New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-04-27
BryCO STEERERS on TOR.


with which the State officials are tumblins over
each other in their cagcrncss 10 get back Bunco-
stccrer OBricn, who has been reported Tor
several DAYS by the prison authorities as absent
without leave. must be intensely amusing 10
Keeper Buck and Warden Thaycr. to whose
generous confidence the buncO-Stccrcr owes his
liberty. The same cheerful smile with which
he ironcd OBricn 10 Keeper Buck To make sure
he should not escape until he reached the Bags
House bar-roOm must have lrradiaicd Warden
Thayer's countenance aS he read Governor
Flowers offer Of n reward Of S2,1OO Tor the
capt,ire of Oliricn after the latter had 1our
davs' start II was inspired by the Genus oil
Liberty. And Keeper Buck. t0o-how 1t must
entertain him 70 read in the newspapers that
though he is apparently on duty N Clinton
Prison he is actually under guard. and Will
nrobahly "bc indicted and tried for his Grim
nal negligence in letting O'Bricn 20 around by
himself There is very little probability of
the recaptllrc Of O'Bricn and for the rest
Thavcr il a. sure OF holding his office rs o lIrlcn
was Of his liberty when Buck took the key to
his irons and Buck is rs safe from indictment
AS Isaac II. Maynard. They both have Il
"pull": and that means loophocs OF escape
from all law and every penalty from Paddy
DIVERS Police Court 10 the bench decorated
by MAYNARD. Both have seen crime com
mittcd. b., the side Of which the bunco-stccrcr's
was petty and vcnal and seen the chief Grim
inal not only 90 unpublished, but actually re-
ccivc promotion for it - the bench of the high
est state court. They are not disturbed BY
any talk about investigations or indictments.
Whoever suppoSes that because "A reward has
been offered the bnnco-steercr will be brought
back or that because there is a considerable stir
over the escape and prominent Democrats are
saving there ought to be an investigation, Buck
or ANYBODY else will be punished makes mis-
take. All the parties concerned in this bust
ness are Democrats. All Democrats are not
bunco-stecrcrs by any means, but it Is safe to
say that all bunco- stccrcrS are Democrats. 1t
50 happens that the Democratic party in this
| State is divided into two classes. One OF these
promotes crime and profits by il; the other
| kicks at crime. protests against violations OF
| law and insists upon the punishment of Grim
| naIs They do this with zeal and elusive
| ness until The proceeds Of the crime have been
gathered into the party treasury, when they
say Let bygones be bygones," and sit down
at the same table with the thieves for "A
divvyn There's lot of protesting and kick
ing for while then peace, harmony, and
division of cumberland nobody is punished.
| Why should Thayer fear removal? lie Is "a
creature of David j. Hill, and 50 is Roswell p.
/ Flower He holds from Hill and has his pull
on him. Flower will not remove him except
| by Hills consent. And what has Thaycr done
that can be objected to by the man who or
| ganized the theft of the State? lie has per
mitted the escape of $4,000 thief, to be
sure; but Hill was the head Of a conspiracy
that stole whole State the chief of gang
of bunco- steerers who have been overriding law
and justice and holding high carnival at Albany
for the last four months. a pretty fellow Hill
| would be, with this record, to let one OF his
creatures be punished for bit of carclcssncss
in the keeping OF one bunco stcercr.
Buck, too, has had the training of a Demo
| cratic statesmen, and knows too much to be
frightened at any talk of Investigations or in
dictmcnts. lie was a saloonkceper in a small
town, and naturally bloSsomed into influence
as a Democratic statesman became Custom,
House officer under the Civil Service Reform
| Administration of President Cleveland, and got
the appointment of keeper from another OK
saoonkeeper, who is described by a Democratic
paper as "a Hill heller typical Democratic
statesman. After having O'Bricn manaccd to
him in the most impressive way by Thaycr,
Buck took his prisoner safely to Utica set him
loose among congenia Democratic associates i'm
the Bags Hotel bar-rOom, chief of whom was
the Democratic leader Disher, and then pro-
ceedcd himself to get drunk. Quite a chaIac-
teristic proceeding. a jolly lot All Demo
Gratis, and all on their honor not TO let the
bunco- steerer get away. Strange, wasn't it,
that he got away after alp Buck couldn't be-
lieve it. Waited for some time after to get
sober before he could be convinced that the