The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-11-03

patronage and further pledged himself to
prevent the Cleveland faction of the
New York Democracy, which defeated
Tammany Hall at Chicago, from
asserting their claim to special party con-
troll. Mr.. Cleveland surrendered the ex-
elusive control Of his canvass to the MAJ
ayers Of Tammany Hall, who denounced
him at Chicago and were bitterly de-
nounced BY him. Why did he surrender
of that faction Of the New York Democ-
rscy which has always made itself a
stencil in the nostrils of honest men Of all
parties?
The disreputable work Of the Democratic
party in New York state up to CIeveland's
nomination was charged by Cleveland and
his friends to the Tammany machine that
made the New York delegation solid at
Chicago for Hill. and yet Cleveland delib-
erately surrendered the exclusive manage
ment of his canvass to this corrupt
political machine. Why did he do itf
He did it because he could not carry New
York without the help of the Tammany
machine. Why could he not carry New
York without the help of the Tammany
machine? He needed Tammany because
he knew that all the perilous classes of so
ciety followed the flag Of Tammany; the
classes that could be corruptly welded
into voting mass by the nefarious meth
DDS of this Tammany Hall machine. He
needed Tammany's Satanic following in
politics; he needed Tammany's Satanic
skill in disreputable methods and corrupt
political practice in order to carry he Emi
pire state.
And this is the man that, after purchas-
ing the support of the same corrupt
political machine that he and his friends
denounced as a pirate ship within the
party at Chicago, now stands up and, with
monumental cheek and peerless gall, tells
the country that ne will be elected unless
the Republican party cuts the ground from
under his feet by wholesale bribery and
corruption.
Backed by the most powerful and most
corrupt political machine that this coun.
try ever knew; a machine that prevented
Cleveland getting single delegate from
New York; machine that handles $685.
0O0, 900 of public money annually; ma
chine whose annual pay roll aggregates
1000, 600; backed by this notorious, infa-
nous machine of political corruption
Grover Cleveland has the gall to say that If
he is not elected it will be because the Re-
publican party has succeeded in bribing the
voters of New York to vote for Harrison.
There is nothing in the ranks of the
Republican party of New York CORE
spending to Tammany Hall; the Repub-
lican party includes nothing of the aggre-
gated ignorance and organized depravity
that enables Tammany Hall to throw
$1,000 Democratic majority at will, and yet
Grover Cleveland says that the Repub-
licans are dangerously likely to defeat
him by bribery. Cleveland has the
most powerful machine of disciplined
corruption in the country at his
back; the machine can at any moment
fill its Golfers to overlooking by assessing
the stipendiaries that make up its annual
pay roll of SIS, OOO, 900. from Judge Roger
A. Pryor, who was assessed $4,000 before
ne could get renomlnated, down to petty
copying clerk or janitor. This machine
last year elected Gov. Flower by the most
shameless use Of corruption fund in the
interior cities of New York; it is today re-
peating this work; its repeaters have been
arrested; its colonization schemes have
been exposed already in the Empire state,
and yet Cleveland pretends to believe that
he is in danger of losing his election by the
corrupt political methods of the Republi-
cad party.
If Mr.. Cleveland should be defeated, he
ought to turn insurance canvasser; his
oceanic cheek and inexhaustible gall ought
to be utilized in some calling where it
would be the supreme qualification for