The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-07-29
COCKERILL'S LETTER.
Tammany Win Be at It's Old Tricks
Again in the Fall
Rich Indians and Observation-Disclosures OF
Their New Life in. the West and
East-About Professional
RlackmaiIers.
COPYRIGHT, 1921

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know what the Tammany organization
in this city is going to do in this year
of presidential contest 1t is settled
that so far as Mr. Croker and the bosses
are able Tammany will give its support
to the democratic nominees. At the
same time, it would no doubt prefer the
election of Mr.. Harrison to Mr.. Cleve-
land. The situation is such that Tam
MANY can do nothing else, but l doubt
whether its support will be complete
and thorough. There must be at least
ten thousand men in the organization
who will, in despite of orders from the
bosses, quietly stick a knife in the ca
pacious form of the democratic candi-
date AS / said the other day, Tam
many hall is to be permitted this year
to nominate and elect its local ticket
without opposition from the exalted
and heaven-born supporters of Mr..
Cleveland. In consideration of this i'm
munity from an independent attack.
Mr.. Croker has pledged his organization
to the support of the regular democrat
ic nominees. This is nothing new to
Tammany.
In 1884, when John Kelly came back
from Chicago, where he strove dill
gently to defeat the nomination Of Mr..
Cleveland, it was a question for weeks
as to what Tammany would do. Cleve-
land had insulted Kelly by refusing to
make certain appointments in the in
terest of his organization, and ven
geance was sworn. After the nomina-
ton of Mr.. Cleveland both Grady and
Cochran, the silver-tongued orator,
bolted and went talking against the
democratic candidates. 1t was not until
ten days before the presidential election
that it was definitely known that Tam
many Hall would support Mr.. Cleve-
land. I remember witnessing then an
exhibition of the power of this last
relic of feudalism. Cleveland was ad-
vertised to come to the city and review
a democratic procession. The county
democrats at that time were for
midable body and well organized. They
proposed to have torchlight process
sion, and the question was, would Tam
many Hall participate? On the after
noon of the evening appointed for the
Tammany Hall to every district organi-
zatlon, and at eight o'clock that even
ing I saw twenty-five thousand Tam
many men march past the reviewing
stand upon which Mr.. Cleveland stood,
bowling their allegiance and cheering
in their misery, and wishing, each one
of them, that they had the power to
knock him into the middle Of next
month. / realized then that Tammany
hall was a mere machine directed by
the infallible chiefs who have their
headquarters in the wigwam on Four
teenth street.
Under the system established in
Tweed's days and elaborated by Kelly,
it is impossible to have anything like
an organized Tammany detection.
| These ninety thousand enlisted voters
| constitute an army which never for one
moment questions the authority of the
ch1eftain. 1t is possible, as 1 have
said, that a few thousand Tammany
men, realizing that the election of
Cleveland means renewed warfare upon
their organization. may be induced to
refrain from voting the democratic
ticket But so far as Croker and his
fellow bosses are concerned, they will
do all they can to deliver their votes to
the one man whom they thoroughly
hate and despise-Grover Cleveland. 1t
is too early to confidently predict the
result of the election in this state, but
still adhere to my original prediction
| that Mr.. Cleveland cannot carry New
York state. A dozen events may occur
between this and the day Of election to
upset all calculations. Much will de-
pend upon the municipal nominations
in this city and Brooklyn.
RICH INDIANS AND CIVILIZATION.
see that the court of claims in Wash
ington has handed down a decision
which will give the Pottawattomie
! Indians nearly 100000 for lands in
Michigan and Indiana. | have been
over these lands in Indiana to which
the Pottawattomies lay claim, and if
those in Michigan are no more valua-
/ BILE the Indians have been very greatly
/ overpaid for them. But there appears
to be nothing too good for the noble red
men these days, and rich Indians on
| the frontier, through the generosity of
/ the government, are about as plentiful
/ as millionaires in New York. A fine
two-horse carriage was shipped from
! New York firm the other day for old
| Muck-a-Muck, or some other chief of
! the Sioux nation The order came from
an agent in Chamberlain, S. D., who re-
ported brisk demand for good equip
ages among the untutored but
wealthy savages. This recalls the
story of the Wahpeton buck
who exchanged his share of a
government land sale for an old bat
tered hack and with it aroused such
spirit of envy on the reservation that
brother buck, who also had govern
ment roll, went to town and bought
! hearse with plumes on 1t and used 1t as
a family pleasure conveyance with
great success. Not many Indians, how
ever, are riding in hearses-not as
MANY, perhaps, as should, considering
/ the only good Indian is a dead Indian
but more OF them are ridingin carriages
every day. And why shouldn't they?
During the past four years the Indians
have sold over S0,0o0,0 600 acres Of lands
to the government These tremendous
concessions of lands mean vast SUMS OF
money for the red men, and many OF
them are rich even among white men.
The 1900 Osages have over S.
100000 to their credit IN the treas
ury and receive 100000 every
three months in interest When the
Sioux and Chippewas close their &C