New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-10-24
Upset THEIR OWN Dish.

The Tammany organs and orators Closely re-
semb'e the bicycle-rders in the Madison square
Garden. They are very tired, somewhat dlIy
and vobbly, and they don't go hall as laSt DIS
thev did at first, in spite of the TACT that the!
oro working a great deal harder. Both sets oil
nerformers are fighting against nature but While
the vbcelmen are taking the only possible way
to win. the sposmen are doing all they can
10 earn defeat. Tammany ought, Tor example,
TO be earnestly trying to prove that It's men,
methods and purposes are honest ana comment
able. that it has the public welfare at heart,
and is able to promote good order, comfort anu
prosperity that it's administration Is clean
saeacious and efficient that the millions when
il draws from the people are expended to the
last dollar for the benefit of the people that the
nubic servants are incorruptible and the laws
enforced without fear or favor; that private
rights are safely guarded and public property
we'll cared for: that streets, schools parks
docks, prisons and hospitals are sultully and
prudently maintained, and that the whole munlc-
ipal body is sound and healthy.
Bat instead of all this, what do the voters
who are so dear to Tammany just now see and
hear? They look and listen in vain Tor any
demonstration of Tammany's capacity to gov
ern. The orators and organs are silent on
every subject which has the slightest bearing
on the coming election. They cannot be
tortured into discussing the rightful demands
of citizens or their own deserts, but from
Spuyten Duyvil to COney Island, and from
Flower to Scannell, the sole reply to argument
and inquiry is the ejaculation, "World's Fair y
Now it surprises nobody that Tammany
mourns over the loss of the Worlds Far and
refuses to be cOmfOrted. Never again IN ouf
time will the conspiratOrs OF that society come
so near to clutching so rich prize. nat
their secret sensations must be when they re-
fleet that it was their OWE avarice and treach-
cry which brought them to grief can be mag
med but not fifty described. No wonder that
they cannot forgive the men who, to borrow
Colonel IngeISOll's impressive figure, held them
by the throat " till their fOreheads were as black
as their records and their tongues hung out like
flags of truce" Many of them are guilty OF the
continuous blunder of making Tammany odious,
but the principal marplot in the Worlds Fair
business was their own familiar friend and
figurehead 1t was Mayor Grant who assured
Mr.. Depew upon his honor as man and a
Chief Magistrate that his list of 1913 incorpora-
tors included 60 Republicans and only 43 Dem
ocrats. If he had only been a little nearer the
truth in his apportonment all might have been
well. for the Fair had then been won for New
York. But the magnitude of the misrepresenta-
ton exposed the trick, the situation was re-
versed, and there and then Tammany lost the
prize.
And so, when the election is over, and there
is no further possibility of profit in keeping up
a sham we advise the Tammany leeches and
prohigates, the absorbers of other mems earn
ngs, thetheelers who thrive on pulls and dlyyles,
the gamblers who speculate on political mar
gins, and all the filthy and malignant horde, to
turn and rend Mayor Grant.