Year: 1875

/ wording Of the call. Its purpose IS 10 save
Tammany by the imputed merits Of Gov
ernor Tilden-a sort Of yicarious atonement
in politics, like that BY which sinners are re-
deemed on account Of other merits than their
own. 1t is thought by the Tammany chief
that under the broad mantle Of Governor Til
dens reform and Ex-Governor Seymour's elo-
quence the undemocratic character Of Tam
many can be covered. We assume that Mr..
Seymour will speak only in support Of the
State ticket; but the fact that Tammany in
vited him, that Tammany issued the call,
that Tammany will organize the meeting
viii be used to convey the impression that
support Of Governor Tilden is the same thing
a. a support of Mr.. John Kelly. There are
thirty or forty thousand democratic voters in
this city who are not prepared TO accept the
view that Tilden and Kelly are Siamese twins
There are thirty or forty thousand democratsi in
this city who will vote for Governor Tilden's
State ticket while they scorn and spit upon
the Tammany nominations for city officers.
In the foremost rank of tho citizens who
make this discrimination We may place Mr..
Ottendorfer and his German following. His
paper, the StaatS Zeitlng, gives a Jealous sup
port to Governor Tilden and the democratic
State ticket though repudiating the Tam
many local nominations. There are twenty
or thirty thousand honest German citizens
who will give their ballots for the Syracuse
ticket and yet do all in their power to de-
feat the ticket of the Tammany autocrat
Most of the supporters of Mr.. Morrissey
will vote the democratic State ticket, though
detesting Tammany. Their presence at the
Tammany meeting tonight will merely
attest their appreciation of the reform policy
of Governor Tilden; but Mr. Kelly intends
to construe it as an Endorsement of his odious
autocracy.


The Tammany call for this meeting is
addressed to 'all who are in favor of a wise
and economical administration of the muni-
cipal government" If the municipal govern
ment had not been for the last year in the
hands Of the democratic party this appeal
would seem more pertinent, because it might
be supposed to relate to democratic promises
unem barrassed by democratic performance.
But our citizens have had an opportunity to





government really is under democratic con-
troll. 1t is an act of singular efTrontery to
ask the people of the city to indorse such
government as they have had since the begin
ming of the year. There has never been a
period when the local government gave such
universal dissatisfaction. 1t has been in the
power of the democratic Mayor and
democratic Governor, acting together, to
reform every department of the city admin
istration but it continues as bad as it
was when Governor Tilden and Mayor
Wickham came into Office. The Mayor and
Governor have been at loggerheads a great
part of the time, and the city administration
is worse than it was under Mayor Have
meyer 1t is an insult to common sense to
ask the citizens of New York to come to-
gether and indorse such a municipal admin
istration as we have had since the beginning
Of the democratic regime in January. What
can Governor Seymour say in defence of our
municipal government since it came into
! democratic hands Nothing in praise of his
/ friend Governor Tilden can change the opin-
ion Of our citizens that our democratic city
government has been altogether bad. And
| yet he is called here and Senator Herman is
| called here in the hope that their speeches
in favor of Governor Tilden may shield the i'm
beetle administration Of the city. Our citizens
have too much discrimination to vote for the
nominees Of Mr.. John Kelly because G over
nor Tilden has made war on the Canal Ring.
| What have the canal exposures to do with
the fact that General Porter made over the
patronage Of his department to Mr.. Kelly
to be used for political purposes? What
! bearing has Governor Tilden's reform policy
on Mr.. Kelly's determination to slaughter
Recorder Hackett because Recorder Hackett
refused to allow Tammany to appoint the
officers Of his court? Our citizens have less
knowledge Of Governor Tilden's State reforms
than of the manifest evils Of their city gov
ernment and, while Governor NTilden's mo-
tives are open to dispute, they think there is
no ground for dispute as to the exceeding
badness Of the city government. The at
tempt of Tammany to shield the municipal
government behind Governor Tildens merits
is a fraudulent dodge which everybody can
see through Our citizens know that Gov
ernor Tilden has not been in unison with the
democratic city authorities. Everybody re-
members the contem pt with which he treated
Mayor Wickhams removals. The present
barefaced attempt to cover Tammany with
the broad mantle Of Governor Tilden's merits
cannot delude any citizen Of ordinary intelli-
gence. Our only regret is that Governor


TiIlon does NOT make HE c0nfer, m of the
democratic city magnates as conspicuous
now as he did while the Legislature was in
session last winter.


Anxious as Mr.. Seymour and Mr.. Herman
are for the success Of the democratic State
ticket, they can have no real sympathy will