Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 September 1884 — Page 1

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WHEN INDICATIONS. Saturday.— Generally fair weather flight changes in temperature. All our Departments have shared freely in the heavy receipts of our new fall stock during the week: the replenishing process has been symmetrical and all - including; plethora is the general condition, and every consumer participating in the depletion of the counters and shelves of the WHEN CLOTHING STORE Will surely serve self-interest. The store will be open until 10 o’clock to-night for the convenience of late shoppers. (jiticina THOUSANDS OF LETTERS in onr possession repeat this story: I have been a terrible sufferer for years with Blood and Skin Humors; have been obliged to shun public places bv reason of mv disfiguring hulfiors; have had the best physicians; nave spent hundreds of dollars and got no real relief until I used the Cuticura Resolvent, the new Blood Purifier, internally, and Cuticura and Cuticura Soap, the Great Skin Cures and Skin Beautifiers, externally, which have cured me and left my skin and blood as pure as a child'B. ALMOST INCREDIBLE. James E. Richardson, Custom-house, New Orleans, on oath says: In 1870 Scrofulous Ulcers broke out on my body until I was a mass of corruption. Everything kupwn to the medical faculty was tried in vain. I became a mere wreck. At times could not lift my hands to my head, could not turn in bed; was in constant pain, and looked upon life as a curse. Nd relief or cure in ten years. In 1880 I heard of the Cuticura Remedies, used them and was perfectly cured. Sworn to before U. S. Com. J. D. Crawford.

STILL MORE SO. Will McDonald, 2542 Dearborn street, Chicago, gratefully acknowledges a cure of Eczema, or Salt Rheum, on head, neck, face, arms and legs for seventeen years; not able to move, except on hands and knees, for one year; not able to help nimself for eight years; tried hundreds of remedies; doctors pronounced his case hopeless; permanently cured by the Cuticura Remedies. MORE WONDERFUL YET. H. E. Carpenter, Henderson, N. Y., cured of Psoriasis or Leprosy, of twenty years’ standing, by Cuticura Remedies. The most wonderful cure on record. A dustpanful of scales fell from him daily. Physicians and his friends thought he must die. CHire sworn to before a justice of the peace and Henderson’s most prominent citizens. DON’T WAIT. Write to us for these testimonials in full, or send direct to the parties. Don’t wait. Now is the time to cure every species of Itching, Scaly, Pimply, Scrofulous, Inherited, Contagious, and Copper-colored Diseases of the Blood. Skin and Scalp with Loss of Hair. Sold by all druggists. Price: Cuticura, 50c; Resolvent, $1; Soap, 25c. Potter Drug and Chemical Cos., Boston, Mass. TANARUS) TJ* A [TT.V For Sunburn, Tan and Oily Skin, DLAU 1 I Blackheads and Skin Blemishes, use Cuticura Soap. THE FIRE RECORD. Heavy Loss at Pierre, D. T.-An Entire Business Block Destroyed. Special to the lodianaDolie Journo], Pierre, Dak., Sept 12.—Last night Are destroyed thirty business houses. Loss $100,000; insurance $40,000. Hayden Bros, lose $17,000; insurance $12,000; Phelan & Cos. $10,000; insurance $5,000; G. T. Goodes & Cos., $14,000; insurance $3,000; First National Bank, $1,000; no insurance. Other losses range from SI,OOO to $5,000, with light insurance. To the Western Associated Press. Pierre, D. TANARUS., Sept. 12.—A terrible fire is raging here. The fire began at 10 o’clock this morning, in Hayden Bros, store, spreading north to Dakota avenue aud south to Missouri avenue, sweeping an entire block, including the First National Bank building, the stores of Phelan & Cos., Goode & Cos., Mr. Shurtleiff, and the Palace Theater. The fire is still uncontrolled, and the brick bank building is in danger, but the chances are that it will be saved. The damage is estimated at $75,000, with insurance to cover half. There is no fire department in the city. The fire is spreading west on Dakota avenue, but will not go any further north.

Stables Burned. Lexington, Ky., Sept. 12. —Eire at 6:30 this evening destroyed the stable of Smith & Merrill, and eleven horses and two mules. Loss $55,000; loss on stables, $2,500; fully insured. The flames spread to the stable in the fair grounds, which was destroyed. Loss $500; fully insured. At Navasota, Texas. Navasota, Tex., Sept 12. —A fire this morning destroyed a block of business and dwellinghouses in the center of the city. About a dozen business places were burned with all the contents. The total loss is estimated at $40,000; insurance about half. Fire at Fast Liverpool, O. East Liverpool,, 0., Sept. 12.—N. W. Walker & Co’s, fire brick works, together with several small out-houses, six Cleveland & Pittsburg railroad freight cars, and a number of telegraph poles, were destroyed by fire to-night. Loss estimated at $25,000. Block of Stores Burned. Midland, Ontario, Sept. 12.—A block of stores on King street, extending from the Queen’s Hotel to Dominion avenue, burned to-day. Loss, $30,000; partially insured. Woolen Mills Burned, Portsmouth, 0., Sept 12.—E. J. Salt & Co.’s woolen mills burned last nighe. Los, $30,000, fully insured. Captain Henueas To Be Court-Martialed. Washington, Sept. 12.—A general courtmartial has been appointed, to assemble at San Antonio, Oct. 9, for the trial of Captain Henness, of the Eighth Cavalry, on charge of conduct unbecoming an officer and gentleman. The charges have not been promulgated. It is understood the court was ordered on charges made by the officer's wife, and is an outcome of recent divorce proceedings instituted by himself. The Military in the Hocking Valley. Columbus, Sept. 12.—Governor Hoadly has ordered that the three companies of military doing guard dutv at the Hoeking valley mines, be relieved to-day. The Bucyrus Guards, the Upper Sandusky company, and Company B, Fourteenth Regiment, wiih go to the valley today to take the places of those relieved.

CHOLERA’S AWFUL HARVEST The Inhabitants of Naples Dying at the Kate of Four Hundred a Day, While from Nine Hnndred ta One Thousand Fresh Cases of the Disease Are Reported Every Twenty-Four Honrs, Appalling State of Affairs Resulting from Insufficient Burial Facilities. Corpses Carried to Cemeteries in Omnibuses, and Bodies Allowed to Remain Unbnried for Days—Notes by Cable. THE CHOLERA. The People of Naples Dying at tho Rate of More than 400 Per Day. London, Sept 12. —Italy has abolished quarantine against cholera on the French frontier. King Humbert has given SOO,OOO for relief of cholera sufferers at Naples. The condition of affairs at Naples continued to improve throughout last night Wooden huts are building for shelter of the poor and sick. The apprehended meat famine has been averted and the strike of the butchers been settled. Public assistance is given small dealers who have been ruined by the epidemic. The shops close at 4 o’clock. The city everywhere presents a mournful appearance, and deep gloom prevails. Humbert declines to leave the city. As, King Humbert was passing a prison, yesterday, the inmates raised a loud shout, praying to be set at liberty. Among those dangerously ill with cholera is a son of King Kalakaui, of the Sandwich Island. William W. Astor, American minister to Italy, has subscribed SI,OOO to the fund for relief of cholera sufferers. The official bulletin of the ravages of cholera during the last twenty-four hours in various parts of Italy is as follows: Name of Towns. Fresh Cases. Deaths. Naples (city) 809 430 Naples (province) 39 10 Bei-gemo 12 10 Bologna 2 1 Cuneo 11 9 Caserla 25 7 Geno 50 19 Massacarrara 6 3 Parma 9 7 Reggio Einila 1 1 King Humbert announces he shall not leave Naples until the epidemic wanes. The enormous percentage of deaths among railway employes has forced the companies to reduce the number of trains. There have been 150 cases already among railway hands. At the barracks, omnibuses are used to carry away the dead. Many bodies have lain unburied two days. The establishment of local quarantine or lazaretto is forbidden throughout Spain, except by express authority of the government. The cholera is not spreading. Two children died at the lazaretto to-day of a disease suspected to have been cholera. At Elclier eight fresh cases and four deaths are reported since the last account. At Noveldo there have been seven fresh cases." yesterday’s mortality. During the twenty-four hours ended at 8 o’clock this evening there have been 848 fresh cases and 356 deaths by cholera Total number of deaths to date, 3.000. Notwithstanding the official prohibition issned on Wednesday, there were several religious processions yesterday. King Humbert revisited the hospitals to day. Several deputies have been attacked by cholera.

THE VICE-ROYALTY OF INDIA. Thfe True Reason for Ripon’s Retirement —Criticism of Duflfertn’s Appointment. London, Sept. 12. —The reason officially stated for Lord Ripon’s resignation is the delicate condition of his health, but it is well known that various other causes combined to bring about his wish for retirement. It is true that he is still a sufferer from epileptic fits, one of which nearly terminated his life last April, and his health has been undermined for months by the worriment of constant disputes with subordinate Indian officials. But the discontent under his rule in India, which has shown itself more than once by open insults, and, more recently, the distrust of him by English politicians, caused by his proposal to disestablish the Church of England in India, have also made his official life a burden, and would sufficiently explain his retirement, apart from his ill health. Speculations as to his probable successor have been very common during the past six months. At one time it was asserted that the Queen had determined to give the vice-royalty to her son. the Duke of Cannaueht. and the appointment of that young man as the commander-in-chief of . the forces in India was said to be a steppingstone to the higher post. These predictions were soon disproved, and the prophets then decided that the coming man must be the Right Hon. George J. Goschen. At the beginning of the last session of Parliament th£ speakership of the House of Commons was offered to Mr. Gosehen, but he declined the honor, and it was then said that he had good reason to expect an appointment as Lord Ripon’s successor. Mr. Goschen was a candidate for the mission to Berlin, recently vacated by Lord Ampthill’s death, but he had to stand aside for Mr. Grant Duff, and now he has the disappointment of seeing this richer prize fall to Lord Dufferin. Those who are disposed to criticise the appointment of Lord Dufferin says that, by putting him in a purely administrative position; the government will lose the benefit of the splendid diplomatic talents which he has displayed at Vienna, St. Petersburg and Constantinople It is not denied, however, that he has also shown himself possessed of great executive ability as Under secretary for India and as Governorgeneral of Canada. It is said that the new Viceroy proposes to infuse unwonted energy into the government of India, and will seek to reduce or abolish the armies of the tributary states, which he regards as a growing menace to England’s supremacy in the East. FRANCE AND CHINA. A Dignified Statement of, the Case from a Chinese Standpoint. London, Sept 12.—The Shanghai Chamber of Commerce protests against the closing of the river by the Chinese government, and urges that Shanghai be made a neutral port The Tsung Li Yamen, in replying to the French ultimatum of July 12 announces that in accordance with the second article of Tien-Tsin provisional treaty, China is prepared to withdraw the garrisons from Tonquin after the expiration of one month, and that China respected the articles. Franco, they say, ought to respect the third article. The French demand for indemnity, they claim, is not in accordance with the five articles; also, that the treaty is in prejudice of their friendly relations, and contrary to the international law. The

Tsung Li Yanien asks if the government of France cannot wait until China withdraws her troops from Tonquin, when a complete treaty can be arranged. They also aver that the question of indemnity is not considered as being settled by the Tien-Tsin treaty; the demand for idemnity is opposed to the third article. It is lamentable that arrangements for making a proper treaty should be delayed by any demand for indemnity. The forcible taking of a guarantee for indemnity is contrary to the treaty, and compels China to give the treaty powers a history of the Tonquin question, together with a protest of China and another government which awaits an opportunity to discuss the question. The Tsung Li Yamen requests that Patenotre, the French embassador, shall come to Tiln-Tsin to arrange a definite treaty, manifest mutual sincerity, and strengthen the friendly relations of the two nations. This would be a proper mode of procedure, and according to international law. The Tsung Li Yamen announces that China will not be moved by any one man’s order. The Paris Patrie and National, under reserve, give currency to a report that negotiations with China has been received by France,these negotiations tending to a full settlement of all questions at issue. • The Americans and the French. Private Letter in New York Herald. At Foo-Chow the little English gunboat Mer lin lies at anchor for defense. She can land fifty men, and fifty more were placed on board last evening, from the Champion. The United States steamer Monocacy, from Shanghai, is expected every moment now, and will come up to the settlement She is the only vessel in our American navy of light enough draught of water to reach us. The community, though largely English or European, is delighted that an American vessel can come to participate in our protection, and some of those who have caviled in regard to the maintenance of an American navy would only need live at such a time as this in theße parts to come to a better state of mind. The talk of some American politicians and journalists in regard to the navy seems simply absurd to every citizen of the United States who for any reason has gone to some of these foreign lands. Much has been said against our service in Clrna, but there are men in it who stand well in the ejes of those who khow their work, and this is the time when consular intervention to prevent violence, as •well as to secure redress, is the absolute necessity of all. It is only the weakness of our naval squadron in comparison with that of other great nations that has made local grotection till "now impracticable. Admiral Courbet is a tall, slender, wiry, nervous man, with gray hair. He is clear headed and knows what he is about. On one occasion a Chinese vessel was about to go out when he sent for the captain to come and see him. The Chinese captain replied that his orders were not to leave his vessel. He then told him to stay where he was. The vessel dropped anchor. The first French vessel to enter was the Hamelin, which reached the anchorage on th 14th ult. It grounded on a bar four miles below and was got off witli much difficulty. The Chinese offered no assistance, and when she finally anchored five Chinese vessels lay near her. Two took positions close by, evidently as a threat, and there was a violent disagreement in a Chinese council of war as to the expediency of firing into her. It seemed remarkable to me when I saw the vessels soon after to notice that one of the Chinese gunboats was so stationed that if she missed the disabled tneray her great eighteen-ton gun would surely deposit its contents in the Imperial Chinese arsenal.

AFFAIRS IN EGYPT. Movements of General Wolseley—The Victory of the M miir us Dongola. ’ .ondhn, Sept, 12.—Genera! Lord Wolseley will proceed to Wady-Haifa as soon as the troops and transports have passed the second cataract. From that point the expedition will proceed to Dongola by water. At Dongola it will be decided what course to pursue in the further advance to Khartoum. Government officials are in hope that the native tribes will become friendly by the time the . expedition reaches Dongola, and that it will not be necessary for the expedition to proceed beyond that point Later dispatches confirm the report of the substantial victory of the mudir of Dongola, at Ambukol, over the rebels from Kordofan. Recent advices report that the Mahdi is in South Kordofan, with an army of 14,000, and that a detachment of 4,000 has been sent to reinforce the army besieging Khartoum. Major Chernand states that a report is current that General Gordon has made an attack upon Berber. ■ FOREIGN MISCELLANY. The Ex-Empress Eugenie Failing Rapidly, and Her Early Demise Expected. London, Sept 12. —Those who have seen the ex-Empress Eugenie within'the last few weeks say that she is rapidly breaking down, and predict that she will not much longer survive her husband and son, whose memory she mourns constantly. She was persuaded, a few weeks ago, to leave her home at Farnborough, England, and try the effect of a summer residence in Switzerland. The change, however, has not resulted in any benefit to her health, aud she is now, undisguisedly, a decrepit, broken old woman. Some traces of her famous beauty still remain, but there is no vestige of her former vigor and spirit She is bent, withered and querulous, and. when she undertakes to walk, she totters along painfully with the help of a Stick.

Bismarck Decorated. Berlin, Sept. 12.—The Emperor starts hence on Sunday night to meet the Czar and Emperor of Austria. He' will arrive at Skiernevie on Monday, accompanied by Bismarck. The Emperor of Germany, in a letter conferring the order of merit upon Bismarck, says: “During two wars you stood by your Emperor as a most careful adviser in your military capacity. I know your heart and soul are so much those of the soldier that I hope I give you pleasure by conferring on you this order which your predecessors held with pnde. I give myself the consolation of allowing the man whom God had given me for support and who does such great things for fatherland to receive, also, as a soldier that recognition which he, by his services, has so well earned. ” Parliament To Be Convoked. London, Sept 12. Parliament lias been convoked for the 23d of October for the transaction of government business and for discussion of the franchise bill. The ministerial party- intend t 6 curtail debates and expect to finish the session in four weeks. Pemellites will move an inquiry into the Maamtrasna affair. The Irish and the Franchise Bill. London, Sept 12.—1n consequence of the government’s refusal to institute a fresh inquiry into the Maamtrasna murder case, in the light of Casey’s and Philbin’s confessions, the Irish party in Parliament have resolved to vote with the Conservatives on the franchise bill when the measure comes up again at the autumn session. The Pope Refuses to Accept Rome, Sept 12.—Le Moniteur du Rome states the meeting of the papal coasistory which was •to have been held on the, 29th inst has been postponed. The Italian government offered the Vatican $12,000 as a reserve hind from sales of the propaganda property. The Pope quietly ignored the offer. A Justifiable Cue of Cannibalism. London, Sept 12.—An animated discussion is going on in the newspapers regarding the [Continued on Second Page,]

JOHN KELLY’S FOLLOWERS. Tammany IHI Sulkily and Sullenly Promise ipport Cleveland. / f An Addr .e Democracy of the Country Es Ic Grounds of Grievance .nst that Gentleman. Cb 2 . ——— Mr. Grady Furiously Assails the Democratic Candidate for President, And Declares He Will Vote for Bntler—An Indorsement, the Insincerity of Which Is Remarkably Plain. TAMMANY HALL. The Great Meeting Last Night—The Address to the Democracy of the Country. New York, Sept. 12. —One hour before the doors to Tammany Hall opened this evening a great crowd assembled, waiting to go into the meeting of the 'Tammany general committee where it was to be decided whether or not the organization would indorse Cleveland and Hendricks. When entrance was obtained, the committee took seats on the main floor. Very few prominent members were absent. When John Kelly took his seat directly in front of the platform the enormous crowd cheered time and again. When quiet had been restored Mr. Kelly said that owing to the illness of Sidney P. Nichols, the chairman, and the necessary absence of the vice-president, it was his duty to call on Senator Foster, of the Twenty-fourth district, to preside. After reading the minutes of the previous meeting, General B. F. Spinola, chairman of the sub-committee appointed by the committee on organization to draft an address to to the people, made his report. Tho address was read. It is as follows: “To the Democratic Tarty of the United States:

“The Democratic-Republican organization known as Tammany Hall, is the oldest political body in the United States. Its existence, under another name, antedated the establishment of our present form of government. Its members took an active part in the election of Washington, Jefferson. Jackson, and their Democratic successors—candidates of the party nominated in congressional caucuses and national conventions. It has seen the birth, continuance, and sudden or gradual death of ail parties to which the ingenuity of the politician or the necessity of the occasion has given rise, from the adoption of the federal Constitution down to the present day. During all these years it has never severed in its allegiance to the party, nor faltered in its support of candidates nominated and principles enunciated in the platforms of national Democratic conventions, and in hut one instance in all its history did it oppose the action of the party on its nominee in the State, and that only after due notice was given, and in response to nature’s first law, when the existence of bur organization was threatened, and the personal and political rights of our constituents assailed. As to the truth of this statement we invite the severest scrutiny of impartial history. The principles of Democracy announced by Jefferson have been uniformly followed, and in their defense Tammany has not hesitated to criticise and condemn its public officials when, in its judgment, they were violating those principles and their professions of Democratic faith made before their elevation to place and power. At times measures of great interest to the people have originated with us. and have been carried to successful adoption by the Democratic party in the State and Nation. It was by our constant iteration and discussion that public attention was called to the corrupt course of the Republican party in squandering the domain, by which 196.000,000 acres of public lands were given to railroad and other corporations. The tariff agitation by us resulted in drawing attention to the necessity of such reduction of duties as would provide means sufficient for the requirements of the government, and at the same time afford the incidental protection necessary to American labor. We have advocated, at all times, reduction of taxation, municipal. State and federal, in order that the burdens of the peoplo should be lessened. Home rule and local self-government have a'wavs been cardinal principles of Democracy in Tammany Hall. We have differed with the State executive on the application of these important principles of government, because, in our judgment, the truest democracy is where the least possible power consistent with proper execution of law is taken from the peonle and lodged with their representatives. We have at all times opposed centralization of power as dangerous to our republican institutions, and have not hesitated to condemn the unnecessary, unjust and undemocratic interference of the State Legislature and executive in our municipal affaire. Our opposition to the abridgement of the power of the aidermen of our city would have been just as determined had the Common Council been as strongly Republican as it was Democratic, and no alleged representatives of a public meeting, presided over by a Republican, advocating the passage of this or other undemocratic measures, under the deluding cry of reform, could blind us to the true intent and object of such legislation.

CLEVELAND’S VETOES. “We championed the cause of anti-monopoly in 1881 and in the ensuing campaign of 1882 that resulted in the triumphant election of the present Governor of the State. It is true that dissensions among our adversaries, the Republicans, had much to do with the great majority which he received, but the intense feeling iu the breast of thousands ot working men against the Republican party for its corruption and monopolistic legislation caused thousands of these voters to ally themselves with the. Democratic party, thereby protesting against such legislation. It is no exaggeration to say that it seemed to them that the drift of existing laws was tending to debase rather than elevate labor; that the whole encrey of the government was being used to foster the interests of the employer and capitalist at the expense of the toiling millions. That these opinions were founded on substantial and uncontrovertable grounds, and were not the emanations of minds of dreaming demagogues, who sought to dupe their ignorant but confiding followers, the candid observer must admit In a neighboring Republican State the right of the people to peacefully assemble was invaded, and tno militia of the Commonwealth was used tyrannically to enforce the unreasonable demands of capital. The press of the country generally approved labor strikes, but no liarsn criticism appeared against capitalists and corporations who closed their factories against workingmen or operatives on tho plea of ‘overproduction,’ so that the returns of capital might not be diminished. In this condition of affairs the eyes of the wage-earners were turned to the Democratic party, and they willingly cast their lot with it. They expected to receive reward for their confidence and labor in such legislation as would ameliorate their condition. The people of the city demanded to have the elevated railroad corporations confined to legititimate returns for the capital invested in a valuable franchise which was -conferred on them by the city and State. After a prolonged struggle with all the influences that capital can employ, labor secured a victory in the Legislature, only to be thwarted by a veto in the executive chamber. “They sought the adoption of the law which would at once prevent the prison authorities of the State from contracting criminal labor so as to bring it in competition with honest labor. The measure passed the Assembly, but was do-

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seated in the Senate by an unholy combination of Republicans and recreant Democrats, who ignored the pledges made in their party platform. By the efforts of the Tammany organization, through one of its Senators, an act was passed and signed by the Governor to submit the question of the abolition of the contract svstem in the State prisons to the voters of the "State, and the people sustained the measure by a majority of 138,000 votes, notwithstanding hundreds of thousands of ballots against the proposition were secietly distributed by party managers, members of the Democratic State central committee, in order to defeat this Democratic measure. “A bill limiting the hours oflabor of car-drivers and conductors, passed the Legislature. It was met with the executive veto, and killed, thereby continuing the hardships of an honest, overworked body of men. “The laborers and mechanics of the State sought to protect themselves from loss at the hands of dishonest contractors and employers, and caused to be passed an act by the Legislature giving a lien of the mechanic and laborer priority over all others. This also suffered the same fate.

TAMMANY’S COURSE AT CHICAGO. ‘‘We might add and enumerate other instances, but we have shown sufficient to have warranted even a stronger opposition on our part to the nominee of the Democratic party than we made at Chicago. Being an integral portion of the great Democratic party, we have always, in our capacity as delegates, exercised the right to advocate the claims of men whom we knew could be trusted by the people, or to oppose the nomination of those who could not be trusted, and it was the exercise of this right, and in conscientious discharge of duty, that we took occasion, at Chicago, to advise against the nomination which was made by the national convention. Our opposition was without personal feeling and arose from our intimidate knowledge of the sentiments of the toiling masses. As to the course of Gov. Cleveland in reference to these labor bills, the "most charitable view to take is that he was ignorant and unenlightened concerning the nature and working of these laws, which would have occasioned so much real benefit to workingmen,and could not have resulted in loss to the employer. We do not impugn the Governor's motives or the views which he was expressed on these subjects; they doubtless were conscientiously considered in the discharge of his official obligations and duties. We simply express our knowledgeof the antagonis m against him which existed in the minds of the workingmen, who compose the bulk of the Democratic voters in the State of New York. Whether that expression of our ideas as to the policy of nominating as a candidate for the presidency a man against whom so much opposition existed was correct, and was justified by existing circumstances, let occurrences which have transpired since the adjournment of the national convention determined. It was apparent, however, that a majority of the delegates were not of our way of thinking. The most conscientious of them were actuated, no doubt, by the record of his election as Governor of the State of New York, and without reflection and sufficient information, deemed it the part of wisdom to nominate a man who was elected to the highest office in the State by the phenomenal majority of 192,854. The prejudiced were probably governed by an antipathy that existed, unreasonably, against the members of the Tammany Hall organization. That this unwarrantable prejudice existed must be admitted, and that it still exists, even among men who, in other respects, are open to conviction, is equally true. Whence comes it? To the unreasoning hatred of partisan opposition we dp not seek to offer any argument or state any undisputed facts which might, perchance, have weight with the thoughtful, candid mind; indeed, it would be useless labor. But we deem the present a most appropriate occasion to reach the latter and to disabuse their minds of any lingering doubt that may exist as to the integrity of this organization. “It is not unfair to claim, in approaching this subject, that the odium properly chargeable to the Tammany Hall organization as it was in ring times should not attach to the Dresent management The existing organization and present leadership ol Tammany date from 1871. The acts, depredations and corruptions committed by the defunct ring and its Republican allies preceded that date. When Samuel J. Tilden, Oswald Ottendorfer, John Winthrop Chandler, Augustus Schell, John Kelly, its present leader, and others, succeeded in driving the corrupt leaders out of tho organization, they found an Augean stable which indeed required herculean strength and executive ability to cleanse and put in order. These self-sacrificing workers for the Democratic party succeeded in the work of restoration. Order was revived, and a system of fair primaries instituted in every assembly district; anew general committee was elected, and again Tammany became a respectable, lawabiding Democratic organization,.self-respecting and respecting the rights of others. Its strength as a Democratic organization was increased to 60,000 votes, which number were cast for that honest old Democrat, Augustus Schell, now dead, as candidate for mayor, when lie was defeated by Edward Cooper, under a combination made by Democrats opposed to Tamftiany Hall with the Republican party of this city, upon a division of offices, which polled 70,000 votes against him.

A DEFENSE OF TAMMANY. "But we have had to combat not only false impressions created as to the character of the members of our organization, which have been manufactured not only to blacken our reputation and lessen our influence, but charges have also been made against our political integrity and the honesty of our support given to candidates of the Democratic party. It has been charged that we conspired to defeat Tilden and Hendricks in 1876 and Hancock and English in 1880, and the press of the country has so generally circulated this astrocious slander that, by continued repetition, even impartial men have come to believe it. The following statement of facts should suffice to bury this calumny forever: In 1876. Tilden’s total vote in New York State was 521,949; Hayes’s 489,207; Tilden’s majority. 32,742. Tilden’s majority by counties, including New York, was 91,395; Hayes’s, 58.652; Tilden's majority, 32.742. Tilden’s majority in New York county was 53.969, State outside'New York was 21,227. A large vote was cast for Tilden in New York—ll2,s3o—which therefore elected him, and when it is remembered that the Tammany Hall organization was the only Democratic party in the city and county of Now York —the other Democratic organization, Irving Hall, having practically given up its existence for that campaign, running no candidate—it will be seen at once how false and unjustifiable is the charge. Tammany, with its magnificent discipline and honest management, brought this enormous vote to the Democratic ticket and made success certain. The victory which the Republican managers snatched from the jaws of defeat must be sought for elsewhere. Perchance it may be discovered in halting, time-serving senators and congressional ropresentaves who consented to manufacture a device unknown to the Constitution, which defeated the expressed wish of the majority of the-people of" the United States. Against this fraud the Tammany organization protested, and it has never ceased to condemn the ingenious and unconstitutional electoral commission, cunningly devised to avert the impending destruction of the Republican party, which it succeeded in accomplishing in lß7i by a voto of eight to seven. “The gross folly of charging the defeat of Hancock, in 1880, to us, will bo apparent when it is remembered that by the efforts of Tammany representatives, more than any other delegates, was his nomination brought about —Samuel J. Tilden bavins declared lie did not desire and would not accept the nomination if offered him, and his letter to that effect having been read to the convention, announcing his irrevocable doclination. The efforts made by the organization in behalf of General Hancock, from the day of his nomination, were unceasing until the close of the polls iu November, 1880. In his behalf the largest procession ever witnessed in this city was got up, it* members putting themselves to an expense of not leas than $50,000, and the enthusiasm which it created alarmed the Republican managers to renewed exertions and corrupt practices. The tariff issue was injected into the campaign at the eleventh hour, to conn-