New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-10-21
DIR LIBERTIES ENDANGERED.


visible means of support gather and discuss be-
tween drinks in the most earnest manner inc
present political situation, that our liberties are
in danger. The possibility of our being turned
over to the rule of satraps" has made pro-
found impression on the minds OF these gentie-
men for one thing. Even now" they say
'.we are beset with constant perils our Liberties
are not entirely safe under the existing ponce
system many of us have been so terrorlzed ana
inundated that the sight of an officer In uni
form sends us frequently two or three blocks
out of our way to avoid him. And if this reign
of terror exists under the rule OF the police
with all the advantages Of having an occasional
pull on members of the force, what would
be the state of things under satraps For
no one knows what satrap might not no.
Not many, indeed, know what satrap Is
What we do know is that The World news
paper considers the satrap when actively en-
gagged In satrapping extremely dangerous, and
that nothing but the election of Roswell Flower
can prevent our being overwhelmed by them"
The feeling on this subject is so intense ana
widespread that large numbers OF persons are
walking into town, many OF them on their
uppers," prepared to remain here and discuss
political questions, to the neglect OF all otner
business, until the election, when they Will ae-
vote the entire day to the exercise OF the elecuVe
franchise.
Another danger which agitates the minds Oh
these gentlemen is that the vote OF New YORK
at the coming election If Republican may De
taken as an encouragement to the men VINO
have ruined the business of the country by the
Mckinley bill. The tax which these gentlemen
have TO nav on their railroad iron and their
champagne and their silk umbrellas is Vle"eu
by them as an unjust and grievous burden ana
sometimes late in the evening their noses anu
other features redden with indignation while
they denounce the tariff as worse than ROBBERY.
So long as it endures they consider it menace
TO our liberties, and it is on this account THAI
they manifest so much solicitude lest the result
of the election may rivet upon our business
interests the letters of this iniquitous system.
Then there is Thomas C.. Platt A great
many of these gentlemen fairly make the tum-
bers shake as they pound the bar in denuncla-
ton of that infamous person for having WICK
edly and maliciously cheated them out of three
hundred million dollars. Mr.. Platt is consid-
cred by them an utterly depraved person. When
they reflect that it was he who rode booted
and spurred into the Assembly at Albany when
that body was about to establish the WORLDS
Fair in this city and commanded that 1t be sent
to Chicago, by that act taking three hundred
million dollars out of their pockets and making
If necessary for them to walk all the way to
Chicago: and when they think how he has
prevented rise in real estate-they just howl
their Misunderstanding sorrow into empty tum-
blers while the barkeeper chalks up another
round of drinks to the Flower Campaign FUND
With determined purpose to prevent Platts
evident intention to transfer the business part
of this city to the lake front at Chicago they
will keep up this agitation till Election Day,
when they will vote against Tom" Platt as
long as the campaign fund holds out.
Another menace to our liberties is just now
beginning to be discussed, not so loudly, but
with bated breath and the gravest apprehen-
sions. There is talk of turning John l. Daven-
port loo.e. Now John |. Davenport is by com
mon consent the most dangerous foe that
gentlemen who devote themselves to the exer-
else of the elective franchise ever encountered.
There is no doubt that if he had his way he
would put such restrictions on the exercise OF
the elective FRANCHISE that many persons who
depend upon that industry as their only means
of support would be forced either into other
channels or to involuntary exile to some of the
adjacent islands. For many years he has so in
Inundated and tenorized the honest masses as
they went their rounds of registration and spread
their votes from poll to pol that some of the
most p olific and industrious of them have re-
tired from the field after voting but once. 1t
is maintained by some of the gentlemen who
devote themselves to the exercise of the fran
chise that Davenport has no business to inter
fere with them az this election that he is
4" not in it," But there are others who stand
in such mortal terror of him that they will re-
ftfe to take the chances. They prefer an out
door life.
One other danger to our liberties has been
averted by the prompt and decisive action OF
those friends of free and unrestricted suffrage,
the SachemS and Sagamores and WiSknskies
An insdious effort was made by several stu
dents in the Union Theological Seminary to get
their names registered. This was carrying it
too far. They were detected as theological
students by the efficient representatives of Tam
many Hall, and the movement was stopped.
This has given great satisfaction to the bar
room debating circles, where the conviction is
general that that sort of people ought not to be
permitted to vote. On this general subject the
prevalent view is that of George NJ. Stearnss
client, who kept disorderly house and was
charged with aSSaulting and robbing a custom
err. Squire StearnS," said he, pointing to a
church across the way, them's the BANKED
things that's raising h with the business of
his country"