New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-04-01
vndicates the revolution against maiadn''''''''"
ton .
No MORE MACHINE POLITICS.

vindcates the revolution against maladmlnis'ra-
can that standard be preservedY'
40 MORE MACHINE POLITICS.
preserved is in sense. an idea or word OF dura-
ton II you mean by 1t always or forever o''o
would say no. Power demoraizes one garry d"
truly, 10 no, SO quickly as the other II you mean
cor long time | answer it can be- it ought to be-
and I think II will be- one thing is certain he-
nuhIIc,n and independent Democratic adminiStrat Oh
will be continued in Brooklyn so long as ma
chineism r. the only alternative or mach"e-
ism IN home affairs the people are s'ch' ~
II they are mad clear through There may De Il
straight Republican administration There may NC
nm independent Democratic There VIII not De
Democratic machine until prisons are popu'ar'
penitentaries are regarded as homes OF ho"o.'
stripes are rated 10 be decoration. the lock step IL
deemed to be the poetry OF motion. ana '"e 'o"-
vction by jurles Of criminal Defendants are worn "S
laurel crowns were in the games OF Greece
You think the Gravesend verdicts ana confessions
were far-reachng them
Indeed ! do. 1t Hugo who sad' "dtei 'o'
was not a battle; 1t was change or front "a "e
universe The election in November may nave
been only battle. The Developments since ia'e
wrought a change Of front OF this community. Inc
election showed that between 25O and 300" Demo
Gratis were ready 10 smash their party organization
for its inndety to party rights and to pubic duty
II showed that Republicansm for once could be
made solid for better EoSeT connpera I was not
schemed. 1t was forced 1t was not dehr ERA mai
IN S 1t M IN the fsnre the evils
cared had to be proved to be at least nan true ~
wrong at Gravesend Is now known - be so great
"a fact as be difficult of realization me laI,
Is found to be inadequate to describe those evils
population Of 5000 eredited WIN ~ me rest
Of P' con f among the ocias that Vas was
town government in jal was thought to be reserved
for opera boune 1t is Kings County hstory, Inc Inc
demonstration of II by evidence was followed by me
CONFIRMATION by wholesale confessions the poilti-
cal villainy of 1t is matched by the discovery mat
the town treasury. with nearly a million IN IL
While ago. is empty and that there is defalcaton
Of nearly half million to boot; ms sCr9d ,if5
the disclosure that. while the leaders have bagged-
and likely squandered-fortunes the hremen p1 Men
paid even their salaries The latest disclosure OF me
coarse methods of political and financial traud Gs
gusts mankind as much as the frauds themselves
appal and anger them" -, cuo,.o..r, r.,s h,t
&, to sneak an outlying ward of Brooklyn. McKanc
was its ward leader. The machine has leader IN
McKane How many have initiated equalied or
exceeded him, who can tell? Considering tne cohtd-
If soon some one does not tell. But let that walt
Has Alden S Swan the machine leader OF the
Tesp s involVed in denouncng these Gravesend
crimes? Has James Kane the leader OF tne 81 fb
Twenty-hrst Ward? Has John Ennis Ine ieader , oil
cng has been mute Even the respectable
men. set TO reorganize the party by the machine
tbey either approve Of what has been exposed
and deD0re the exposureor that they are the slaves
of a central power in whose wheel even Mchahe
was only n spoke When Tweed shown up
TAmmany Hall was revoutonized from within lts.
self McKane's crimes have stirred no movement
in the machine general committee career that
was a marvel in wickedness, defence mat was
Drama of Ts,rbuton have drawn not wonl from
the machine. 1t has only stimulated the eifort o,
the ring and gang to reorganize the party on
McKane basis.
THEY HAVE THEIR OWN FIGHT TO SETTLE
"You may be sure that the Independent Democrats
bear these facts In mind. They have their own
reorganization 1t is all the Democracy they VIII
recognize They will become or be the only Demo-
cratic party in this county. there will be no
democratic party at all. They mean to make the
machine and the machinists stay out OF power TOT
ever Theirs is not battle of conflicting inierests
1t is a war for principle and against public enc
mics With them is the affirmative OF me ri9n.
n That Is their business The Independent Demo
Gratis will keep straight on They synpathiz WIN
their power and bullets are reserved for the enemies
in front Of them. They sympathize with the foes
is their battle ground, not Erie; The blood OF the
martyr that is to be the seed of redemption IN IN
men OF Troy their work, sending only from
Brooklyn the npFSSn G5 ps Democrats e Of
Kings County dodge the consequences mat may
W V9M to goTern e That can 60
70 whom the people VIII It = 60 dne berc thew
dependents are improving lIeu part! NH,ir
live They are delivering II from criminals. Iney
are making Democracy worth belonging 70. Ih',y
are not TO be hated by the consideration that their
work VII! lose their party either the Governorship,
the Legislature tariff reform Congress or the Presi-
dency They value home, manhood, truthful cleo
tons and the determination OF the confederacy
bet ween crime and politics beyond the mere and
periodically terminabe incident OF the personnel
or the partisan gloss of any government And they
believe that in making their own party what 1t ought
be they will compel the opposition TO rival IL IN
all high respects Not that they are insensi6e or
Indifferent to Federal questions. They are simply
not the custol ans OF such questions Those ques-
lions belong to the President and to Congress. The
Brooklyn Independent Democrats regard Mr. Cieve-
land as the best exponent Of Democracy in office.
In the main, they satisfied with him. They
think there also good men who are not able, ana
able men who not good, among the Democrats
in Congress. but they regard the Democratic Con
gress as a body 10 be gathering whose inhecLty
sane voters understand and have discounted, and
they rot concerned about the fate such a
gathering may challenge from the people. Brook
Ign Independents accept the duty OF appeasing the
hunger Of the iails for political thieves as their
paramount obligation for some years to come, ana
when their home city Is once and for all set
right and headed right, they have no doubt that
the state and the Nation Will be found safe in the
hands of the intelligence and the virtue Of the
American people"