The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1893-06-15

the saloon. the gambling hell and the
brothel form triuInvirate ever ready to
do battle in common. They present a
serried host in every contest. We have
1000 saloons in this city, every one of
which employs no less than three men,
This makes direct voting constituency
Of no less than 2t 600 voters. There are
| 10000 gamblers in the city. This makes
| about 30, 900, the saloon controlling, each
of them, more than three men, either di-
rectly or indirectly, at the lowest calcu-
lation.
Add the vote Of the saloon and the
gambler together, and you have con-
stituenc., in this city Of not less than
| $4,000. This is about the vote which
Tweed's candidate for register polled
| when the boss was wearing striped
clothes. They stand together in season
and out of season, in every contest and
under all conditions. They have no re-
gard for public opinion. Ethical stand
ards in no way interfere with their deci-
| sions.
The corruption Of government in our
| great cities is rapidly assuming pro-
| portions that, unless checked, must
soon threaten the life Of the nation it
self. The dobauchery of the city Of
necessity must affect the life of the ma
ton because of the overshadowing in
fluence Of the modern city. We do not
stop here to discuss this point, which we
have presented again and again during
this series. We observe the fact:
First--hl the supremacy Of the slums
in the city. BY the slums do not mean
the poor in money. By the slums l
mean the vicious and the degraded, the
criminal and the evil minded. 1t is a
fact that the lowest and vilest elements
of the city's life practically dominate it.
Take New York as an illustration. 1t
is an illustration of what is true in all
the greater cities in lesser degree. We
find the center Of government in a cor
rupt society answering to nobody savo
its boss and the elements Of corruption
on which it lives and out Of which it was
born,
| ORGANIZED CRIMINALS.
Tammany Hall is the most powerful
coterie of organized criminals that ever
dominated the life of any people. 1t
makes and unmakes judges and juries,
feeds and breeds on vice and crime.
With iron heel it crushes the weak, in
timidates the half hearted and defies the
strong. 1t is a whitening curse to the
city's life, damning with hot breath Of
corruption every ramihcation of the
body polite Like cancer, it literally
eats the heart out of the honor Of the
young manhood Of our day. And
though it is such an organization il
lives and thrives and continues its reign
with supreme impudence. l have said
many emphatic things about this gang
in the past. have never had occasion
to regret one utterance, to take back one
sentence. The more have studied them
the longer have lived among them, the
better | know them, the more utterly
impossible it becomes to find language
sufficiently emphatic to give any ade
quate notion of the actual facts.
Glance for moment today at our gov
ernment and test it's character. We be
hold on the judges bench man who i!
about to be arrested for rascality ant
who had become a drunken loafer, whC
now receives a salary of $4,000 year
We have the great and only Paddy
Diver on the judges bench with hi
noted companion. A biographical sSetcl
of the Hon. Patrick Diver, commonl,
called Paddy" leader of the Tamman,
hosts in the Second assembly district, re
lates that she is the keeper of a sailors
boarding house and IS the proprietor o
has interests in several liquor saloons
He Is an ex-member Of the board o
aldermen, race track frequenter ant
the friend and cunfidant Of gamblers
He is on terms of intimacy with Johnn,
Matthews and Jake 'Shipsey, two mem
bers Of the sporting and gambling fra
teruity, whose particular methods o
, gaining livelihood are unknown to tn
rumshops on Park row, where they ar
generally to be found"
We have als0,en the judges bench tn
distinguished ex-chairman of the boar
of excise. a man whom | denounce
from this pulpit in unmeasured terms a
the time of his reappointment on tn
board, aud who carries the brand of tina
arraignment as originally uttered
though he invoked all the machinery O
the courts under the influence of Tam
| many toprotect him from its force. Thi
man, during the tendency of indictment
for penitentiary offenses, was elevated b
the present mayor Of the city to the pc
, sition of judge. He has shown since hi
\ elevation to the judgeship that he
about as thoroughly fitted for the pos
ton as would be any criminal VIII
! would be taken from the stockades a
Sing Sing and placed upon the bencl
He pleads for the fact that he was grad
uated from Columbia law school, an
yet he laid aside his judicial duties
few days ago and appeared as the attol
ney for saloon that desired to open
rum hole within less than 200 feet Of
church.
THE vAEyE OF A pull"
Second-We Gee the fact in the d.
ibauchery of our courts Of justice in OF
cities. About ali q certain grade of OF
sOurts in this city and in other grei
cities are good foc is in working varior
pulls. Some tins ago in this city a ma
was arrested charged with feloniou
assault, the penalty of which was seve
years in the penitentiary. He was pu
in Jail, and evidence was manufacture
sufficient to convict him. But for til
intervention of friend who had none
enough to hire lawyer and prevent tn
infamy from being consummated tn
man would have been sent to the peniter
tiary for crime committed by anothe
man while he was at home with hi