The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1871-09-25
RUM AND PRIMARIES.
Hon.. G. &. Leigh on Politics and
~ Drunkenness.
Twenty Thousand Suspended Criminals Employed
as Election Agents-Who Control the
Nominations-An Appeal to Tenn
perance Men to Vote

perance Men to Vote.
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An address was delivered last night by the Hon.
c. G. Leigh, candidate for Secretary OF state. at
Jefferson Market, before the Father Matthew Tenn
perance Society, Branch No. /. There was q large
attendance and many OF the statements of the lee
turer as TO the mode in which legislators are manu-
featured excited considerable attention. The In
PRODUCTION OF the lecture was devoted to O sketch
OF the great evils of drunkenness. after which Mr..
Leigh traced the connection between the present
political evils and the rum shop.
He said:-These legalized rum shops, which are
multiplied In our city by tens OF thousands, are
places where drunkards iders. vagabonds, thieves
pickpockets gamblers and politicians short,
where the dangerous classes Congregat g
ana keep constant camps While the peaceable cit.
zens are engaged In their various and multiplied
vacations OF industry by day and spending their
evenings In lecture rooms, social circles. building
humane asylums meeting in temperance societies.
trades unions or in church fellowship the danger
GUS classes are holding their orgies in the dram
shop, alluring the young and vitiating those Of
mature age. Did they confne their labors to cor.
ruptng only those whom they induce to enter their
circles, even then we should have serious
charges to lay before them; but they have
laid claim to and have for years
sought to rule our city and our State
In this effort they have also been too successful
Cotton was once, but now whiskey Is enthroned
Tell 1t not In Gath; publish 1t not the streets of
Askelon, lest monarchs in the OLD World rejoice
and the aristocracy Of Europe triumph. The dram
shop Is king, and democrats and republicans alike
bow down in subserviency to his iron will in this
land OF washington. will tell you the mode by
which their power is admitted and their sovereignty
is undisputed. There are
TWO Political PARTIES
In our city and our State. Each present their can
qidates on the day Of election to be voted
for by our fellow citizens. As there
are generally but these two sets OF
Candidates 1t Is apparent that the power that
dominates these candidates IT, after all. the true
source Of influence In their respective parties Now
these men that keep constant camp In our grog.
cries are the very men that determine who shall
represent them IN our ward, City, county and State
conventions When the Time arrives for a formal
domination or ratification of their previous DEGREES
forth like bees surround, take possession Of the
primaries and force the candidates into nOmina-
lion Partisan papers WIN annoInce the names Of
upt0
THE DAY OF ELECTION
make use OF all these arts they are perfect adepts
in 70 induce good citizens to go the polls and vote
for their Gram shop candidate. Now, allow me here
this moSs Of osnd 10
dates to be voted for both parties are alike; the
and often the same persons to carry out their aScm
Unable schemes. BY such means, whichever party
s Son the set, sra% s1p to
nomination entirely to their influence. when
elected elected the patronage Of ONCE is dis
And woe be 1t to that legislator who shan vote for
any law damaging their Interests. To do so would
meeting. BY this mode our best citizens are dis
franchised, and the government of our state and
From legislators thus chosen 1t is but reasonable to
expect corruption, from such judges bribery, and
tratlon would cali your serious attention to the
who have their headquarters In the dramshOp
to the decision Of SOME Of our JUDGES ana especiay
to the enormous frauds just now exposed In this
to run for oice selected by any other class OF our
fellow citizens they would not dare to as they
worst class Of men, they know they viii not endan
ger their denomination by
PLUNDERING THEIR FELLOW CITIZENS,
providing they divide portion among their con-
federates. This Is the situation we are in this day.
and say again. It arises entirely by tine good cil
nees these villains have selected. When men get
elected TO office through such means, and by such
constituency they are enabled to intrench and for.
tfy themselves through another agency, winch ia
more pltable and even more dangerous than those |
have named, though they belong to the same army
OF the dramsnop ye they are organized with sepa-
That very large class with indictments and suspended
judgments hanging over them-men who have been
OF society, and whom the judge allows to run at
large with the caution that they will be brought I'M
the interest or caprice Of the ocer deem It expeden
Men placed IN that position become the unwilling
slaves Of these officials, but more guilty criminals
can give no data as to the number of such men in
our midst, but In conversation with gentleman at
is bar ne assured me mat there could be no less
SUSPENDED CRIMINALS
within the metropolitan district.
IT has come out IN evidence within the last week
that one OF these suspended criminals was an.
pointed ianltor Of the Court House, and had under
his care valuable papers. This man is now under
the papers ne was empoye Tor
There could be no ind1cement for this
man to commit this grave offence; ne was in no way
Denented by the destruction OF these papers, but
those who were instrumental in appointing him TO
this place OF trust knew the power they held over
willingly or unwilllngly they required 1t his hands,
II he refused he would be committed to prison for
only end in the same The Interested but concealed
Villains Will OF course employ the best legal talent to
acqult him. ana there are hundreds in Ike situations
to prove an allbf TO any thing their masters
impose upon them. IL is with these instruments
THEY CONTROL THE NoMINATIONs;
them as inspectors OF elections and guardians over
the sancty OF the ballot box with such convenient
tn 5e entT Ss ~ amy number Of oas
spect0rs find IL necessary to bring forward to re-
elect their guilty superlors.
further chastsement Justice has in store for the
guilty city and State that allows these dramshops
the polls and votes for these dramshop nominees
for men who are pledged to sustain then-and both
political parties stand thus pledged-he is guilty
but for Father Mathews man to vote for these
dramshop candidates Is to stand self.convicted of
his power to remove intemperance and the cause
from among men, and ID no one act OF che wear can
ne d9 so much to sustain the dramshops as to vote