Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-11-09
REPUDIATED ITS LEADERS,
A Republicans Comment on the Ac-
ton of New York Democrats.


ton of New York Democrats.
The democratic party of New York has
repudiated its leaders, writes Holland"
the New York correspondent of the PhiIa-
delphia Press, has shown that a machine,
! while 1t may be a good thing up to a GER
tain point, is worthless when it passes the
| limits OF honor and decency. Democrats
went to the polls yesterday voting with
| proud defiance the straight republican
| ticket, proclaiming that act after they left
the polls. and declaring that they had done
this because the republican ticket was a
better democratic ticket than that of their
own party.
Holland describes a scene at the Union
Club Tuesday night. The result wrought ex-
Mayor Hewitt up to a state of fine exhilara-
ton and excitement as there gathered about
him at the Union Club a company of men,
most OF them Of democratic persuasion,
who listened to a conversation which had
all the eloquence of prepared speech.
Inc ex-mayors eyes were very bright, his
cheeks were flushed and his voice clear and
triumphant as he said: Il have done to-
DAY what never thought 1 should be COM
PEELED to do; 1 have voted a republican
ticket; not a scratch ticket, but q clean re-
publican ticket. and voted il as a democrat,
because my democracy has compelled me
to repudiate that false thing which has been
masquerading in this state the demo-
cratic party.
What we have seen today is the finest
manifestation of the higher democratic
spirit which has been seen I'm this country
since the days when men forgot party and
stood shoulder to shoulder for the Union.
We have been imperiled almost as greatly,
more insidiously, and therefore more dam
gerously than We were in 1861.
In the name of the democratic party men
have committed theft, the most heinous Of
all thefts, for 1T deprived the people of a
district in this state of their right Of
choice OF their rulers, and these harlequin
democrats, who have held the party by the
throat rewarded that act by demanding of
the people Endorsement of It, They have
their reward tonight. They have seen that
machines and fraud and treason and in
Will be rebuked by the people as they were
In 1851, and 1t is the highest duty of a dem
ocrat to stand with those who were for the
reputation of these things"
They clapped and cheered when Mr. Hew-
1T thus spoke. and 1t was a strange thing
IN those parlors. where enthusiasm is
usually suppressed and quiet courtesy pre-
walls, to see men of democratic faith giving
their tributes to these sentiments by their
applause.
Mr.. Hewitt, becoming more earnest and
vehement. went on to say: 1.-The infamy |
practiced by John Y. McKane at Corey
Island was treason: he rebelled against the |
of the courts. and did IL in the |
name OF the democratic party II I had
gone to serve upon him the Injunction of |
our supreme court, and he had arrested me |
ana put me under lock and key in an indie |
cent place as he did Col Bacon, ] would |
nave felt justified In shooting him IL had |
had a revolver.
Il do not like noise; never fired a |
weapo more than once or twice in INV life:
but should have felt that there would have
been justification in attempting the life OF |
a man who used physical violence toward
me to prevent service Of the mandates OF
the courts"
OF course IN his cooler moments Mavor
Hewitt might not have been so extreme in
his utterances as that. and vet there Is no
fouht that the feeling is general that II the
persons who anpeared under authority Of
the courts in Mechanics satrapry TO nre
vent fraud had met McKane's violence by
ohvsical violence In return they would have
been justified.