New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-03-24

law. no Republican is under the slightest obli-
CATION 70 prevent the majority from cclhini'uhN
what some Democrats will consider fatal MS
take
| THE CRIME And ITS CONSEQtENchH.
The Bar Associations statement Of the iaciA
with regard to Judge MaynardS electoral crimes
is very nearly perfect. is simplicity cleaIne'S
and accuracy are alike admirable. 1t tells me
story so that any one and every one can readI!
understand it, II is free from technical en-
nressions Its censucS arc just and expressed
in language at once dignificd and resolute In
grounding it, action upon high motives of public
noljcv in view of its responsibility to the com
muntv as q representative ASSOCIATION OF Jaw
ve,s il secures for its recommendations the full
confidence of all fair-minded men. If its judg-
mcnts had been expressed by jury, or by the
Court Of Appeals itself. they could not nave
been more effoctual before the people
The Legislature at Albany does not, in our
Judgment, represent the Democratic parry J."
| NewYork. To tens of thousands OF Democratic
voters we give full credit for personal integrity
and for desire to uphold the honor ana virtue
of the State and It's institutions. Although II
| cannot be denied that a much larger percentage
of the ignorant and unscrupulouS vote the Dem
ccra,ic ticket than the Republican, those classes
arc net majority of the Democracy. The ie-
sults Of the spring elections the letters that are
nournr into our office with every mail, the acton
If the Democratic Bar Association Tuesday
night the comment Of citizens wherever they
assemble. furnish indiSputablc proof that the
un.iobtly mob of frauds, blackmailers and
boodler, who are in control Of the government
of this State are no, fairly representative OF the
Democratic party.
But. nevertheless the Democratic party is re-
sponS.b.e fer them. Il cannot escape this re-
sponsibility. 1t allowed these ScoundreS to Get
hold Of its political machinery. lis voters put
them in Office Their leader, director, champion
| and prD,ector. David b. HILL in character and
| con4luc. by far the worst rascal among them, has
been repeatedly elected by the Democratic
Marty. and has received the cOuntenance and
s,pport Of thousands of Democrats who, at last
Alarmed by his power and his open villany, are
CRYING ont that they d>own and despise him.
The crimes which the Bar Ass citation denmnce
wore perpetrated on his orders and with his
shameless participation. He bought to his aid
eminent Democratic lawyers and the entire
Democratic contingent in the State Senate. 1t
is true TO say that there is no. prominent Dem
ocratic official in Albany to-day who is not in
vovcd, directly or indirectly, in these blistei1ng
| crimes And yet it is of these men that the
public must ask ppar1tlon. TO demand that
concurrent resolution be passed by both houses
of the Legislature removing Maynard, when the
majority Of those houses was cwlted by May
nard is TO ask justice upon thief from jury
! Of fences"
Upon no consideration of right or duty, there
| fore is it 70 be expected that the Democratic
majority Of the Legislature will proceed in the
necessary work of punishment and restitution.
| But a. body Of arIant towards, as this class oil
Creatures always is. it is quite likely tina; they
nav do something on the line Of the Bar AsSo-
cia,ion's recommendation in order 10 make some
kind of record to which they may appeal next
| fall. It is proper therefore, that they should
understand just what public sentiment requires
Of them. and On what basis the requirement Is
made They need not expect to gain anything
for themselves. In any event, they are doomed.
| If they 20 on stealing franchises and exalting
criminals, the people will simply understand that
they are incOrngible If they attempt TO Ie-
trace their stops the people will understand that
! they have been whipped into obedience to pub
| lie sentiment, and that nothing Of honor, de-
ccncy or duty has entered into their o0nsdcra-
| ticn They must not deceive themselves there
| fore, with the idea that they can escape justice
by sacrificing Maynard. Nor will it be permitted
hat MAYNARD be made the scapcgoat Of this
whole conspiracy. lie must come down from
the bench If the Court Of Appeals but with him
must come Frank Rice out Of the Office which
his own hand robbed, and Elliot DanfOrth who.
knowing that Gilbert A. Deanc had been elected
to the State Senate in the XVIII Senatorial Dis
| trict voted to give certificate to Edward b.
| Osborne Osborne must come out of the Senate
whose c0unscls he pollutcS and whose acts his
| vote mpclils. With him must come Walker,
| who wa, seated with his assistance. Storm
| Emans, the Democratic Clerk of Dutchcss COIn-
". and Myod, his assistant must both be re-
tired TO private life; and finally, the hand Of
Justice must bo laid upon the arch-conSplrator
| in these nlamcs, and David b. Hill must be
| made to feel the weight OF pSDlic scorn. The
programme of punishment and restitution is as
| long as the list Of crimes Of which it is the con-
sequence. The Democratic majority at Albany
| and the poor machine tool who plays at being
| Governor may enact this programme or not, as
| they choose Woe be to them il they don't, and
in almost equal measure if they do The people
will not parey with such as they.