New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-10-23

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the statute book Mr. Lauterbach conciudeo
Mr. Miller never meant when ne opened his plat
form that the ridiculous Sunday laws now IN force
should remain unchanged and unmodned re neotr wi
meant that man might be shaVed Ia ,h, 10 U us
and not in BTooky5 NS gvs IS esn ha AND
90 Justice Sunday TO all classes OF peOpie'
At the conclusion of Mr.. Lauterbachs address
q colored quartet sang song about Wicked
Tammany," which was heartily laughed at and
applauded. and then Mr.. Lauterbach simply
stepped to the edge of the platform and SAID:
"One peach Is always in season"
Instantly there was roar Of cheers. and II was
followed by such a medley Of cries from the gall
Ieries that Mr. Depew was enable to speak for
several minutes When he could make himself
heard he said that ii evident that some OF MS
friends from the Bowery were present
eft is encouraging to have you walk so far 10
no at this meeting" he continued with SMILE
"for if the Bowery is all right the city surely Is
all right" daughter and applause)
MIR. DEPEw's ADDRESS.
Then Mr.. Depew said
r-a1,ow Citizens: We between the most revo-
,u,ionarv canvass OF years-the last one and
,bo Presidential election 1t is the calm which fol-
lows and precedes the storm. In politics II Is ohY
in storm that the right prevails. The forces
whoh tend to good government are always
nuiescent and apathetic The elements which live
nv politics and fatten on spoils and are leeches
unon the Treasury are alert and active. No
truer line was written than,
Freedoms battle begun.
I,equeathed bleeding sire 10 son.
Though bafled Oft is ever won
Tho average citizen having taken the time from
his busncss and family which led 10 such
phenomenal victory tUat of last fall, imagnes
that he has done enough for term OF years, ana
the country is safe; but while the patriot citizen
sleeps the devil Is awake or If he sleeps, II IS win
one eve open and the other eye Is on the sleepy
citizen. Gaughter) When the citizen snores It Is
the tr,lmpet call of the devil to victory. QLaugh-
ter and applause) II accident which over
threw the ring in Brooklyn, beat down Taumahy
Hall in New-York captured Buffalo for honest gov
ernment and elected Levi y. Morton by lol0oo ma
jorty. (Appause) 1t was an awakening, and more
than an awakening-a distinct development The
nendulum swings TO radcasm and conservatism. to
the control of municipalities and States by rascals
or incompetents and their rescue by the people 1t
is hope faith and Inspiration that each revolution
is a distinct advance upon the last The victory OF
1870 which overthrow the Tweed ring spent us
force and was lost in less than decade; but every
one who went through that period and the present
one recognizes a broader. more universal and hrmer
grasp by the people of their own affairs Applause)
A VEXATIOUs PROBLEM.
The problem of municipal government has both
vexed and appalled, the wisest OF our statesmen
Twenty-Five years ago the belief was all but uni
versal, both in the city and in the country, that
this city would be hopelessly in the hands OF
thieves and thugs unless controlled by the country
In a quarter of century there has been cultivated
a preponderatng opinion that the cities should gov
ern themselves The overwhelming sentiment OF
the hour is Home Rule. The Democratic party has
paraded for years the exponent Of this doctrine
1t has cried all times, and in al. places and
through every organ OF expression. If we were in
power we would give 10 the great cities or the
State absolute home rule: and yet though they fire.
quent1y had power. they never gave it. The first
distinct OF home rule came from the Com
mittee of Seventy In 1870 and a Republican Legis-
lature and Governor Three years ago the Demo-
cratic party had the Governor. the Assembly and
tho Senate by fraud. but they had the
Senate. Then their opportunity to carry out
their pledges for home rn;e but instead ,s ry tney
! pie In every form and concentrated power in the
creatures Of the Legis iamre. and took from the
Gansngburg the appointed inspectors. Buffalo to
the ring. and Brooklyn to the powers wnich had SO
! cans By the revolt which followed these outrages
became the masters of the Constitutional Conven-
ton they adopted the principle OF separating mu-
nicpal from general elections. and referring all
bills to the Mayors Of cities for their approval and
thus put home rule OF the cities into the fundamen-
tai law, where it caonot be changed for twenty
years. Applause)
SEPARATION OF ELECTIONS.
We have tried time and time again. and the
formers of all parties have assisted us trying.
during the decade OF Democratic rue to have
nicpdl elections separated from State and National
elections. The city IS purely business concern.
The opening Of streets and avenues, paving and
sutterng. ana sidewalkng, apd sewering, and
water ana park have nothing to do with the tariff
or the currency. They are purely matters OF sound
business management and upon the manner in
which they managed depends the taxes and the
business prosperity of the city. The honesty of
/ fOrcement
principle. buJ are the very life OF municipal gov
ernmcnt, comfort and safety. We do not claim
that the ma snihcent results in Brooklyn in Buffalo.
in New-Yorl and in the State were wholly due to
the Republican party; Dut we 90 claim that the
Republican party In rs entirety on the side of
reform. and the reform Clements of all parties
assisted in giving rs our phenomenal victory. We
do claim that the Republlcan Administration. as
conditions has so administered municipal and State
affairs deserve the continued confidence of the
After two years OF Mayor schieren with publicity
efficiency and integrity the characteristics OF his
to the rule of Boss Mclaughlin and his friends.
After year Of Mayor Strong. with al the partisan
criticisms TO which he has been subjected no citi-
zen who values his rights or his liberty would care
to return to the government OF Tammmany Hall.
Mr. Gladstone once said to me that II he had to
century in which he would live his active life he
would select the haf-century in which he had
lived. because it had been fifty years OF emancpa-
ton If the Grand old Man were in this i'm
perial city Of New-York and had read the reve!a-
tons OF the Lexow Committee and then studied the
result OF year Of reform government in every
department of this town. he would declare that OF
all the enfranchisements OF the most eventful half
century in the history of the world there
more significant nor benehcent emancipation than
that which the voters OF the City Of New-York had
secured to themselves by their votes a year ago.
(ApplaustD
''rhe London Chronicle" which is the organ OF
/ the Radical and democratic forces which
struggling for the emancipation OF the British peo-
ple from the domination of classes and OF priv
ileges. said in editorial the other day that one
obstacle which Radcalsm and democracy could
never argue down nor overcome IN the Old Word
was the bad administration and maladministration
OF New-York and its sister cities in the United
States bur that the redemption Of the city and the
success OF ts redeemers in municipal government
was becoming potent agency In the hands Of the