The record-union., 1898-11-03

with crime. what really makes that
CALLED jade vince is what we did with
vice.
1.-The acknowledged financial partner
| ship existing between cersain leaders
of Tammany Hall and protected vice
| is the scandal and disgrace of New
York. 1t was on this that we warred
| broke up that partnership, and I
will break it up when I have the
| chance, let Mr. Croker cry ever so
| loudly. 1t is small wonder that I
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 unmo-
| Tested in consideration of blackmai,
which gives the true reason for the
existence of the Wide-open policy
every such man cheers Mr.. Croker
when he attacks us, because we made
| the police force more honest.
1T is fit that Mr.. Croker, now seek
| ing to corrupt and degrade the bench,
should rail at the men who drove out
corruption in the police department.
| He now runs the city through one of
| his delegates, and, swollen with the
power which this gives him, viruient
| in his brutality, he tries to strike down
| an honest Judge because that Judge
| is not his cringing sycophant. If,
| through another delegate, he gets con-
| troll of the State, the honest men of the
State may expect evil times indeed
| In conclusion, Colonel Roosevelt said:
| "Mr. Croker is striving to render the
Judges 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 su-
preme, and we will have no single way
of making effective protest against any
| extreme of corruption or lawlessness. :"
| STATEMENT FROM SENATOR
PLATT.
NEW YORK, Nov. 2.-Senator T. c.
| Platt gave out the following statement
| tonight:
THE Democratic campaign managers
at the Hoffman House seem to be out of
campaign matter. Before Colonel
Theodore Roosevelt was nominated for
Governor, the Tammany Tax Commits
sioners attempted to question his
eligibility. They quickly dropped that
issue. They then announced that they
would make an attack UPON the Judi
ciary as one of. their issues. That did
not turn out right. They then muzzled
all of their candidates on the money
question. Not a single Democratic cam
didate has been allowed to say a sin
gle word on this vital issue of the cam
paign. That issue has proved disas-
trous to the Democrats.
so utterly demoralized are our Dem
ocratic adversaries that the latest issue
announced by them is personal
slander against me. They have caused
1t TO be circulated that I am 1ukewarm
10 the candidates of the Republican
State ticket headed by Colonel Theo-
dore Roosevelt. / would not pay the
snghtest attention to such d. slander
II 1t were not for the fact that our ad-
Versaries have peddled their story all
over the State. 1t is a baseless. SLAM
derouS falsehood. The Republican
party's organization in the State and
IN Greater New York, from the most
important official connected with 1t to
the humbleSt man in the ranks, has
been working day and night faithfully
ana loyalty for the election of the Re-
publican State Ticket, the Republican
candidates for the Legislature and the
Republican candidates for Congress.
The sound money allies of the Repub-
llcan party in this fight have also
worked as they never worked before.
The business men, the workingmen and
all classes of citizens. are determined
that Colonel Roosevelt and his asso-
ciates on the State ticket and all other
candidates for office who stand upon
the sound money principles laid down
in st. Louis in 1896 shall be elected on
next Tuesday. Colonel Roosevelt's cleo
ton and the election of his associates
on the State ticket is assured beyond
the shadow of a doubt The Legisla-
ture will be Republican by a good ma
Jor1ty on joint ballot, and a great dele
cation of Republican Congressman will
be sent to Washington from New York
State.
Finally, and with fervor, I wish to
say again that the Democrat slander
that L am 1ukewarm to the election of
the Republican State ticket demon
strates the utter demoralized condition
OF the Democrat campaigners. 1t is too
ridiculous and too untrue for further
comment"