New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-12-26
SOME TIWUJNY MISDEEDS.

II is amazing that any intelligent New-lorker
should ever venture to offer word or eXtenua-
ton or apology for Tammany misrulc. Tamnlany
has filled the municipal departments with drones
and billiards. 1t exists simply and solely to put
money in the pockets Of its leaders and their
followers. Tammany chieftains and Tammany
contractors have amassed fortunes with start
ling rapidity since Tammanys grip was clufchcl
fight upon every branch Of the city govern
lnrnt. Rents Of apartments and rooms on
Manhattan Island are exorbitant in the ex-
IRENE High rents press with cruel intensity
upon laborers. artisans and clerks, ana upon
every wagc-earncr with small income who
has Il family to support. High rents to very
serious extent are due to misrule. If the pub
lie franchises. charters privileges ana properly
were used for the greatest benefit Of the COM
munty and not 10 enrich Tammany leaders
and f:lyortcs poor men and women would not
suffer so severe priyations and be forced 10
struggle so painfully for mere existence as they
are now forced to do under the iron heel or
Tammany msgovernment. The city payroiiS
are crammed with extravagant salaries paid 10
political heelers The heaviest burden Of this
prohigate Tammany expenditure rests finally
upon the CALLED and shrinking shoulders OF the
poor.
The sort Of justice which Tammany deals out
10 the people Of narrow means and of no po-
tical pull in the civil district and police courts
is tainted and even putrd. Tammany has
crowded the police and civil district courts
with scalawags. 1t is a question which Is the
more disreputable in number Of these courts
the unscrupulous. constituencies justice or the
horde Of ignorant indolent, overpad and inso-
lent clerks Some of the police court clerks in
this city get larger salaries than are paid to
the Justices of the United States Circuit and
District courts. But the Federal Judges are
learned men of high character and exceptional
ability. The average police court clerk is a
low hecler, whose intellect rises little above
the level Of that Of the average barkeeper
New-YorIl pays its police justices $4,000 per
year. and gives them Il term of ten years. Most
Of them know no law, and some of them have
lot even distant acquaintance with decency.
Look AZ Police Justice Paddy Diver Tam
many leader Of the Assembly district in which
the foulcst election frauds and crimes were
committed on Election Day Oh prodigious
scale No one can doubt that the perpetrators
Of these frauds enjoyed DIVERS confidence
and favor. They knew that they were doing
Just the sort Of work which has given Diver
his position and his prominence IN Tammany
Hall They knew that the more outrageous
and extensive the crimes against the suffrage
which they pcTpetratcd, the richer the rewards
which they could hope for from their Tammany
leader. and the stronger their claims for patron
age and promotion in Tammany Hall. When
they wiped ont the Republican vote altogether
in certain election districts in the Id Assembly
District and nearly SO in the IlId. although
number Of Republican ballots had been cast in
those districts. the Tammany rascals knew they
were doing what would be most pleasing TO
Diver and to " Dry Dollar" Sullivan. and 10
their allies and associates in the Wigwam And
now these scoundrcls look to Diver, 10 Sui
Ivan and 10 the Tammany leaders generally
for protection. and hope by their political pull
to escape imprisonment.
Grady, Koch and some others are fit com
panonS for Diver on the police court bench
Tammany he's put criminals and the friends
OF criminals i'm public Office 1t has sent black
macrs and cmbcZzlers to Albany. The test
of usefulness to Tammany is the ability to fill
The pockets Of Tammany chiefs by devious de-
vices. Tammany rule has inflicted upon this
community Scannclls. DIVERS, Sullivans and
hordcS Of public plunderers, men Of evil careers
and of vast capacity for mischief, who have
done all they well could 10 make NewYork
unfit for respectable people TO live in. And yet
Tammany has The incredible clfrontcry to assert
that il governs Ncw-York well