St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-06-12
TAM NlANYsS Tribute.
John Kellyss Memory Honored by
His Old Political Comrades.

His Old Political Comrades.
New YORK, June 11.-Tammany paid
the tribute tonight to its dead chieftain,
John Kelly. Outside and within the wig
wan was draped in black. Every seat was
filled, and in the gallery ladies sat. On the
platform were nearly fifty prominent mem
bers of the Tammany organization and
many citizens. Among the prominent per-
sonages present were Recorder Smythe, ex-
Mayor Edison, Gen. Fitz-John Porter W.
Burke Cochrane, Gen. William F. (Baldy)
Smyth, Hon. Charles A. Dana and Gov
Leon M. Abbott of New Jersey. Ex-Judge
A. B. Tappan presided. Letters of regret
from Hon. S. j. TiIden. Gov. Hill, Judge
Davis. Whitelaw Reed and others were
read. Mr.. Tilden's read as follows:
81 regret that the delicate condition of my
health does not allow me to accept your invi-
tation to take part in the memorial service
commemorative of the late John Kelly, al
though join in the tribute you propose to
pay to his memory"
W. Bourke Cochrane offered resolutions
of respect to the memory of Tammany's
dead leader and coincidence to the family,
which were passed by the Tammany So
ciety at the meeting Of June 2 and delivered
the eulogy. Among other things he said:
Mr.. Kelly's public career will challenge
respect and admiration. His private career
evokes the warmest feelings of affection and
respect. Various as have been the comments
on his public life, there is only one on his
private life. His honesty and purity were
never doubted. Some will deny that he was
a great man, but no one will deny that he was
good man. His seyerest critics acknowl-
edged his honesty, his bitterest foes confessed
his ability. We love to think Of him as he
was to US. His death overwhelmns us and
we realize he has gone forever, leaving a void
that can never be filed. There is no man to
take his place. His followers were true to
him when fidelity meant their own exclusion.
They followed him out into political wilder
nesses. They were faithful through all good
and evil repute, through victory and through
defeat. While he was leader his party con-
trolled every department Of the municipal
government. He never deceived when once
his word was pledged. In 1876 he predicted
the defeat of Tilden, if he was nominated, but
when the selection was made Mr.. Kelly prom
ised support to the ticket, and none made q
greater effort than he, and the state cast its
vote for Tilden and Hendricks, and he proved
that he was loyal man.
Mr. Chas. A. Dana said: ''While he lived
the public always regarded him with interest,
and now that he is dead they speak Of him not
only with respect but with affection. 1t is
surprising what unaninity there is among
men OF every party in the opinion now held
that Mr.. Kelly was both great and a good
man. For myself do not dwell so very en-
phatically on that quality of honesty which is
commonly put forward among his gifts.
Honesty, thank God, is not such rare thing
among the conspicuous public men Of this
town. The exception is rather of those who
were not honest. But while Mr.. Kelly pos
sessed this elementary and simple virtue
and never departed from it, he
possessed also the grander and higher
characteristics Of dsinterestedness, of intel
ligence of wisdom and of Democracy. With
him the last of these was the great thing. He
was Democrat, not only in his thoughts but
in his bones. He was Democrat morning
noon and night and all the time. He believed
in the rule of the people, for the people and
by the people, and he had no sympathy for
any device of theorists to check and stife the
popular power, whether by property lualif-
cation for the Suffrage or by systems of com
petitive examinations as the means of getting
Office. He approved of one road to office and
only one, and that was the road of popular
election"
Remarks were also made by Gen. George
Raines, Gen. Daniel E. Sickles and others.