The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-05-27
EXPECT BUGABOOS
TO DIE AT THE NEW
YORK CONVENTION
OBSERVERS SAY FEAR OF
MEETING NEAR TAMMANY
AND WALL ST. WILL END.
REFORM CLAIMED BY BRAVES
Wall Street Also Wants to Show 1t
Is Not So Bad as Painted. Dele
gates Will Be Shown Much Atten-
ton While Selecting President.

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NEW YORK, N. Y.-When the
democratic national convention shall
have named its presidential ticket in
Madison Square Garden and adjourn
ed observers predict it also will have
buried two political bugaboos that
have kept national political conven-
tons from New York for SO years.
They are "Tammany Hall' and
wall street" ''What!" ran the old
fears, 'ho1d a national convention
where our delegates would be exposed
to the sinister wiles OF Tammany? In
wife them to enter the sphere OF the
influence of Wall street? Never; any
place but New York
Those who went from this city to
Washington to bid for the convention
this year met and, to their surprise,
overcame these objections, Now Tam
many and Wall street feel it their
duty to demonstrate to expected VS.
itors that they never were as bad as
they were painted.
Tammany Points to Origin
Tammany points to her picturesque
and patriotic origin, admits she sowed
few wild oats in the Boss Tweed"
days OF the last century, and claims
she now has become a sedate and law
abiding political and welfare organiza-
ton
The name, "Tamanend" (the Affa-
ble), and the ritual were taken from
the Delaware Indians by a group of
Wings who, in 1889, organized for
social and charitable work, to fight
for state rights as opposed to federal
ism, and to counterfeit the Revolution
airy war officers order of the "Socie-
ty of Cincinnati" which was headed
| by George Washington Though they
sometimes were called Sons of St.
Tammany" or THE Columbian Or
der" they always designated their
headquarters as wigwams, and their
members as grand sachems, saga
mores, winskinskies and braves.
Helps Needy, Plays Politics.
Gradually the organization attained
political power. Then, in 1912, began
the series of gang demonstrations
which, eliminating in 1870 its expos
ure of the huge graft ring of the
grand sachem, VIM Tweed, welded
to Tammany the stigma corrupt"
Two generations have entered the
game OF politics since then Tammany
claims to have kept pace with the pur-
ihcation process the game has under
gone She still has her thousands of
members, her Is tepees and her big
wigwam on Fourteenth street, the
one dedicated during the last national
party convention here in 1868. She
still helps the destitute and plays pol
Itics.
The Case of Wall Street
| Wall street holds that she, too has
been maligned by tradition She will
show them, first of all, that wall
street." as generally applied, is a mis-
homer, that the street actually is just
short crooked lane, fanked by or
binary business structures, lane with
| the East river at one end and historic
Trinity church at the other, where the
pioneers of American commerce hung
out their shingles, and where their
sons carry on.
She will demonstrate to the visitors
that big finance isn't centered in Wall
street, that all lower Manhattan all
New York, in fact, is the home OF
big finance.
Managers of the convention, as well
as local fnanciers, intend to let each
delegate see for himself so that he
may return to his native heath and
lay low the wicked Wall street fan
tasy."
The New York. Stock Exchange,
! the Consolidated and the New York
Curb Market, the nations three great
est security marts will join the II
biggest commodity trading organiza-
tions, 100 of the country's biggest
banks and most OF the noted broker
age houses i'll throwing open their
doors to convention visitors.