The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-04-29

any spirit of hostility to Democratic
principles or the Democratic party, but
against frand and the prostitution OF
public office. which had become a pub
&c disgrace.
They therefore united with men OF
other political persuasions to establish
non-partisan administration of pub
lie affairs. Municipal REFORM" was
the cry, and Republican mayor was
elected. not as a partisan, but as evil
denee that the Democrats were equal
ly sincere with others in rescuing the
city from partisan influences. In the
same spirit other Republican officials
received Democratic support in the
state of New York
But it appears that the Republicans
now affect not to see the matter in that
light. They not only claim the election
in the city to be a Republican victory,
but insist that the Republican mayor
Is bound to study the wishes and wants
of his party. And thus the spoils sys-
tenn, against which the people arose,
prevails as bad as ever. only it is in
other hands aid manipulated by poll
ticians of another party.
The reform in New York is of the
kind that needs reforming The Times
declares that the result has BEEN:
Worse bossism than that which the
people overthrow, and a partisan re-
sistance of every effort at reform" In
reference to the Police Commission
bill, recently passed by the legislature,
the New York Times says:
If there is anything that the ''repre-
sentatives Of reform sentiment and ac
ton in the city of New York do not
want in the way of legislation, if there
is any one thing against which they
have protested more vigorously than
another, it is this very scheme of plac-
ing the Police Department in charge of
politicians for an equal division of
spells and plumber, with no possibility
of holding anybody responsible The
grounds on which this measure has
been defended are a compact of hum
bug and false pretense. 1t has the spe-
cific and distinct purpose of keeping
the most important department of the
municipal government The one in
which the grossest abuses have been
discovered, and which is most in need
IlaCnlne
ltlclans, to be exploited by them The
republicans have sold out reform for
haf the plumber Of this Infamous BIZ
partisan system.
In regard to the complaints against
Republican leaders in the New York
state legislature. the Troy Times,
Republican organ, says:
The Legislature, elected as a. re-
form body, has thus far proved re-
creant to its duty-not because the
majority of the Republican members
are unfriendly to reform, but because,
through the manipulation of few
leaders, they are not permitted to
support reform measures
The same old "bossism' which was
complained of under Democratic man
agement rules the roost in the Empire
state, and the pretended reform is
simply a change of manipulators.
This from the New York Evening
Post is interesting in the same direc-
ton:
Governor Morton must decide
one of the most outrageous
schemes for personal and factional
ever devised by a corrupt I
machine shall be carried through to
success. Jake" Worth, the disrepu-
table lieutenant of Platit in Brooklyn.
has induced the worst clements of
both PARTIES in THE legislature to vote
for a. bill virtually turning over to
him the control of all the charitable
and correctional institutions of Kings
county, despite the pronounced oppo-
sition of THE mayor and all of the
forces which make for decency. in
and progress in civiliza-
ton. The job was only saved IN the
senate by the votes of a number of
Tammany Democrats, and every step
in its progress has served to make
more clear its corrupt character and
bad purposes. The best citizens of
Brooklyn will now carry their protest
the meaning of the job so plain that /
the governor cannot possibly mis-
understand its significance. a Demo
cratic legislature never passed a more /
1espicable measure than this proposal |
to turn over the care of the paupers,
the insane and the criminals Ito d
man whose character Us so bad that |
ne could not secure a, responsible po-
s1tion in any decent business house
n his city. 1T seems inconceivable /
-hat a Republican governor will al /
aw.
We shall see whether DR.. Park |
hurst will tackle the Republican re-
,ormers who need reforming, as Wig
orously as he attacked the Tammany
,orruptionists. Fraud is not peculiar
% either political party. Republican
SIN claims to embody high moral
IDEAS. But experience has shown that
however pretentious,
ire just as bad as other folks when
entrusted with power. 1T will not be
ong before there will be another up
Using in New York, and it win be
or the purpose of reforming the re-
orners.
GERMANY AND BRITISH POLICY.