New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-08-02
HILLS BUNCO GAME.
ao1p1NG OUT FALSE HOPES TO LIQUOR
DEALERS
er-HAL DEMOCRATS OPPOSED TO OPEN SALOONS
IN sUNpAY-soME LEGISLATIVE HISTORY
REcALLED-SUNDAY ENFORCE
MENT IN BUFFALO.


REcALLED-sUNDAY ENFORCE
MENT IN BUFFALO.
rvpov A STAFF CORRESPONDENT OF TRIBUNE
pro.,o Aug. david r. Hill has been vocif-
,s,v declaring that II the Democratic party
- In mower In this State 1.-The Puritanical
,s" against the sale Of liquor upon Sunday.
-,,cn President Roosevelt and other members OF
49, BOARD Of Police Of New-York are enforcing
.o,,d not be enforced. Indirectly. also Mr..
,,u saws that IL there were Democratic Legis-
,a,nre and Democratic Governor the Excise laws
lid he amended so as to permit Of the sale OF
LIQUOR on SUNDAY
Nc ul is audacious as usual He acts as
.,opgh the public had no memory ana no Kho"F
ace of the political character OF the members
sine Board of Police OF New-York the people,
" ho,,eves will not remember that the Demo-
.,c LEGISLATURE OF 1892. when there was a
D.r,ocratic Governor to approve OF its acts dio
=. a ,ox authorizing the sale OF liquor on
s,rdav And he also apparently. thinks that
.,tsrs of the State are not aware OF the fact
A.. .hs BOARD Of Police az NewYork CITY mas
49, democrats and two Republicans as It's mem
80. ord that therefore If the question OF party
.sronsbility for this enforcement or the la"
.ra,nst the sale Of liquor in New-1orK Is uhder
consideration it is plain that the Democra'c
.r,,. &c as blamable or as worthy Of praise as
the Republican party for such action
TWO KINDS OF DEMOCRATS.
rbere is some measure of truth in Mr. Hlils
..,,erent bv indirection that the Democratic
Marty Is the friend of the liquor-seler ana "iihs
N hermit him 10 sell liquor on Sunday ana 'ha'
"a that the city Democrats are desirous Oh siN'"e
the nquor-seller such legal right TO sell l'quo'
On sunday. But there are two kinds OF Demo-
Gratis In the state. city Democrats anu ruia'
democrats and the latter are as much opposeu
N Sunday Quor-selling as their hepuo'i0ai
farmer neighbors. 1t was the rural De"io''"''
who In 1892 in the Legislature OF that year. pre-
varted the CITY Democrats from passing an Ex-
c,s. law permitting the sale OF liquor on SUNDAY
from, n m until midnight Of that day pretty
,.,r, story has been in circulation for week or
- that n was Governor Flower who prevented
tho massage of such law; that he said that as
rnen,her OF the Protestant Episcopal Church ne
could not sign such bill. and that therefore the
democratic leaders in the Legislature or 1877
abandoned II. Mr.. Flower may nave maze
some such statement. but since the enactment
never arrived In the Executive Chamber MS
resolution In the matter was never put 10 a test
Senators Hill and Murphy certainly relied upon
Mr.. Flower to sign the bill II they could get IL
through the Legislature and from their kno"i-
edge Of the putty-like character OF MT Flower
backbone they had good right to think that
when they should put pressure upon MIN ne
would Yield and sign the measure. No, II was
not Mr. Flower but the rural Democratic Assem-
blymen and Senators who defeated the Sunday
opening law OF 1892 The hostile attitude OF the
Democratic Senators was we'll known. and that
Of the Democratic Assemblymen was demon
strated in a clear manner
DEFEATED BY RURAL DEMOCRATS.
Myron H. Clark Of this city. was at that time
an Assemblyman from this county Of Erie. He
gave some interesting evidence about this mat
: ter to-day. AS a Republican Mr.. Clark did not
have much influence In that Democratic Legislat-
>. IRE OF 1892 but by accident he held position OF
inheritance SO far as observing keenly the actions
OF the Democrats concerned. He was APP
pointed member Of the Excise Committee al
though his temperance sentiments were well
known. and a representative OF rural Repuo-
licars It was known he would oppose any sales
OF liquor on Sunday. But Speaker Bush filled the
committee with one exception. with city Demo-
Gratis favoring the sale of liquor on Sunday, and
therefore was aware that 1t would act In the in
terest Of the liquor dealers. This exception was
William E. Mccormick rural Democrat from
Port Jervis in Orange County. McCormcks
sentiments regarding the Sunday sale OF liquor
were the same as those Of Mr. Clark. ana they
therefore acted together In opposition to such
BILL But, according to Mr. Clark, the opposition
of Mr. Mccormick to the passage OF bill per
hitting the Sunday sale Of liquor was not con-
fined to the committee ROOM for he took pains to
organize the rural Democrats in the Assembly
against the bill
Mccormick" said Mr.. Clark to-day, act
ing with Edward NJ Cole. rural Democrat from
Greene County organized an opposition to the
No. oft
Democrats were unanimously for 1t. but the
rural Democrats were unanimously opposed to H.
and they defeated it by refusing to attend eau
Gus which was held upon 1t. The bill as orig
inally introduced did not authorize the sale OF
LIQUOR on Sunday, but was amended by the AS
sembly In this respect The Sunday clause
stricken out Of the bill read as follows
"section g. Illegal sales with or without license
Any person who whether having license or not
any strong or sprituous liquors. wines ale or beer
upon Sunday shall be guilty OF a misdemeanor
For this section another was substituted per-
hitting OF the sale OF liquor upon Sunday from
p m. until midnight. But the Democrats dis
covered soon that while they could make this
Amendment to the bill. they did not have sur
ncient votes to pass It, There stood the rural
Democrats and refused to vote for 1t. Accord
ingly. a caucus was called to whip them into line.
Senators Hill and Murphy came on from wash
1nEton TO have a talk individually with each OF
the rural Democrats. with the aim Of persuad-
ing them to vote for the BILL
THE LIQUOR DEALERS CORRUPTION FUND.
The city Democrats told me that Hill and
Murphy had promised the liquor-deaiers in the
fall OF 1891 that permitting the sale OF liquor
on Sunday would be passed II the Legislature
should be Democratic in 1892. and that. upon the
strength OF this promise. the liquor-dealers or
the State raised $500 900 for the Democratic party
and II was used to elect Governor Flower and a
Democratic Legislature. Liquor-dealers, In my
hearing before the Assembly Excise Committee.
stated that the 5000 liquor-dealer Of New-York
had contributed Ssn oach 70 the Democratic cam