New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-10-30
THE ISSUES is 4 WHOLE.

So far as the cltlZcnS OF NcW-loih "'' W"
cerned. the only opportunity to pass immediate
Judgment on the Democratic party as 10 the
kind of government IL is providing at Washlhs-
ton and Albany arises in the choice OF State
officers In our system few people vote on Il
single distinct issue The. votes OF Americans
are cast upon the case between the parties as
whole The verdict Of the polls Is so inter
pretcd II Democratic State officers are elected
in New-York, Democratic organs ana orators
will ardently proclaim that the approval OF the
Empire State has been expressed. not merely
I'm favor Of q dishonest man, an election thier,
for Judge Of the Court Of Appeals, nor In favor
only of the substitution of the government by
bosses for the government OF public opinion
freely expressed; nor in favor OF discredit@
State ticket. but Of all Of these and OF the reck-
less and preposterous behavior OF the Demo
cratic party at Washington. IL Will be Doast-
fully claimed that the sentiment OF this com
munity Of business men, this centre OF capital
and enterprise, this chief manufacturing city.
this chief importing district, has registered It's
approval Of the series Of monumental follies OF
which the official Democratic party has been
guilty since its President called II together to
cxtricate the country from the financial einbar-
easements which It's election and his prccpi-
| tatcd.
Since the people last voted the Democratic
party has supplied them with good many
| things TO think about: with Secretary OF the
| Treasury who selects a moment when the coun.
try Is on the verge Of financial panic
and acute Industrial distress to declare
that be proposes 10 reverse the policy
Of his predecessor, and 10 nnllify an act
Of Congress by redecmng Treasury notes.
issued with the declaration that they express
the policy of the Government TO maintain all
kinds OF money at par, only in deprecated sill
yer coin; and who, as the Administrations chief
financial officer in the long battle Of the Demo
cratic party with itself to secure the rcdomp-
ton of its pledges 10 repeal the Sherman act,
is found constantly coquettng with compro-
miscrs and financial herctics OF all grades ana
classes. The Democratic party has supplied tho
people with an Attorncy-General who, being
that officer OF the Government charged to en-
force the Interstate Commerce act upon rail-
roads retains his associations in boards OF di-
rcctors OF roads amcnalle TO that act, and
leaves his office at Washington TO attend their
meetings and to get himself reelected. The
DeI!DfTillc purity SuIl'h'' wv ''""''
with three months Of cruel anxiety, agitation
and unrest, during which time all business en-.
terprisc has been hampcrcd and embarrassed,
hundreds OF reasonably successful business
ventures forced into liquidation by the unncccs-
sary fall Of values and by the sudden with
drawal Of capital, millions Of dollars actually
lost. tens Of thousands of wOrkngmen driven
into idlcncss-and all because the Democratic
party was pcrsistcntly, audaciously refusing TO
redeem q distinct promise on the strength OF
which it came into power IL Republican OIL
Gals are not elected In the State OF Ncw-fork,
every organ Of Democratic opinion will at once
claim that all this has been approved, and every
faithlcss Democratic Senator and Congressman
will cry ont that his course has been indicated
In this State, too, the voters have new issues
TO confront. Despite outrageous efforts to keep
the facts concealed, it has come out that bank
has been wrecked and hundreds Of thousands
Of depostors' money stolen under circumstances
that involve group Of Democratic State Office
holders and politicians. Every vote cast for the
Democratic State ticket will be interpreted to
mean that the voter approves Of the course OF
Attorney General Roscndale in emitting to en-
ter Judgment on two actions brought against
this bank for two months, while the bank
wrcckers were scurrying around to get under
cover. 1t will be claimed TO mean that the
Banking Department is innocent in having con-
sumed nearly three weeks after the bank was
placed in the hands of receivers in its ." exam
nation" the receivers meanwhile being kept
out of the property and away from the facts
which, so soon IS they were ascertained, result
ed in the arrest of the bank wreckers. II will
be claimed to mean that the people do not OBJ
ject to having hundreds Of thousands Of their
money deposited in bank in which State Off
GERS are stockholders, and by n Treasurer who,
having conferred this favor on the bank, i'm
mediately requires the bank to confer favor
on him by lending him $4,000 Of the money he
has deposited It will mean that the debauch-
cry Of the civil service In Washington and in
this State Is not objected to, that high posts
OF diplomatic trust can be sold outright for sub
scriptons to a Democratic campaign fund. that
the consular service can be looted and the
departments at Albany given over 10 the fur
thcrance Of Democratic fractional success A
Democratic victory in this State will be held to
mean all these things as well as Maynard, and,
taken with Maynard, they ought to be enough
to bring such protest from the people as will
| suffice to drive from power the Democratic ma.
chine IL this Stats, and to warn the Admins