Year: 1870

6t4ko OrEnns


The republican organization IN this city
has always exhibited very curious agglome-
ration Of discordant material, sort of compo-
site in which greed for public plunder is the
most notable segment. Every now and then
the outcroppings of internal commotion appear.
At one time the Custom House patronage is
not properly dispensed, at another the Mar
shars office pickings are unfairly divided, then
plucked, and anon the federal treasury gets
mixed up in some alleged gold speculating
muddle, and there is trouble in the republican
camp on that account. The Post Office, we
believe, is too discreetly managed to provoke
censure from any quarter But, admitting
that there have been intestine connections
arising from the above and other causes, we
confess that we were not prepared to witness
such photograph Of the republican unhappy
family in this city as we find portrayed in the
Albany Eoeaing Journal, the republican State
organ. That paper Of the 18th inst. confesses
that heretofore two classes Of men have been
"mischievously prominent" in the affairs of
the party in this city. One set, 1t seems, are
'impulsive, hot-headed demagogues, who
style themselves radicals" par e.rcellencs;
NOISY, blatant, impracticable fellows" who
proclaim themselves the peculiar apostles Of
political grace and dcnounce as heretics all
who do not follow them. Unfortunately, it
appears, that branch Of the organization having
most elements Of regularity got into the hands
of these marplots. 'They are sufficiently re-
gardful OF loaves and fishes to demand all the
Offices attainable by State or federal executive
appointments; and, furthermore, 1t seems
''they were 50 sellshly vindictive as to prefer
the depletion Of the republican ranks and the
reduction Of the vote rather than tolerate per-
sons who would not promptly acknowledge
their supreme wisdom and fitness for undivided
leadership" 'sAs consequence" continues
this remarkable confession, ''the regular re-
publican committee degeneratcd into close
corporation, excluding members on account of
passion and not from principle, laboring chiefly
to promote the aggrandizing aims of grasping
clique, and succeeding in fostering this at the
expense of party Generalization and disaster" !"
So much for one side of the picture. Now for
the other.


According to this confession the other class
was "made up of political hacks and liber-
tines; men who engage in public movements
from the most mercenary and unworthy
principle in subscribing o corrupt ambition.
Professedly republicans, these deceiyers have
been really the suborned agents and pur-
chased tools Of the Tammany ring uniting
with it in all it's varied and gigantic schemes
of municipal plundcr; employing power en-
trusted to them for the very purpose of defeat
ing these plots, SO as to give them a greater
efficiency and a more assured success"


The republican organ from which we quote
these confessions sums up the merits of these
full history Of the first mentioned faction is
embodied in, the minutes of the Republican
General Committee; the other class have
made their record in several Of tho more
important commissions, and in the Board OF
Supervisors.


There II the republicans of the interior
can, after this confession Of the foulness of
their party in this city, continue to throw dirt
at the unwashed and unconquerable democracy
of the metropolis, they had better take care
lest they bespatter some Of their own bless ed
well-washed brotherhood. For the rural radi-
Gals after this confession to talk of the frauds
and villany of Tammany is to expose the
rottenness and corruptions in their own house
hold, not only here, but that which exists to q
frightfnl extent in another quarter where they
are omnipotent-in the city Of Washington.