New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-11-04
DEMOCRATS ~ OFFICE ARRESTED

The Democrats in this city who have been
uttcring so many falsehoods in regard 10 the
methods. plans and purposes Of the Rcpub
Leans in This campaign ought 10 feel heartily
ashamed Of Themselves for their reckless at
taclS on the Republican managers. No one
IL these Democrats is ignorant Of tho fact that
the elections ~ this city for the las. thirty
wears have been d,grlcod by Democratic flauds
on an extensive scale. one of the Departments
in which dishonesty has been especially prcya
lent and serious is the Department of Charities
and Corrections II has been the practice Of
certain Democratic Commissioners in that de-
Iarimcnt 10 violate the law year after year by
encouraging the illegal and fraudulent regis
tration and the illegal and fraudulent voting
Of inmates of the hospitals aSylums and other
institutions who have not acquired a legal
residence here. People of both parties who
arc familiar with the inside facts Of politics
in New York have known that the Department
Of Charities and Correction has been rotten and
corrupt - a melancholy extent for a long time
They have known that not only these Com
miSSoncfs, but their agent, and suboidlnatcS,
have been engaged in dctoStablc conspiracy
10 degrade and detilc the suffrage. These Com
nj siOncrS and their agents have escaped pun
ishmcnt in former years, but there is now I'm
excellent prospect that some of the guilty per
sons will be compelled TO suffer the proper
penalty for their misdceds. The arrest Of
Commissioner Shcchy and OF Commissioner
simmons is IN effective answer TO Demo
cratic falschoods in regard to Republican meth
DDS in Newly DIRK. II is the Democratic party
which is the party of fraud of corruption and
of ra>caity OF all sorts in this metropolis The
record Of the Republican party is infinitely
cleaner and better than that Of the Democrats
in the chief city of the country. No one can
dispute this.
The arrest Of two ont Of the three Demo
cratic Commissioners of Charities and Correc-
ton. and the arrest OF large number of agents
and tools in an Infamous conspiracy against
he purity of the balot-bo and the honesty
Of elections, ought 10 be a warning to all the
Democratic plottcrs and conspiratOrs who have
been engaged in the preparations TO pile up
an immense dishonest majority for Mr. Cleve-
land in this city. II would be interesting TO
know what Mr.. Cleveland thinks of the opera-
tons of the men who have been detected in
this scoundIelly work. Mr.. Cleveland has been
denouncing the Republicans for crimes which
they never committed and never intended TO
commit lie must have known, he could net
fail 70 know that the Democrats here proposed
10 incrt ase his vote enormously by every dis
honest method in their power. lie cannot shut
his eyes to the fact that it Is the Democrats,
not the Republicans in New-York, who raise
for every campaign prodigious Legitimate
fund, obtained by Matchmaking the poolrooms,
the disorderly houses, the dives, and every
resort OF lawbrcakcrs. Every poolroom- keeper
every proprietor of "A disorderly house, every
of dsreputable resort, is compelled
to pay IA campaign assessment to the Demo-
cratic party for protection in his evil doings.
This is not only notorious. 1t is perfectly evil
tent.
This colossal campaign fund, raised in this
way, is swollen tremendously BY
the assessments levied upon the hosts of people
on the city payrolls. The city of Ncw-York
Days out every year for various PURPOSES in