New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-10-07
cur to him that he has not been playing
very digni6ed role, and that he will get back
20 bic desk
pPEGN1NT SAYINGS.
to his DIES


Some instructive utterances have dropped
from time to time from the mouths OF various
members of the Characterization combina-
ton. We find these set forth in TRIBUNE
Extra No. 100 For example, there was this
significant boast in the circular sent out some
months ago by the Wine Liquor and Beer
Dealers Association of the State OF New OK,
calling on liquor-dealers everywhere to Or
ganize
This association has been organized for the past
five years, and we proud in being aoie 10 state
that In that time not one obnoxious law mas peeh
placed on the statute hooks of this Sta'c ana inc
records prove conclusvcy that prior to organization
scarcely year passed without some law injurious 10
our trade having been made and we have IN these nVc
wears of our existence been instrumental In passing
several laws beneficial TO our trade.
That is to say. while Cleveland and Hill have
been Governors, the liquor-dealer have bossed
the excise legislation of the State, and the craft
was exhorted to organize and subscribe liber-
ally. in order to re-elect HILL and prolong this
delightful state of things three years more.
In their convention this year, the liquor
dealers were shrcwd enough not to mention
Hill Last year they were incautious enough
to adopt the following
Resolved, That the sincere thanks OF the organized
retail liouor-dealers of the State Of NewYork in an
nual convention assembled are hereby rendered 10
Governor Hill and to those members of the Legislature
through whose stcadfastness in defence OF constitli
tional and inalenable rights the schemes OF our
enemies were thwarted.
The liquor-trade papers were frankness
itself even this year. This was part of the
advice "The Saloon Journar' gave to the
Wine. Liouor and Beer Dealers Convention in
Buffalo:
One thing is certain: the lquordealers and the
saoon-k keepers have to be up and doing. They must
not he asleep . There is no man as safe 10
trust, no man of victory at the polls as
David B. Hill Let him be nominated by all means
Here is only line or two from long and
| wildly enthusiastic tribute to the Governor
| from "The Inn-keepers' Journa":
We will not forget debt of gratitude and we flock
| around him as Poland rallied around kossuth ID as
| Ireland did for Parnell
This was the exhortation of "The Saloon
| Journar' to the uor-Dealers' Convention, as
| regards Warner Miller:
Gentlemen IL is for you TO prevent his election, II
YOU have to take off your coats and work from now
| until the polls close the 9th of November
| And we all know that the expressions OF the
gratitude of the saloon men toward Hill are not
confined to words. We have the authority of
so faithful a Democratic paper as " The Brook
| lyn Eagle'-a paper so loyal that 1t accepted
| Governor Hill after having shown that he was
morally unfit to be candidate-fOr the fol-
| lowing statement:
Aside from the recent resolve Of the Personal
Liberty League to follow Governor Hill solidly and
the energetic efforts of the various retail organza
tons the brewers of the State TO the number of I05
Democrats and Republicans alike, have come together
| and voluntarily levied upon Themselves tax OF
| 81 900 apiece, thereby accommodating fund Of
| S1O5 900 TO carry the Governors campaign.
And this, it must be remembered, is only a
fraction of the saloon Doodle. These extrava-
CANT signs of devotion to Governor Hill mean
| more than thankfulness for what he has done
| in the past. Gratitude has been defined to be
| d" lively sense Of favors to come" 1t is the
vetoes to come which the liquor-dealers are so
| thankful for. Meantime the clergymen Of
| every denomination are denOuncing Hill as
| morally unfit to be Governor. How does the
| Governor like that ? Well, his views are
probably represented in that ingenious re-
his military staff
tell you what, would rather have saloons behind
| me in politics any time than CHI riches.
This was an unwise thing to say, but in
itself it is not so foolish as it may seem. If
| honorable Democrats vote for Hill simply be-
cause he is a party nominee; if the men whom
the churches represent are going to look idly
on while the liquor-dealers disburse great cor
rupton funds and every saloon is vote-m mar
ket, then, indeed, the man who stands for the
saloons has better chance than the man who
stands for the churches. The saloons are hard
| at work What are the churches doing?
|