New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-11-04


scrapbook Mr. Roosevelt allowed the alleged
facts to accumulate until there was in go
convincing a manner 10 stop completely that
He showed that many Of the cases were absolute
fakes: that others occurred In BROOKLYN ana IN
Central Park outside Of his jurisdiction Lotto ana IN
arrested: and that In the entire list there was was
crms had been Committed and the criminals not
found. A list OF twenty six famous criminals sag
! portraits OF the men. The answer showed that
eight Of these men we're dead. one vas DYING
and not one was at large In Network city. II
was shown that from December l. 1894. to January
were 1883 feonies and 1872 arrests, and that under
h the new 81 IN mr perod OF 'e
MR. ROOsEVELTS GREAT WORK.
Mr. Croker wants you TO forget that when Mr..
Roosevelt's Board took the Police Department 1t
was Tammany wreck. 1T dlsorgan!zed. dis
credited demoraIized ashamed Of Itself and many
81 ar s III mos ome of W most active ocias
had been dismissed by Tammany's own board OF
were cited by Mr Croker occurred mostly during
Mr. Rooscvelt's that the city was saved
from carnival Of crime in that crisis Thanks
OF gratitude to Mr. Roosevelts Board
This report OF tie Police ,or hs
recovered from November t. 1893. to Nav 81. 1895.
~.
1885 10 December !. 1856. was 81. 20 COZ 05.
The number Of arrests tor yioatop Of the , Ex-
vas Il VS. o Sso yo s@e that under Tammany there
were many excise arrests madel from June is92
administration was harsher upon the LIQUOR deal
% oy The o sf or or M
rests for keeping gambling houses from November
and ' from June gay ss to December 81 isss there
were 1.242. You will bear in mind that the Roose-
or arrests, for. keeping houses Of prostitution
from November I. ls!,2 to May Fl ls93. there we're
we're f s4 arr ess is to December '''0 '"eD
The figures improved in the following year. but
Gm not able 10 give them to you as the present
Tammany Board didn't do the city the courtesy TO
The report Of 1896 showed by a comparison OF fig
ures that the police In that year were much more
5 s nmbs Of emss
where the criminal was not arrested Referring to
Der Of arrests made by that bureau for the year
ending May l.. 1895 under the. Roosevelt Board It
was ? 521, and The number OF convictions IN iS''
Sy years ear Of imprisopments and by fines imposed
and by the number OF convictions. the Detective
Bureau under me Roosevelt administration ala
more effective work han In the period preceding H.
As Mr. Roosevelt says II T. n an no42 rp 10 ha AYE
do not want his approval.
OPPRESSED BY TAMMANY
II is said that the Roosevelt administration was
especially hard soda water men. small store
keepers AMI the like / watched those matters very
could be falser The shame o. the old Iammany
ADMINISTRATION was the heavy hand IT lald upon Tue
/ small stOrekeepers. the pushcart men anl the IKE
The soia-water men had 10 put up their % month,
/ the pushcart had 10 pay as well: the niue
stores that wanted 10 do business on Sunday had
10 pay and there was a constant stream OF poor
people under arrest going the station and TO the
/ Tonbs and Essex Market Justices courts. because
Those days are rapidly coming back the pushcart
mon are feeling II. Men who do rot pay end
! promise to support Tammany are prosecuted and
/ arrested Many cases are known where men have
/ been accused % violating corporation ordinances
because they did not yield 70 Tammany ana SOM
cases have been known where me summons nas
been up on the Defendants promising 10 90
! Tammany captains now leading this work is an ex,
/ policeman whore name Is known and execrated
| helpless women and children The collector has
made hts am0nS IKE Who ac
| contributing the money that Tammany wants 10
dehanch the election. because they fear the ven
an b o, 6ne p2 ned a' HS 1 the
! While Mr. Croker is making up his figures 10 snow
tho small amount OF crime under his management
o. the Police Department. we must not fall to In
! ouire whether he records all the crimes that are
'0 pnrns 'Roosevels time. + lost collar
! min in a saloon II was proclaimed by trucuent
! organs that crime rampant. and the new Po-
| lice Commissioners were failures; no circumstance.
| however trivial escaped attention, but how many
crimes think you. are perpetrated In this city
every day that never mentioned? o..
! How many Jays pucked in The greengoodS
game and are frightened away. and never heard
Of again How many soldiers sailors ana MARINES mes
are never heard OF complanants? Officers tell
and that sr SS SS%e By tho fs Of the
remote bounds Of Greater New-York
,v Mas e t Girls from ther awful slavery in Allen
ST. dens OF vice? No the police could not see the
s S2me ped sGGs ek Sn for for was
WORTH P6a Ts wh6 had BEEN nveged into
these houses and runed-and that society VII, re-
nocent childhood Do these cases enter Into Mr..
crokers figures and statistics .,..on,.
them. were gathered in Cooper Onion on Monday
night remaining FOR hours under discussion OF ms
grave subject. Martin Engel whose circular was
! being read. and the candidates for Office; whose
sorts. were all ga thered together in festive mutual
fellcitation There were Engel and Bradley and
Ivan. The proprietor Of the Dewey Theatre and a
bacHer Of many similar enterprises and his close
sig. Silyer Dollar smith. Charley Kramer and even
the pole captain OF the pfecnst WISH Dy gen
could b. found In the city. The officers OF the law
EnseI Tammany leader OF the district the pres
/ cntaton speech being made oy the Dstrct-Attor-
last We maGa spocncatons' In at leas, two houses
the officers Of the worthy society presided oyer by
nave rescued two girls from houses d illfame into
Seen ro@ed ia" and nned into i the e Of shame '
,Wide-open New-Yofk is spreading TO Brooklyn
that borough as hero. yet his Mayor is Mayor OF
Brooklyn and his CHIEF Of Poli,e is Chief Of Police
o, Brooklyn. ami Captain Myl"s O'Rellv. who dared
10 attack gambling houses ncar The Court House.
rewarded for his faithfulness by being trans
ferred 10 the extreme limits. | have In my pos
session a long list o: gambling and dlsorderly
sorts which have sprung ny within short time In
the Borough OF BroOhlyn and whether the Brook
lvnites dom their hats to Croker or 10 MCLAUGHLIN
A. counts little. when Deyery IA Chief of Police
and has the power ~ arraigrment. transfer AMI
suspension o. police officers This home issue is a
city and State Issue. and Mr. Croker does not
like it. The question IL whether will vote so
az to approve our Tanmany government: whether
We VIII vote 10 extend Tammany's government over
the state: whether We will put our Tammany
Mayor brother IN the Governors chair at Mr..
/ Cookers dictaticn Don't 10 Il: vote for Roose-
Welt.
The next speaker Jacob A. RIs. who
spoke OF Colonel Roosevelt a man and
worked his auditors up to the highest pitch OF
/ enthusiasm When he said that the Colonel
had done more for the East Side than all Tam