New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-10-08
FIGHTING FOR LIFE.

The lines Of battle in New-Iork are arrayen.
Morton and SaXton are to oppose Hill ana
Lockwood: Strong and Golf are 10 oppose sucn
Democrats as Mr. Grace mag dictate ana Iam|
many accept 1t will matter little who the city
candidates are the Democratic side. because
all know that the Tammany organization VIII
not support unless 1t can use them Nor
would Senator Hill accept. in what Mr. Cock
ran properly calls these moments or extreme
peril" If he were not sure that ne could count
upon the desperately Jealous support OF all the
vote-stealers. whom Maynard represented ana
Of all the dangerous classes which fill high the
campaign Golfers for a rotten city government.
This ought to be a holiday parade. but II VIII
he a savage fight. The forces which have de-
bauchcd this greatest of American States. ana
this greatest Of American cities. will not be
shaken off without an effort. Corruption ana
crime have a strength Of their own President
Cleveland has friends. but his sun Is setting in
humiliation unspcakablc. If any Eastern Demo
Graf Is 10 be the distributor Of the spells in his
stead II is to be Senator Hill. because no other
Democrat can get the honest support OF the
organization which he controls 1t Is whispered
that he has promised, and that leaders Of Tam
many have promised, the vote OF Ncw-Iork in
1896 10 another Democrat for President If that
Democrat will help 10 pull the Hill ticket
through this yea. If he has the caow limo
ccfce to discount such promises at - per cent
Of their face value. he is infinitely less shrewd
in politics than IN business. If Senator Hill
could carry Ncw-York this year he could pub
licly refuse the nomination for President fifty
times as often as he refused 10 be candidate
for Governor and would yet have it forced upon
him.
political organization, which draws reve-
nue. Of many millions every year from the vices
and crimes of great city, and which has
manufactured fraudulent majoritics ut pleasure
for many years in this city, and with its allied
conspirators of late in four other cities VIII not
be beaten easily. 1t set out 10 own and run
the whole country through the Democratic
party. and in It's hour of exposure and disgrace
still has the hope that the fanaticiSm or Free
Traders, the use Of an unlimited corruption
fund the resort To all the resources of fraud
and crime, ana at the cnd sudden and shame
less appeal to religious prejudice, may enable II
to overcome Ill opposition.
Senator Hi declares. in accepting the noinina-
ton for Governor. that TN" office has no longer
any attraction for him, but that the very life
of the party is AT stake Indeed ii Is; the very
life OF the party rs now organized, conspiracy
Of votc.stcalcrs and blackmailcrs. depends upon
the defeat Of decent citizens this year. If 1t can
win In NcwYork in spite of al exposures
there is no victory for which II may not hope
But If crushed here by indignant public Virtue
that method of stealing the government from the
peoplc will hardly h" tried with hope by the
same or any party elsewhere. The life Of the
marty. II 1t depends upon swindling In elections
and upon corruption funds extortcd from the
vices and crimes of men. will indeed be snuffcd
out by defeat this year. Democratic opinions
Democratic ideas If tariff and of National policy
and Of State and local government, will prob
ably last some time after the Hill -Tammany
organization has been blottcd out Of existence.