The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-11-17

mant may be paid 70 have died with its
leader, and IT, resurrection IL not probable.
The Cleveland Democrats, q faw thounands
In number, went down with the unsuccess-
full Low rebellion.
Tho only organised Democracy remaining
In New York, accordingly, IL Tammany
Hall, and having last year taken its stand
squarely OF the Chicago platform and not
changing that position this year, IL IL In
harmony with the Democratic ~orRaniza.
tion Of the Union generally. 1t will nom.
mate the only regular Democratic oandi.
dates for Congress next autumn, and will
control the representation OF New York In
the national Democratic Convention for
the nomination Of q President in o
Practically, too, II IL now backed by the
united Democracy OF this city. Its BRYAN.
ism Of last year has been forgiven by those
gold Democrats who still adhere to their
perverted party, and time seems to make
even that political heresy tolerable for
them. 1t Is the old story; familiarity with
vice takes of the edge Of Its repulsiveness.
Tammany Hall, or the Democratic or
ganization in New York, has every incen.
tive, therefore, to make the best showing
it can in the government of the en-.
larged community. Its reputation Ia ut
stake before the whole world, and In this
country 1t has in Its keeping also the repu-
tation and perhaps the fate of the Demo.
cratic party In it's entirety. II the Demo.
cratic organization here can start success
fully the new municipal machinery, 1t
will increase greatly its chances of secur-
ing for itself a long lease Of power and
strengthen greatly its national influence in
1900, when the next campaign for Presi.
lent occurs.
The onerous and most delicate and diff.
cult task of accomplishing the practical
consolidation and adjusting satisfactorily
the conflicting interests of the Greater
New York, however, would put a we'll
nigh intolerable strain on the energies
of the wisest party, and Tammany
cannot expect to go through with
1t unscathed by damaging criticism.
The first Government under the new
charter will be more likely to bring
suffering than prosperity to any party
undertaking it. By 1900 it may be that
Tammany will have discovered that 1t won
an elephant in the rattle when at the late
election 1t gained complete control of the
new city and subjected itself to the heavy
responsibility involved in the administra.
tion of it. The power will be enormous,
and the political risks inseparable from 1t
will DO correspondingly great.
The depression In business and financial
circles which has succeeded the election of
last week has had for its principal cause
anxiety as to the outcome of the experiment
Of ~intrusting the vast interests of this COM
munity to an organization which terrified
1t last year with violent Organism. The
misgivings are none the less serious because
those who are now most alarmed by them
turned over this tremendous task to Tam
many OF their own motion. They supported
a candidate for Mayor whose election was
demonstrably impossible and rejected the
only candidate in opposition to Organism,
though by their unity they would have as.
sured his election. They made their bed
and now they must lie ON it.
Fortunately, az we have said, the new
will be by the Democratic party
strictly, and the people can hold that party
accountable for It. The vicious non.parti.
sanship humbug, after which deluded bank
ers and merchants chased so wildly. has
been exploded, having performed for Tam
many the service of diverting the natural
opponents of Organism from the successful
assault they might have made upon 1t. We
are going to have a square and u~nvarnished
Democratic Government, and it will tend to
restore the sane political condition where
the Republican and Democratic parties op.
pose each other directly and without the
Intervention and disturbance of Mugwump-
cry and the vicious politics from whose va
carries business has suffered 80 long and SO
disastrously.