New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-11-03
THE ps1,TyF or TO- lfORROW.

l;ovo that Tammany is beaten, and that the
Union ticket will be successful from top to bot
| tom. And vet no reasonable ana 1air-minded
nerson can doubt that Tammanys well-mar-
| shaIIod well managed and thoroughly -discl-
n,inod forces will make a tremendous struggle.
They arc not only formidable IN organization,
in drill and in training. but they can muster an
enormous vote, and it is not to be expected that
the majority for good government VIII run laf
mn in the tens of thousands Hence it is i'm
Dortant that every citizen who is anxious to see
the foremost city of the New World in the con-
troll of an upright digniiied and manly admin
istration should still endcayor to persuade every
friend who may be doubtful or waverng to vote
the right way, and to work the right way.
If Tammany is overthrOwn tomorrow, as it
might be. and we believe it will be, great credit
and sincere gratitude are due from this CON-
munty to the FaSsett Committee, whose investi-
cations have brought to the light of day all the
hidden uglineSs the corruption. the abuses and
the disgraces of our present municipal system
The most effective Use has been made OF these
disclosures without any perversion or misstate-
ment of facts or any eXaggerati0n. 1t has been
campaign conducted with plenty OF skill,
abundant earnestnesS and exceptional activity
on both sides. Certainly the party OF reform
can have no reason to reproach itself for any
lack of energy and of thorough and well-bal-
anced effort for its cause. Its meetings have
been skilfully arranged. It's orators have been
well chosen. The arguments presented to the
reason and intelligence of the people OF this
metropolis have been sound and strong. Every
means by which the generous sentiments ana
the public spirit of the voters may be aroused
has been employed. In the local campaigns Tor
ne last twenty years it is doubtful II there mas
been in any previous one so SagaGOus use oI
Tne available material. 1t cannot be that any
voter from Castle Garden to the upper bound
airy of Fordham, from the East River 70 the
Hudson, is any longer in doubt as to the true
motives. the impulses the tendencies and the
guiding spirit of Tammany Hall. Even It's adj
yocates and apo0gists cannot deny that It's
management Of municipal affairs has been
marked by deplorable selfshness, greatness
and grasping Il has laid hold upon every Of
fee, upon every place which it could seize, ana
has dug and delyed in every remotest corner OF
the town in the effort to enrich the Talnmany
leaders and 10 increase the strength OF the or
panization The whole tone of its expressions
and its outsivings, its whole attitude and pO-
sition. have been undi gnifed and discreditable.
There is ncthing broad or lofty about it. 1t
has appealed to the nearest and vileSt passions
where it believed that such appeals would bring
il votes and swell its numbers. 1t has not
shrunls from the fOulest and most depraved bar
| gains with the dives and groggeries of the most
| degraded quarters OF the town. 1t has struck
hands, not only with the violators of the ex-
else law, and encouraged and stimulated their
offences, but it has struck hands also with the
men of violence and disorder, the leaders OF
the criminal classes, who ought for the safety
of their fellow-men, to be behind prison bars.
| Within its own ranks, conspicuous in its coun-
ellis. il contains creatures who have escaped the
Just penalty of the most hideOus and awful
! crimes. 1t has made no effort to cleanse its
garments or to mend its ways. Its influence Is
evil and it ought to receive crushing blow to-
morrow.
If Tammany's defeat is made overwhelming.
if It's disaster is turned into a rout the stroke
might prove clustering and purifying in
fluence. If the people of New-Yorl rebuke
Tammany in so emphatic and unmiStakable
| terms that there can be no question OF the
severity of its condemnation, then Tammany
wrought evil, and may put better men in the
places of command. Adversely might prove
/ profitable to it in that way. But whatever the
| results may be TO the organization, 1t is impOs-
sible to see how any conscientious, unselfish and
light-hcarted man can give Tammany his sup
port tomorrow under its present leadership
and with its present aims. We believe that the
Tammany leaders see this themselves and are
now thoroughly detected and discouraged at tne
prospect, however bold their words may be,
however confident their bearing. Tammany
has been lashing out SO desperately, it has been
so audacious and reckless in its utterances,
| that its straits must needs be sore.
Could there be any clearer proof of this than
BCmke Cockran's amazing and almost incredi
BILE attack upon the churches? AS THE TRIB-
UNE has already said Mr.. Cochran is the Of
fetal orator of Tammany Hall. When he
speaks, it is the voice Of 1ammany Hall that is
heard. Mr.. Cochran has gone SO far as to rail
at the people who make practice of attending
religious services and TO characterize them in
terms Of deriSon and contumely rs narrow
chested, narrow minded, long-eared and long
haired nincompoopS." This utterance betIays
the true feeling and the genuine sentiment of
| Tammany Hall as it is now organized and led.
II is the enemy Of everything that is honest
and honorable and of good report in this com
| munity A political faction that ventures u
! express its hatred of churchmen and church
goers in such terms ought to be buried so deeply
that even the noise of the captains, the tmut
and the shouting of Presidential campaign
cannot bring il to the surface. The voters OF
New York ought eagerly to embrace this OPP
portun.y for rebuiSing Tammanys unscrupu-
lous leadership. Every vote against Tammany
| to- morrow is a vote for good government