New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-10-31
FASSETT ATTACKS GRANT.
A STRONG SPEECH BY THE SENATOR.
THE MAYORS FALSE ASSERTIONS ABOUT TAKES
VIGOROUSLY pENoUNcED-THE LOCAL
Issues CLEARLY EXPLAINED.

Issues CLEARLY EXPLAINED.
Gal. sscsAor J. sloas FSssett made strong speech
>r>Inss -T,musny Hall last night before largo
meeting Of the Regular Republican Association OF the
XIIIth Assembly District OF tho Grand Opera House
He'll, Twenty +hrdst and Hghthsve. kx-Assemoly
man Andrew J. Campbell presided. Senator Fsssett
was received with cheers Is the next Governor OF the
State He spoke In part - follows:
Ind ,upp6sed recently that the paramount issue
beo,e the people Of city Of NewYork this fall in fact
the ouiy ssue whether they would any longer submit
70 shs ruinous rule Of Tammany Hall or not whether
thew would vote bs governed By dshonest Democrat
held In place BY cohesive power Of public bunde or
by IN honest called TO ONCE through the righteous
indignation Of citizens awakened ct last to the gravity OF
the situation whether H. j. Grant who has given you
bad government yrancs NJ. Scott, who Will give you
good should be the next Mayor OF this great
city. an convinced that either have been In error
or that IL not upon this issue that Tanhnany hau ae
sres 10 make before the people They seem DC
unwilling to meet the question Of TsmmaDy or ant-ism
many face 10 face They have much to say ABOUT "ie
census and nothing 70 say about the County CLERK om
They have much To offer concerning the Words fa o"
nothing about the Registers office They are eoauen'
about rapid transit but fail to tell you now IL we"
feated. (Applause) They speak OF new paVemehs os
are filthy streets They lie most eaeeSi1
reduced taxation. but are silent win references
u the indicted Excise Department tCneerS' Inv!
denounce with bitterness the superintendent OF the
Census and the Republican Legislature OF the e~e "
New. York but they words Of censure Tor 1nc
Infsny Of the public ofhcal who pocke'ea sxivv
OF illegal fslonlously eXtoted and then oaissnefeu
$40 900 Of to the who had made MN ehel'
and they have nothing but rewards for the district
Attorney who, after he had had his auenuon oinois!
called this condition Of things failed 70 ohns 'he
matter to the attention Of the Grand jury tChee"'
All this very Tammsny, for II Is only oy por'
suading the people TO something else than the
record Of Tammany Hall and the reeofd-ol 1smmsn!
candidates ana the record Of the recent Administrator OF
city that there hope for the success Oh e
Tammsny ticket In this campaign.
Senator Fasset charged that the Democratic papers
of this city set people against the enumerators OF
tho Federal census, by advising them not 70 Answer
certain questions as to property ana hocoteonens,
which questions were introduced in the Census bill
by the late Congressman s. S. Cox, Of this city.
Democrat But the population Of this city was
nuctuatlng in nature. and to-day when Mr.. Grant
took his census, the partisan police, made partisan
by Grant, counted all the tenement-house repeateS
who had moved In for election times. Dut' said
Sentor Fassett three times Federal ofhoiols have
officially informed the Mayor of the city how he might
secure o recount, and three times he has Ignored
their advice, so that il New-iork City fails of lite
remedy IL has but man to thank. and that Is the
Hon. II. J. Grant. Applause)
Mr. Fassett next showed that the Republicans in the
Legslsture did not prevent the Worlds Fair from COM
ing to this city, but did prevent Tsmmany Hau from
getting control Of It, while the Democratic Congress
men from the South ant Southwest aided Western Con-
grcssmen in placing the fair in Chicago. 1T Is sim
cular fact added the Senator "tha Tammany did not
think to put the two-thirds vote provision into tho
original draft Of the bill. which made the General
Committee nonpartsan body"
On the question of rapid transit Mr.. Fsssett said,
speaking Of his bill:
charge distinctly that the best measure ever introduced
into the Legislature for solution o; the Rapid Transit
problem deliberately killed in the Assembly through
active Intervention Of Mayor Grant and his representa-
tiyes. (Cheers.)
senator Fassett named Edward Murphy, jr and 20
lice Commissioner James Martin In connection with
this and added
And because q Republican Legislature was unwilling TO
place further appointing power without limitations In the
hands Of Hugh j. Grant, who .s1 tbused that power
he had exercised it, the power OF Tammany Hail.
the power Democratic State Committee and the power
to bear which promised relief to the
city Of NewYort. (Cheers0
In closing senator Fassctt fired this shot at Tam
many's taxation scheme:
Coming down to the great issue VIC nnd the Mayor
falsely asserting that under his administration taxes have
been reduced is that although over 900
which ought gone the levy and which hereafter
must 20 the levy, not placed therein. and al
though the valuation asscsssble property Ia this city
raised in the year s93 000 still the tax rate last
year vas points her than the previous and the
expenses Of city government never so great In ali
its history The actual amount Of taxes raised by multi
plying the and tho assessed valuation exceeded
the year before by 81 tChcers
Henry L. sprague. William Wade james A. Cowic
and others SPOKE Resolutions were adopted ndorslng
the union ticket and dcnouncing Tammary Hall.