Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1897-09-13
TIE NEW MAYOROF new YORK
The Hon. Perry Belmont Predicts That
He Surely Will Be a Democrat.


as Office Holding Has Unified
Republicans - Exaggerated No
tons as to the Mayors Powers.
New York Times
Mr.. Perry Belmont, before going to
Europe in May last, declared in tone
as peremptory as words can express,
that his name will not be among those
presented to the voters next November
for the Office for Mayor Of Greater
New York" That declaration and his
relation year ago to the candidacy of
Mr.. Bryan should, and will, give sig
nificant Importance to his present opin-
ions regarding political parties and is
sues in Greater New York" He has
no aspirations that might distort his
appreciation for the present party con-
dition.
Since. Mr.. Belmont's return he has
carefully studied the situation, and
yesterday said to a reporter Of the
New York Times that the contests
this year over assemblymen, the leg
islative and executive Offices of the
municipality, county officials within
the area of Greater New York." and
all varieties Of the judicial offices to
be voted for, will be conducted and
controlled by the two old organiza-
tons. The national, State and city
patronage in Greater New York." in
the custom house, the postoffice, the
internal revenue, the execution of the
Raines law, and the workers in the
departments of the reform" city gov
eminent, including the police, will all
be used against the Democracy. That
species of government aggression
against the freedom of elections will
unity the Republican party.
DEMOCRATIC VICTORY THIS YEAR
There will be Democratic victory
this year in Greater New York." said
Mr. Belmont Every expert will af-
firm that when the line is drawn in
the area covered by the new city be-
tween the voters who follow the party
flag borne by Seymour and Hidden,
end those who follow the one held by
Thurlow Weed and Conkling in the
recent past, the former are in a great
majority.
'In 1892 the Democratic vote was,
as we all know, in the three counties
OF New York, Kings, and Richmond,
S1,549, but the Republican vote was
only 1858. At the same election the
total Democratic plurality in these
counties and towns in Queens county
now composing Greater New York
was $4,000.
1.-TWO ,1es.1s after . boxes I'm
= city Of New York disclosed a diff
1erent result, because the peculiar de-
tective work done by the Rev. DR..
Parkhurst, the Lexow committee, and
Mr.. Golf, uncovered a condition of
things in the police department which
had been created by the bi-party gov
eminent Of the police, devised by the
Republicans to give themselves a con-
trail which majority Of voters in the
city did not desire That disclosure
led up to the creation Of the Commit
tee of Seventy and a platform, not of
-partisanship, which caused tie evils,
but of -partisanship in municipal
affairs. The committee presented a
list OF candidates to be voted for in
the city on the ensuing November. 1t
was headed by Mr.. Strong for mayor
and Mr.. Golf for recorder. The for
mer promised as a candidate to make
all appointments without regard to
party lines. A Republican Legisla-
ture enacted a special law empowering
the new mayor to remove the heads
of departments, and another empower
ing him to create new police magis-
trates throughout the city, Removal
of Democrats from Office was drastic
dhU SOlAPA dlu uudUlc "
recall the name of a Democrat who
resisted the election Of Mayor Strong
and was thereafter appointed to office
by him.
1.-THE Offices were distributed by him
with almost mathematical accuracy
among the groups of voters who con-
spired to expel the Democracy for the
very things which bi-party police
board could not or did not prevent.
In the Atlantic Monthly for September,
Mr.. Roosevelt says: The Mayor and
his associates had to keep in touch
with the Republican party, or they
could have done nothing He de-
scribes the police as the great centre
of Republican power in the city, and
says that the Republicans caused the
enactment of the so-called bipartisan
or Lexow law, under which the de-
partment is at present conducted; and
a more foolish or vicious law was
never enacted by any legislative t,ody.'