New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-10-01
THE MINIS FRIENDS.

The Nation knows something of 1ammany
Hall. 1t has been menace 10 free institutions,
q stencil fl the nostrils. disgrace TO the couil-
try. Its shameless partnership with depravi'y
and crime, ty which tn. basest men and most
degraded women bought protection in law
breaking by giving TO the fund with which
Tammany Hall corrupted voters made that
organization so Infamous and so detcsted that
even in this greatest of Democratic cities,
which gave four years ago 10000 plurality for
Cleveland, tn, wrath of decent citizens two
years later buried Tammany under plurality
of nearly $4,000 for a Republican Mayor But
this most infamous OF all political Organila-
tons Is that which gives Mr. Bryan the most
vOciferOus welcome he has anywhere received.
Even from Tammany Hall. all its most re-
spectacle members had bOlted, refusing 10 in
dorse Bryan but the dregs take him as their
man. and shout furiously over his attacks
upon property and capital and the laws which
repress criminals and rioters What wonder
that the slums Of NewYOrk go wild over a
man who dcnOunces the President of the
United States. and says the railroad wreckers
and stock iobbers and money -grabbers' have
inspired his policy and 'slobbered over him
with praise? That is the stuff to delight
Tammany Hail.
1t is something more than a coincidence that
Mr.. Bryan's farewell speeches on his last day
at the East were made to help the two basest
political machines in the country. Tuesday
afternoon he went to Jersey City. The people
of that city know Bob Davis and his ma
chine "Bl' DAILY and Queen and the rest;
know to their shame what sort Of government
they had under the gang Of scOundrels and
law-breakers who ran the Democratic party
in Hudson County. and have not forgotten that
the decent men of all parties Overcame nearly
5000 Democratic plurality in Jersey City to
crush the ballOt-bOx suffers. But the Demo-
cratic organization in this same city, with
many of the same corrupt and shameless per-
sons prominent, was that to which with Tam
| many Hall Mr.. Bryan dedicated the exhausting
| abOrs of his last day at the East. All this is
| not by accident. The kind Of people who
| shout for free silver and free riot is precisely
| that which uphodG in cities the basest and
most corrupt political organizations and does
| not shrink from an open league with vice and
| crime.
| 1t is vel! that this final exhibit Of Mr.
Bryans true place in the division of political
| and social elements was so complete. 1t gives
to the decent and law-abdng citizens o.
Western farms and villages clear knowledge
| that the very scum and OffscOuring OF the
worst Eastern cities. the creatures whose Of
| fences have outraged respectable men of all
| parties throughout the land, constitute Mr..
| Bryan's most hearty supporters. Nowhere
| else has he such delighted applause for the
| most undignified language, the most dangerous
| appeals to class prejudice and to impatience
| of legal restraint. the most reckless assaults
| upon commercial and business organizations
and the rights of property. Tammany Hall
| and the Jersey City gang hold up Bryan In bis
| true light TO decent citizens everywhere, and
| If a man is known by the company he keeps,
this man may certainly be known by the
quality and character of his heartiest support
| ers.
What an impressivf contrast between these
crowds and the great armies of Democrats
| who came out to hear BOurke Cochran and
| to greet Palmer and acknowledgements who
have honOred their party and been honored by
ciples. and therefore can have only detestaton
for the incendiary demagogue Bryan and his
platform loaded with dynamite" There were
gathered the intellect and the character Of The
party which once made this city the greatest
| Democratic stronghold in the land. the men
who had been deservedly power in the State
and almost every living eX-Mayor of this city,
and those who had with honor represented city
and State in National councils and administra-
ton. Between the Democrats of principle and
the dregs Of Democracy. the good people of
this country have Ii clear light the contrast
which should insure the election Of Major Nc