New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-05-05
AIR. HILL And HIS LEGISLAI OfE.


which was published in several newspapers
Yesterday that he is thoroughly satisfied with
the work of the piratical, buccaneering and
thievish Democratic majority IN the NeW-l ork
Legislature. 1t is very natural that the cher
of q band of garrOters should be delighted with
the operations of his subordinateS, II they sue
coed in extensive robberies MI Hill and his
fellow-c onspirators, having stolen the state
have encouraged their scrvie followers IN the
| Legislature to perpetrate every steal and every
outrage by which they desired to buttress their
stronghold of violence and crime. 1t would
be refreshing if MIR. Hill and his Democratic
| organs in the press would occasionally indulge
in faint twinkling of truth about the State
census. Mr.. Hill and the trained parrots who
are continually repeating his language daily
insist that the Republicans are solely and ex-
clusively in fault for the failure to take a CEN
sus for seven years. Every person who has
paid the least attention to the subject knows
that Governor Hill vetoed fair honest and
proper measure for the enumeration of the
people of this State-a bill which was based
on and similar to the law passed for that pur-
pose by the Democrats in the Legislature of
1875 and signed by Governor Tilden. If Mr.
Hill had been willing that fair measure of that
sort should become law, there would have
| been an honest State census in 1885. and a fair
and equitable reapportiOnment would have fol-
lowed. 1t is upon Mr.. Hill, and upon Mr.. Hill
alone, that the responsibility Cor the delay in
| enumelating the people of this State must al
ways rest No Democratic falsehood can alter
| in the least the truth of this matter.
OF course, Mr.. Hill is exultant and jubilant
over the dishonest and fraudulent census taken
under the direction of State Stealer Frank Rice.
1t was exactly the sort of census which suits and
delights man fond OF crooked and indie
feasible political methods as Mr. Hill is. Hill
is so tortuous, so cOnscienceless such lover
of darkness rather than of light that if the
choice lay before him of two methods each of
Which might he equally advantageous to his
party, one of them fair and honest, the other
evil and foul, he would inevitably choose the
disroputable wicked and filthy one. Mr.. Rice
and his accomplices in Statc-stealing are like
unto Mr.. Hill and the recent Democratic cen
sns in this State is as dishonest, as corrupt. as
fraudulent and contemplate as were the crimes
committed by the Hill thieves in robbing the
people of the State of their just rights, when
these highwaymcn laid violent hands upon the
Legislature and took it from its honest owners.
Mr.. Hill says that no just criticism can be
made of the reapportionment which has been
adopted. He is not telling the truth when he
says this, and he knows perfectly well that he
is not telling the truth. He attempts TO ex-
crse the villany by which the infamous Flee
ton Inspectors bill was put through the Legs
lature and signed by our contemplate Carl
caturc of Governor lie merely rcpcsts the
stale and silly nonsense, which the Tammany
bosses first put forward and which has been
repeated in parrot-like manner by Governor
Flower and Mr.. Hill. The Tammany bosses
and Mr.. Hill say that as Democrats in country
districts in which the Republicans are in a
majority have only minority in the Elcc-
ton Boards. the Republicans in New-York
City are only entitled to one inspector out Of
three This is an unfair and untrue prcsenta
ton of the case In the country districts the
candidates for election inspectors are elected by
the voters, and every man must pass the
scrutiny of his fellow-citizns and is subject TO
their suffrages. In the city the Tammany cleo
ton inspectors are selected by the most I'M
scrupuous men in Tammany Hall, and in most |
cases are about az bad a lot of low ward-heclcrs |
as it is possible to get togcther-men who will |
stick at nothing to roll up big majority for |
Tammany. If Mr.. Hill, Mr.. Murphy and Mr. |
Croker had really desired to put the city and |
the country on an exact equality in regard TO |
Election Boards, they could have carried |
through the Legislature, without any trouble |
whateyer, IA bill to insure nOn-partsan Boards |
Of Election Inspectors throughout the country |
districts. They did not attempt to adjust mat
tiers in this way. They had no intention of |
doing anything fair and honest. They are de-
termined to steal the vote of New-YOrk State,
and they are bent on debasng and corrlipting
orr elections They are crimc-branded con-
spirators against an honest vote and an honest
count. Mr. Hill is thoroughly conscious of his
own guilt in this matter, and no pettifogging.
no hystering misrepresentation, no falsehoods
on his part can affect the record or alter the
exact facts.
Mr. Hill declares, further, that the recent
session was unusually free from scandal This
is wholly untrue, and Of course he knows it.
The whole session from first to last was reeking
with the foulest scandals. OF course, Whiskcy's
Governor, the degraded tool and agent of the
worst gr0ggeries, defends the new Excise bill.
1t is law after his own heart. il is law
passed in the interest of lawbrcalicrs and Grim
inals it is a law to stimulate vice and crime
to diffuse it more widely, to debase and de-
grade every community in the State
Among the glazing untruths uttered by Mr..
Hill in this interview is his assertion that this
has been an economical Legislature. 1t has
been a most reckless prodigal, extravaganza and
spendthrift Legislature, as the taxpayers of this
city will discover to their sorrow when they
realize that this Legislature has imposed upon
this community millions upon millions of addi-
tional burdens. In addition to the previously
enormous appropriations for the Public Works
Department this Legislature appropriated
S3. 600, to be spent in two years on New
York pavements 1t did all that it could to
encourage the outlay Of vast sums upon an