Year: 1875

hands OF the Convention OF securing as
chairman who will il that Tammany gets no
better show than any other delegation However the
Wgwam wlPpullers old hands at the business and
II between now and next "Wednesday the Governor can
be induced for the sake Of securing undivided sup
port OF no New York city delegation in 1915 10 throw
his influence in their favor the Convention will be
is certain that the Morrisscy antKelly men and the
abettors will not give way without big row. Some Of
the Governors friends say that, knowing he holds
TRUMP CARDS,


he will side with theantI- Tammany party rather thar
Mth Tammany as at present organized IN whose ieay
70 himself in 1876 he has not the strongest commence
and that, If hard pushed the only substantial conces
SION his country friends in the Convention will give
Tammany will be TO admit her, delegates
/ along with the others, giving each half
vote This action, however, would be an indirect
violation OF the rule of 1871 OF the politicians
believe and would only be resored TO under the most
! pressing circumstances. MorrisseyS delegation, it
| may be said from the Eleventh district stand in q
peculiar attitude, do several delegations from other
districts, who will, independent of the anti -Tammany
delegations, claim to be the regular Tammany well az
| anti Kelly men, Should they be declared regular
Iammany and the anti Tammany win the day, they
VIII have to share the tate OF the other Tammany dele
gates who are not anti-Kely, and II the Kelly men
should be the vctors and get their delegates from all
the districts recognized and the independents should
not succeed in being considered OF the Tammany ORDER
| they will, Of course, have to


WALK THE PLANK.


SO as between the anti Tammany and the Kelly
lammany and the so called Tammany delegation op-
posed to Kelly there IS good prospect for lively tme
all round and a strong


During the week there has but little the main
discussion Of probability that the Morrissey delegation
and the other delegations that clam TO be Tammany
and opposed to the anti-Tammany men Kely's
friends will be between two fires which will end in their
destruction


Although, a matter of course in a campaign where
there arc many oaves and fishes TO be won or lost.
many different parts of the city each judicial,
separate battle Of its to fight, there
is 61, little little doubt but that that the war. ,S.
general interest Of the entire democratic party Of tho
city regular and irregular wings alike TO the exclusion
nf fhn Sfafa ef1rA ehatfl6
put his boasts into practice about his being strong
with the masses and runs "A candidate himself There
are those who have good opportunity of knowing the
probable the great expounder of human constl
tuons may take and who in speaking of the possibility
OF his running independent candidate wag their
heads wisely and say, 'if' this that and the other
thing should happen, then" he might not run him.
self but back some friend like Hayes his rep
resentative IL he should not be candidate there will
be but little general interest felt in the struggle in tho
district and If he does not afer all his talk it will be-
some of the wiseacrcs think because tho 'fs' not
| OF the right twist to suit his way of


| CARRYING on A


in which assured beforehand 1t needless
! to state that Morrissey hates John Fox
cordially than he does the other John; but is by
means certain yet that the conviction of Foxs friends
that he will get the Tammany nomination is based
/ on anything stronger than their own desire to have
! him nominated. He is man OF wealth. ready TO do
his share of spending il freely in legitimate way
gain his political point and good organizer; but, in
the opinion OF many he has lost his grip on many por.
tions OF the district which favorable to him,
and that this fact has determined Mr. Kelly 10 rcran
from giving even suggestion as to whether he would
!
in the district who were faithful to Tammany Han
when Fox left it contend that he is not entitled TO
nomination, and that if the question is left TO the SEN
atoria Convention alone he cannot secure the nomna-
tion, even If he should beg for It, which he
has not yet done. This condition OF Affairs has,
quite naturally, sharpened the wits and en-
vened the energies of the friends OF the othcI
candidates, and from this time forward TIL the
Convention meets the canvass will be warm one. The
Sixth Assembly district delegates will II is said, from
the start so solid for Assemblyman J. Campbell,
who, they think by reason OF his long service in the
lower house. has fairly the right to be promoted
to seat in the upper chamber. Assemblyman Nicho
las Muller, from the First district likewise being
strongly pushed by his own Assembly district, with
positive assurances from active men in the other DIS
tricts that If there should be no


INFLUENCE ExERTED


from headquarters favor OF any particular individual
they will give him such hearty support as to make hia
success the Convention certainty beforehand Mr..
Muller during the Tweed regime was several tunes put
forward by his friends candidate for the Assembly,
but the Bossn ~ who only wanted willing tools to do
his work, would have none Of hun, and this fact,
coupled with the other that Mr. Kelly the first to
suggest hun a candidate last year. and that in
the Legislature he showed himself to be
= thorough party man he was a faithful guardian
OF the interests of his constituents, his friends
believe will make him a formidable competitor for the
Senatorial prize in the Convention. Indeed during the
seemed place Fox in the calculations only possi
bic candidate, while Campbell and Muller were quoted
probable The advocates of the claims of the latter
contend that the game they call it. is in thct1
hands outside pressure is brought to bear in favor
of anybody clse and that their combined forces can
defeat third candidate who might appear As there
will be los in the Convention, they say that by
combining their respective delegations they could bring
the vote within seven of n majority, and, that done
they both feel certain, it is said, OF being able
least twenty outside of the delegations OF
the First and Sixth Assembly districts But the great
question naturally arises-if all this be as stated
Which one of the two will be the first to give way "a
the ohert There is thing certain about the district
and that Is that the Tamnany organizations
are thoroughly organized in each Assembly
district and that the anti-Tammany organizations
not by any means firmly welded together as they
are in of the uptown districts though possible
exception may be made of certain portions of the Four
hard work and will give pretty good accoun
OF themselves when election day comes. The Fourth
Senatorial district has always been Tammany district
and when other districts in times of storm and ne.iod-
ical


rIDAL-wAvE BOLTS


have in tho past given way to the enemies OF the Wig
Chiefs the Fourth has always stuck TO the Big In
uns through thick and thin against some OF its
most popular local favoritcs 1t will thus be perceived
that an anti Tammany candidate must have, under any
and all circumstances hard road To travel to save him.
self from getting so badly defeated as be able
swear the day after election, that he in reality
bona fde candidate No one understands this better
than Morrssey and is reasonable TO suppose that he
will look we'll before he leaps for If he should run and
get badly defeated he would in political sense, be az
dead as poor Marley-"as dead as a door nail J" II
will not do some OF the Tanmany men say Tor hin
now with the stand he has taken, to


OF THE FIGHT


by backing else against the regular Tammany
candidate order TO be able to say II his man gets de-
fcated ''If myself had IL would have been di1cr
ent and In this connection, despite All the taik IN the
district to contrary may be said that most of the
Tammany wirepulers outside OF II cling TO the oehel
that at the eleventh hour, Mr.. Kelly, especially II
Morrssey should decide to in the district, Will ex
er his influence induce all other candidates to With
draw in favor John Fox. AT all events whether Nor
rissey himself not he Is bound to take sidee
with his friend Hayes, aud they both claim 10 bt
regular Tammany, Mr.. Kellys Committee on Organiza-
tion to the contrary notwithstanding the struggle will
be a fierce one, and than one OF the candi-
dates the various offices in the Senatorial district
where fate will largely depend upon the battle for the
Senatorship will have to have pretty elastic con
science after election be able to take the oath pre-
scrbed by the new constitution relative to bribery and
corruption.


WAITING FOR THE
During the week there has been but little discussions
OF the merits dement's OF tho asprants fof
the judgcships, the positions OF Aldermen Coroner
&C. until the Convention has finished its work thf
politicians will keep their plans to themselves WheI
that comes TO pass the campaign viii be begun WIZ
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