The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-10-06
Sixteen-to-One Candidate
Comptroller.

There are more than sixteen reasons why
BIRD S. Golfer, the Bryanite candidate for
Comptroller, should be defeated at this
years election. 1t may as well be said
thai the one reason. the only one, why his
candidacy should be worthy Of the con-
sideration of any large number of voters is
that he seems to be personally an amiable
and good citizen of the city of Brooklyn,
where the claims of neighborhood count
for more in the field of politics than they
do in the present city of New York.
On Jan. l, 1893, the enlarged city Of New
York will begin it's corporate existence
with a debt of 5000, 600. 200, with a budget
of about $50, OOO, 900 for running expenses
to be met from the proceeds of taxation,
with two sinking funds, amounting to
about $40, OOO, 900 a year, to be maintained
and replenished from other sources of reve-
nue., and with a complete system of local
administration to be organized or recon-
structed by the creation of new depart
ments and by the readjustment Of the re-
lation of each department to the others I'M
der the general plan and scheme estab-
lIshed by the Charter Commission of
which the Hon. BENJAMIN +. TRACY
was presiding officer. 1t had long been
q fact of public knowledge and an ar
gument of force and potency for the con-
s%olidation of the present city of Brook
Ign with the present city of New York,
that under the provisions of the State
Constitution the tax-borrowing limit of
Brooklyn had been reached. whereas the
city of New York retained an ample mar
gin of credit, with the result that New York
could continue to issue bonds for public
improvements, whereas the city of Brook.
lyn, expanding under the impulse of a re.
vived public spirit, was retarded in its ma
terial growth by the same difficulty which
attends the merchant, the retailer, or the
manufacturer, a lack of capital. or what Is
the same thing very nearly, a lack of credit
to procure capital.
1t has long been known that the financial
affairs of the city of Brooklyn are not In
good condition. The fiscal affairs of that
city nave not been overhauled with the
same vigor and thoroughncss as has been
found necessary in New York. The right Of
the city of Brooklyn or the county of Kings
to contract new loans has been made n mat
ter of litigation in court, and the sufficiency
of the sinking fund resources, under the
bDrlCC CoInpllunce WIN Une provisions OF law
has in like manner been assailed. There
Is now in progress, by the authority of tho
Legislature, an examination into the fnan
cIal affairs of some of the Brooklyn depart
ments, prosecuted not by the local officials
but under direction of the Comptroller O
$40 City of New York, AsHBEL p. FITCH
the nominee of the anti Bryanites for re
election to that Office.
Obviously and clearly under these cir
cumstances the material interests of tn,
city of New York, paramount in the en-
larged new city, as we'll as the importan
financial interests of the city of Brook
Ign, demand the choice of a Comptrolle
whose name as financial officer of the con
solidated cities will be a pledge OF firm
dealing and of fair dealing. Who is CoLER
Who is the young gentleman who has beer
called forth from an ~obscurity as profoun'
and as impenetrable in its way as tina
which enveloped VAS SLooTEN when h
was Nominated In the same city for Senate