New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-11-02
'OTE FOR THE BEST CANDIDATES


ton of every honorable member OF his party and
of every good citizen. 1t was Republican
| Iethargy which prevented the defeat of Tammany
Hall last year. If Republicans do not turn OFT
! to a man this time they deserve to have the
clutch of the Tammany tiger on their Threats fol
the rest of their lives. They have magnificent
opportunity to put check to this beasts depreda'
lions and to strike the most effective of blows
for faithful and honest government. Not SIN
gle Republican vote can be spared, nor can a
single vote be spared of any man who has made
up his mind that Tammany predominance In
municipal State and National affairs is an evil
to be overcome.
There has never been any more foolish non
sense printed anywhere upon the earth than the
drivel INDUCED in by Tammany organs to the
effect that Tammany is only local body, which
does not seek to get its hand upon the machinery
of the parry throughout the state and through
out the Nation. Has tie fraudulent election Of
Governor Hoffman through Tweed's stuffed bal
lot-boxes been so soon forgotten? Have the
plans and the purposes of the Tweed ring, so
clearly and fully developed to get control of the
Democratic party throughout the United States,
passed into oblivion? Mr.. Croker and the other
Tammany leaders are just as anxious as Tweed
and his associates were in their day to get posses
sion of the State Government to dictate the
nominations of the Democratic party for PreSl-
dent and Vice President, and to capture Wash
ington and Albany, as well as this Metropolis.
They have been so eated by their tremendous
victory last year that they are reaching out Tor
larger opportunities of power, OF profit and OF
plumber.
No one denies that Tammany Hall has some
respectable members. There never was base
and corrupt political organization OF any size and
strength in the history of the world that did not
contain some deluded and misguided members,
who retained some part at least, OF their mantle
of espectability. Ii was so in Tweed's day.
There were respectable Democrats who remained
members of Tammany Hall throughout all the
exposures and revelations of the robberles OF the
ring They never abandoned the organization,
even when the proofs OF the Tweed iniamies
and the Tweed thefts were most overwhelming
and conclusive. These respectable gentlemen
can tolerate the companionship and the yillany
of diyexeepers, of ward Of uncouth and
unkempt iuf1ians, yes, even of murderers, in
order to promote their objects in local. State
and National politics. But how small and feeble
is the minority of respectabiity in Tammany Hall
in comparison with the INSCRIPTIONS and pratt
cal majority Ignorance, brutality, crime, as
sassination stalk through the Wigwam in Four
feminist. unabashed and nshamed. Men who
have gained notoriety by keeping the vilest
haunts of fe.ons in this town are high in its
councils and high in its authority. Men who
~
guilty of the most cOwardly assassinations, are
prominent in its management and in the direc-
ton of its affairs No amount of apology, of ex-
cuse or of mendacity on the part of reckless Tam
many organs can hide or palliate the fact that no
more dangerous criminal and detestable political
organization ever held great city in its grasp.
Its pretensions of economy and frugalty in city
affairs are the most hollow and transparent of
falsehoods. 1t has increased the city debt by
millions upon millions of new bonds, as Mr..
Wins, in his able and forcible letter, has shown
And yet Mayor Grant cOndescends to make no
reply to Mr. Twins, declaring that Mr. WINS is
not worthy of his notice. With Mr.. Grants
record in the Sheriffs office, with the disclosures
as to his gifts to Mr.. Cookers daughter, it is a
piece of amazing pretention and hypocrisy OH
his part to set himself up az character too ele
waited to reply to letter from Mr.. WINS
Tammany Hall is always Dragging about the
tax rate. 1t cannot be denied that the tax rate
itself is low but it is not to be forgotten that
the city debt in bonds has been enormously in
creased by expenditures which should have been
charged against the annual tax levy. This is
one of the ways in which the tax rate has been
tnnt Ia hr inn,
cusable increase of valuations in the tenement
house quarters and the poorer districts of the
town. Where prominent and influential members
Of Tammany Hall hold large pieces Of real estate
the valuations have not been mmoderately
increased but where TamiDany has felt safe in
raising the valuations and assessments, it has
been done. As General Burnett said in his
speech on the. Sub-Treasury steps on Saturday.
his tax bill is 10 per cent higher now than it
was last year, because the valuation of the
| property has been improperly increased This
| is fair sample of Tammanys depredations
upon the taxpayers of New York. But its adyo-
Gates and apologies decline to take note of these
things They have carried on campaign of
msre presentation and calumny the like of which
has never before been known in New Yorl,
| City. They have always and everywhere been
| ready to lie like stereopticon in defence Of
! the conspiracy of public plumber, which is Tam.
many Hall.
The Republicans and all the ti-Tammany
voters of New-York will deserve every i'll and
every injury which Tammany can innict upon
them-and its capacity in that direction is sim.
ply boundless-if they allow any obstacle ia
| keen them at their homes tomorrow aid ore-
vent their casting their ballots against the Tam
many candidate The Republican State ticket
| is excellent in every part. The local candidates
of the Republicans are, as rule, worthy and
honorable citizens, deserving the support OF the
community. 1t clnnot be denied that in one on
| two cases nominations for the Assembly made