The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1894-10-30
Tammany's Candidate for Gov
ernOr Under the Lash.
TAMMANY's LIFE IS AT STAKE.
Tammany's Nomination Of Hill Was
the Devil Claiming His Own.
xsnmsay aad Hiii Mnss Hang Together
or Hang sepsrsseiy-Hii Talks on the
TariH ~ Aihany-H Hfirs Friend shee-
han Tsrssrsd by GeH.

SsEN tgkks oEl -, -~1OopSf y mon Was
crowded tonight with enthusiastic reform
Democrats TO express their determination
10 support Everett p. Wheeler, their
nominee for governor Ex-Sscretary
Fairchild. who presided, made speech
preliminary to bis Introduction OF Mr..
Wheeler. Wheeler said it was needless for
him TO say more than to thank his friends
for the evenings demonstration.
Hon. Carl schurx was tho speaker Of the
evening. Mr.. Schurx began by telling his
hearers that he vas there ~ = private citi-
ger. not engaged in active politics. TO tell
them why he thought that David b. Hill
should not be elected governor of the state
of New York, and Why Everett Wheeler
deserved support Mr.. Schurz said:
There is in this municipality great
struggle going on, which is TO decide
whether the city Of New York shall be
owned by the inhabitants thereof or by
Tammany Hall. 1t has long been popu-
larry believed that Tammany Hall is .
nest Of rapacious freeboofers. bus recent
disclosures show that the corruption
has gone far beyond popular expecta-
ton. The good citizens Of New York
concluded at last that is WAS time to
make an end of this. The Tammany
chiefs became alarmed. Their head chief.
Croker, took TO his heels. He gathered
up the princeiy fortune he had saved from
his revenues as king of New York. and re-
tired as Tammany sage. But the
so comfortably settled They felt
themselves put 10 their wits
end. and tried various devices.
They sang the song of harmony as sweetly
as any cooling dove. They would forswear
all selfish designs They would nominate
a high-toned citizen for mayor. They
would even indorse ticket nominated by
reform Democrats. They would do
anything to make us forget the tigers
teeth and claws until after election.
The salvation they could not expect to win
directly in New York they might secure
by flank march via Albany. They be-
thought themselves of their lifelong friend,
their trusty confederate, ID. b. Hill.
II they could only make him governor
again they need not trouble themselves
about defeat in q mayoralty election.
But would friend Hill be willing to accept
the nomina alton for governor?' Hardly.
Comfortably ensconced for several years
in the senate. he would not like to take
unnecessary risks. If asked beforehand,
he would refuse. Tammany therefore re-
solved TO nominate him without asking,
and tho gentlemen succeeded.
''It is universally known and not con-
cratic state convention, which thrust the
nomination on Hill. was planned and
managed by Tammany, and that Hill had
been nominated and virtually accepted
and found himself harnessed to the Tam
many cart ere he had time TO rub his eyes.
That this sly fox would be caught by sur
prise mayi seem ludierous- But il is more
than Joke. IL is the revenge of fate, it
is the sin of the evil-doer coming home to
roost: it 10 the dew! claiming his own. SO
often had Hill ridden into places OF power
on the back of Tammany and the state
machinery that Tammany and its allies
have . right 10 jump on his back and say:
Now We will ride you for our salvation: !:
We have done your work, now you do
ours
IAN this is perfectly fl. and proper.
HUI and Tammany are bound together bv
natural ties. They are of one flesh and
one blood. Their principles are the same:
their methods are the same; their aims
are the same. and they know. as Ben Frank
lin said. that they will have to hang together
or they will hang separately. As Tam
many has always fought Hills battle, SO
now Hill tights the battle of Tammany.
1t means, in one word, that every vote for
HUI is . vote for Tammaay and all that il
implies.
i'm the first place IL Is said u. u. Hill
has shown himself to be an able man
Yes. and how ably. after he had once
risen to political prominence. did he man.
age TO attach TO himself the mercenary
elements of his party. and frame out Of
them the worst political machine this
state has ever seem How ably he used
the machine 10 undermine Mr.. Cleveland
in the Democratic organization of this
statel How ably he sirove TO helittle the
tariff issue. uniil that issue was generally
accepted How ably he contrived, when
Mr.. Cleveland in 1sss was for the second
time candidate for the presidency. TO get
for himself IN this state as 3 candidate for
governor. plurality OF many Thousands
white Mr.. Cleveland was sacrincedl How
ably be took SIS 600 out Of public contract,
and therefore out of the peoples pocket
and used it in hts eampaignl How ably he
instigsted tho crime of sbstractiug an
election return. faisifying an election and
stealing the senaie' How aole, when ne
champloned crime. advocated The eieva-
tioa of a criminal 10 the highest
tribunal Of the state as an act
of simple justice. and set down
eur foremost lawyers who had some
respect for the honor Of the Judiciary, az q
brand new set Of Bamby pambysl How
abe. when he LED. bis party. after having
insulted the people Of the state With such
a nomination. iato humiliation aud de-
feat BY more than loo. ooo votes"