The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-10-25
CROKER MAKES A SPEECH.
DOESN'T BEBIETE IN PERsoNALI-
TIES AND PREDICTS VICTORY.

MS slogan II "Lower Taxes, ueuss Ruie,
hnd Tcrnonal Liberty or the Right
and Just kind"-A slant ut the Liquor
Saloons That Have Como ont or business
Richard Croker made q campaign speech yes
terday. 1t was the first he hos made for tho
Tammany Hall ticket this year. He has talked
TO the Tammany Hall Executive Committee
on two different occasions. and told the dis
trict leaders what he expected them to do. He
talked yesterday to the boys-the boys of his
old Assembly district, at tho clubrooms OF the
Tammany Central Association, 207 East Thirty
second street. James p. Heating, former War
den OF Ludlow Street Jail, is the leader In
the district, and he introduced Mr.. Croker to
the meeting. Tho Introduction was unneces-
sary, for tho boys had all worked under his
leadership in the district in bygone years. They
cheered the boss Justify. Mr.. Croker said:
1T is very gratifying to me to be here with
you all. and to see my old friends of the Eigh-
teenth Assembly district [now the Twentieth
hard at work In this great canvass. l don't
know that there is anything l can say to you
which would help you in your work. 1 know
how thoroughly the district is organized, and
how loyal you all arc in tho interests of the
people and Of Democracy. / seeswith US to-day
a number Of tho men with :whom l worked
twenty-five or thirty years ago, when 1 was in
my boyhood, and it Is especially gratifying to
me to see you all. l have always made 1t a
point to come here when time would allow. 1t
WAS this district that many years ago estab.
Ished an organization which afterward was
made the pattern for organizations in other As
sembly districts.
There is one thing that l want to say to
you today. and that is to see to II carefully
that all tho voters of your district are informed
how to correctly. vote the ballot. See to it that
your schools of instruction for this purpose are
kept up. and SEQ to IL that no voter loses his
vote by making mistakes on his ballot.
fErnt III that I 1nnr 49,, t1n AtL4. 49,
dent that the Democratic ticket win win by a
magnificent plurality on election day.
In all my thirty years experience in politics
In this city i have never seen the Democratic
prospects s~o.bright in any canvass as they are
this year. This Is in a measure due to the
blunders that have been made by the so-called
reform administration during its three years
to his .detriment. You hear It condemned
every place that you 60. The issues are all
to establish a 'Government-and win succeed
IN doing so-that will lower the taxes, give
OF oPI the T right to and our ju sitl kind to en ali p 81 oSP pea l,6ISr'y
II was introduced to the Commissioners Of
a pnSiG S works IS the thee other 1een day d f0E the arst time,
has kept thinss open, YOU have kept ali 1.-The the
stores in the city.
raez Al ! Ts ssy other, lhs ,i sSSs 9 net al : le wi u s the Pence Sn@S
nave resorted to the last thing they could lay
their tongues to. and that Is personal abuse.
Now; 1 wan. to say to YOU that personal abuse
Kind Of canvassing. 1 don't want you to no.
tice this abuse. II you have enemies who
paign on Democratic principles. and on the
Democratic, platform. Leave abuse, to the
others. 1t is always sure to react. and you will
find that 1t will react on election day. IT Is
the same way In politics as in private life.
The man who is constantly abusing his neigh
Dor has no weight in the community, and he is
not a good citizen.
Now, gentlemen, in all the work that you
do. SEQ to 1t that this campaign is fought and
won fairly and honestly. Look to it that no
fraudulent voting is allowed for any ticket.
Trust each other. Have confidence in each
other. Your leader will not ask you to do any:
thing that he would not do himself, and l
would ask nobody to do anything that would
not do myself. Be true to yourselves, and in
doing so you will be true to the best interests of
the city and to the best interests Of the Demo
cratic party. Keep the work up valiantly un-
til the close Of the polls on election day. Fight
shoulder to shoulder, and you are fighting in
the cause of the right. You will win o SPLEEN
did victory on election day"