Year: 1872

There is very little progress yet made in the
campaign in this city, anent the struggle that Is
inevitable between this and the 9th Of November
next. The leaders, or those who assume to take
the running OF the machines, all at sea, or, IN
fact, at loggerheads among themselves. Confusion
in the several camps Is getting worse confOunded,
with little prospect OF eXtrcatiOn from the en-.
tanglements which surround the situation. There
IL no such thing as organization in any quarter.
Tammany Hall has lost the prestige which en-
forced victory to ght upon her banners in former
contests and the mantle OF the departed chief has
not fallen upon the shoulders OF competent success
The great rank and file are all on hand, but
they


ARE AN ARMY WITHOUT BANNERS


and without leaders, and aim )st without an object
In the coming struggle. The waverings, inconsis-
tencies and blunderings In the efforts to organize
on the part of the present Tammany leaders rem
ders 1t every day more apparent to the masses that
they must rely upon themselves in the future to
nominate and vote for the men OF their own choice,
and not to surrender their political interests and
all the cOgnate interests necessarily following
thereon to the caprlces and selfish schemes of those
who make a trade Of politics. The Tammany Hall
leaders and their allies of the liberal republican
stripe have lost most precious time in presenting
the name Of a candidate for the Chief Maglstracy
round whom the people might rally, and at once
enter upon vigorous prosecution of the canvass.
They have, it Is true, been grinding out wOuld-be
candidates by the dozen, but these candidates


'COME LIKE SHADOws-sO DEPART"


A real phantasmagorla of them have crossed the
political stage, coming at the right and Hitting
away at the left wings. The only record at all left
OF them is their announcements OF withdrawal in
tended to catch the attention OF the grOundlings
and to keep themselves in some way before the
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allies Of the Council Of Seventy are not, however.
to be supposed uninterested 'lookers on in Venice
in view Of the struggle that is before them and OF
all the interests to party and to the people involved
therein. They are perfectly satisfied to allow things
to drift on little longer to enable them to more
clearly comprehend the popular feeling and sent-
ment, and to seiZe the supreme moment
to announce the result Of their mysterious cog
tatiOns. Their great difficulty is Senator OBrien,
the Saul Of the Apollo Hall men, towering head
and shoulders above his fellows, and who is shifting
hip and thigh all who oppose him in his race
for the Mayoralty. The Tammanyites and Seventy
ties anxious to conceal their schemes lest like
those best laid by mice or men, they might gang
a-gley by cOunter-scheming the part OF their Op-
ponents. The political cauldron Is kept, however,
at boiling heat. 1t is


BUBBLE, BUBBLE, TOLL AND TROUBLE


with these political Hecates all the time. Foremost
among those dancing round the cauldron is the erst
chief of the silk-stocking democracy Sammy TIL
den, doing the incarnation business with all his
usual weird-like righteousness and success. The
burly and unghostly form "a little out OF place in
the scene) of John Kelly is there, now and again
throwing in, as required "woo of bat or tongue of
dog" or any other necessary ingredient to the
rhyme Of his chief There are also seen
In the lurid light that keeps the spot
a-boilng" the forms of three members OF the
Council Of Seventy, or great sanhedrim-a
body that will be defunct after the ides of next
November as Its great prototype of Hebraic times.
These are Havemeyer, Green and Ottendorfer all
candidates for the Mayoralty, and with the two
first named engaged in the work OF evoking can
didate that will beat the feared and redoubtable
O'Brien-all dancing to and singing the refrain of
their chief, Sammy


Now about the cauldron sing


Like elves and fairies in a ring


This is the work in which the Tammany party Is
engaged, and this is all the length they have yet
got In the campaign. To be sure they are showing
commendable spirit in petty raids and reprisas
upon their principal opponent, O'Brien and his
cohorts. O'Bren smells small political mice
within his citadel, not altogether as large, but
freighted with as deadly intent as the Trojan
horse, and thereupon he forcbly elects said MICE
Reprisa follows from the ramparts Of Tammany,
and at once


JOHNNY MORRIssEY AND BILLY WALSH
are appointed q provost guard, clothed with sum-
mary Jurisdiction to eject and extermnate all weak
kneed Tammany followers whose resolutions to up
their professions, or who might be suspected Of
being OBrien men in Tammany uniform And so


the and o by e sb
hand,


rather its leader, Is in o sorry plight. He hangs
his banner boldly enough on the outer wall how
ever with the cry OF "stll they come,' determined
Murphy himself and all the mercenary cohorts Of
the Custom House, his sworn allies, are to break
is carrying things with high hand in Apollo Hail
and many head, In political sense, has gone into
the basket M rom blow Of his trusty Excalibar; the
ing straight over to Tammany, with their heads
under their arms, or to that other new political
party" O'Brien's supposed alliance with the


tom MURPHY-GRANTITE PARTY
is perhaps the weakest rvet In his otherwise strong
armop Of proof The stipulations are said to be
that O'Brien would be supported by the Murphy.
GRANTEES for Mayor In return for an efficient and
approved support on the part Of the Senator In
favor OF Grant throughout the Congressional and
Assembly districts of the city. These arrangements
were made by Murphy at a time when 1t was abso-
lutely necessary to secure 0'Brien's powerful aid
to carry the State for Grant and to secure Conk-
Here the pivotal point of those secret polit
cal negotiations Should 1t become apparent from
the result of the Pennsylvania, Indiana and Ohio
elections that the Grant ticket Is sale In these
three states an enthusiasm Is expected to be ere.
ated mere @ that will utterly demoralize the Tam
many Hall-Greeley party and enable the admins |
traton republicans, with the aid of the reform |
party IN the democratic ranks mot yet declared on
etner siuel 10 nominate full ticket RON Mayor |
down. Fighting IL out on this line O'3ren would |
be ignored, completely showed aside and the con-
frol OF the CITY wrested from the hands OF the de-
mocracy, who have SO long held it. Tom Murphy |
was


THE CHIEF NEGOTIAToR
in securing O'Briens detection in this camnaion |
nom the democratic cause, and securing him and |
his influence for Grant. Honest Tom. when the |
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bargain: but 1t Is well known that some OF the |
most important leaders and men OF influence in |
the republican ranks are, on principal, opposed to
any such political recognition OF 0'Bren, and
would oppose his endorsement by the party as
candidate or the Apollo Hall democracy under any
circumstances These are some OF the political
entanglements which surround not only the aues.