New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-10-24
THE HIGHEST DUTY or HONEST MEN


Friday and Saturday are the final days OF
registration in this city. Republicans need 10
wake up to that fact In the lid Assembly
District, where that perfect embodiment OF
Tammany politics, Tin Dollar Sui
livan holds sway, in the first two days OF regis
tration in 1892, 5,47S names were put on the
rolls This year " Tim" is a candidate for
State Senator. His are the services Tammahy
rewards. Mr. Myers goes into private HE.
Mr. Nicoll follows him. But Tim " goes TO
the State Senate; and to prove his fitness for
this promotion he has run up registry list OF
6331 names already He has beaten the record
of the Presidential year. How he did it The
New-York Herald has shown He has packed
the list with hundreds Of dummy names, ascrb-
ing them with a defiance of law as impudcnt
as it is contcmptuous TO his own saloons anu
dives. What demonstration of his fitness TO be
a Senator more welcome and sufficient could ne
give TO Tammany? 1t proves him lawbreak
err a ballot-box sharpcr-just the sort OF man
whom Tammany loves TO honor.
But in the uptown districts generally. ana
notably in the XIh. the IXth. the Mist. the
XZIIId and the XXNIIIth, the registration Is
olninollSly light. While Tammany humans are
choking the rolls with fraudulent names Re-
pubcans are stopping AT home or going OF 10
their business wondering why ii is that the
rotten government which curses this city is en-
dured by Il free people. Some of them are 10
he found nightly in the clubs or daily on the
exchanges damnng the Republican machine
and talking profoundly about the necessity OF
a thorough reorganization.
That isn't the main necessity. If they only had
the good sense to see il and the patriotism to
heed it, The main necessity is for them 10
come out and register and vote. The good citi-
zen who never joins the party organization ana
then wonders why il IS that such bad men get
control OF the machine; who never goes TO the
primaries. and then wonders why better nom
nations are not made: who fOrgcts 10 register
and doesn't bother 10 vote. and then cries out
against the hopclcsSncss Of fighting Tammany
it is this man. multiplied by his like into tens
Of thousands. who is making popular govern
mcnt "A rcproach to the American people IL is
he who is responsible for the MaynardS and the
Tim Sullivans.
Is not this the simple truth! There is only one
element Of doubt rs 10 the defeat Of Maynard
and the Democratic State ticket. and that Is
lcst Republicans and honest men generally fail
to register and vote. Shall this doubt remain
after the registry lists close next Saturday
night: We have said that If the Democratic
bosses can succeed in their vile conspiracy 10
polute the Court Of Appeals by putting a man
on lis high bench whom everybody knows TO be
q scoundrcl. the fact will have been demon
stratcd that the people Of this State are no
longer fiji for free government. And 50 II Will
For il will show that the conscience has gone
out Of the people. that men whose views are
right cannot he depended on TO assert them,
and that the government is left TO rogucs Is
not the menace Of this enough TO drive honest
men to the registration booths and polling
al.