New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-11-05
THE SHANE or NEW- IORK.

Over such a disgrace ne has Defallcn New
York no righi-mindcd person can rejoice
Nothing but the utter overthrow Of Tammany
Hall and its infamous city government can give
the people Of this city right 10 look each other
in The face without shame. Bad rs it Is. the
government is that which the voters of New
York have deliberately chosen and for years
obStinatcly supported. and the respectable
Democrats who say with shudd"r that thry
never knew how bad it was. cannot pretend
that they did not know 1t was utterly bad.
Nobody has been able to doubt in the least
about the moral character of the men Tamnahy
Hall has thrust into places of power and triS;.
knowing now for the first time of what IN
famies they have been guilty. everybody has
known for years that they were exactly the
kind IF men from whom inflmics could he cy
pected. knowing for The first time approx
n.ate,y how much the city has been blacknailcl
and robbed. men have been certain for many
years that il WAS being backmailcd ard robbed
To frightful extent Yet men who consider
themselves decent and Respectable citizens. who
would feel greatly outraged if they were called
anything else, have been knowingly unfolding
Infamous city government for long time be
cause it gave success to their party.
Al this closing hour Of the struggle. The one
passionate appeal made by Speaker crisp Sen
atOr Hill. the Democratic State Committee and
The leaders of Tammanv Hail. is precisely this:
The Democratic party must 20 down unless
"Tamlnany Han and iii can be- saved. Con
done all crimes. put NJ with Ill infamicS. for
THE sake of the party Ii Is a plea Of ire
mcndons farce. Year after year. it has stupcficl
the conscirnccS Of thousands This very year
il has drawn 10 the support Of llill some men
of distinction. strong friends Of President 'lcvr-
land. men who have openly denounced the in
fannie, Of 'rammany Yet they say 10 the com
Try. in effect. Better the most infamous gov
"rrnmcnt ever known among civilized men. II
III makes vices anil crimes pay trihlic 10 the
"Dcmocratic party. than any better government
(which does not. An amazing attitude. indeed.
for men who think themselves decent or honest.
and YET II j. exactly The attitude ~ citizens
whose names will s.,rns 10 every lip
This sort of thing has got 10 he stopped or
SELF government mus, fail. Nobody can defend
government by The people. II il means d,Spo'-
ism and hlicsmailng by the lnSc>t Whom
CARLYLE anl others said that freedom meant
supremacy ~ rascals. all America resented the
insult. We shall have right 10 resent II IT,
in Americas greatest State and city. the most
notorious and shameless rlscals cannot br PM
down 10y the votes Of the people. We all know
that they Will be. now or later. Jersey Ciiy ana
Brooklyn have risen against their scoundrcl@
and Ncw-York is not filthy enough 10 endure
for long such government - The LeNnw Com
milfcr has been unrovcrng Bur Democratic
parisan> cry. "Not his year. for tie SAKE Of
the party"
They are wrons. ~ part>anS. II they uphold
Tammany Hall and lin after I'll these expos
urr> IL will simply destroy The Democratic
party in The National election Of 1916 The M
rising ~ decent men agau,, a party which il
kept alive by the Contributions of houses ~ H.
fame and abort policy shops and swim
oilers Of every kind. viii bc all The more terrible
in it, destructive power if 1t l. delayed. Let The
Nation know that II j. in danger Of being ruled
by New York. and hv such New York ~ can
uphold David Il. II the siralcr. and Tam
many Hall. the conspiracy Of bllckma"r-. and
the ma joriy against the Democratic party in all
the rural districts will be ~ reSisilc-S ~ IN
avalanche The one chance for the Democratic
party j. TO bury Tammany Hall and Il>m this
year. and then pull itself together under decent
Nothing but blind ana bcsottcd partSanship
stands in The way And yet nothing but II
blind and bcsott~l partisanShip has made i!ill
ism aud Tamnany possible.