The sun., 1899-05-19
UNION AGAINST TaMN1SY.
QuigG Is for Supporting Independents Next
Fall.

In q speech to the Republican County Com
mittee last evening President QuiRg advocated
a liberal policy in the next campaign toward
all independen organization and voters. and
said that with united front the forces op-
posed to Tammany Hall would be able 10 win
a majority OF the Board OF Aldermen and OF
the Assembly delegation. A Sheriff. Surro-
gate. County Clerk and Judges OF the Supreme
Court are also to be elected In order to make
the fight effective. Mr.. Quigg said that the
work OF harmonizine should begin at once. SO
that all differences between the enemies OF
Tammany would be adjusted by the time the
September primaries were held.
There Is no such thing as o Tammany Hall
majority In this county" Mr.. Quigg.satd. nor
is there a Republican majority. but there Is a
very large and powerful anti Tammany ma
jority. as was demonstrated in the municipal
campaign OF 1894. All that it will lie neces-
sary for us do in 1900 to carry this county Is
to maintain the majority OF 1894, and will
tell you how we can do 1t. Let us address
ourselves to the Independent voters. Let us
say to them. Nominate your very best men for
mem bers OF the Assembly and the Board of
Aldermen and We will support them II they
are reasonably Republican Then II the union
Of anti Tammany forces elects It's candidates
in the Assembly ard Aldermanic districts. we
shall have an anti. Tammany delegation to the
LEGISLATURE and majority In the Board OF Al
dsrmen. II We THE Republican or=anizaton)
fail to control the delegations, we shall have the
satisfaction nf knowing that common honesty
and com mon decency are In control. Cheers
Il have for years worked for tho solution of
the police problem in this city and l shal con-
tnue to work until the problem Is solved. I
have always rontended that tho bipartisan
system as It applies to the rolice Com mission
I, a. I In nf h1 hat
system which prompts a Commissioner 10 go
on the witness stand and confess that he did
wrong because he needed the money that he
received as salary. Applause. What mean
is that the Republican Comm issioners should
be appointed on behalf Of the Republican or
Ranzation and the Democratic Commissioners
on behalf of the Democratic organization. and
that the Commissioners should be selected to
see to It that the Police Department 10 a Po-
lice Department ami policemen are police
men, and not Tammany Hall election officers.
Cheers.
But they sav that that system is not con-
sttutional Therefore the Legislature is
asked to pass a bill providing for a single
headed comm ssion. While / didn't approve
OF that measure wholly. l would rather have it
than have the Republican organization OF this
county accent the responsibility for the shame
full humiliatiug and almost criminal confess
sions which have been made upon the witness
stand within the past few days To be sure
such n bill would have put Tammany in abso
lutte control OF the noice force in this city. but
the Replblican PARTY would have had no share
in the responsibility for the scandals which
are now being exposed and will continue to
bo exposed by the investigation now in prog
ress In this city. Gentlemen. | assure You
that the Maze. committee has only scratc he'd
the surface"
Mr.. Quigg said that he thought the true
remedy for tho troubles in the Police Depart
ment would he found in n state constabulary
law. Ultimately. lie believed. such a law would
lie enacted The members OF the committee
seemed to agree thoroughly with what he said
in regard to union Of all tho anti -Tammany
forces and the opinion was general among the
delegates that successful combination could
he made for the fall elections.