New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-09-30

nc THIS THE TAMM1NY PROGRAMMEI

rs THIS THE TANMANY PROGRAAAH'
In 1ss3-'s4 Roswell P. Flower was can
didate for his party's Presidential nomination.
II was a palpably absurd ambition, seeing that
Mr.. Flower had done nothing to commend MIN
solf 70 the public confidence, that he was ab-
Oolutelv unknown to the majority OF his ooun-
trvmen. and that his career as Congressman was
far from having in 1t the promise ana potency
of serious craftsmanship. Nevertheless he sue
oeeded, by means best known to himself IN In
ducing some of his political brethren to back
his boom. The chief of these supporters was
Edward Murphy, IT,, the present chairman OF
the Democratic Committee. MIR. Murphy pre-
ferred Flower to Cleveland, and endeavored I'M
successfully to bring Daniel Manning around to
his way of thinking.
Well, It may be taken for granted that Mr..
Flower still has his eyes fixed longlngY on tne
White House. The Presidential bee which be-
GAN to buzz in his bonnet eight or nine years
ago to-day is doubtless buz1ng louder than
ever. Few Presidential bees die and none re-
sign. Let Mr.. Flower but manage to be elected
Governor, and we may be sure that he Will at
onos thrust himself in the hands of his friends
and speedily emerge therefroln as an uhcoh-
monty earnest candidate for the Democratic
Presidential nomination of next year. In 1882
he schemed TO capture the nomination for Gov-
ernor by uniting in his support all the anu
Tiden Democrats. Next year he may aim to
commend himself to the delegates to the Presi-
Dental Convention as the compromise candidate
from "piyotal' New Y ork in place of Cleveland
and Hill Is this the Tammany programme
Are Croker. Godfather Grant, Bourke Cochran,
John R. Fellows and the rest of the Iammany
ring determined in case Flower is chosen Gov-
ernor, to go on and run him for PRESIDENT as
the most available of New-York Democrats
Il would not be at all strange if Tammany's
devotion to Mr.. Flower means this How
nleased the friends of Grover Cleveland must
be at the thought not to speak OF the friends
of David b. Hill One of the shiewdeSt and
best-known Democrats of the interior recently
said: al have lately travelled extensively in
the South and West, and everywhere l found
the Democratic leaders declaring that the quar-
rel between Cleveland and Hill had become so
serious in New-York State that it would be
unsafe to nominate either one of them in '92.
Under these circumstances it will be easy Tor
Flowers friends to bring him forward as COM
promise. That think, is Croker and Murphy
present intention" OF course, the ambitious
and industrious Flower will do his best to en-
courage this sort Of talk, even if he has to re.
establish the literary bureau which he found so
useful in his former canvass for the Presidential
nomination.
Both Cleveland and Hill presumably will do
their best to eject Flower, whatever may be
the consequence to their own political pros
poets Why not? Loyalty to the party which
has treated them 50 generously demands that
they shall rally around the Democratic can
didate for Governor, although they may have
the painful conviction forced upon them that
in succoring him they are destroying their own
future. The Democracy confidently expects
that they will forget themselves and think only
Of Roswell p. They must be true to the party S
best expectations of them; they must obey the
bitter but wholesome law of sef-sacrifce. No
such obligation, however, rests upon the great
mass of the voters. They are not bound to
support Flower Indeed, they are distinctly
bound not to support him, unless they believe
that Tammany Habitat synonyme for all that
is corrupt aud incompetent in the administra-
ton Of public affarS-is the sort of organization
which can safely be trusted with vastly in
creased power and influence A vote for Flower
is a vote to allow Tammany to plumber and
demolalize both the State and the Nation.