New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-09-11
ISSUES JUST AS VITAL.
NO TAMMANY DODGING.
r. f. Cutting Predicts Reelection of
Loa, GrOut and Fornes.


Union. NJ Linn Bruce president OF the Re
publican County Committee. and z. c. Hunting
ton chairman OF the Citizens Union executive
committee yesterday predicted the reelection
% Messrs Low, Grout and Fornes. the fusion
standard bearers. President Cutting said that
while there was less 70 arouse the public mag
ination this year than two years ago. the real
issues that concerned the public welfare were
TO less vital now than they were when Devery-
ism was rampant in the Police Department and
when the red light" was only another name for
certain Tammany leaders sources Of private
plunder President Bruce asserted that no
Tammany candidate. however exalted in pri-
waite character. could carry the dead weight OF
Tammany Hail 20 victory ar the polls MI
Cuttings statement was in part as follows:
It to that the outlook for the election
or IIe Ilsio1 cheI on - h. S-,,e Is Quite aif-
ferent from what it was two years ago We shail
which TO arouse the indignation Of the public. our
main appeal. however. will be. as II has always
We shall appeal TO the public on Local rs
fesltv Of Democrats because there IS 10 be Presi.
Dental election next year. The utter luulty o.
Gratis was made man fest in the statement LeMIS S
Nixon issued last Saturday That such statelneht
should have been made by a man "ho Nss uut
Gently leader Of Tammsny Hall is a most encour-
LIS 10 be Tnaerstood at the very outset that
enter this campaign with one very ilTnportant
intendent Of Elections. the Police Commissions.
and the District attorney Nil Go0P se ana pr
mote justice. The lack OF harmony between these
t6ink il IS FAIR to assume that fifteen thousand
fraudulent votes which under old conditions would
We shall this year stand on the magnificent rec
ord which the fusion administration mas mace:
record The administration has been honest. The
les pnder Everybody Knows that The admin
istration has been efficient and non-paTtsan
the community viii respond in no uncertain man
TO the appeal for their Endorsement OF these
But we shall make another appeal. an appeal
ThiSh chi, VA my 5is eection we sbail appeal
90 those who have received specific benefits from
this administration benefits which they never re-
ceived under Tammany-benehts to which the!
were entitled and which were denied 70 them that
the necessary money might go 10 pohtlc1 Hollow
CHILDREN's FAIRGROUNDS VOTE GETTERs
cannot but feel that the establishment OF ten
ehiiarens plsygrognos with open ar eat
impression on voters. especially In the tenement
cav II seemed to me there We're fully as many
children as should be there at any time yet "a. a
there were ten times as many there The fathers ,s
a mudhole Seward Park was under Tammany;
While We have no longer Red Light District
the people OF the tenements remember wildly what
the conditions under Tammany Commits
soner De Forest states that ne IS reliably, N,
formed that prostitution has been driven out OF
the tenements. The cadet" system has received
a death blow
deep impression has been made upon people
OF the East Side by the activities OF the Heath
Guiding from the schools children afflicted with
contagious diseases, but he has estabiisned .
corrs Of trained nurses. who. when child Is *
Guided. at once to the home and tell the parents
TO these homes every few days. and as result
the children return 10 school usually in a very
short time. In the summer these nurses give free
DR.. Bederle has established branch OF the Health
Department Oh the lower East Sloe' Mnete pOor
people can get immediate treatment lie organ,
lied summer corps OF physicians 20 give special
service 70 children suffering from peculiar sum
mer complaints. He established uachoma hos,
free reatrneut there for this disease. treatment
they never received under Tammany. and without
There seven thousand men IN the Police De
past it IS believed that 90 per cent OF their votes
10 Tammeny. Owing 10 disgust with Dev-
cry, pToba bly, not more , than % per cent q Ihem
ent administration the police have been impressed
treated. Major Ebsteln recently estimated that
ne prOmoIlons ana appotiehIs WflIch thls aQIlln-
have Melted more than 100000 TO Taminany;
More than FIVE hundred men have been appointed
cost $500 each.
BECOME POLICEMEN FREE OF COST.
one Of our members told me the other day that
had two sons who sought. under Devery. to get
the police force. but they could not secure an
amount demanded. Under this administrator. IN
70 55er r6aTa ,e 9gsR {2ok .n9 with
out paying a penny That father and his sons are
A few DAYS ago Commissioner Greene promoted
Robert ". Craig and James A Wilson to be ser
geants craig has been the eligible list five
times and Wilson three times They both
s9 long SS asses e for a IToootio by
Tammany. is 81 not fair 20 assume that the whole
n {iohs force was impressed ' the changed '0o-
Again. I an informed that the police force IS
very well satisfied with the six platoon system de
fiI86 Of 81 eo4 was raised by assessing each man
SIS q the three platoon system. That money.
81 course. went to Iammany; Under General
and they did not have to pay cent
Commissioner SUITES has appointed , several hun.
had 10 pay a cent for their appointments whereas.
or ssao The Commissioner has also devised a new
platoon system which will give the men ore whole
many they received but one day in ten.
We appeal to al the ciyil Service employees Of
Tammany and then had the Civil Service bars
Your APPOINTMENTS shall stand" They have been
impressed with the fairness OF the fusion admin
from political assessments.
EXPECTS HELP OF CITY EMPLOYEES
There are eve thousand employees in the Street
Cleaning Department Under Tammany they had
picnics. etc Under this administration they have
sumo that they viii think OF this when they so 10
IN iSis civ Tnder TsmmsnE they had great difi
Guilty IN getting their payment promptly. IL often
tToiier Grot arranged that they should get their
checks regularly the first Of the month I be
lieVe thai some very powerful missionary work
viii be done FOR this administration ny these
people
. Tammany paid city employees with checks on
hanks favored by the administration To get the
checks cashed commission had usually 20 be paid.
The fusion administration has deposited city money
in banks adjacent 70 school houses. police stations
etc. and city employees get their money in checks
on these Institutions. They no longer have TO pay
commissions.
In the matter OF boroughs believe that Brook
Ign Will give overv helmng Endorsement this ad-
nninistration. The extraordinary improvements
which have been made IN that borough under the