New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-04-12
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TAMMANY BOSSES ON GUARD.
CROKER IN ALBANY TO PASS THE NEW-YORK
ELECTION INSPECTORS BILL
EXTREME NECESSITY OF REPUBLICAN VIGILANCE
"-POLITICAL BILLS"-MI STAKES MADE
BY THE REPUBLICANS.

without boss for many hours. Hill
left here on Friday, and now Croker has
come. With him are jimmy Martin the
Police Commissioner; Gilroy, the Public Works
Commissioner, and Clark the Corporation Coun-
sell the fist law officer that New-York has had in
many year who descended to the ordinary dirty
work of faction boss The arrival Of thess
great men excited quite a sensation among tha
Democrats. Mr.. Croker held levee in the Ken.
more, and enjoyed all the sensations of magnats
who is made by the humble bowings and scrapings
of his slaves to feel his importance Croker u
here to complete the work Hill left uudone when
Colonel Brown and Colonel Walker ordered the
big chief out of town. 1t is thought that Crokers
methods will he less arbitrary if not more ef-
fectual.
Iammanys chief interest is in the Eleo-
ton Inspectors bill. Croker pretends that
he is trying to pass the Speedway Re
peal bill, but we shall know more
about that when it is passed. There are few
among those politicians who are both knowing
and candid who think that it will ever get
majority, or that it is intended it shall Mr..
Webster says it will be reported Tomorrow morn
ing. This is case where seeing is believing"
Strenuous efforts are being made by the Repub-
lcan leaders In both houses to insure the presence
of every Republican member from now until the
this in importance. 1t is everything. II it sue
ceeds; if every Republican is always to
he found when wanted, in bis seat, and
If he votes with his party, surely, promptly and
every time, it is probable that almost all the
vicious legislation now pending can be killed.
Republican newspapers, big and little, through
out the State should make it their business to
know just where their local members are and
what they are doing
The situation is peculiar. 1t takes seventeen
votes in the Senate and sixty-five in the House
to pass anything. The Democrats can never be
quite certain of commanding this necessary
number from among their own party. There are
now on the calendar lot of what
they call political bills They mean, of oours.
partisan bills schemes to obtain an unfair cd
vantage in aid of their candidates at the polls
To call bill political bill, in the sense thev
intend, is to stamp it at once piece Of par
tisan deviltry; and it strikingly illustrates bow
corrosive the influence of fill has been OIL he
consciences of Democrats hitherto reclxone -
honest and high-minded that they ~.
pear TO esteem IL matter Of honor
to stand firmly for measures which they know to
be utterly bad, if the bosses declare
that such measures are political bills" and nec-
essary to insure Democratic success The waE
these honest Democrats have delivered them
selves and their votes to Hill, Murphy, Sheehaa
and Tammany Hal, with the excuse that the dirty
steals they supported were political bills. would
| be amusing if it were not primarily so injurious
to public interest and public morality
1t has got 50 now that all the bosses" have 20
do when they want 10 shove through some essen
TALLY scandalous job to label it political bi"
and away it goes. Why, they called Mup.
phy's 'Huckleberry" Railroad steil and Hugh Mo-
Laughns bridge project political bills" and
political they were too with vengeance. They
have insured campaign doodle" fund TO Tam
many Hall and the Brooklyn Democracy for use
this fall which they never could have got except
by the old ." sale of bonds " trick Whenever .
machine politician comes TO Albany in a PTesi.
Dental year with little bill 10 allow hm u sell
bonds you may know just what he Is up to. All
much of this kind of business has already been
permitted to succeed. Much more is impending.
The Republican party is represented here BIZ an
excellent body of men. Intellectually and in the
important matter of experience it is not strong
as it has been or should be. Morally, howeyT it
is good. But it is large minority, and in such
body there are always half dozen weak spots.
men who can be depended upon only when they
are under severe discipline and constant suryeil
lance. In the situations which constantlT arise.
when a large minority confronts narrow major
ty, these men have a tremendous power for evil.
especially when the majority is dominated. as this
one is, by politicians of the most despicable sort.
and the honor and welfare of the State are in the
ninority's sole keeping. Much of the bad legis-
lation of this bad Session might have been pre-
vented if every Republican had done his full duty.
Much may Yet he prevented if he only will.
Ii is a common remark that the responsibility
for legislation attaches to the majority. Bns 1t Is
the voter who does the attaching, and Rept olcan
voters have an ugly habit of attaching it { indA-
viduals wherever it belongs. That is one d the
points of differerc between the voters Oh tne
two parties Just think what a revolution would
be going on in the Republican party OF this Staee
to-day if the situation here were reversed'-n II
were n Republican Legislature which had passed
all these dirty Jobs all these bills to render Tie
commission of partisan crimes safe and easy; II IL
wore ME Platt. instead of " Ed Murphy, who had
becn snatching golden franchises from a Legis-
lature elected under his management, ana looking
TO him for reelection If ii were senator h"cocs
ipstend of Hill who had been absent rom ns
most at Washington manipulating Albany p"n-
tics and bullying reluctant Republicans into sup
porting schemes of plunder, partisan gerry manuei
and Judges convicted by public opinion oi 'ou'
nolitcal crimes. There wouldn't he enough he
publicsn votes in the balloi-boNes next No'en'oes
TO make it worth while counting them.
II only needs TO suggest this contrast 10 snow
how different are the moral standards set by Ne
publican voters from those that satisfy Demo
Gratis. Hill electoral infamies, Flowers pros
,itution of the public service, and the rotten
record made by this boss-rdden LEGISLATURE
excite no open Indignation among Democratic
They are not the grounds on which TIE highy
honorable Mr.. Fairchild, the acutey sensitive MI
Grace and the rest of these vrtuous anti" snap
p,ople base their opposition TO Hill. Not bis
Of it: and that is precisely why Hill is so strong
with the rank and file They zee that he 10
NOT opposed because he is bad, but merely be-