The Trail of the Tiger
Tammany: 1789-1928
Being An account of Tammany from 1789; The Society of St. Tammany, or Columbian Order;
Tammany Hall; The Organization; and the Sway of the Bosses

By Allan Frankin

Originally published 1928
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"HONEST" JOHN KELLY

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he was not one of Tweed's ring. In the 1850's he was elected alderman and then went to Congress where he served two terms and then was elected Sheriff of New York county in 1858.

After Mayor Havemeyer had openly accused the Sheriff of fraud, Kelly ran as a candidate for Mayor but withdrew just before election and sailed for Europe. After his return and he became head of Tammany which place, he said, he accepted at the solicitation of hundreds of prominent men, Kelly started in to clean house. His first work was that he must enlist as members and officers men of unquestioned integrity. August Schell, then in the last years of his life, became Grand Sachem of Tammany, Tilden, Horatio Seymour, Sandford E. Church, August Belmont, and Abram S. Hewitt became associated with the Tiger and far and wide Tammany members broadcast that the organization was composed of men of known honesty.

Mayor Havemeyer, incorruptible, stood between John Kelly and his wish that the city government should be run for the benefit of the office holders. The Mayor, then almost eighty years old, had after previous service, come back into political activity to carry on the reform government. Kelly, like all machine politicians, hated reform and after Tammany had covered its stripes with sheep skins,

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