| Show The Time Founder of ot Iou Hul Tammany T was as founded by William Mooney an nn Irishman by descent an American by birth an upholsterer by trade and an nn organizer and doubt doubtless ss ssan an an- agitator by Instinct Had lIl Mooney keen een born In our day h he probably would v have hove belonged to more secret societies than there are days In the tho week antI and would have been active in all nl of or them No n adequate pen ven portrait of the founder of ot Tammany Tan nany has been belm handed down to ua us u but we have hove a a. aright n right to picture him as 09 nn an energetic and talkative citizen who was anxious an and able ablo to do things Ills his Ils head hea was full tul of or plans he ho possessed the gift gUt of ot Imagination he ho was waR tho sort of ot a man man wo we 0 always altys find and as chairman of or Important Important tant committees in In In fact he be would v have shone in any ony capacity from the head hed he'd of ot a a Sunday Sun ay school to tho leadership leadership leader leader- sh ship IV of a a great political organization The Tho Te world worl has always had bad such men arid and ever will ont wi William Mooney did not rise to tho the h heights of greatness Ills His ils mental Capacity ca capacity Ca- Ca c- c was wal not such as ns to force torce him himfar himfar far to the front There are aN a score of ot men now living who rule far tar greater reater societies than the Tammany Tammany of ot Mooney's Moo Moo- ney's day doy and It I should not console them to reflect that tile the average Tammany Tammany Tam Tam- man many member never nover heard of William Mooney and that no bronze or marblo marble mar mar- ble hlo perpetuates his likeness or his him hll memory Moone Mooney and most of or the mon associated asso asso- elated In the founding of Tammany hail had been members of or the the Sons of or Libert Libert Lib Lib- ert erty With Wih tho the close of the Revolution this society was WIS disbanded it being assumed that that their work was is-as done The suspicions of ot the tho proletariat were aroused when n Alexander U I Hamilton mlton th ew J his h- py powerful J Jer o e arid pr protection pro t Uon 0 tn TorJe They rOl full 11 themselves ves powerless to prevent the in- electon election to office or of men known to ha ha e been royalists The They had no vot votes s with which to prevent pre this and the I proud patricians smiled scornfully C EJ aj th they paused at the doors of ot coffeehouses coffeehouses coffee houses and arid taverns and oCl listened to o 0 the denunciations of these landless and therefore 0 disfranchised Iced patriots Al Almost Almost Al- Al most to a 0 man mon the they opposed tho the ratification rat rat- libation of or tho constitution 1 and it i Isan is isan an nn un undisputed historical fact that this document V would never Have Havo been adopted In Is Its present form had tho the thomass thomass mass of oC the time people been to voto upon It H They held hehl that it it was deliberately designed t to throttle the majority and to give undue power to wealth but whether the they were were right or wrong wrong is not a 0 question Ito to be discussed dis die cussed here |
