New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-06-23
A DEMOCRATIC TRUST.
THE GREAT AND CRASHING coMBINA.
TIoN OF ICEMEN.
HOW CITY OFFICIALS OF THE TRUST BATTING
PARTY ARE MIXED UP IN IT.

mouth. in denunciation Of trusts. and now. IN
my State. their foremost party leaders IN
Guiding the before whom the others bow
with barred head and trembling knee, have been
discovered IN a trust which really Is OF in
famous and perhaps OF criminal character; q
trust in which these apostles Of Democracy
these prophets Of the new dispensation, have
sought to wiring fortunes from the dire need OF
their poorer brethren"
Later In the day Senator Depew referred to
the Ice Trust In his speech seconding the nomi-
nation Of Governor Roosevelt. Speaking OF the
Convention at which the Democratic party will
nominate candidates for President and Vice
President. Mr.. Depew said:
And then will come the great card OF the
Convention headed by the great Bryan nfrn-
self-'Down with the trusts" Down with the
trusts" And when the applause is over II Will
be found that the pitchers the table have
been broken by the clashing Of the ice within
for that ice will be making merry at five cents
a chunk"
In view Of the howl which goes UP against
trusts wherever a few Democratic politicians
meet in consultation these references 70 the
combination of Democratic politicians against
the people in the shape Of the Ice Trust was
pertinent and timely. There has probably never
been an uprising against business corporation
which was so general and in which all classes
of society were so deeply interested as the one
against the Ice Trust which was organized for
the purpose of advancing the price Of ice and
did raise the price from 40 cents to Co cents a
hundred pounds. with the prospect OF a further
advance.
1t was so far reaching IN it's organization and
so firmly intrenched behind the breastworls OF
Tammany Hall that its promoters. proprietors
and benehciaries assumed the air OF the Tam
many leaders Of CID and in answer to the ap-
peals of the poor and III gloried in being the
ice man." and. like Tweed OF DID, said: What
are you going to do about it?"
Good men. when they were told that Mavor
Van Wyck was a stakeholder in the corporation
which besides bleeding the public was delv-
ering Ice to the city at high prices said that II
could not be true. and his visit TO Maine with
the president OF the Ice Trust was probably not
business trip. But persistent search into the
affairs OF the trust revealed the fact that IL was
1ammany institution, in which two OF the
four delegates-at-large TO the Democratic Ma
tional Convention were stockholders. These two
are Richard Croker and Augustus Van Wyck
The stories about the Mayor were only too
true, and although he had assured the people
OF the city Of New-York. through newspaper
reporters who called on him. that "the Mavor
is all right. and will be found all right when
the time comes he was forced TO confess when
brought up for examination that he owns 4 200
shares Of Ice Trust stock. The Mayor at that
examination swore that he had not paid for his
stock in businesslike way. and that a bank
in New-York had loaned him 100000 on time
notes The president Of the bank shortly after
that swore that the bank had never loaned Mr..
Van Wyck cent
Mayor Van Wyck was only one OF many. and
the investigation established the fact that great
blocks Of the Ice stock belonged TO the men who
stood Of he
dominates the city OF New-York and receives Its
orders at the Democratic Club from Richard
Croker, or in his absence from his accredited
lieutenant The list Of stockholders contained
the names Of the following city officials:
Robert A. Van wyck Navor
]. Sergeant Cram. Dock Commissioner
ShaTIeS r. Murphy Dock Commissioner
John Whalen. .......... Corporation Counsel
H. s. Kearny. e. Commissioner Public Buildings
Lighting and Supplies
Randolph Guggenheimer. President OF Council
2. X. Carroll Chief Clerk General Sessions
Park Commissioner Of Brooklyn
1t contained the names also Of the following
we'll known Democratic politicians:
Augustus Van WICK fTmI + i G G1a8t
Thomas F. GiIroy. Hugh Mclaughlin.
E. d. Croker Elizabeth Croker, W. H. Gel
shenen Maurice Untermyer. A. n. Brady and
Anna NJ. Devery are some more Of the names on
the list Of stockholders in the concern which
was organized for the purpose OF making a
necessary attainable only on payment OF ex-
orbitant prices. When il became evident that
the Ice Trust a Tammany organization.
expressions Of Indignation could be heard In all
quarters and wherever respectable citizens con-
gregated. The Tribune said:
The Tammany antitrust issue was created
amid much applause by the Hon. Augustus Van
Wyck, and has been exploded with disastrous
results by the Hon. ROberl A Van Wyck II Is
q veritable boomerang Tammany has long had
to keep good terms with the poor people even
while robbing them To-day II stands stripped
of It's last OF pretenCe OF devotion TO popular
interests. exposed in a brutal and vulgar scheme
OF oppression of its dupes the butt OF ridiCule
and the object of hatred the part OF voters
who, in spite Of its stealings. have hitherto sup
ported IT under the delusion that il their
friend. The exposure OF the Mayor one or
the prOprietorS Of trust engaged in business
with the city government and doubling the
price of a necessary Of life to the poor Of the
tenement regions is the worst blow that has
fallen TO Tammany since the revelations Of 1894
drove it from power.
The Mayor has not been removed from office
yet because OF his connection with the Ice Trust,
although there is a possibility in that direction;
but when Mr.. Croker returns from Europe 20
assume charge of the government Of Nev-Yorz
subject Of ice, and give orders 10 his campaign
orators to eliminate the word trusts from the
Democratic spellbinders' vocabulary
A THIRD TICKET 4 MISTAKE.
From The Chicago Times-Herald.
OF course the Gold Democrats are not so infat-
believe QeFeat