New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-10-27
LOOK LIKE BUNCo STEERERS.


loaded I'M with Facts Worth Thinking Of
which they produced yesterday in all the Tam
MANY organs to the extent of column and IA
half nc " valuable information for men who wish
70 vote right.n 1t is one OF the features OF the
present campaign that "men who wish to vote
right" have been standing round on Street-corhefs
for several weeks waiting for the arrival OF
thoroughly trustworthy persons with " 1acs
worth thinking Of" They did expect early IN
tho campaien that "The New-1or Times
would at the proper time come out IN Its USUAL
independent and non-partiSan manner WIN
several barrels of If facts worth thinking or 10
emnty into the minds of /" men who wish to vote
r;obt - and show them how they could vote the
Tammany ticket and be able to look themselves
IN the face afterward without blushing. But
"Tbe Pines started in at 50 rapid gait at the
beeinnine of the campaign that in very short
time it had swallowed the whole Iammany uCheU
with the exception of one Coroner and had only
kicked against him in way that maze IL seem
like q mere muscular contraction. obviously IL
could not on the strength Of that feeble demon.
stration come suddenly in as the exponent oA
the best thought and organ OF the best thinkers
with its usual load of " facts worth thinking oil
for the information Of "men who wish to VOts
right"
something had to be done in this emergency,
for If was evident that " the men who wish TO
/ vote right, were getting anxious. 1hey must
have some facts worth thinking Of from au-
tbentic sources that is, from men who, when
thew vote the Tammany ticket, do it, not as
Tammany men, but as really and truly indie
.bo how
mte independence and nOn-partsamhlp Dy
voting nearly all their lives against Republican
candidates. Now, there has not been cam
paign these many years in which there mas noo
been an abundant supply of best thinkers VINO
vote the Democratic ticket on purely patriouc
and non-partisan grounds, and are willing III an
imnartial and dsinterested way to help out " the
mon who wish to vote right" But it has been
noticed of late that even these men are not so
influential as they used to be. They have voted
the entire Democratic ticket on AL occasions
with so much regularity that the men who wish
| "a vote right had begun to say that though 1t
was all very well to lead out the same men as
9" new converts" ten or fifteen years in succession
there was point where it ought to STOP when
sucb men. say; as Frank Barlow and Simon
Stern should cease to figure III that relauoh ana
should sit down and show less. 1.-The men who
wish to vote right said they would prefer some
thing little fresher.
Still they must have something or there was
danger they would not vote right" 80 num-
her of the best thinkers, including Charles ,.
Fairchild. William L. Trenholm, Peter Is. Olney,
| Charles d. Ingersol, and Others, who, II they
have held Office as Democrats have always done
il in a high minded impartial and non-palciSaIl
way as representatives of the best thought, went
apart few days ago and devoted themselves to
getting together solue facts worth thinking or
70 help out 81 the men who wish to vote right y
There are a column and a half Of them. They
begin by saying that they feel wildly the i'm
portance of the State campaign in which they
are panied to learn that " certain Independents
often of late acting with the Democratic party
have thought fit to support Republican candidates
this fall" and then proceed to set forth the
various things Congressman Cummings has been
disseminating for the last three or four weeks,
closing with an appeal to " the men who wish 10
vote right in behalf of " the long and honor
able record of Mr. Flower"
1t is not a particularly powerful document,
nor are Fairchild, Trenholm, Olney, lngersoll,
Barlow and Stern so fresh as they were several
wears ago; but the "facts" are no doubt the
hest that could be found, and the sgners are
the freshest that the Flower campaign can fur
nish. They are little threadbare to be sure,
but they are perfectly respectable, and they are
particular to say that they do not belong to the
Tammany organization. They also say that
Roswell Flower is not Tammany man, though
Tammany favored his nomination. And thus
they emit the rafting conundrum docs this
foIebode subservienceY Whether it does or
not one thing is certain, that " the men who
wish to vote right cannot help being impressed
with the fact that men who ask in that sudden
wav if this "forebodes subservience" must be
among our best thinkers.
1t seems pity, though, that they should look
so much like bunco-steerers
TWO CoNUNDRUKS.