New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-11-02
rLOWER is rAMMANY'S CANDIDATE.

A strenuous effort is being made by the lead
ing Democratic organs to dissocate the can
didacy of Roswell p. Flower from Tammany
Hall They insist that he is not TammaDy S
nominee, but the choice of the Democrats Of
New York as a whole. Every time we'll
informed Republican speaker like Fassett," re-
marks THE World" "says that Mr. Flower
represents Tammany Hall in politics or any
thing as candidate but the Democratic party
he says what he knows to be false" 1t is sig
nilicant that The World in common with the
other newspaper champions of Mr.. Flower,
facility would seem to admit that Tammany-
the greatest Democratic organization in the
Statez-has a reputation so infamous that Mr..
Flower really cannot afford to have the voters
believe that Tammany is his sponsor A can
didate is known by the political company he
keeps The Democratic organs, in brutal dis
regard of Tammany's feelings, of the feelings
of Croker. Godfather Grant, Bourke Cochran,
John r. Fellows, Paddy Diver and the rest,
would fain prove that Mr.. Flower does not
keep the company of Tammany. These organs
welcome Tammany's votes, but at the same
time they in effect denOunce her as unworthy
of confidence.
But is it or Is it not true that Mr.. Flower is
properly to be regarded as Tammany's candidate
for Governor? 1t certainly is true. The Sara
toga Convention was nothing if not Tammany
Convention. If it had been anything else the
County Democracy would not, in palpable def
ance of well-settled and long settled party
usage, have been denied any representation in its
deliberations. II it had not been controlled by
Tammany the County Democracy would never
have been denied a place on the State COM
mittee. Oh, yes. Tammany was in the saddle
at Saratoga. Ii ran the preliminaries, it ran the
committee, it ran the convention. In support
of this proposition we call a witness to the
stand, whose opinion is entitled to great re-
spoct by 1.-The World" since it is the most
prominent and influential Democratic news
paper in Kings County. Here is what 1.-The
Brooklyn Eagle" lately had to offer touching
the point at issue:
For the first time In the history Of the Democratic
party Of the State Of Nep York for secal years past
to Tanmany Hall has not only been qrea the full repre-
sentation ofhs Metropolis in the State Conr:non and
on the State Committee, bu the composition Of ticket
preferred by that organization from top to bottom This
is a fact II may be a harmless or hatfat fact.
Which ofthe to- characters it pH wedr cannot De pre-
determined. The State Democracy the Democracy Of
hera regions hare taken kindly to an orsrdosc
ofIammanJ Hall in State politics Rqhty or wrongly
hen hare been educated to believe Tammany Hall to De
mhat Lucius Robinsoa dsnomnated it, an organisation
for spoils only and rarely has the demeanor Of Tam
mann at the State Conventions been reassuing dis
proof Of the imputaiion.
"The Eagle" while supporting Mr. Flower,
candidly confesses that he is Tammany's man,
that the ticket is Tammany from top to bot
TOM The admission, of course, distresses " The
Eagle,D but still, it is independent and courageous
enough to make it,
Keep it before the reputable voters of the
State that Roswell 2. Flower is seeking the
Goyernorship with Tammany's collar about his
lcck Would it not be the height of folly to
enlarge Tammany's power for evil? Her gov
ernment of this city has been a miracle of cor
ruption and ineliiciency. DO the taxpayers pro-
pose to allow her to prey upon the entire Statef