New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-10-14
THE POPTL1R UPRISING.

Tho muncipal contest in Americas greatest
! CITY has at last taken the form which multi
tude of honest and intelligent voters of all par
ties have desired. Ii is a straight issue between
good government and UNANIMOUSLY bad govern
| ment: between the Ten Commandments ana
those who violate them: between all the vices
| and crimes of n great city carefully organized
for corrupt purposes and the upright and hon
est men and women who want decent city 10
live in. Partsanshp of the most desperate sort
will be aroused to defend the airocious methods
| by which Tammany campaign funds have beeh
! raised Partisanship on the opposite side Is
| eliminated as far as it can be. not merely by
| the selection of candidates representing dHeroht
| clements. but by the formal pledge of an hon
orable candidate for Mayor that he will admin
lister the office If elected. without regard to
| partisan interests.
| Between The partisanship which is desperately
| determined TO rob and backmail the pubic for
its advantage and for private gain and the par
| tisanship which Is ready Ia enace itself ana
| forego advantages far as ii can for the pup
lie good there is no difficulty Of choice. with
the men who have made the city government
a stencil in the nostrils arrayed on one SIDE ana
| those who are anxious to reform and purge II
allied on the other, there ought 10 be MS sold
y concentration Of the honest and upright as
there will be of lawbreakcrs and public plum
derers.
II is not a question in which the wealthy or
cultivated people have an exclusive interest
The conduct Of affairs in the city has aroused
against Tammany corruption surprising pro-
norton of working men and women, of bust
ness men whose profits are not lavish enough
to enable them TO hire policemen. but whose
busness is honest and deserving OF protection,
of private citizens who are only able to rent
moderate quarters and have been driven from
them again and again by the vices which the
police protect. and Of men OF every station VINO
have been made to feel the brutality ana IN
science which Tammany control or ofnclals mas
encouraged From the real estate dealers VINO
organize against government. by when the
value of their property has been impaired 10
the sewing girls who organize To resist the gov
eminent which clubs them when they have a
meeting from the manufacturer who has been
compelled TO discharge hundreds OF hands De-
cause of the Democratic policy TO the working
men who have lost part Of their wages, men
and women Of all classes and conditions are
rising up TO get better government.
The organizations Of women are a character
istic feature Of a campaign which aims at
purity in government. The most fortunate
women and the women Of the shops, the fash
ionabe and wealthy and the poorest garment
makers, express their common interest i'll the
overthrow of Tammany Hall and its degrading
methods. 1t is not easy to say how far the IN
fuence Of these organizations may extend. In
the Brooklyn campaign an important influence
was 50 brought to bear. and in the contest in this
city they appear likely to be more extensive ana
to reach far wider varieties OF opinion and OF
interests They are, in fact, an expression OF
the almost universal disgust with a government
which has served neither property nor personal
interests honestly, but has tramplcd upon and
plundercd both for partisan and private gain