New-York tribune., 1891-05-03
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
LIQUOR MEN AGAINST HILL.
THEY SAY THAT HE HAS DECEIVED THEM.
GETTING BACK THE MONEY THEY SUBSCRIBER
TO PUT THEIR EXCISE BILL THROUGH
THE LEGISLATURE.

THE LEGISLATURE
Meetings were held on Friday night at several
Of the headquarters Of the Liquor Dealers As
sociations Of this city. There are more than
score of these associations in New-York and every
hquor-dealer Of standing" belongs 70 one OF
them. The meetings were for the purpose OF
paying back the contributors the sums raised to
buy the Excise bill through the Legislature. One
hundred cents on the dollar of all Contributions
were returned AT one of these meetings the sum
Of 1000 was returned 10 the 100 dealers who had
subscribed the money This would indicate an as
sessment Ct S75 head to purchase the desired iss-
isation To the privilege Of keeping open on
Sunday and Of selling liquor all night when they de-
sired TO do so, the liquor dealers OF New-fork were
prepared to expend half million dollars This
is the estimated amount OF the fund raised. Meet
ings will be held by most of the remaining asso-
Citations during the present week to pay back ene
money to the subscribers. AS was the case On
Friday night every dealer will get his subecrip-
tIon back, dollar for dollar. The men who had
charge of the fund refused IN give up cent OF
it until the bill had become law. Their fore
sight was highly commended by their constituents
man who was present at one of the meetings
alluded 10, said yesterday that the indignation
which has been aroused against Governor HILL
is intense He has been 'jollying us along, IL
was said for the last four or five years, ana
what have we TO show for il? We elected him
Governor But for our money and votes he would
have been defeated along with Cleveland. feo
whenever the time came TO do anything TOT us
he has laid down on us. This he has been doing
right along Instead Of being a benefit he has
been n curse 10 u.s. His creatures tried TO get
possession Of a part of this fund, making all sorts
Of nromises about how the Excise bill would be
rushed through if they could have some money IN
advance But we had been played that way TOO
often 1t didn't work this time, and we are se1-
ting back every cent sent up to Albany.
The angry iquor-men did something beside
growl They were not at all retlcenO apouC "na'
thev meant to do if Hill gives them anotner
chance Threats were openly made that ne woum
receive severe treatment If he dared 10 run ior
Covernor this fall. One prominent dealer said
There is talk of his being candidate again
hone il is so. Maybe he thinks he can fool us
aaain He wouldn't he in it, If he wants to be
rinned I'D the back, let him try running for Gov
ornor--or ANYTHING else Would | vote for Ke-
nuhIicanp Why not? The Republicans have
nnnosed us openly and squarely. They haven't
lied 70 us and deceived as Hill has we VIII
sunnort any honest Republican to beat Hill.
Tho Indignation did not stop at Hill. Iammany
uou came in for large share. Many OF .ho
Houor dealers who have supported the Wlgwa"
all their dives swore that they had voted the lau
,ronv ticket for the last time. We have elec'eu
nine ont of ten of every Tammany delegation 'ha.
has rome 10 Albany" they said, "and whau eoOu
have they been? Wait until next November anu
see il we don't get square
H. is the universally expressed opinion among
the liquor selling element that all hope OIL o"silt,
;,c ,rhot they call liberal legislation Is dead
nd their sole talk now is of getting square
with the men who have been living upon them
financially and politically for several years. en'
nromising them relief" Some OF them 90 hos
forget the police. No excise Dill. SAID ia'So
dealer and importer. "can pass the Legisiasure'
bccause it is not in the interest OF the Ne"-ioix
ooI;co that the sale of liquor on Sundays and
after 1 a. M shall be legallzed. lhey are ou.
yorst enemies. because they make too much
money out of the law as it stands "hy' no"
much do you think it takes every year to pay
tho nolice for our privileges? 1t costs us from
s-5o 900 TO 81 100000 This rich harvest oil
hlaclmoiI would vanish if we could do lawluiy
what we have to pay them for the privilege Oh
doirg Therefore whenever we go 10 AodhS
for legislation we find them secretly "orAin<
against us.
Another charge which the retail liquor-deaiers
bring against Governor Hill is his subservlency 10
the brewers They found early in the Iast sessioh
that their interests and those OF the opuehO nien
who operate tie big breweries Of the Stae "elo
not identical They thought that their parsiih
with the Governor was copper-fas'ened anu 'i"'
they would find him ready TO second ther suS-
cestions as to the policy TO be pursued nuo whe"
George G. Campbell. president OF the Central AS
sociaton, went to him just after speaker
Shechan had appointed his committees with the
bill they proposed to introduce he found that tne
Governor was tied up to the brewers Camppeii
saws that Hill looked over the Dill ana tnen toid
him that the brewers objected to some OF its pro-
visions, and he was compelled TO consider thelr
vio,ys The brewers had been ahead Of the
liquor-dealers, and the man they had put IN tne
Covernor's chair they found they had not even
q half-interest in. This fact has added not
little Of the heart-burnngs which have followed
their failure.
The last hope that the Governor and his strik
orc hold ont TO the liquor men was that they
would get their bill through az the extra session,
which they say, he promised them that ne would
surely call This was the ast Iea'hef I'm On csne .te
notice that he had decided that an extra session
was not necessary In speaking Of this last
rupture of his pligbted faith, an officer OF the
Central Association said 4" have just read Gov
ernor Kills reasons for breaking his word regard
ing the extra session Was there ever such an
exhibition Of unaduterated gall lie actuany
has the hardihood t, mourn the defeat 10 OF s the
hands There is day of settlement coming
for David b. Hill, and that individual VIII run
up against it sooner than he expects ,rs,o,
Still another complication OF the many whicn
now beset the liouor traffic is the hostility which
the Catholic clergy have aroused. The hght
which the Paulist fathers have. inspired Is golps
an apace Father Mcmillan. of that order; VINO
Vn VVn Paon waginS bitter war against the liquor
mcn mas OTe in print s Is ont in another manifesto IN
Which he reiterates all the charges which he made
~ IA ms PSr rahiIitv 10 prove that the liquor assO-
cpiions Gi raised an immense fund TO influence excise
Icrisiation. The attitude OF the priests greatly
us n1srorates the situation. and makes the state
* the liouordealing fraternity more cXasperac-
ing and unbearab!e