Western sentinel. [volume] (Winston [i.e. Winston-Salem], N.C.) 1856-1886, 1885-10-29
NEW YORK POLITICS.
AND THE PILE OF MONEY THAT
is CURRENT.

AMI The FILE OF MONEY THAT
is CURRENT.
The Opinion Of Prominent Politician
on the Outlook in New York, as Ex-
pressed to Sentinel Correspondent.
Special Correspondence of the Sentinel. 9
New York, Oct. 24.-During an
exciting political contest in this city,
such as is now being waged, money
seems to grow ON every bush. and
both of the contesting parties have a
bank account that apparently knows
no limit. The honest citizen in the
simplicity of his heart asks where all
this money comes from. 1t comes
from his own pocket if the truth were
told. 1t comes from assessments on
the salaries of office-h holders who are
paid from the city treasury, filled by
onerous taxation. 1t comes from the
wealth of dishonest men who seek po-
litical influence in order to rob the
public with impunity. L comes from
bribes paid to police officials and 9TH
er city officials to secure immunity to
criminals, or permission to carry on
illegal business. When a police cap
tain collects an annual blackmail of
over $4,000 a year from gambling
houses, disorderly houses, prize-fght-
ing exhibitions, and similar affairs, he
is not permitted to keep all the money.
That would not be what he is put in
that precinct for. Part of the money
goes into the pockets of higher Off
cials and part into the party fund. 1t
seems fitting that this money, gather
ed in corruption, should be spent in
corruption. 1t goes to support host
OF mean, crawling creatures, who seek
to live on the party, and who have no
energy or ambition to earn an honest
living. Honest politicians may dis
dain to engage in this vile traffic, but
they willingly hand over their money
to be put where it will do the most
good. The evil is one of the greatest
curses of our system of government,
and the only hope of relief is that ed
ucation may in time teach the lower
classes to throw off the yoke Of these
vulgar hordes.
Representative Spriggs, of Utica, is
in the city To The SENTINEL rep
resentative he expressed the utmost
confidence in the Democrats carrying
New York. The result of the Ohio
election, he said, would have no effect
upon Hills chances of election, and
he placed the Democratic majority at
'sfrom $4,000 to 10000. He says 4
was a blessing for Hill that the mug
L.. Il YSt
will call back all the Democrats who
voted for Blaine last fall and bring
out the whole party strength. More
over, their support weakens Daven-
port The election of Davenport un-
der the circumstances would place the
mugwumps in the lead. The stalwart
Republicans won't have that, they
would rather defeat the Republican
candidate, and that is what they will
do. A large stalwart element will
either vote for Hill or will stay away
from the polls. "There are lots of
stalwarts about my district" he says,
"and many of them are out-spoken in
their determination to defeat Daven-
port and the mugwumps. Others say
little, but will not do anything for the
ticket. The mugwumps are hated as
much by the stalwart Republicans as
they are by the Democrats.
Most of the New York Sunday pa
pers gave illustrated descriptions of
the great explosion at He'll Gate.
Some of the pictures were absurd, but
others gave the reader better idea
than he could otherwise have obtained
of the sudden leap of the water into
the air. This, perhaps, would Justify
illustrated articles in a daily newspa-
per as an extraordinary event, for the
blasting of Flood Rock was an event
of great interest, and in some respects
unprecedented. But the illustration
of daily newspapers is no longer con-
fined to extraordinary occasions. Here
in New York it has become almost
universal. There are, in sfact, now
but two or three daily newspapers that
do not regularly print pictures. Is
this good thing. 1t certainly is not
due to growing artistic sense in our
people, for the pictures are usually 80
bad that any artist would denounce
them as corruptors of the public taste.
Furthermore, the subjects illustrated
are generally local in their character,
and the space and prominence given
them lend force to the criticism, so fire.
qaently made in the West and South
that our New York papers, instead OF
being metropolitan, are really the
most provincial papers issued IN any
large city. The pictures do not serve
the purpose of familiarizing the public
with the appearance of the men most
talked about. for the portraits printed
are so atrociously bad that a. man
nearest and dearest friends would not
recognize the pretended picture OF
him. The theory seems to be that
human affairs are great circus fol-
which the newspaper is the explana.
tory play-bill, and that human exist
ence is joke, the point OF which it Is
the editors function to show to his
readers. The illustration of newspa,
pers is simply another step toward
adanr;no them to this conception o1