The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-11-03
And Whose Vampires Are Preying on
New York Vice and Are Trying
to BIackmaiI Honesty.
BUSY DAY FOR THE COLONEL
DOZEN OR MORE SPEECHES TO THE
PEOPLE OF LONG ISLAND.
Democratic SANDER Refuted by Sen.
atOr t. c. PIatt-AnOther Diatribe
from the Hon. ID. ID. Hill.

NEW YORK, Nov. 2-Theodore Roosevelt
began his speechmaking to the Long island
ers to-day before the business men of the
city had finished their breakfasts, and by
noon he had addressed audiences at ten or
more stations along the line of the Long
Island Railroad. His principal topic was
Richard Croker, who last night attacked
Colonel Roosevelts administration of the
police department during the mayoralty of
Mr. Strong. At Southampton, for example,
Colonel Roosevelt said that if the Demo-
cratic ticket was elected in the State it
meant that every storekeeper in the State
would be laid under tribute to Tammany
Hall. "Tammany," he said, already black
mails vice and collects tribute from those
who thrive on vice. but it is now beginning
to levy tribute upon honesty, where honesty
is helpless. and if you elect Tammany you
will assist in that operation
The tour of the day closed with two big
meetings. one at Flushing at 8 o'clock and
one at Long Island City. Colonel Roose-
vet's train arrived at Flushing at o'clock,
and he rested until it was time for him to
speak. The hall was jammed to the doors
and he received an ovation.
Colonel Roosevelt began his speech by as
serting that his real opponent was Mr..
Croker and not Van Wyck, and then pro-
ceeded to reply to the formers attack upon
his administration of the police department.
Colonel Roosevelt said, in part:
''He attacks my administration of the
police department. j should be sorry, in
deed. If it had merited his praise. Mr..
Croker invoked the testimony of Tweed
against Judge DAILY, and now he himself
testifes against me. Well he may. He says.
in effect. that under my administration
crime went unpunished That statement is
years term of service the presiding judge
of the month in the Court of General Ses-
sions stated that crime had diminished
until it was less than ever before in recent
years. Mr.. Croker does not really object to
what we did with crime. What really
makes that CALLED jade vince is what we
did with vice.
1.-THE acknowledged financial partnership
existing between certain leaders of Tam
many Hall and protected vice is the scan
dal and disgrace of New York 1t was on
this that warred. broke up that partner
ship and will break it up again whenever
the chance, let Mr.. Croker cry never so
loudly. 1t is small wonder that 1 should be
denounced by those who exact tribute from
purveyors of vice, who rob the honest poor
and who care as little for civic pride as
they do for decency and morality. Every
purveyor of vice who plies his vile trade
unmolested, in consideration of the black
mail, which gives the true reason for the
existence of the wide-open policy-every
such man cheers Mr.. Croker to the echo
when ne attacks us, because we made the
police force honest. 1t is fit that Mr. Croker,
now seeking to corrupt and degrade the
bench. should rail at the men who drove
out corruption from the police department.
"a rt,nc fl,o III
delegates and, swollen with the power
which this gives him, virulent in his bru-
tality. he tries to strike down an honest
Judge because that judge is not his cringing
sycophant. If, through another delegate he
gets control of the State the honest men
of the State may expect evil times indeed
''Tammany now blaekmails vice. but it
has already begun to blackmail honesty
where honesty is helpless. If it gets the
power it will extend its system of corrup-
ton all through the State. This was once
before done, when Tweed was dictator: it
behooves the good people of the State to
see that it is not done now. Mr.. Croker's
Governor could send Mr.. Croker's judge to
any part of the State. and If Mr.. Croker's
mayor were charged with malfeasance it
would again be Mr.. CroEer's Governor who
tried him. What travesty on Justice such
tools. turned out the best chief OF police
New York has had In many years. John
McCullagh, and put in a man who he knew
would carry out his behests, a man whose
appointment was insult to every decent
citizen, man who, while chief of police,
while officer of the law, has publicly in
dorsed Senator Hills scandalous Indictment
to lawlessness end riot at the polls Mr.
Croker is striving to render the judges his
equally servile tools. He has the mayor he
wishes the Governor. If the police force
and the judiciary. the executive at Albany
and the executive in New York, all become
his supple-kneed servants his power will be
supreme and he will have no single way of
making effective protest against any ex-
tEeme of corruption or lawlessness"
Congressman Payne and Col William ].
Young also spoke. At Long Island City
Colonel Roosevelt again received a splendid
welcome. He spoke on precisely the same
lines as had occupied him during the day
at Flushing.
Tomorrow at / o'clock p. m, Colonel
Roosevelt will leave for Troy, and after
speaking there in the evening will go to AL
bany and speak there. returning on the mid
night train for New York.
A sLAEDERoUs FALsEHOOD.