The morning call., 1894-10-30
REFORM DEMOCRATS.
Carl Schurz Twists the Tail of the
Tammany Tiger.


Gratis to express their determination to
support Everett P. Wheeler, their nominee
Tor Governor. The audience was enthusi-
astlc. Ex-Secretary Fairchild, who pre-
sized. made a speech preliminary to his
introduction of Mr. Wheeler. The latter
said 1t was needless for him to saw more
than 10 thank his friends for the evenings
demonstration ana to ask them to stand
shoulder to shoulder for the triumph of
the cause of the Democratic principles on
election day.
Wheeler II. Peckham made humorous
speech scoring Grant, but Hon. Carl
Schurz was the speaker of the evening, and
his address was listened to with close at
tention and freely punctuated with sp-
plause.
Mr.. Schurz began by telling his hearers
ne was there as private citizen. not en-
gagged in active politics. to tell them why
he thought David b. Hill should not be
elected Governor of the State of New
York and Everett Wheeler deserved sup
port. He went on:
There is in this municipality great struggle
going on which is 10 decide whether the city OF
New York shall be owned by the inhabitants
thereof or by Tia mmany Hal. 1t has long been
Il
nest OF rapacious freebooters. Recent disclos-
ures OF corruption. blacKman, robbery, OF vice
ana crime planted aud protected for revenue
Oh terroriZlng, OF cruel oppression practiced
upon the poor. the weak and the helpless, have
gone far beyond popular expectation.
The good citizens of New York concluded at
last that 1t was time TO make an end of this
Iammany chiefs became alarmed. They saw a
day of Judgment coming. Their head chief
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princey fortune he had saved from his reye-
nues as King OF New York and retired as a
Iammany sage completely conscious of
having secured his harvest in season. Bnt
the other Tammany chiefs were not so comfort
ably settled. They had to brave The coming
storm They felt themselves put TO their Wits
end aud tried various devices. They sang the
song oil harmony as sweetly as any suck
ing 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 people
forget the tigers teeth and claws
until after election. But all In vain.
In their extremity they remembered that in
their kind Of policy the shorter way from one
point TO another is crooked line. The saliva.
ion they could not expect to win directly IN
New York they might secure by flank march
via Albany. They bethought themselves OF
their lifelong friend, their trusty confederate,
David b. Hill. II they could only make him
Gov~rnOr again they need not trouble them
selves about defeat in Mayoralty election.
But would friend Hill be willing TO accept
ihe minaton for the Governorshp? Hardly.
Comfortably enseonsed for several years 10 the
Senate, he would not like to take unnecessary
risks. II asked beforehand he would refuse.
Tammany therefore resolved to nominate him
without ask Ing, and the game succeeded II is
universally known ana not contradicted that
the stampede in the Democratic State con-
vention which thrust the nomination on Hill.
was planned and managed by Tammany, and
that Hill had been nominated aud virtually
accepted. and found himself harnesed
TO he Tammany cart ere he had time to
rub his eyes. That this sly fox would be caught
by surprise may seem ludicrOuS, but ir is more
than joke. 1t Is the revenge of fate; it is the
sin or the evEdoer coming home TO roost: IL is
The devil claiming his own. SO oft-n hau Hill
ridden into places of power on the back of
Tammany and The State machinery that Tam
many and its allies have a right TO Jump on his
back and say, Nov, we will ride you for our
salvation; we have done your work now you
do ours"
All this is perfectly ft aud proper Hin and
Tammany are bound together by natural ties
They are one flesh and one blood; their
principles are the same their methods are the
same. their aims the same, and they know. as
Ben Franklin said, that they will have to hang
together or they will hang separately. AS
Tammany has always fought HIPS battle. so
now Hill fights the battle OF Tammapy. IT
means in one word, that every vote for Hill is
vote for Tammany Hall, and all that il i'm.
plies.
In the first place it is said that David B. Hin
has shown himself to be an able man. Yes. and
how ably, after he had once risen TO political
prominence. did he manage to attach to himself
the mercenary elements of his party and frame
out Of them the worst political machine this
State has ever seen?
How ably he used the machine TO undermine
Mr.. Cleveland in the Democratic organization
OF this State. How ably he strove TO belittle
the tariff issue until that issue was
generally accepted. How ably he contrjyed
when Mr.. Cleveland. in 1885, was for the sec
| Ond time candidate for the Presidency, to get
for himself In this State as a candidate for
Governor plurality of MANY thousand while
Mr.. Cleveland Was sacrificed. How ably be
took $4,000 out of a public contract, and
therefore out of the peoples pocket, and used
1t in his campaign. How ably he jnstigated the
crime OF abstractfng an election return, fasify-
Ing an election and stealing Ibe Senate How
ably he championed the crime. advocated
the elevation OF a criminal to the highest tri-
bunal of the State as an act OF simple instjce
dnu SCI uUWu ouT IOreIuOSJ lawyers who had
some respect for the honor OF the judiciary as
brainless SET Of Eamby.pambys. How able
when he led his party after having insuted the
people OF the State with such nomination into
humiliation and defeat by more than a hundred
thousand votes
how able when he got up his famous snap
convention. thus stealing for himself the Demo-
cratic delegation Of the State and falsifyInq the
public sentiment of its people.
How ably he managed Mr.. Ueveland's second
election IN 1892. to make the Cleveland vote
fall behind the ordinary party strength fn
almost all the counties 10 which HfIPs
personal Influence was especially strong
How ably he labored as member OF the SEN
| ate TO battle the Democratic administration on
every public measure in which it took a special
| interest How ably he fought day In aud day
| out to keep the Mckinley tariff law on the
statute book as the law OF the land under the
pretext OF demanding an amendment TO the
Wilson tariff law which be knew could not be
adopted. There is no abler general In the
Democratic ranks. There is no abler traitor to
Democratic principles and policy; no ADLER de-
moraizer OF Democratic virtue; no abler enemy
of the Democratic administration.
There are few rogues In holiness whom
David B. Hill cannot beat at their trade.
There seems to be lots OF creduious citizens
over whose eyes he is still able to pull the
wool. leave 1t TO you TO think out what Will
become of the country and your party If such
ability is to rule their movements.
Continuing his criticisms Mr.. Schurz
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