Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1867-01-04
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structive and interesting pamphlets
with the above title, being reprint Of
an article from the North American
Review for October last, by James
Parton. Its revelations are truly as
tonishing, and we have never read a
more startling exposure Of daring and
systematic stealing, Of unrestrained
and INSCRIPTIONS public plunder, in
corporated under the name Of govern
ment But for the proofs here given
it would be difficult to believe that We
have within the limits of this land
system Of public administration so dia-
bolically and utterly corrupt as that
which mis- governs the great metropo-
lis of the continent.
10 what p0libicaI party the entire
responsibility for this knavish earica-
ture Of government belongs is very ev-
iident. New York IS par epeelkeH
4 Democratic city. Ofits 129. 600 v6sass
l94,500, or A clear majority of at lonst
/ 80. .OOOare Democrats. The mayor and
three-fourths of all members Of its
Boards Of Aldermen, CoUneilmen, Ed
ucatiOu and supervisors are elected by
Democratic votes. Formerly the po-
lice officers were elected ia like man
ner, and the roughs being largely In
the majority IN mauy wards, chose men
Of the worst character as guardians Of
the peace : Crime, ,eonnived at BY those
whose duty it was to suppress it, soon
grew 50 rampant as to evoke the inter
ference Of the State Legislatureto pre-
serve the city from absolute anarchy.
It was enacted that the Governor
should appoint four commissioners
whose duty il should be to select and
E organize the police force out of such
material as would not facilitate theft,
compound with felony and eonnive at
murder. But for this arrangement
respectable people could scarcely live
/ in New York to-day This Democrat
/ ic city dare not be entrusted with the
selection of its own policemen Life
aud property are not safe in the hands
Of the $4,000 Democrats who rule it
/ And of what sort of material Is this
dominant Democratic element made
We have its exponents in those pinks
of faro, Ben. Wood and John Morris
sey, but we will look behind them
The great bulk Of the property in the
city is owned by $4,000 persons, and
at least ia, 900 out the 10000 voters
/ are therefore persons having little OF
no property responsibility. To be
/ poor is in itself no sign of dishonesty
but it is difficult to understand how
even New York during the present
stagnation in the labor market aud th'
enormous prices ofliying can afford al
honest livelihood to working popula
ton of 790, 900 souls. Such a thing il
impossible. Where thousands worl
tens of thousands must live by swind
ling aud stealing. And as proof tha
such is actually the case let any ont
observe the vast torrent Of LOTTERY
schemes, quack medicine humbugs
and catch penny swindles, which EN-
anates continually from this great city
flooding the entire land. Thousand:
of honest people are caught by these
tricks and millions of dollars are SEN
! from the country to support these
thieving vagabonds who are too un
prineipled to be fit to vote for police
man. Between the corrupt Democrat
ic city government which connives a
these dishonest practices and the in
dividuals who carry them on there Ii
common interest and mutual support
The knave votes for the knavish Al
derman because he knows he will bt
more likely to favor him than au hon
| est man, and the knavish Alderman ia
vors the knave in order to get his vote
/ Again, of the 10000 voters in the
| metropolis 1900, or more than hal
BY u 500, are foreign born. A large
majority of the men who control the
politics of New York are therefore
men of acquired citizenship. This In
itself would be no disadvantage but
for the notorious fact that immense
/ numbers of the foreigners in New York
| are of the most ignorant and deprayed
class. As Mr.. Parton truly says, New
YORK is a sieve which lets through the
best emigration that comes to ou1
shores, but catches and retains the
worst. Out of this massSof foreign
I dregs Democratic votes are manufac-
tured by the thousand, and sweep the
ballot boxes like a food. They are
1.-the political stock in trade of the Au
gust Belmonts, Fernando Woods ant
other Democratic money kings, and be
come the stepping stones for the low
est characters to places of fhighest pub
! lie trust
III And POW let US glance at the Citl
3 Council elected by party composed
: Of such elements. Mr. Parton tells
us it is composed of men mostly un
der so years of age, Of whom Haw
} thornes sprightly young bar-keepel
who rainboWs the glittering drink 81
dexterously from one tumbler to an
other Is an appropriate type. They
: are butcher boys who have got into
politics, bar-keepers who have manip
? ulated the primary ward meetings. anC
young fellows who hang around en-
gine-houses and billiard rooms. They
a wear an air of staggering vulgarjty
p. and their brogue betrays their breed
? ing in such expressions as them laws,
'sot the table, we oughter," " and then
arguments is played out, which
may be heard almost any time in the
course of a debate" Such are tht
. Democratic notables who assembl,
I twice a week in the gorgeous cham
l bers of the New York City Hall tc
squander the peoples money by tht
: million. And all around them, as they
sit, are proofs Of the recklessness with
! which these vulgar fanctionaries have