The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1890-05-06

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holders II, members of the Tweed
Gang 6. former "toughs" 4, former
pugilists 3. sons of liquor dealers 2,
former liquor dealers 5, liquor deal
ers 4, for gambling house or 'dive"
keepers 5, professional gamblers 4,
indicted for bribery l, indicted for |
felonious assault 1, tried for murder |
and acquitted l, convicted murderer
l, professional politicians %.
Almost all come from the lowest
strata of the population, a large
percentage are of foreign birth or
extraction. The vast majority are
totally uneducated, and perhaps not
more than four or five can speak or
write English with any correctness.
Some even who hold important
posts OF responsibility and trust are
notorious ruffians. The Deputy
Commissioner of Public Works is
partner in the liquor business with
Cred" Leary, a notorious burglar,
whose wife sKate" was an expert
| pickpocket. "Red" Leary, Kate and
Barney" the Deputy, all lived to-
gether in the same house, SO that a
jeweler with premises adjoining felt
compelled to put additional iron
grating on his windows and doors.
With regard to another, John
Scanned, we cite the following ex-
traordinary passage:
His prominence in Tammany
Hall politics is due to the friend
ship of " Dick " Croker and Ed
Stokes, which he secured under
peculiar circumstances. The three
men were all confined in the Tombs
at the same time-1874-eacl
awaiting trial for murder. Crokel
was innocent of the crime imputed
) to him, but Scanned and Stoke
were both guilty. The last namet
was the slayer of "Jim" Fisk, am
was at one time under sentence o
death for his crime. The friend
ship contracted under these extra
ordinary circumstances has wie)de
more or less powerful infuenc
in Tammany Hall ever since.
The Mayor Hugh Grant o
I "Hughey'' as he is familiarl
$. known, is the son of liquo
dealer, the ward of pawnbrokel
and no better than his associate
: in Tammany. He cannot speak
: write dramatically, yet he repr'
r. scented New York at the late Wasl
ington Centennial, and if the gre.
exposition were to be held in tn.
- city doubtless he, or another of b
stamp would have presided
30 1892.
Tammany ceased to be polite
a. organization long before Tweed
. time even. It Is now IN reality
conspiracy, and if not Grimm
conspiracy, yet at any rate d CO
spiracy largely Of criminals, who
|. sole object is to get possession
the public treasury for the purpo
of a grand divide among the boy
Unhappily this is not a
The faint of Tammany is all pc
: tics in the United States. II
10. National parties have been dege
- Grating into organizations of tt
same characters, for the same en-
with a somewhat higher avera
of of character in their personn
ly Yet the National Republican cal
of paign in 1883, was managed by
es man little better if any, than Ia
he many's worst.
ty When we can look abroad a.
a see such spectacle in other cou
of tries we need not despair of O
of own. Elder Bush and til
as noisy demagogue Robert Vile
ed are still shade better than t
RI professional blacklegs and ruffia
who carry things with so high
)st hand in New York. Moreover the
ne is the further consolation that VIII
til the roughs have it their own W
zee in the empire city Bush and Vile
RS, have not "got there" yet.
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That Tree Blight.