Eureka Daily Sentinel

TAMMANY ON THE WARPATH.

An effort is being made in New York to harmonize the several conflicting elements of the Democratic party in that city. The State Committee took the matter in hand and called for a free and full conference of delegates from all of the factions and organizations. The World says Tammany tried to rule the roast. At this the Express, John Kelly's organ, grows indignant and asserts that 'Tammany has made no such claim.' Mr. Kelly's paper then goes on to say that Tammany does not pretend to represent the odds and ends of municipal politics and the debris of a score of defunct organizations now associated under the name of the "County Democracy." It has no ambition to represent men who, according to Nelson J. Waterbury, assessed Democratic candidates for city and county offices last Fall and put the money in their own pockets. It does not represent the men who made a corrupt political deal with the Republicans in the city government during the last weeks of Cooper's scandalous administration, nor the men who combined with the Republicans in 1878 and defeated a Democratic candidate for Mayor and two Democratic candidates for Congress. It does not represent the men who insisted on nominating Robinson in 1879, in order to defeat the Democracy, kill him as a Presidential possibility, and elect Cornell Governor. It does not represent Samuel J. Tilden, nor Edward Cooper, nor Hubert O. Thompson, nor Andrew H. Green, nor the rest of the gang who have made most of the mischief this city has endured for the past six years, and who have done irreparable damage to the Democratic party. And it does not represent the interests of Jay Gould. Tammany does represent the old and true Democracy of this city and county, the party that secured the nomination of Hancock in 1880, and would have elected him but for Sam Tilden's treachery. It represents the men who threw over 102,000 votes for William R. Grace, and elected him in spite of the opposition of Cooper and Wickham and their anti-Tammany followers. It represents over a hundred thousand Democratic voters who understand what Democratic principles are and will maintain them, and will not be snuffed out nor sold out, nor crowded out of their allegiance to the great Democratic party of the Union.

This kind of talk looks very much like keeping open the old sore. There can be no Democratic victory under such state of affairs. The Democrats of New York owe it to themselves and the party throughout the Union to stop this senseless quarrel. There can be nothing in continuing it but disaster. With the stalwart and half-breed split, the Democrats have an excellent opportunity to sweep the State this Fall, if they will but quit wrangling and go to work like sensible men. Democrats in other sections have a right to expect harmony and victory in New York.