New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-11-01
PHILBN LAYS TAMMANY BARE
CONDEMNS ITS EFFORTS TO AROUSE RELIGIOUS
PREJUDICE AGAINST LOW-TELLS or TYRANNY
Re Hoe Nc Learned Of Its Protection of Vice and Crime Iba
He Vas District 1fttorney

a ave+ Of citizens Tuberculosis was permitted 70
OF tba ' S ensnent houses. and increased because
Gogd realize how DANGEROUS this White PLAGUE 9 as
uncbecke6' sI l aae the way it was allowed to
1Iilfk there would be nearly a panic in this citv
me West Side some years ago was absolutely ur-
ylleo as conIared with the peril which every
way that tuberculosis was allowed TO develop in
t,Ileiheni mouse districts Physicians have re-
Gated hy the expectoration that falls upon the
zen to go into the vicinity Of the tenement houses
Te 1un ne riSk OF taking the disease Under the
forest forest with the Cooperation Of Health Commits
ms s,s isee'le sHorts have been made to check
lower rate of mortality under the Low admins
to check this great menace to life.
II me Health Department the Tenement House
which control the large hospitals. are fed with
TICS and graft. the very lives of citizens are i'm
personal interest TO the citizens let me speak of
ne Fire Department 1t my privilege during
Fire Commissioner Scanned. But it was necessary
10 nave two grand juries, as the Commissioner
objected the first indictment because of a purely
technical question of law. He was given an oppor-
tunity appear before the grand jury and availed
the finding Of an Indictment his counsel expressed
10 mis- appreciation Of the courtesy and fairness
that I had shown the defendant -.
The evidence clearly estaolS.leo InS az, Xess of
the city had not only been paving Tar III S IT- :,
the market for the fire apparatus uSed py II
defective Ii appeared that frequently hose woulo
hurst at fires because OF the poor material WIN
matter OF the city being swindied out OF thousands
and thousands OF dollars. but IL was even NOR
serious than that-one that appeals more strongly
10 every individual. and that is. that the lives @i
in many cases lost because Of the bursting OF
a0naroil,s. mat there we're thousands of dollars
worth of property destroyed needlessiy goes WIN
An instance Of the helplessness OF the working
man. or poor man TO Obtain even iIIs 81 % 10 no
G2 3y Who caTne to me after they were denied the
possession OF the body Of their little daughter. who
that The District Attorney for the County Of New
York should employ PhScan s 2mG Sf in order to
obtain the body of the child. which had peen
necessarily to be expected from employees in the
department. the head OF which is controlled only
All these conditions must have been well known
two years ago to the present candidate lor MAY
Win t,y ~ mai ejayish Submission TO the inter
ton. he openly declared that 1t had nothlhg 70
I do not think that the Democratic party Of
New-Nork City has fallen 40 low that II Is posi-
hle TO find Democrats who win stand for such mis-,
poyerur7enf as I have described. The sO-called
Independent Democrats who have lndorsed the
Tammany ticket merely men who have been
in and out of the organization at intervals Tor
many years. They are acrobats and not Demo.
the Democratic party And IL to-day we are sup
because his administration for the last TWO yeals
has been as much a Democratic administra ton as
il has been Republican administration; in tact
the majority of the ctys servants have been Dem
ocrats. He has been loyal to the great ier eI a.
6isrbarge of his duties No interest, religious or
otherwise. has failed to obtain all TO "hleh II was
entitled.
The LITTLE advertisements columns look
small but the they represent are, In some in
stances, big house.