The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1868-10-30
WHERE THE DEMOCRACY RULE.

There is one place where the Democ-
racy have had the rule for a number of
years. That place is New York city. 1t
is we'll known that there is not more
corrupt, vile and thieving government
on this continent, than the Democratic
city government of New York. Per-
sons who are wanting a specimen OF
Democratic rule need only turn their
eyes to New York city, and they will
see it in all its strength and beauty.
Mrs. Jane G. Swisshelm, who does
not sympathize with the Republicans,
and who is one of the most forcible OF
our lady writers, has been ''seing the
sights" in New York, and gives her opin-
ions of New York Democracy be-
low. She tells where the Democratic
majorities come from in that city:
The missionary that is wanted in
New York is the locomotives way to
get ont of the city in the evening and
back to work i'll the morning. 1t is i'm
possible for man to work in the city
and sleep out of it. 1t is journey OF
an hour and half from City Hall to a
car drawn by steam; and Iaboring
pense of travelling back and forth to
work. So they are piled into down
town houses like maggots in cheese.
l visited one of the best model tene-
ment houses, yesterday, and found six
ty-siX families on q lot 50x10O feet
giving a space of earth's surface of 8
little over 9XS feet square for each fam.
lily. Not more than they are entitled to
for graves. AS l have said, this is one
of the best tenement houses, for it has
no tenements more than two feet below
the surface. One part faces on q mar
row street into which all the ashes and
garbage are thrown, and the drainage
into two wells, the contents of which
must be carried through the main hall,
thrown into night carts, and carted
miles across the city, to be dumped in-
to the river. The wharf at one side of
the city, built OF dump, has long since
fallen into decay, SO that night carts.
from that side of the city, must pass
clear across to the other side to reach
a dumping wharf. In that city the
WOTtd boasts that the Democratic ma
jOrity is larger than the entire Republi-
can vote! Democracy, which in the
South denied to the laboring man the
right to his own bones, in the North
denies him pure air, sunshine, and
enough of the earth's surface while liy-
ing to bury him when dead. Democra-
cy contracts to pay to their Democrats,
Brown, Devoe and Knapp, $498, 500 a
year in ten years for cleaning the
streets. One year after, said Democrats
sell their contract for 100000. They
have saved enough to secure them airy
churches, luxurious parlors, we'll kept
grass plats, fast horses and elegant car
riages, while the poor man wades to his
little dark room through heaps of fes-
tering filth, sleeps in fetid atmosphere
and sees his children pine and die for
want of pure air and sunshine! The
reeking record which American De-
mocracy has made for itself in the CITY
of New York. would surely be its
death warrant if it were not that SO
m my thousands of its victims are una
b to read. Ne eastern potentate ever
concocted more effective scheme of
robbing the poor for the benefit of the
rich than that devised and being con-
stantly executed by the Democratic
government of the city of New York.
Were it not for the Metropolitan Police
and Board of Health, organized and
sustained by the Republican govern
ment of the State, the city must, before
this time, have been abandoned to
desperadoes and prostitutes.