New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-04-15

mander, and | don't suppose there is the le"SV
doubt in tie world that they will go the whoie
length of the programme fixed for them, ana Vo'e
to "whitewash' Maynard, and to give lammahy
Hall every facility demanded to enaoe the oooscs
to corrupt inspectors and falsif. returns IN the
elections next November. Every argument doouI
the necessity of keeping the judiciary pure anu
the electoral machinery honest VIII DE OEseu WIN
This is a political measure. party question:
1t is difficult to understand jnst how 70 deal WI! '
such a remark as that. Whether made candluE
or uncanddIy, ii cOnieSSea 10 Iiihl'"Ion' -,
deficiencies appalling that one GocsnI hno"
where TO begin the attempt 10 cOIrcc. ~ oi,
A party question whether Judge shal iT'Il"i'
on the highest bench of the State VINO s'oic Gt''
election return in order TO give ehect TO %" ,ho
famous electoral conspiracy "nU +S oostnnishnc
unanmity, has declared one OF fic Sla aEG
known TO the law, Who hos mlserapIA shraA '
away from repeated opp0t ~ His con-
oath in explanation or JusIhcaIGn u io.tnr f,I
duct! Who Las written a defensive n''cl' i'ii
Of subterfugc and containing do"hIlEnC i'e9 ccs
marty Question here. and under such crcuhio''IO''
as surround and greatly aggravat' the easy H.;
n committee of the Legislature appolnteu 10 L.
quire into il has refused to 90 So n"5 Innioi
insulted the corrupt judges accnserS ana uen ,
admission TO all the evidence lnpedc"i"e MS
ments and confirming his guilt g., rrcol
And is it possible that an attempt, " 90 corc.
dow the safeguards which az present. so Cniv
fully nrotrct the purity Of the suHra.e ~, ~ ,;ns
York City involves party question a'Frced
there now are honest. As TO mat an 9lc No
marty has an advantage over another III 'iIo vrInn
her or authority of the election oi!Ice's. In
orc marty did have such an advantage ue , 49,
tions were not horcst, but scenes Oh III
and crime disturbed almost every poilin
and impeaChcd every return. Inc pieseh9 Ho sS,n
,Tos adoptcd TO cure such evils. ana IL mas s SUI
cecded. Now comes the political oreanhasio, ~
which in that odiOus past was lhe auT,ioi Ia "a
those evils and demands return 10 'In . WV
system 1t offers 10 argument, advances no reason;
lis bosses simply say: I'VE wart ~ 50 anu
81 once the Question becomes political. 1t Is a
narfv issue. and these honorable men mus CIV
he bosses their demand or be read out OF inc
party. MI, rdors.or1 tho
situation They know that the organization Whc'l
comes 70 them with one hand EXTENDED ana 'ne
other raised to strike is the most corrupt Dan9 OF
robbers that ever looted A city; Most OF 1IenI
have often made that specific charge, ana nave
denounced Tammany in party conventions ana on
the stump in language which no ingenuity conlN
make more severe. They know that TINS Eiec-
lions bill. by so much as il enables lammahy TO
corrnpt inspcctors intrenches the bosses in power
and renders them supreme over the honest men o.
their own and every other party Bnt ~ i u
"nolitical bill" party measure. III 'llerS II
any depth of partisan politics more degra ie IMAM
This If can be reached only by continuing III
mower the men Of whose control these l3ns ana
scandals are the frnlt. - H' ~