New-York tribune., 1891-09-23
nnuNrY DEMOCRATS REBEL.

The County Democracy may not be so strong
nc - wos in numbers. but it hacks none OF It's
early sagacity or courage. 1t appreciates Vno
denifcanoe of Flowers nomination as fully as
did Hugh Mclaughlin, General Catlln ana MI
De Witt when they set their faces against the
money power' at Saratoga The address ADOPT
cd at the meeting of the repudiated County De-
mocracy delegates is 10 namby- -pamby, weadS-in-
the-lynees affair. but bold declaration OF war
IN the Saratoga ticket and the audacious bosses
who made il. "The Democratic party Of to-day
in this Staten say these Democratic witnesses
"liI1e the Democratic party in those dark years
prior to 1871, is absolutely dominated ana con-
tnolled by a combination between 1ammanS
Hall and canal ring" In other "oruS'
(" DiclS,' Croker and Z" Ed" Murphy are the dc
tators by whose authority and under whose con-
troll Roswell p. Flower appears as the Demo
cratic candidate for Governor. II is as their
creature that he asks to be made the Cnlel
Executive of the Empire State 1t is they VINO
will be placed in power by his election. IL IS
their Measure that will direct his Official acts
and their patronage that will be augmented over
his signature as Governor. The County De-
mocracy leaders are not to be fooled by fine
phrases about party loyalty and submission to
the voice of the majority. They are not to be
bulldozcd by Mr.. Bourke COcHan's Czar-llke
rehule TO the "sullen and unruly." They are
not afraid to say that party loyalty in the pres
ent juncture means abject prostratlon before
co,nle of bosses as ugly as Juggernaut and as
ruthless. They decline TO submit to the voice
of the majority when it is merely the voice OF
Dick Croker. and when it commands them
humbIy to kiss his worshipful toe. If this
spirit is displayed in the County Democracys
convention 1t may lead to other results as well
as to the defeat of TammanyS aspiration to
control the State.
When Croker and Murphy strangled the
County Democrats at Saratoga humbed the
Cleveland organization of Buffalo and dehed
Mclaughlin as a traitor sneak and hypo-
crite-for these were the choice terms in which
the official orator of Tammany Hall painted
the character of the Brooklyn leader-they un-
doubtedly expected when the time came by
throwing a few bones to the beaten dogs to
cause general tail wagging. 1t was not for
an instant supposed that Mclaughlin would al
low his "sulen and unruy temper" to carry
him beyond the reach of such bribe as Tam
many with Flowers signature in blank could
easily supply Nor was it thought that the
County Democrats would daro TO be unduly
| troublcsone Robbed of their electoral ma
chinery. deserted by all of their former leaders
whom ambition or greed could control, and ap-
preheDsiye of the harm their resistance would
| innict upon the Cleveland boom, they were eX-
pected to be quiet and pacabe. But it is al
ready plain that this reckoning was faulty. 1t
| lost sight of the fact that Tammany is as much
/ Lt- +bn Of its
party throughout the State as by Republicans.
| The Demom aS, not Of Brooklyn only, nor OF
the more decent kind in this city, but OF the
country districts everywhere look upon the
ascendancy of Tammany Hall with its hordes Of
vicious boodlers as menace to party prospects
and danger to party interests They ali know
the uncomfortable greed Of the Tammany
bosses. their reckless knavery, their brutal
S,ishness and their utter untrustwoFthiness.
| Even if Hugh Mclaughlin could see any fitness
in the supremacy over him of such man as
C73kcr or Murphy upon any bargain, even If
there were a price that would compensate him
| for becoming the body-servant Of Tammany
Hall, he knows he would have no guarantee
Of getting such price. The recent history of
the Honorable NIr. Scannell is a shining eX
ample of the fact that the Tammany bandits do
not keep even the pledges they make to one
another. IL is the sentiment of contempt and
disgust among Democrats themselves at this
prs Democratic body which even more than
Flowers mental shadows or Fassett's ability
will draw waverrg votes to the Republican
ticket this fall.
There is no difference between the Tammany
of Croker and the Tammany OF Tweed. 1t is
the same old band of thieves 1t does the same
old things in the same old way. 1t collects
twice as much revenue as is necessary TO give
the city OF New-York the best government that
modern society ever knew, and it spends it in
giving the woist. The issue in this election is
as clear and simple as any voter could wish.
1t calls on the people to say whether or not
they will put the whole State in subsection to