Los Angeles herald., 1892-09-18
CRoLsRA AND POLITICS.

CHOLERA AND POLIIlCS.
The extent to which part;zan malice
eau be carried in an otherwise unevent-
full campaign is well shown by the at
tempt to wiring in Governor Flower and
Tammany hall SO fectors in the cholera
question around New York city. If
anything could be more ridiculous than
this we do not know what form it would
be likely TO take. The other day the
Chronicle contained half column OF
trash arraigning Governor Flower, whose
spirited action in this great national
crisis has excited the admiration OF his
countrymen. Having discovered that
DR.. jenkins is the son-in.law of Mr..
Richard Croker, the leader OF Tam
many, terrible lot of stuff is
got off on his incompetency,
etc., ETC., with vague suggestions OF
corruption in the purchase of Fire
Island by the state authorities as a
quarantine station. Such malignity is
simply puerile. Governor Roswell P.
Flower himself supervised the purchase
by the state of the property acquired on
Fire leland, and it will be very hard
thing indeed to convince the most big
oted parlizan, be he Republican or what
not, that conspicuously honest man,
who has made many millions in the
prosecution OF a legitimate business,
and who is connected with no trusts OR
corporations or protected industries,
should all at once become a thief, or the
abettor Of thievery. 1t would be just
as we'll to suggest that the secretary OF
war receives commission on all trans-
actions that involve the disbursement
OF money in his department
(Which was substantially the case with
Grants secretary CT war, General Belk-
nap), or that the secretary of the navy
"whacks up" with the contractors who
are building the new navy. To their
honor be it eaid, Democrats are not
mean enough for such wholesale insinu
aticns, and they c0nfne their denunca-
tions to cases of proved peculation and
malyersation, or to others where the
implications are sufficiently strong to
make it public duty to group suspi-
cious developments with view to:as-
certainiDg the truth. Does not every
body, outside of a lunatic asylum, know
that if his enemies dared to put Cover
nor Flower on his defence against such
fippanG and baseless allegations, his
accusers would be covered with
shame? In the case of DR.. Jenkins it is
only the other day that Mr.. Foster, the
Republican secretary of the treasury,
said that he fully approved of the course
OF DR.. jenkins. and that there was the
most cordial cooperation between the
state and national authorities in their
efforts to keep cholera out of the coun-
try. As matter of fact, those efforts
have been successful to a surprising
degree, and reflect the highest praise on
the authorities of the state OF New York.
Under less energetic administration
the cholera would now be rampant all
over the country.
The average Republican cannot rid
himself of his absurd ideas relating to
Tammany hall and it's membership. He
still thinks of it az it was for a while
under the Tweed regime. He forgets
that it was reorganized under the guild
ing counsel of Mr.. Tilden, and that it
has since been conspicuous for its patri-
otism. John Kelly, the predecessor of
Mr. Croker, and the successor of William
M. Tweed as the head of Tammany, was
one OF the most infexibly honest men
that ever lived. This was freely con-
ceded by members of all parties. Mr..
Croker stands in precisely that position
now. 1t is universally conceded that he
is able and incorruptible.
For many decades after Lis death the
Mohammedan women were wont To
scare their children into silence bv
whispering the dread name OF Richard
Cmur de Lion. The average Republi.
can editor thinks that all that is neces-
Eary to blacken anybody is to connect
him with Tammany, Some months ago
the North American Review contained
an article on that time honored organi.
cation written by Mr.. Croker himself.
1t bristled with facts that would be de-
cidedly en]ightening to the average Re-
publican. Why does Tammanv
Hall control the municipal af
fairs of the great city of New
York? Mr.. Croker answered the uues-
tion by showing that the metropolitan
city of the United States is the best
governed and the moet cheaply GOV.