New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-03-18
FEEEDON And INTERFERING


If foreign student Of Republican inStitu-
tons should visit the United States to-day. the
impressions he would receive rs TO the char.
acter and the probable future Of those inStitu-
tions would not be entirely encouraging. Events
crowd so close upon each other that they dun
the senses, and perhaps there are not many
Americans who realize how much there is at
this time to Justify disgust and apprehension.
The foreign student. on landing In this the
greatest city of the New World. would find its
courts engaged In conyctis Of crimes against
the rights Of suffrage various election officers,
representatives Of the great party which GOV
ems the city and the Nation. He would find a
legislative committee engaged in exploring the
conduct Of the city Police Department. in orlcr
TO decide whether the personal incomes OF
officers and the campaign funds Of the ruling
party have been swcllcd by matchmaking or
protecting houses Of infamy. He would find in
the great city across the East River that the
courts had sentenced the political master OF
Gravcscnd to the State prison, and that JUS
tcc Of that locality had been convicted and was
fugitive from justice. lie would find In Troy
an inquest In progress in which the legal re-
sponsibility for 4 murder Is already fixed upon
partisan Of United States Senator. while
the moral responsibility for that murder and
for other crimes and Il fraudulent election or
Mayor is divided between that Senator and the
Governor Of this State
Across the river westward he would find 4
State government disorganizcd by the rcyolu-
tlonary act Of a minority In one branch Of
the Legislature and would observe with amaze
mcnt that this minority had been enabled thus
far to defeat the will Of the people, declared
with an emphasis hardly ever cquallcd In the
history of the State, through the lawlcss CON
duct Of the Governor and the Attorney General
die would also learn that in Jersey City about
seventy election officers had been convicted of
crimes perpetrated in the interest of the same
party, and that the burning question was
whether the lawbrcakcrs, gamblers and swim
dlcrs could forever defy the law and the
majesty Of the people.
Half way across the continent he would find
another Governor, representing the Socialisic
fanaticism by means OF which the same po-
litical party obtained control Of the National
Government, engaged in dcfyng the courts and
making war upon the police while the United
States Army Is summoned TO preserve the peace
He would learn that another Governor Of the
same faction had engaged In similar rcvolll-
tionary performances In Kansas. From South
Carolina he would hear Of desperate struggle
on the part Of substantial and property0wning
citizens against another lawless and fanatlcal
Governor OF the same faction
At the National Capital he would find Dem
ocratc President doubling whether he dared
to veto dishonest and dangerous financial
measure because II Is demanded by the in1a-
tionsts and repudators Of the same faction and
OF his own party. He would find Democratic
Congress striving by the passage Of acts which
many Of its members abhor. to escape political
ruin through measures which involve the coun-