The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1860-11-01

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the nearest police station. whence some
seryens de vile accompanied him to the
spot. These men knew that the ca.a.
combs passed under that street, and it
was near draughthsle nearly opposite
to the compositor's house that they were
able to communicate With the prisoners.
A PICTURE OF DEMOCRACY IN
BROOkLYN.
District Attorney wl.slow Expose, the
Champions Of Democracy.
Mr.. John Winslow, District Attorney
of Kings county, New York, improved
the occasion Of speech before the
Young Mems Republican Association of
Brooklyn, on Thurrdsy evening, to make
a semi-oficial exposure Of the characters
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lows caustic speech is good enough to
reproduce entire, but We must be content
with the following choice extracts:
"The regular Democracy, instead Of
putting forward responsible men, have
truckled and conceded to the lowest ele.
ments-to the dangerous classes-until
at last it has come to pass that there can
not be q nomination had of any Office
from the conventions. unless through the
working Of the machinery of which this
ruffian class are the engineers.
81 hold IN my hand a list Of the del
egstes who purport to have been elected
to the Conventions of the regular Dcmoc-
rscy. In the First Ward two delegates
are named who have recently been indict-
ed and convicted Of crime, since the first
of January, who are we'll known to the
police; and who, nevertheless, seem to
have become essential to the representa-.
ton of the First Ward in Democratic
Then, glaucing at the list
of the Sixth Ward, there is delegate
who has been arrested over and over
again for crime in this city, indicted and
punished; we'll known as disreputable
character-an outlaw, dangerous to So
ciety in every way. And yet he has be-
come 50 important in our local govern
ment that he is sent to convention to
select our Judges, Sheriffs and other Off.
GERS. Then take the Tenth Ward. l
cannot 90 over all of ouch names in the
list, for want of time but to the Tenth
Ward names 1 would particularly call
your attention met Democrat Of the
Tenth ward on the morning of the pri.
mary election for delegates, and remark,
ed, suppose you are going to the pr
mary toni ght p 'No, sir, not I Ihave
no ambition to get my head pounded,
was his reply. 1 did not fully appreciate
the force Of his remark until the next
morning, when discovered that in that
ward, among the delegates elected was Il
fellow who has been pounding stone in
the Psnitentiary as convict all summer,
and whose sphere Of usefulness, it seem
ed, had been changed from pounding
stone in the Penitentiary to pounding
heads at the primary. This man has
been indicted for robbery-convicted as
q criminal under that Indictment, and
sent to the Penitentiary for ninety days,
getting out just in time to run the pri-
mary machine in the Tenth ward. An.
other fellow in the same delegation has
not had quite so bitter an experience of
his deserts, but his ambition and teDden-
cies lie quite in the same direction.-
Another, from the same ward, has be-
como we'll known to the police as requir-
ing to be looked after. And still another,
who attended the City Convention, is
notoriously . very efficient man to run
the primary machine regardless Of all
consequences, having the faculty which
disting gu;shed great warriors, Of march
ing on to the completion ct his task over
dead bodies if necessary. And from the
same ward again is a man we'll known on
our criminal records as having been in.
dicted and convicted Of offences-a noto-
rious bully and rufian. And thus, it
seems, the Democratic party ofths Tenth
ward cannot select candidates for impor-
tant Offices, without sending such crew
as this to cast tho vote Of the ward in
their selection. And finally, to cap the
climax, there is yet another man here, .
person whom I recollect trying for man
slaughter some years ago, when acting as
Assistant District Attorney. l remem-
Der his coming into court-everybody
spoke of him as "short haired boy'-a
description which he certainly answered.
He was convicted, and sent for eleven
months to the Penitentiary of this coun-
ty, under the sentence Of the City Court,
prior to Judge Culver's term. That man
has pursued that kind Of life ever since
lis we'll known to the police a. rufiian
and yet the regular Democracy cant
get along without sending this man to
their conventions to decide who shall
rule US. Then the Twelfth ward pre-,
seuts a name we'll known on our police
records man who, in any other coun.
try than this, would figure in an institu.
tion Of penal character, instead Of in q
political convention.
"Here is convention comes together
to nominate a City Judge, to whose
hands are to be entrusted the highest
and most sacred responsibilities. A
man could not have got nomination un.
less he stood we'll with these dangerous
classes-ond that is a bad premonitory
symptom, as the doctors would say. Te
obtain their good will he must have cat.
cred to their tastes, and taken pains te
stand we'll with them, in order to gel
their support as against respectable men
He is thus demoralized from the start
and entirely united for the faithful dis
charge Of the judicial duties. l do not
believe iu the election Of judges-it is
one of tho greatest wrongs ever inflicted
an free society. at the best--but what