn aside from its regular business to