New-York tribune., 1900-12-02
HOT WORDS FROM KEMPNER
FIERCELY ASSAILS WIILoUGHBY
STREET IN RESIGNING FROM
GENERAL COMMITTEE.

Otto Kempner, delegate to the Kings County
Democratic General Committee from the x1Sth
Assembly District has resigned, and has written
a letter to James Moffett chairman OF the COM
mittee. In IT Mr.. Kempner scorches the Demo-
cratic organization. which he calls a cankerous
growth upon the party.
Brooklyn needs" he says, 'and with the help
Of thousands OF good Democrats will soon OBJ
tain a regenerated organization, which shall be
conducted according TO the time honored prin-
ciples Of majority rule. wherein deliberation
shall not be regarded a crime. nor the ex-
preston of honest convictions be punishable
with political death"
Mr. Kempner criticises the Brooklyn organiza-
ton for its desertion OF Controller Coler at the
State Convention. for forcing the nomination Of
ex-Justice Van wyck for Governor in 1898. for
joining Tammany in sending two Ice Trust
tainted delegates to the Kansas City Conven-
tion and declares that the 'unholy alliance be-
tween Tammany Hall and Willoughby Street
has borne logical fruit in the wreck and ruin
OF the Democratic party in city, State and
Nation"
CONVENTIONS FARCICAL MoCKERIEs.
Among other things he says:
The debasing conditions in New-York City,
against which the people now rising up IN arms
Swe % e ogn m m 70 10 6hf S OeSI Of any ppp
that Boss Croker might name for Mayor OF greater
A small coterie OF unprincipled politicians mas
querading in the livery Of Democracy; nave oeen
exploiting the party organization In brooklyn 1or
From the back room of the WiIIoughby Street
auction house they have been debating nominations
and appointments with stoical indifference to public
sentiment and to the demands of the Democratic
voters, and have been exercising absolute pro-
They have reduced district leadership and dis
trict organizations, Assembly and county commit
cries. and hiding behind the hollow forms OF the
party machinery they have usurped the essential
privileges OF the Democratic masses.
They have compelled all public officials the prod
ucts Of their perverted system. TO serve their
creators and not the public. Only such men as are
wiling 70 oe ond ana ooedient Tools 70 ~ear S @ ene
deemed worthy OF recognition by the auction room
magnates. The lower the moral and intellectual
standard Of an aspirant 10 public ofce the better
are his prospects.
VICE RAMPANT AND sAFEGUARDED.
ough administration; our county is exposed to the
horrors OF a water famine; vice IS rampant and
safeguarded by the police; streets are dirty and
primitively paved; yet the burden OF taxation is
steadily increasing.
To oppose tie degrading rule CT the wiIoughby
Street combination in any respect is treason IN the
highest degree. The State Senator who in 1899 OBJ
jected TO the nomination OF unworthy candt-
Gate for county office Illegally expelled from
of public life, together with all hts friends and sup
porters despite the fact that the people OF Brook
date at the polls.
AS a Democrat who believes that Democratic
organization in Brooklyn exists only in name and
not in fact and a citizen who feels that those
who control this alleged organization from will
oughby Street" are not Democrats but "Divvy
Democracy in Kings County would be best sub
served by sweeping reorganization Of the party
management
Otto Kempner is now member OF the Brook
Iyn Citizens Union.