New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-11-06
SOME ABANDONED ISSUES.

II IS remarkable the number of State issues
oat the Democrats have ceased talking about
deht after the Syracuse Convention they were
all of State issues State issues ran over them
nd covered them so that they could not at first
ven be made 10 see that the opinion of n can
!date for Congress on National questions had
py bearing on his candidacy. The party cam
agners still take that view because they are
fraid Of National issues, but great many
democrats have recently learned better. The
reat body Of them have also learned that dan
pr turks in some Of their favorite State issues,
rhle there are other State issues which from
lie beginning it has been impossible to induce
hem TO touch
To read some Of the Democratic papers. for
stance, it would be impossible to learn that
ere was such a person as ElhOt Danforth
six one Of Van Wyck's supporters what he
kinks of the morality Of putting convicted
lection thief and partner Of Maynard In the
lieutenant G Governors chair and he will tell
,u that he doesn't think there Will be war over
lshoda Democrats do not even dare apollo
e for Danforth. They can only ignore him
nd hope that the voters will forget him and
nark their ballots with something else in mind
Then there is the Raines law. What Is the
ause Of the sudden silence Of the Democratic
,ress of the State on 1t? A few journals here
re still trying TO arouse the saloon vote for
IAN Wycl on that issue, and we hear sugges-
ions about modifying some Of its provisions.
But what has become Of the boosted purpose 10
epeal that law utterly? Apparently the cam
,aign managers have decided that the great
BODY of honest voters in the State approve Of
hat law, are pleased with the reduction In the
.umber of saloons which IT has wrought, are
atisfed with the increased revenue and re-
iuced State taxes due to it, and believe that the
.quor dealers and rich brewers with their great
profits should pay fair share of the expense Of
government and not shove it off on the poor,
Woodworking farmers and shopkeepers and
Eage-earners.
And biennial sessions? What has become Of
biennial sessions? Has that topic been dropped
rom general discussion because the Democrats
realize that their record on the subject is utter.
y contradictory and ridiculous?
The Democrats used 10 talk about apportiOn-
nent injustice. and some of them in shce: reck-
.ossness began to find fault with the Congress
istricting a wicked gerrymander which de-
2rived them Of their rights. Why have they
ceased that complaining: Simply because they
we're reminded that Democrats passed that ger
.ymander cutting out adjacent districts such as
he XXVIIlth and XXIXth. with populations
Of 2l3,142 and 174,67G respectively, when they
could have divided the same counties mucli
more evenly and when the average population
Of the districts in Kings was only 167,709 In
face Of that gerrymander and the Senate dis
trict gerlymander OF 1892, when upstate
Democratic district was created with 14341(
people and an upstate Republican district OF
900 O3G they DIDN'T have the face 10 talk much
against an apportionment, conforming as strict
IL to the mathematical ratio as county lines
would permit, which the people themselves
adopted by a large popular vote.
They made an issue against the constitutional
provision forbiddng two adjacent counties IL
have more than half the members Of the State
Senate They have abandoned that because
their onslaught against law, intended only to
give the three millions in the Empire State out
SIDE Of this city just a shadow Of protection
from utter extinction as factors in their own
government. which has never become operative