New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-10-30
HIRED GANG TO DO HIM.
Water Register Says Ndgle Has
EN- ployed Eastman Cro1cd.
MOSS SPEAKS AT COOPER UNION.

The City Vigilance League held fusion mass
meeting in Cooper Union last night, with Samuel
w. Bovine chairman The hall was crowded.
He made a brief address in which he said Mayor
Lows administration sweet" and he then
introduced Frank Moss who said In part:
An election campaign by Mr. Croker bad.
scum is on the surface. Mr.. Croker was decent in
phys district has been a banner district for cleo
in New-York when there have been so many illegal
colonizations as this year.
he obeyed orders. They cast him out. He used the
brave police and made them unwilling instruments .
bring in another man-Grout L would not waste
In this campaign the minister has shake hands
with the atheist If are to have good govern
take every one in Fight for Cod FOR city for
home. and may the victory come to those who
Henry George said red lights miserable body
selling women. loathsome cadets and abominable
brass checks had been practically driven out of the
swarming East Side by this administration. He
added:
This Low administration has done two things of
1t has raised to equality with other mems as
iE the city, and it has begun the march toward
municipal ownership of public utilities. Working,
mems homes have in some instances been assessed
at Ito per cent of their real value and the wealthy
The valuation in the city whole has been
raised 40 per cent, but on same wealthy resi-,
it has been raised co. 20 and so per cent This has
resulted in a reduction Of the tax rate.
The Low administration has also struck at the
over the people charging what they like for what
little or nothing OF their legal dues. Mayor Low
railroad, gas, electrical and other franchise cor
porations in New-York, due in back taxes, fees.
license charges and similar legal obligations; IL
endeavored take the first step toward establish
the legisature by the Consolidated Gas Company
lobby and its agents on the legislative moor iea a
Henry McCarren.. --..'.
The Rev. Thomas f. Slicer of All Souls Uni
tartan Church. said the old, bold adventurous spirit
Of Tammany has gone. that the men now leading
II sneak thieves to highway robbers. He
said they trading in good names and had
borrowed two years ago the name Of Edward NJ.
Shepard, who being defeated. said he had had
enough and would support fusion. He continued:
What sorry sight it is to see these men, Nc
the career steerers to vice and pr3tec-
tors OF the vicious. Night after night they DaoDe
Will in six months. II they can succeed. be afood
with evil which VIII overflow into tne MONIES mes III III
Tammany Hall; he must follow. 1t does not CON
saved from death in this city in the years of the
present administration They want office Crokers
Of the Board OF Aldermen. They willing that
all old conditions shall return. SO that 1t does not
Men sensitive TO the expenditure OF the eitys
money. set to watch the city's rights against the
greed corporations. see these same corporations
tribute Tamm2ny Hall to recreate the con-
ditions OF life the lower East Side. These cor
porations don't who dies in the tenements.
who is debauched among the young. what happens
country estates Adirondack preserves. which they
police that poor native may catch fish or
shoot, without risk of punishment. They invoke
the law to protect those who break the law, and
pay for the privilege They give employment 10
The man whose children die in the tenements and
use his profts keep in office SaloOnkeepers and
gamblers and ''Rrafters" upon whom the corpora
lions depend when they In power. These
are the really depraved people of New-GOrk the
Violators of the rights of the people, who pay
Murphy to keep his dens OF vice open, who bring
their own children up think lightly of morality.
who hold in contempt the common virtues their
own country bred fathers and mothers possessed.
They later wonder that their sons become gamblers
and Takes.
Water Register Kelly said in part:
/ charge that under Tammany ten millions we're
kept out OF the city's treasury in the Water De-
partment IL stolen before II reached the
city. Because of the statements have made
have lad Il T0ice guard To take ma home every
night. We have information to me effect that
Percy Maggie has hired the Eastman gang TO do me
up Last Friday night l was assaulted at Second
a crowd of Murphy's thugs, but l arrested the
man who hit and l fractured his skull and
placed him in Bellevue Hospital, and am here.
After election Jerome will have the evidence that
will send a weary procession up to public bOS I'd
ing house up the river where its members will
a change of clothes for having stolen water from
the city.
Job Hedges also spoke