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THE "WEEKLY CONSTITUTION: ATLANTA, TUESDAY, JUNE 24, 1884.—TWELVE PAGES,
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BOSSISM IN POLITICS, 1 »".<"» { n :. T >- C .ub.tlt«ted the dove, the bird of blood giving
| niweatic army of republican indejwndcnU are f thn 0 || T0 branch. Peace once os-
1 because theycannot get any moroout of, ,““ t ^ cltabli<hrJ forcvcr . i give
republican crib, and they aro hoi ing tho j ..j for a n political
Preventive of all national £amity
AS VIEWED BY THE GREAT BROOK
LYN PREACHER.
If Wo Would Betlat This Bosaiam In American Poll*
tlca, Wo Must Refute to Believe Every Kour
Years That Everything la at 8Uke r Tho
Old Ship of State in Calm Waters.
Brooklyn, June 22 [Special.]—Dr. Tal-
mage preached in the Brooklyn tabernacle
thia morningon the subject, “Bosaiam in Poli-
tica.” The opening hymn was:
"Arm of the Lord, awake, awake!
Put on thy strength, the nations shake,
And let the world, adoring sec
Triumphs of meroy wrought by Thee.'
The text was Acts xxii, 27 and 28: “Then
the chief captain came and said unto him
•Tell me, art thou a Roman 7’ He said ‘Yea.
And the chief captain answered: ‘With a
great sum obtained I thia freedom.’ And Paul
said, ‘But I was free born.’ ”
So, said Dr. Talmage, 1700 years before
Thomas Jefferson wrote the deslarntion of
American independence, Paul wrote bis deck
ration of independence. Some official brag
hail been telling how that by eminent services
or through large compensation, he had pur.
chased his liberty, when Paul, bethinking
himself that Tarsus, the place of his nativity,
had been manumitted by Autonius, responds to
the braggadocio in these words, practically:
“My freedom dates farther back than yours, I
am not a liberated slave; my cradle had no
shackle on the rockers; iny mother was not a
sorf; I was free born.” That is deseriptiro of
all the papulation born in this country during
the last 2t years, and it is true of ail the white
population ever born in this country. And yet
the attempt constantly is beingmado to menu
cle the people. Claims are being forged for
our slavery.
J speak to you this morning on slavery of
politics and how wo are to break that slavery,
We ore half way between the two presidential
nominations. The hotels of Chicago are not
yet thoroughly ventilated from the recent con
vention, and yet will very soon be occupied by
o convention that will compel the hotels to
still other fumigation. Thu air is hot with
political imprecation. Wo are all being
whipped into line ns far as is possible. One of
three or four pairs of spectacles we are to wear
or sudor for it. The political guillotine is
rolled out and the recalcitrants arc shown tlio
knife for their neck and the basket into whieh
their head will probably roll. The managers
of the political machine aro tightening the
screws and making more firm the cranks.
Delegates are having a stout ropo of “Instruc
tions” putaround their neck, and have inti
mated to them that if they vote contrary to
the behests of their party the rope will tighten
until their facilities for respiration may bo se
riously interfered with. Shadraob, Meshach
and Abcdncgo are commanded to bow down
to tho images set up or ho roosted in the fur
naces seven times heated. Every town and
village and city and neighborhood has what is
called in old-fashioned English parlance ita
“boss,” and every stoto its larger “boss,” and
then all thcse“bosses” meet together and elect
a great national “boss.” Against this slavery
of American politics utter a protest and de
mand that at convention and at ballot box and
everywhere without hindrance and without
malediction men shall vote as they think best,
God their only juilgo.
First, if we would resist this bossism of
American politics, wo must refusu to bolievo
every four years that everything is at stake.
If our institutions are so rickety that every
four years they are in danger of smash-up, tho
sooner they go to pieces the belter, ami we
have a government substituted which has in it
some ortho elements of durability. 1 remem-
hot eleven presidential elections, and each
election tho leaders of parties told us with
vchcmenco ghastly and terrific that everything
was in danger of ruin. As near as I could
calculate we were about a quarter of an inch
from the eternal precipice. Men went to the
ballot box tremulous with omens. Carriages
were scut to bring aged voters and invalids.
At party expense they were brought, and pa
triots who by a strange coincidence nt tho same
time were candidates for office, lifted theso in
valids out of bod into pillows and mattresses
and supported thorn to the ballot box while
they dropped for tho very life of tho country
their precious vote. I admit there have been
pivotal elections on which everything turned,
but more than half tho time there has been
nothing at stake but official patronage. This
disposition to magnify peril and work .before,
the eyes of the nation the skeleton of danger
e*vcry four years halls our American commerce
and demoralise! everything. What do west
ern merchants want to come to buy goods for
in New York if fiext autumn the land is going
to 'at it howling wilderness? Tho merchants
In all styles of business will tell you that every
presidential year is a dull year. Everything
is unsettled.
The political orators are getting out their old
speeches that they ia they Fremont campaign
and in the Lincoln campaign and in all the
campaigns since, for the s|ieeches do just as
well for the one campaign as for tho other, for
wo arc always in imminent peril and always
just going to ruin, and therefore they do just
as well now ns they did forty years ago.
When I was a lad eight years of age, I heard
the first political speech of my life. I stood
barefooted in the broiling sun at Sommcrville,
New Jersey, and heard a western orator show
me conclusively that if William Henry Har
rison instead of Martin VanBurcn was elected
president of the United States, there would be
no use of my living to grow up, for there
would be no country to live in I A few years
ago I went to Boston to lecture in tho Music
hall, and I heard in the ante-room that night
that a celebrated orator from the west
was to sneak in Faneuil hall:
to I hurried through my work and
hastened down to Faneuil hall, the cradle
of liberty, and I found the cradle that night
was rocked by the very tame speech that I had
heard in the days of my boyhood, and that
the country was in the tame eminent peril at
forty years ago; and tho only difference I could
observe was that in one speech it was William
Henry Harrison and the other it was Benjamin
F. Butler. Some of us remember when Henry
Clay and James K. Polk were contestant* for
me presidential chair. When Henry Clay was
defeated, my father, pale and sick with the
news, sat down and said that all was lost. He
bad felt the magnetism of that splendid Kcn-
tuckkn whose name I cannot pronounce with
out enthusiasm tingling from scalp to heel.
But was evervtbing lost; Why, that election
gave us the Vexan domain, rich beyond, ail
agricultural estimate, and opened the door for
annexation after annexation until now, when
the wind blows from the west our national flag
dips in the Atlsntie.and when the wind blows
from the east the flag dipt in the Pacific. We
were told that the existence of the country
depended upon Mr. Lincoln's second election
to the presidency. After his second inaugu
ration he died, and Andrew Johnson put the
adminittraiion in just the opposite direction
and still we live. ...
At our every gubernatorial election in New
York state, in the sixteen years I have lived
here, I have heard everything wai at stake.
We changed officer* i but I do not aee any very
wonderful change in the proaperity of the
atate. The sun rises about the same time it used
to this month. The tides come in with about
equal strength. My Christian fellow-cltixens,
while the coming election ahall have greater
or less importance attached to it, let ua quit
this crisis bueinea* and believe that God built
thia country to stand. I have made op. my
mind that the Almighty’* capacity doe* not
entirely depend upon either the Chicago con
ventions. It there ever was a time when we
could afford to have a ealm. da iberate. un
favored presidential eteetion, this i* on*. There
is no crisis.
The republican* who are in, are very natcr-
majestic army
mad * *'
the
democrats w
of it mar slop over Into their cup. But lest
these independent republicans should bo dis
appointed I will tell them that they will never
get so much as a spoonful of pap from the
democratic bowl, for that party, after twenty-
four years of privation, will keep all they
will get. The only difference will bo that if
the democrats come Into power the republicans
will have to get out, whereas if the republi
cans stay in power then their men will keep
their places. But in many cases there may
not even bo that difference, for professional
politicians forecast the result and they change
their |>olitical sentiments in time to save their
fortunes! A good sailor sets his sails accord
ing to the directiou ot the wind. A journalist
told mo that after there had beep a chauge iu
a certain administration he went into a placo
where there wore many employes of the gov
ernment, and ho expected to find new incum
bents; but lo, thov were the same old Incum
bents, and when he asked how it was they
told him that just at the time tho administra
tion happened to change they changed their
seutiments, and did it “conscientiously!” The
lion of our .nation's strength is covered all
over with green bottle Hies that are sucking
the life blood out of its neck nud Hank, and on
the first Tuesday in November tho old lion
may terribly shake himself and there nsoy bo
n new set of green bottle Hies, but more hungry
to take their places. Do uot stand ognpe as to
what is to come next. Go and attend to your
honest business. I)o not believe tho despotic
political bureaus which tell you that the coun
try Is in danger of going to ruin. It is no
more in danger of going to pieces than tho
moon is in danger ef going to pieces.
Again; if we waut to resist the slavery of
American politics wo must realise that neither
party is immaculate, and we must judge for
ourselves as to who is tho best man for of
ficial position. Do not vote for the man mere
ly bwauae your party nominates him. To
show how much better one party Is than the
other, and put side by side the Louisiana re
turning boards, and the political scheme in
Maine in 1879; the Belknap frauds of the ono
party, tho Tweed larcenies of the other party.
There is a difference between men, but be
tween tho two parties as parties there is just
tho difference as between fifty and half a hun
dred. Both parties need radical reformation
and by the time they are fully reformed, ]>er-
haps ono or both of them will be reformed out
of existence. But you say: “Is there no
test? Are we to have no preferences?” • Oh,
so far from saying that, I’declare that the
man who refuses to vote or neglects to vote Is
not worthy of American citizenship. But do
not be submissive to party wiro pullers; do
not go kneeling beforo demagogue behest. The
question *with a vast multitude 1 of people is
who ought to be the next president of the
United States.
I remark in the first placl, he ought to be n
man of established moral character. Some of
us can look back to the time when for guber
natorial or presidential position men were
named who were libertines and drunkards and
gamblers. Tho American congress again and
again has been disgraced by men who could
not walk straight; yet pretending to represent
Delaware, Illinois and New York. Iain glad
that now tho question of morals coines into the
political discussion. I care not how much
talent a man has if he Is bad. Genius is worse
than stupidity if it moves in tho wrong direc
tion. A nation of homes needs over it a man
who has regard for the sanctity of tho domes
tic circle. A nation of young men looking up
for exatiiplo needs over it a man of integrity.
A man who cannot govern himself cannot
govern fifty millions. Our churches, our uni
versities, our schools anil our homesteads must
vote for good morals.
But do not be overborne by tho hue and cry
of a political canvas. Tho best man that God
over mado nominated on either side for presi
dent of tho United 8tates must wado through
obloquy chin deep. The one targot for shots
was set up two weeks ago. The other target
for shots will be set up two weeks ahead, and
the one which gets the most holes put through
it . will bo president. Defamation elected
James A. Garfield. Defamation elected Abra
ham Lincoln. Defamation, my old father
told me, elected Andrew Jackson, and this
was tho testimony of a man who disliked
Jackson. When at Chicago tho other candi
dates for tho presidency is fairly launched
ui>on public attention, you can c|pily and
positively tell who will be president of tho
Jnited States. Take a scale and put in on
one sido all tho socurrllity about tho republi
can candidate, and on the other side the scales
all tho scurrility about tho other candidate
weighing scurrility agninst scurrility, and
having found out which is the heavier you
can know as well in August as In November*.
Tho philosophy of it is plain. There is in
human uaturo something which puts it in*
sympathy with tho traduced. Have nothing
to do, pen, tongue, or typo with slanderous
malediction of public men. When you come
tft weigh Ihe moral characted of the caudidutei
remember you ere a Christian patriot and not
a scavenger.
Moreover, our coming president must be a
respecter of tho Christian religion. I apply
no religious test, but a country discovered by a
Christian man and settled by the Pilgrim
fathers and the Hugenots and men of other
nationalities who persecuted for their sent-
ments, came here and took possession of this
continent iu the name of the God of Heaven—
this nation must have over it a respecter of the
Christian religion. Tho foundation of our in
stitutions is not, as has been sometimes stated
the constitution of the United States, hut the
Bible. Without that, republican institutions
are an everlasting impossibility. Our first
president was a Christian, and the coming
president must at least be a respecter of re-
preiiiicnt tlill.t
ligioua Institution.-
I go further ami »*y our coming president
must have a heart largo enough to take in all
the itaten and territories. If he be a western
man and he dcajdie the aeacoeat, and ia chiefly
anxious to change the commercial center; if
ho be an eastern man and he be disjioscd to
denounce all the west; if ho bo a southern man
and think only of the north as an iguoble
generation; if he be a northern man and he
want, to keep tbc'ohl grudge up ngniiwt the
south and wants to fight over again battles
that were settled twenty year, ago, that man
muit not be hacked by convention or by lial-
lott box. The country need* a bigger presi
dent than ever before, because the country i.
bigger. When Washington took his seat as
charioteer he had only thirteen courser, to
drive; now there are thirty-eight and some of
them are very akiltUh. Of course with the
wire bit of the telegraph, they can be guided
much easier than one might atipnote; but atill
there are increased responsibilities. Three-
fourths of this century has been taken up with
•ectional strife. No l let u» have twenty years
for something else. Let tho political orators
S t out their old speeches that iliicuaaed dead
me. and tend them to the paper mill and
have them changed into white iheet. on which
they .hall write one good rousing speech about
the moral or commercial or agricultural or
mining prosperities that ore now about to
burst upon us. Do not let the despotism of
polities make you believe there aro only one or
two or three or four men that can aare this na
tion. There are a hundred that can save it.
In other words, it ia saved.
The old ship of state has got out into calm
waters, and it does not require any very .Wil
ful navigation. The flower, of thi. summer
time have covered up the northern and south
ern graves, and let no hoof of contention
trample the flowers. In pulpit and on plat
form and in convention and at ballott box let
us plan amity. Why do we want to fight any
longer? Is life so long we are in a hurry to
get rid of a surplus of It? Ia the sword better
than the wheat cradle? Can we not raise rich
pasturage except by the mouldering human
bones, and the red rein of human carnage. I
pray God there may not be no more use for the
musket in this country except for holiday
ternout. I pray God that the time may
hasten on when your navy yards will be
museums containing ship* that were need in
barbaric ages when nations settled their quar
rels by slaughter.
I pray the time may eome when the eagle
the Christianization of the people. Get tlieir
heart* right and they will vote right.
Have you auy idea Hint tho professed poli
ticians of this <lay will lift our country to its
high de.tinv? They nevei did anything but
get office ail’d make trouble. The masses of
the people rose up again and again and com
manded national reformation, l’rofesscd poli
ticians got us into tho four years' war. Did
they get us out of it? No. The people oamo
ana fought out tlio fight ami then commanded
peace. Professed politicians again and again
nave Iruined our American commerce. Did
they ever restore it? No. The people rose ami
ivitl: hard handed nnd besweatod industry
overcame the financial calamities. To the
METROPOLITAN MEN.
LEADERS AND MANAGERS OF PO
LITICAL PARTIES.
lfr. TUden'a Letter and Hit Shattered Condition of
Health—John Kelly'* New Interest in the V«-
tonal Election Mayor Edson end Hie
Little City Rina—Other Matter*.
Nkw York, June 19.—Not everybody whom
one meets thinks that Mr. Tilden in his letter
of declination meant to decline. Thoio who
doubt the absoluto candor of bis letter advance
some plausiblo arguments founded chlelly on
the letter itself, and taking no consideration
of the circumstances under which It was writ
ten. They say one may search it iu vain for
people then we B*7 proying God' for their , any declaration that Mr. Tilden will. not he
evangolization. Let a practical Christianity a candidate if unanimously nom-
evaugolization. Let a pr .
tako possession of the ballott box and that wl
settle illegal voting. Let practical Christians
take possession of the primaries and tho cau
cuses, aud that will give us righteous nomi
nees.
Further Suggestion* from Judge Reese,
Editors Constitution: The convention of 1877
adopted, except as td district courts, tho judicial
organization which was created by tho constitu
tion of 1868, to-wlt: a supreme court of three Judges
for the whole state: n superior court for certain
divisions of the state called circuits, such supe
rior court* to be held by a sluglc judge In each
circuit: a court of ordinary or probate court; a
Justice court and such other inferior court* as the
legislature might create. While the constitution
of 1868 placed the salary of a Judge of tho supreme
court at thirty-five hundred dollars, and tho salary
of a Judge of the superior court at twenty-
five hundred dollars, the constitution of 1877
moat unwisely reduced the salary of a Judge of the
mreme court to three thousand dollars, and of a
tore of the superior court to two thousand dol-
.„rs. This reduction In salaries was made to con
ciliate a class of mlsUken reformers In the con
vention, whoac influence unless the reduction was
made, It was supposed, would prevent the adop
tion of the constitution. Under the actual cir
cumstances of the country a still greater mistake
was made by the convcntfon of 1877 in adopting
the organization of tlic supremo court as found In
the constitution of 1868, and prior
constitutions, and this mi»Uko
shown by the present rendition
the supreme court. The abolition of slavery and
the amendment* to the federal and state constitu
tion* arising out of thb abolition of slavery and
legislation In pursuance of these amendments bos
nearly doubled the number of persons in the state
whd can become parties to all (civil) suit*. This
Is not all, the abolition of slavery largely Increas
ed tho number of persons punishable by the conrt*
for crime. An Immense Increase has ensued from
these causes in the business of the supreme court.
The reports of the supreme court show this In
crease. From IMS to 1>'*1 the number of cases
decided In tho first thirty volumes of
reports did not exceed thirty-five hundred. From
1H6H to 1883 the case* decided in twenty-nine vol
umes arc over five thousand. The time now re
quired by the judges of the supreme court to get
through the docket occupies about nine months of
each year, nnd the dally
....— amounts to
try argument and extensive research cannot be
Maintained under such an overwhelming amount
of work. There arc several plans for relieviMfjM
supreme court. One Is to take from it]
diction nil case* originating
the Justice court, and nil
originating in the county, city ami superior court*
when tho matter in controversy does hot exceed.
in value the sum of one hundred dollars. Anoth
er plan is to increase the number of Judges to five. I
The most satisfactory plan would bo to. Increase
Ithe number of Judge* because tho other plan
Imakcsa discrimination against certain clauses of
claims, Tho Increased coat yearly of two more
supreme court Judges would only be six thousand i
dollar* at the present salaries, and
seven thousand at tho salary under
ithe constitution of 1808. A small sum
when compared with tho beneficial resultsl
which would follow. Tho provision of tho const!!
tution of 1877 on the subject of Juries made n null j
riKUV UiUll luaviivuii •■i.iiu w. •••
llLM'iit uiul upright men to servo on travcracjti-
tota-. The constitution of 1*77 in another rlauso
provide, that tho li«i.hitnrc nrajr provldo for mi
[appeal from tlio traVerae jury lo a Jure
utrli kcn from tho grand Jury, ft was confidently
believed by tbe convention that the ly.tom of up-
neats which cxUted prior to tho war
and which then alrol a glory ou the
administration of Juattco would ho at oncore-
.torod. It hat happencd. however, that this Just
expectation hu never been realized, although
three sessions of the h- rWnture have been held
lander tho constitution of 1077, and It U not likely
from n»toringliSSSBM(IW*^*
hlo thatkhc Mime came will continue to prevent
the res Station of appeals. Wo then have under
tho constitution ot 1«77 a system of tryingcaaea by
traverae Juries from which U excluded "tho moat
experienced, intelligent and upright men in every
r While It l« true that thograiidjiiry ought to have
on it men of high character and round Judgment
It U Jlnt a. true that the traverae Jury should have
Ion It zome men equal in every resiwct to those on
the grand jury. The work placed on the traverae
unr to ordinarily much more diniriilt than that
idqvelved op the grand Jury. Civil and ertminnj
L»>> the greater! importance, Involving rn.iiy
of fact aud tile proper application of legal
principle* are trie! solely hv traverae Juries. Tho
very hlghcrt power, of ml ml are required ill lilt}
trial ot civil and criminal coze* and yet the
uric, to try them are tho loait compe
tent for tao great work, _ Under
law for the
■election of grind’ and f mverae June, wc zee the
young. Inexperianeud and ignorant .elected for
he trial Of all civil nnd criminal raze*. The re
lief from thlz zUtcof thing* Izto return to the
•Vetera provided by tbe constitution of 18W, which
mode no dlztlnctlon between tho men to zerve •»
the grand «nd;tmver»u Jury, .Imply requiring nil
Juror, to he Intelligent and upright. Having
>olnu-d nut the amendment* which zhould lie
mode, we next proceed to atate how those
amendment, can lie made. Under the conztllu-
tlon ollz77, there are two mode, .perilled therein
of amending the same. One through a
convention of tho people celled by a two-tlilniz
voto of the legtzUtnre. Tho other, through the
Icgialature which can, by a two-third, vote, adopt
amendment* to be aubmltted to the people ol the
atate for ratification. It will be scan that which
ever mode ia uacd . two thirds vote of Ihe leglala-
turc mmt be the Uul. of It. When tho amend
ment. are few the Utter mode la prcrerahlo, aa In
volving much leaa expenae and lea. excitement of
the public mind. From 179H to IRfil many amend
ment. were made to the old conalltutlvn of 1 Tu
ny Iced-dative action, auch aa the ncceaaltlcaof the
atate demanded and generally, a* they aroze.
In fact a constitution which to the
mult of gradual growth will be much more satto-
factory than one mule by a convention of tho peo
ple. we luggrata* Important amendment, upon
which action ahould he hail at the next aeaaion of
th. gencml uacmhly th. following—to atriko from
the conatltntion Ihe provblon u to tho Introduc
tion of and action upon broil and a;>cci.l Idlla-to
tlx the limit of the biennial aeaalen to eighty days
with no power of extenalon, mid at the ..me time
reduce the time to be devoted
to load leglal.tlon- to mtora lo
the governoMUhJa-tto the approval of the zenate.
th. appointment of Judge* of tho auperlor court
and aollctlora, to extend the term, of the governor
and head, of department* to four yean with a dli-
qnalllteatlon for re-election to tbe next term on
the part of the governor, to increaae the number
of the aenaton to eighty-eight, to nature the pro-
vlalon of the eonatltutlon of 1W»ia to the .election
of Jnrora for the trial of civil and criminal caaea.
Now will these amendment* lie adopted at the
next aeaaion of tbe general aaaembiyaud aubmlt-
ted to tho people for ratification? The senate of the
preaent genual azaembly at the late aeaaion refuzed
to para an amendment almoat unanimously ac
cepted by the houae to almpllfy the mode of paaa-
Ing local legblatlon and haaten Ita pamge through
the Icgialature. The rcprcacntatlve branch of the
preaent general aaaembiy at the late aeaaion re-
fuzed to adopt an amendment to relieve tbe an
al tha ballot box ax to force fevoi
any amendment lo the conati tulfon that they mar
desire. Moat eorneatly do we exhort them to thb
course. ^ Wn. K. ftxcax.
The I'nitail State, and the I'ropngnndn.
Waailisovog, June 21.—Th* atate department
denie* the pabiuhed atatement that the American
mlnlater at Borne h*a been lnatrucled to act In
concert with th* minbten of England, AnitrU
and Spain, to obtain from Signor Maneioa, Italian
mlnlater of foreign attain, a deeblon of the court
Uw any right to act in the matter, but h*a yet
reached no conclnalon nor taken any aetloa.
Inatcd. “Ho aay*,” remarked
ono democrat who believei in tho necetsity
Tor the poraonality at well aa the principle, of
of Mr. Tilden in the coming conteit, "that ho
ought not to run; and in another placo tlmt
he cannot undertake tho Iabore of a eattvau
and administration involving five yoara' labor
lmt ho nowhere «ay* ho will not run. Tho
neccptonce of a nomination unnnimonaiw ten
dered would give n great impetus to the old
ticket.”
ion of what is going on unobstructed. I fancy tion ns chairman of tlio general committee, but
he baa some secret signal by which certain of partlyalsobecauseofhisaptitudcnanpolitioian,
his lieutenant* know when “Mr. Kelly wants is a pupil of President Arthur. He has some of
’em.” (They never familiarly call hint “boss,” . tho iiunijties, though not all the best ones,
as they did Tweed.) I have often noticed Thos. I which the president has in so marked a de-
Dunlap, Edward Kearney, Eddie Cahill and j groe. He IS quite ns nfl'alde and smooth as
others, whom Mr. Kelly largely confides in, j Arthur, but ho docs not enrry his suavity
tako pains to cross Park Row on ajiproaehing ! nearly so easily, nnd there is tho suspicion ol
the office, and look up from tha other aide at oilineas about .lohn J. Ho lias the quality oi
the window at which they know tile Hon, Intrigue within his own parly more fully de-
they
.lohn site, though they cannot aee him. Some
time. they go away; nt others they quicken
their pace, ns they had seen a sign, reernas
tho Row mid disappear in Mr. Kelly’aroom by
th« private entrance.
A great many absurd ideas prevail about
'. Kelly with thoso who do not know him.
intrigue within his own parly more fully'
velo|ied than Arthur displayed when lie was
the republican manager Iiere, but he cannot
Mr.
VR. TILDRX.
But the cireumxtances under whieh Mr. Til
den writes must bo considered. I can testify
lrotn personal observation to tho much enfee
bled physical condition of Mr.
Tilden. Ho has to ho assisted
into hia carriage, and his left leg must bo lifted
in after his body ia seated. Ilia loft arm la
nearly if not quito useless to him; ho carries
it at fils left breast. His loft eyelid drooiis
even moro than formerly, anil frequently ho
rubs ids left hand over It ns if iu pain. Hls
whisper, which lias been hnbitnnl with him
for twelve years to my knowledge, sinks nt
times almost to tho noiseless movement of his
lips. Clear-minded nnd worded na ho is in
conversation on congenial topics, ho quickly
falls into a dozo when tlio subject is changed
to ono not personally interesting. Ho is not,
ns I have seen him recently described, “the
lean and slipjiercd pantaloon;” but he is a
very weak man, indeed, and physically un
fitted for tlio work iio is asked to uo.
Mr. Tiiden-a letter, wlratovcr may bo Its
hidden meaning, had ono Instantaneous effect;
it gave a wonderful impetus to our local politi
cians. ILstirrcd up both camp* nmnxlngly,
and both parties and all saotiona went sud
denly to work os if a new iuue had been
thrust on them, or the necessity of finding new
issues. Previous to the publication the denio-
ernts had no interest in any other candidate
than Mr. Tilden, except as they might regard,
this or that ono a* a second choice. Flower,
Cleveland, Slocnm, Dorsheimcr—all our
Now York claimant.—took pain, to have
it understood that they were not- in tho race if
Mr. Tilden would run. All tho factions were
for Tilden first; and as far M Now York coun
ty was conccruc-l tho Issue wa* made p|i—Mr.
XilJcu it was tho belief of all handa, was to
bo tho candidate, the platform nnd the princi-
,les combined. Even yet lome of them realize
hat the nomination may go to him as a com
pliment, possibly as a formal declaration that
ho past ia not condone*!: and they feci tlmt
alter he formally decline, it will he time enough
to reaotvo whom to support. It ia in somathing of
thia atate of mind that Tammany and the
county democracy went to Saratoga to tlio
state convention yesterday, and where, na y-u
will have seen, they have been running a
“waiting race."
Tammany hall was the most excited over tins
letter nnd the new possibilities whieh it opened.
Tammany hall’* other name ia John Kelly.
Ho doaen’t often get afrred up, the Hon. John;
Death of tha Crown Prince.
Tnxlliotx, Jnne 2L—Tbe prince of Orange, |H I. m> r— —,
crown prince of the Xetberland., who bee bees Hi fare. A wire .hade «> painted a. to conceal
tor some tlnia, I* dead. him from view from the street leave, hia via-
J0IIX KRLLT.
but when he doea lie i* aomethingof a terror to
the entire hail. But ho 1* n delight all the
same. He is quito aa popular a leader of
Tammany aa ever Tweed waa, but for qnlte
different reaaona. Kelly to aa dogmatic in hto
rul* a* Tweed waa, but he doean t let hia fol
lowers know how absolute hia away to. He
decide, everything for Ihe Tammany general
committee in secret, but lets the members ap
pear to win biin over by public discussion of
■to proposed nominee*. They lik* him for
Ins ohatinate, peraistenl, bnli dog tenacity, and
for the way he .tick, by hit friend, through
thick and thin. He get. toweringly mad
and makes a public exhibition of his rage at
Tammany hail on tbe night of .very election
in which be is beaten; hut the next morning
finds him nt his little six by ten room in Park
Row at work repairing damages and laying
plans for the next campaign. In tbe sams
way» If successful, he goes instantly at work
to plan other successes for the following year.
Mr. Kelly’s room facta the east front of the
postotfW. 'It is small, aa I hare indicated,
and simply furnished, with mitting for car
pet* and a few pieces of wicker-work farni-
He has been so often caricatured in the most
exaggerated stylo that many undoubtedly re
gard hint as ungainly beyond description.
The cut gives a fair idee of him. Ho iiu’t
handsome by any means: but in a erowd of
average Americans he will pass inspection as
above the average iu physical proportions and
agreeable aud intelligent expression of
countenance. He is pictured oc
casionally as uncouth and unre
fined and uneducated. Now,there are few men
who can acquit themselves with easier grace
in a drawing room; or on the platform or in
on after-dinner sjicech deliver sounder or wit
tier views in a more pleasant manner. He is
a yery interesting talker, and often lectures
on church And historical subjects, for charity
only. Indeed, Mr. Kelly does a great deal for
tho many charitable societies of his church in
this way; he may give also of his ample for
tune iu n more direct way, but if so, nobody
knows it, for he is not of the sort to
tell about it. Instead of being
nil unlettered man, Mr. Kelly is a very good
student still, and few men are a* thoroughly
informed on current affairs, both nt home nnd
abroad, a* he. Mr. Kelly ho* no business
other thau polities, except as Irregular invest
ments in real estate may be considered busi
ness. He was a builder at one time, and, if I
remember rightly, was also a plumber; conse
quently he i* now rich nnd knows how to en
joy the profession of jiolttica.
Mr. Kelly is oueof the most uncompromising
of good haters, as well as one of the staunch
est of good lovers. He would have acquiesced
in the nomination of Mr. Tilden, whom he
cordially detests, for tho sake of Hendricks,
whom ho as ardently ndmires. Many think
that if Governor Cleveland Is nominated at
Chicago for president, Kelly will playfully
“knife" him as an enemy, solely for tho sake
of his protege, young Grady, a moro boy.
whom Cleveland rather summarily squelched
out of politic* a year ago when he wanted to
be soNator. But Kelly will just as certainly
sit down on General Slocim/s boom, as that
tho King's county delegation, headed by Kel
ly's old political enemy, Hugh McLaughlin,
sets it going. It is generally understood here
that Mr. Kelly favors Senator Bayard, of Del
aware, not that he loves Bayard most, but that
he cannot quite endure Sam Rnndnll. But
whom ho favors .and whom ho does not like
Mr. Kelly will bo apt to tnako clearly mani
fest in his own way shortly at Chicago. Thus
far his predilections do net clearly appear in
Saratoga proceedings.
Tho county democracy has been stirred up,
ns Tammany was, by Mr. TUden'a letter; but
its efforts have been largely directed of Into to
maintaining its local leader, Hubert 0. Thomp
son, in political existence. It looked at one
time as if the republican legislature, with its
investigating coinuiittces.nnd with various en
actments, directed point blank at Mr. Thomp
son, would succocd in thrusting him out of
oftico, but Governor Cleveland, at some ancrl-
ilco of his own strength and record ns a re
former, has come to Thompson's rescue. How
fsr the governor’s veto of cerj^in bills directed
against Thompsou is going to lujure himself,
remains to be seen; but In tho meantime tho
eounty democracy and its leader are saved.
There is another little ring in this city
which is just now struggling weakly for ex
istence. which is worthy of passing notice only
ns an illustration of ono of tho curious fea-
turi’ri I.f1* Mil 1 I..-I i I if.'t 1 lift* in this city. It is
commonly called hero tho “Produce Exchange
Ring,” nnd its head is Mayor Edson, president
of the produco cxehnngo when elected mayor
—hence f ho name. It Is one of the fungus
growth of “rings.”
jonx J. o’rrif.v.
compare with Arthim in driving a bargain
with an opposing faction like Tammany for an
X table distribution of official offal. O’Brien
rs, as Arthur did not, uuder the affliction
of relatives who want office, and suffers conse
quently under the suspicion of subordinating to
family interests those ofthe party. These are hia
defects, which I point out first of oil. lie has,
on the other hand, the virtues of persistency
in laboring and fighting for the party and be
lieves absolutely in the head of tne ticket,
whoever ho may be. He never sulks in hia
tent. He will, by tho force of his nature alone,
supjmrt Blaine quite as heartily aa he would
have advocated Arthur. He has a great con
tempt for the “independent” and the “kicker j"
and so have nincty-nino out of every
hundred of tho men of tho organ
ization which he heads. In some
ofthe speculations which I have seen as to tho
independent republican 4 movement in this
city, this fact is left out of consideration. Tho
stalwarts ol two years ago will uot even think
of revenging tho defeat of Folgcr by staying
away from the jiolls when Blaine's Danner is
up. They arc trained politicians whom John
J. O’Brien represents; and don’t do business
in that way. It will be a mistake to count on
their making that error.
The republican national committee will do
business in this city from new quarters in tho
Hofftnnn house, instead of.^i formerly, in tho
Fifth Avenue. The latter nos lost something
of its prestige, and it has largely gono to tho
Hoffman, which is now nt onco the “Mining
Camp” and “Political Headquarter*/ of tho
city. Tho rooms to be devoted to tho commit
tee’s business aro to be fitted up as gorgeously
as tho rest of the building.
William F. G. Suaxks.
MACON'S RECORD BEATEN.
MAYOR raARKLIK KDSOJI.
It it a parasite on the body politic of ( Jam-
many ball; one of the little fleas that bite the
big one; and of courso it has other little
flees ail infinitum to live off
it. Mayor Edson was until re
cently a rn*h merchant,afflicted with tho polit
ical itch. Ho had for a brother-in-law a law
yer, who hod the disease equally with tha
mayor—some say tho lawyer inoculated the
merchant. The lawyer politician went to
work to get his brother-in-law nominated for
mayor, and finally succeeded In inducing John
Kelly to consider his name. Then fallowed
An interview; subsequently a aocoml. at which
Edson promised, if nominated and elected
mayor, to appoint rertaln Tammany moil to
oartain positions. It waa nothing more nor
leaa than . bargain and tradu of several
little '.flieea for the big on*. It w»* earrled
out. Tammany h»ll suddenly dlaeovercd
there wm one citizen (of whom it bad never
heard btfore) who waa preeminently fitted to
be mayor; aud he was made such. A good
merchant was spoiled to make a poor mayor.
One scandal of administration followed anoth-
The bargain and trade beforo election was
exposed. Next, the fact camo out that the
mayor had put Ms relatives in prominent and
paying offices, and was contemplating the el
evation of his lawyer brother-in-law to-the
principal legal position in the city
government. HA made bis chief clerk,
whom be had brought from tho
Produce exchange, the comptroller of the city
h.ndling million, of city money dally. Then
Ferdinand Ward, another former elerk, loom
ed up as the custodian of . million of city
money, deposited In hia rotten Marine tank.
The little “ring” got one black eye alter »n-
other; and now, In a oomplttely bunged-un
condition, it ia trying to get Maurenee. that ft
may fatten aa. T.mm.ny p»ra«it« on public
office, for another year.
The consequent unpopularity of Edaop a ad
ministration ha* given rtoe to . belief on the
t*rt of the local republican m.nagera that t
a possible to elect a republican mavor this
rev. Thia give, riao to (he pertinent inquiry
.a to what John J. O'Brien, tbe republican
“boM," expect* locally, and what ha is going
to do for tne republican national ticket. A
combination of local and genera! interests
thia fail—that to to aay, a union of stal
wart republican* and tha half-breed element,
which were ao wide apart two year* ago, by
whieh the former could aeeura the local office,
and in return give hearty aupport to Blaine
and Lotan—would undoubtedly bavaa alrong,
favorable effect on the republican vote in^ this
democratic city. If there ia any dtoaatfofnc-
lion in Tammany hall after the national ticket
to named, the danger to the democrat* would,
of course, lie greatly augmented, and, added
to the diaguat which the Eds-,n ring baa ere-
.ted, would affect tha issue here many thou
sand. of vote*. This, possibly, already annoy,
the democratic lender, and encourage* tbe
republican manager*.
John J. O’Brien, who fa practically the re-
pubiicou "boa*," largely became of hit J--
Poston Puts In Six flours Work That Over
topped Ford’s Score.
During the mechanic’s walking match Saturday
it was arranged to have three men walk against
theYccord mode In tho six hours walk at Macon,
when Ford won with a peoro of S0J$ miles. Tho
prize was 9100 for the man who should cover moro
distance than Ford did, nnd tho contestants who
essayed the task were Messrs. I’os ten, Buchanan
and Miller, three well known and athletic young
mechanics of tho city. They wore brought to tho
score, and promptly at 13 o'clock noon given tho
ilucluiimii went out like a shot from a
jlosoly pursued by I'oston. Miller
did not take the word quickly but when he dbl
Ket away lie broko Into a rapid run after hls llcc-
Ing colleague* and soon was In speaking distance
of them, They wero compelled by their extra rapid
cry tin
thus covered more than the unml lengths of laps.
Iliicliniinii mado his find mile In right minutes
and was heeled by Ponton who was notinany feet
ahead of Miller. Tho two miles was made In a
hunch 111 17% minutes, with Poston In tho lend,
liuelmimii second and Miller trailing slightly.
They put forth exir«iordlimr> ntrein.th
and speed am! were wildly applauded
as they spun around tho ring.
It was evident from the start tlmt I'oston was tho
Ilent conditioned man of the three, and hls splen
did stride and cosy run soon lM<gnn to point ldin
Mvnn to p
s tho winner and Indicate that lie would
■ the hours
tho
required distance. The semes l*y the hours aiu
r iven tielow. prefacing them with the fact that
• ’ 1 - ■: * ■ Mill, r wot
wild from some cause, yelling at the top of hls
voice and executing a wur-dancc that astonished
the natives. The overexcitement was manifest
that tbephyslclana forced hia withdrawal from tho
track. Tlio scores were as follows: _
I’aNt'.n,
Buchanan ....
Miller
30-12
“I I'-!
31-8 29-3
13-81 17-13 2 W
6-3 11-7 16-1 ju-'.
6-il >-8| U
Ponton having madoXI miles and Pi (11 lups
being a mile as calculated for this track) was
greeted with Immense applause. Buchanan had
made a plucky race, but wm too ftashy to hear
well tho heat and burden of the sultry walk. Pa»-
ton felt remarkably fresh when he left tho track
and started on hia walk home without apparent
dUfimlty. On a calculation of the exartduuneea
traveled by himself and Ford it was found that
Paston hail beaten Ford’s record by 893 feet, or a
little more than onc-wlxthof a mile. It wo* a Urn-
rate performance throughout and a stamps Paiton
aaan A 1 pedestrian.
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