The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1898-11-03
Croker is De-
nOunced.
ROOSEVELT TALKS
Republican Candidate Says
Hard Words About Him.

New York, Nov 3.-Theodore Roose-
welt. republican candidate for govern
or, today made a tour of Long Island.
He delivered % speeches at different
places, beginning at Valley Stream and
closing with two big meetings tonight,
one at Flushing and the other at Long
Island City. At Flushing the hall was
damned TO the doors, and the colonel
received an ovation. He said in part:
More and more during the last fort
night we have been brought face to
face with our real, not our nominal OPP
ponents. Burly Mr.. Croker has should
cred Moe Mr.. Van Wyck aside and APP
pears as the leader in name, as he al
ready was in fact. Mr., Van Wyck is
allowed to continue to talk about the
4 canal, concerning which he can say not
one word of value, can make not one
promise beyond what / have said and
made. He dares not frankly discuss
one single issue which is an issue. Our
opponents decline to speak of free sill
Yer because they say it is not an issue
though every man in the state knows
that it is an issue. Mr.. Van Wyck only
wishes to discuss state issues; why does
he not touch the most important of all
state Issues, the independence and up
rightness of the judiciary? Why does
he not say whether or not he approves
of Mr.. Cookers conduct in turning
down Judge DAILY, Mr.. Van Wyckc col
league on the bench, because Judge
DAILY was fearless and upright, and
would not bow the knee to Baal. Does
he approve of refusing to advance
, judges to high office because they de-
cline to recognize their obligations to
Tammany Hall? Every issue he raises
from canal to the excise, [ fully meet.
Why does not he meet such vital issues
as those of honest money and an up
right judiciary?
But Mr.. Van Wyek is not the real
canoldate. My real opponent is Mr.
Croker and unlike Mr. Van WICK. he
is willing to raise all kinds Of issues,
and he is himself an issue He does
not speak of honest finance, and nobody
would pay any heed to him if he did.
for he knows nothing about it. But
having attacked Judge DAILY and at
tackled the bar association he now at
tacks me, and I will meet him a good
deal more than half way If he wishes
to pit himself against me he shall be
gratified He attacks my administra-
ton of the police department should
be sorry indeed if it had merited his
praise. Mr.. Croker invoked the testi-
mony of Tweed against Judge DAILY,
and now he himself testiies against
me. Well, he may He says in effect
that under my administration crime
went unpublished. That statement is
simply untrue. Near the close of my
two years term of service the presid-
ink judge of the month in the court
of general sessions stated that crime
had diminished until it was less than
ever before iii recent years Mr.. Gro
ker does not really object to what we
did with crime. What really makes
that CALLED jade vince is what we did
with vice.
The acknowledged financial partner
ship existing between certain leaders
of Tammany hall and protected vice is
the scandal and disgrace of New York.
1t was on this that / warred | broke
up that partnership, and will break
1t UP again whenever the chances
comes, let Mr.. Croker cry never so
loudly, Every school house. every
church and synagogue, every honest in
dustry knew that 1t had in me sistaunch
friend; every laboring man, every me-
chanic, every merchant or business
man, wholesale or retail, knew that 1
wished to see him prosper and receive
justice and to save him from black
mail
1T is a small wonder that I should
be denounced by those who exact tri-
butte 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 places his vile trade unmoleSted
gives the true reason of existence of
wide open policy-every such man
cheers Mr.. Croker to the echo when he
attacks us. because we made the police
force honest. 1t is fit that Mr.. Gro
ker. now seeking to corrupt and de-
grade the bench should rail at the men
who drove out corruption from the po-
lice department. He now runs the city
through one of his delegates, and,
swollen with the power which this
gives him virulent in his brutality he
tries to strike down an honest judge
because that judge is not his bringing
sycoDhant.
n through another delegate he gets
control of the state, the honest men
of the state may expect evil times IN
aeed Tammany now blacSmaiis vice;
but il has already begun to blackmail
honesty where honesty is helpless. II
q oets the power il will extend its
Svstem Of corruption all through the
state This was done once before,
when Tweed was Dictator 1t behooves
+ha good neople of the state TO see that
II is not done now. Mr.. Crokers COVER
nor could send Mr. Croker s judge TO any
mart Of the state. and if Mr.. Croker's
mayor was charged with malfeasance
II would again be Mr., Crokers governor
who tried him. What travesty on JUS
tice such trial would be-
"Mr. Croker. through his tools,
turned out the best chief of police New
York has had in many years, John Nc
Cullagh. and put in man whom he
knew would carry ont his behasts, a
man whose appointment was an insult
to every decent citizen, man who
while chief of police, While chief officer
of the law, has publicly Endorsed SEN
ator Hilrs scandalous Indictment to
lawlessness and riot at the polls.
MIR. Croker is striving to render the
Judges his equally servile tools. lie 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-knee
servants, his power will be supreme,
and we will have no single way OF
making effective protest against any
extreme of corruption Of lahylessness
At Long Island City. Col. Roosevelt
again received q splendid WeAcoine'