New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-10-28

every division of without giving the power to veto
a Mayor Grant (hssesJ That is not the kind of re-
form we were sent to Albany for Npplause)
Mr. Choate dwelt upon the section which aims
at the separation of State and National from
! municipal elections. and continued
THE CITY ARTICLE.
Then we have passed another enactment. almost
| equally valuable. in respect city matters. and
that was that. in respect to the internal affairs
| OF city. no bill should become a law be pre-
scented TO the Governor for his signature until It
had been sent down to that city and a fair op,
portunity given the city authorities to examine and
report on it, and the Legislature had provided for
ApplauseJ That bill too. was passed in the con-
| venton by general consent and yet Governor Hill
poruonment' am coming to the apportonment
You know that all the great legislative mischief
| comes from all the work being huddled into the
| subjected to amendment the third reading and
on the final reading. and in the engrossing room,
Governor All sorts of iniquites are crowded into
of the bills that any Legislature passes passed
in those three days. Now, we have provided by an
other amendment that no bill shall be put upon its
final passage until. in its final form. never to be
| amended after that, it has lain upon the desks
| OF members of both houses for three consecutive
| calendar legislative days CAppausc) Now. II that
amendment is adopted nine tenths OF the legts ative
corruption. OF legislative bunderinG. OF legislative
| crime. will be put a stop TO. Cheers
To REMEDY NATURALIzATION EVILS.
And then we have done something for tho suffrage.
one Judge has been watched and found to make 800
citizens Il day. Wei. that makes fifty an hour for
ten hours day. The law requires that the Judge
| shall ascertain applicants good moral character.
| the Judge shall ascertain his history to nation
ay and ability. that the applicant shall be familiar
with the Constitution of the United States. The fail
ure TO observe this law most outrageous evil;
ii is the seed OF more Illegal voting than almost
| other upon which YOU can place your hands within
| the last twenty years. Now have provided that
this state until he shall have been citizen az least
| ninety days. Ninety days is 10 intervene between
| for the Police Department. and the official commit
tees OF every hone, F3:it!ea! oreanz1iion to search
| they are true and how far they are false. ZAP
h. saws every citizen the moment he is created
citizen has just much right to vote as any other
citizen That Is his specous argument -
WHY HILL OPPOSES THEM ALL.
The real reason why he. a Democrat. has issued
orders to all other voters to vote against every
amendment is this. that they distrust the intcll-
gence OF the average Democrat to distinguish be-
tween different amendments, either by number or
We found another subject that had long been
disturbing the public mind and that vas that the
pie by taxation for the support Of common public
schqols Wa nGgnmns to be aVsriya ana and nus o
said-and here DEMOCRATS ana Repuniiicanss ,, IN
State would not be satisfied short Of a provision
that a dollar Of public money raised 10y taxa
ron De Hi saws that s not Democratc
and ne advises everybody to vote against It be
Nov u" want NAN 10 lei little personal experience
baG Won, ,h On, ritias am, nlnent Insisted with
all my might upon that amendment. and the public
newspapers some Of them OF the Democratic guild.
95ge ,6s s R BGc a9%n f ydc M or h "a
ment. about which J am going 10 tel You next.
l.gon ana becoming a Roman catholic Don't YOU
money raised by taxation shall be diverted from the
public schools to the Roman Catholic, or Presoy-
schools?
THE CHARITIES AMENDMENT
Then come to the Charities amendment. l. was
reported throughout this stat" before the Conven-
ton met that great masses - public money were
given private charities fOr the support Of children
wards Of the State. for which the State had made ~
provision but for twenty years had lnrls;ed - the
charge Of these benevolent instltutor' maintained
by every kind Of benevolent J"op" n the STATE i"r
being diverted. under the guse Of supporting de-
pendent children. o. the use OF priests ana me sup
port theological Institutions. II found thos"
charges were not sustained. but that there were
gross abuses. whereby. the city and STATE under
much a head in the Of these private insi!tu-
drrn who Ought not 70 be wards OF the state whose
parents ought 70 support them, and kept them for
pubic caarge. We considered tina, reason FOR
5oPpnE the as SUSIE 50 none w1 ro To rYac
authority Of the public Shall follow Il; ApplauseJ
FACTS ABOUT THE APPO8TIONMENT
Now want TO tell You about the appointment
Hi has been doing yeoman service in support Of
that article daughter. Ike the original Democrat
who wanted 70 torment job in the earth arguing up
and down throughout this state that If you pass ne
appOrtionment article II VIII MP Democracy III NE
bud II In1, %ei@ T t , si touard Dcmocracy
as represented al this moment by Hn and Tam
many Iiail-what stink il Is IN the nostIlis OF an
nment to compel everybody who does not IKE that
KIND Of Democracy to vote Tor 'h'I ~ nn trme
There IS nothing partisan about H.. ;.'pP'aus aus
There never was more is cqua g aH nennIc Than
that. Applause)
THE MATTER WITH HILL"
will tell you what is the matter withCovernor mn
We had an apportionment law. In the hrst place
how dlI Governor Hil-fo 1t was his work-how
did he got power make it? He stole the senate OF
1892 ana 80 got command Of the legislative power OF
this State 1t was that theft Of the NNih Dstrict
Senatorial vote and seat which enabled MIN 10 az
compsh that. Under an enumeration maze III
February 1892 which believe is generally conceded
to have been fraudulent. taken in way tmao rIas
gerated the population OF ne ci,rs am na rn"~ed
The disInction between alien and citizen residents
in the great cities. almost In midnght Iash hi d,
agement without discussion. without "a "or1 ~
in It's favor .orS or ,S an o"qr'"hb by strict
party vote. which that stolen Vote i ,Hi
Dachass TS%h law Under which we
now suffering The object Of it was as NJ 10
s s5elG ee wo o aefaIe enb n The
Qualities existing in II are OF the most Stvaa an
"a lpab nature But he counted without ms nos.
iAnnlauscJ How little he fOresaw that the yer!
means which he adopting 20 perpctrate llat
lnioIiiV would b" the means or ms own INI'i
t1'benrsD How little he r-.zed that. he was SOWING
the wind and would reap the wnsrwind which ~
could not control Cheers) How little ne saw
how the Bar Association would be aroused 10 puI'
sue him and his satellites (applause) how the non
est Democrats of Brooklyn Of Buffalo. of New,
York would rise In solid array against him tioud
APPLAUSE how the LeXOw Investigating commute
W0uld be the direct result OF H. how new Com,
mtec OF Seventy would be appointed, and ne wouid
have to meet all Of his adyersaries at the polls
Election Day. prolonged APPLAUSE 49,,
And let tell you about that apporuOh-
ment. We believed that IL was the desire OF VI.
people OF this State cut up that apportonmeh, |
by the by Of It's gross inequalities ana