Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-01-25
FROM NOTED PENS.
John Kelley No Longer the AutOcrat
Of Tammany Hall--A Dlstribu-
ton Of Authority.
SOD W2Sborts and Longs on Wal
Str, ose,a. Playing Havoc
WIN. 1sD a. Rates.
A Corner in Prima Donnas--Mnrgerei
Siather An the i,nge.- whas New York
owes 20 immigration.
snecIaI corrosponaence d I'D eaaeLLe.

Special Correspondence OF the Gazette, i
NEW YORK, Jan. l9.-'rhe success Of
Tammauy Hall in the local election has !
brought about change in its leadership /
and in the distribution of Its patronage.
Formerly all orders were issued and
patronage distributed under the personal
dictum OF John Kelley, the chairman Of
the Tammany general committee. All
business presented TO the committee was
| first submitted to Mr., Kelley, and nothing
could be done without his sanction The
district leaders danced attendance upon
him at his office, aud were ruled with
rod of iron. Now all Is changed. Tam
many Hall is no longer an absolute polit-
| ical monarchy. Its government is based
on the Swiss system. The chairmen of
the assembly district general committees
meet once week Philip Henry Dugro,
an eX-congressman and young man of
knickerbocker lineage, aud highly re-
spectacle In character, piesides. He has
swapping black eyes and weak voice. The
twenty-four district leaders at the weekly
meetings parcel out the patronage in the
county Offices and arrange the business OF
the general committee, which meets once
q month. Commissioner Croker, Hugh
j, Grant and John Scannell are said to be
the triumvirate who keeps the twenty
four leaders in hand. Croker Is the Octa-
vius, Scannell the Mark Antony, and
Grant the Lapidus OF this triumvirate II
one of the district leaders proves refrac-
tory his district committee is wired and
he is blown sky high. He invariably finds
: it to his personal interest to coincide with
the plans of the triumylrate. When nee
essary the triumyirate backs up leader
in his fight in the primaries, as was the
case with Col, Wood, whose committee
was declared elected in the Twenty-fourth
district on poll of thirty odd ballots.
The ballot-box was carried off after these
votes were cast, and hundreds of Demo-
Gratis opposed to Wood had no opportuni.
" to vote. But his committee was recog-
nize by Tammany Hall through the manip,
ulation of the undisputed district leaders.
To cover their work the district leaders
have selected John Kelley charm N OF
the general committee, despite his Illness,
and TO strengthen themselves In tue Tam
many society, which has control of the
Tammany building, they are inviting sew
enty new members at the beginning of each
week OF course the district leaders have
it in their power at any time to down the
tri umvirate, but as long as each has his
; share Of the patronage 1t is fair TO assume
that he will he submissive. The new order
OF things seems to be more Democratic
than the one-man power of last year. II
brings the power of control closer TO the
people and prevents the continual slough.
ing that brought the party to its knees
under John Kelley's management. Charles
0 e. Loew, who filed Kelley's place last
D fall was deposed from the nominal lead
ership this year, because his brother, the
comptroller, has given Tammany nc
. patronage in his Office in ful1llment OF III
agreement last fall. Charles + Loew re
fused to head district committee and Il
appear in the council of twenty-four aftel
his deposition, and he has probably
dropped out of politics for good.
The effect of this new mode of political
government will probably be shown al
the next state convention.
AMOS CUMMINGS.
One of the features OF the stock mar
set has been the appearance OF Mr.. Rookie
Teller OF the Standard Oil company as O
dig buyer of Union Pacific and st. Paul
Some of his friends appear TO have Joined
him in the movement. He made consid
cradle money in bulling st. Paul last
year, and upon the recent large decline
considered it the proper caper 10 take the
long side again. In fact there Is very lit.
tie money, as rule, TO be made In selling
stocks short at the present time. 1t may
he true, az some Of the bears say, that
the bull cllques wish to unload, but they
protect their stocks well and mete out
pretty severe punishment to those who
have the tementy 20 20 short. That
t. Is 20 mr. suf
extent more scalping market; that is,
the fluctuations are as rule only frac.
tlonal. The Vanderbilt Morgan party arc
possibly not so largely interested In the
bull side as at one time, for the reason
that they appear to have thrown over
some OF their load at a large profit. YET
they show more or less disposition ia
stand by the market Addison Commack
the doubling Thomas OF Wall street, talks
bearish He Is short to a considerable
extent in the Judgment of the street. He
bTrathes out Nominations against the
market at that nightly resort Of the brok-
ers. the Windsor hotel, but like Baron
/ Woerishoffer he appears TO be quietly
& setting his brokers TO covering his sales.
President Sloan says he sees no indlca-
ton OF fire ght war. The betes noir OF
Wall street now are the ruinors of the
cutting of railroad freight rates led by
the pugnacious Baltimore & Ohio and the
injury to transportation in the West by
snow blockades. The somewhat cynical
and high-liying J.. Pierpont Morgan said /:
/" Read the newspapers for the news about
the trunk lines and the Baltimore
& Ohio. They seem to know II all.
They are probably paid for what they arc
publishing. There is no change In the
position OF the Baltimore & Ohio from
; what 1t was before the agreement was
made. The Baltimore 6 Ohio never
signed the passenger agreement. The
Pennsylvania road has not yet cut mites.
don't see how II can cut and | don't
believe 1t will" This Is all reasonable
euough-certainly very plausible, but the
fling at the newspapers would seem 70
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