New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-10-22

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Democrat all nay lite long, and have wanted ito to
impossible. 1his year. after Mayor Low had been
nominated 70 Mayor and before ms aceep.aneetbi
10 enroll my self with the regular Democratic orsar-
nation b Bsa " hsa in my one BRIEF year in
The Distnct Anornsy Office it was ,h hmp9s
came to me 4 went TO Mr. Low at MS
ali my nfe and / would like TO become member
OF the Democratic otSanlzaton OF inns great city
ence I have had IN the last year in the District
Attorneys otiioe, and WITH the revelations that
tTation that the Democratic organization had given
duties concerned. ana the Democratic party
OF your great Office. ana therefore l think it moth
ine less taan my dGty 10 give you Ey support IA
ocraJ having the best interests his party heart
on me shortly after l became District Attorney for
the purpose clearly OF sizing me up. hen We met
omitted. 4 said ham: Chief. / have come
inIo this Office without any prejudice whatever i
don't care what any man political affiliations are,
sary mat shall have to indict You before i get
OUT. but it win be in the line of duty and no, OF
any personal prejudice" Now. gentlemen, to come
/ fancy that many of you not millionaires-why
a Tammany Administrations Now, will tell you:
VIII tell you some of my experiences. found
when l was District Attorney that the district
leader was the man that controlled the important
sections OF the city; that the policeman who want
a clergyman came down to sec me once and said:
There is house OF bad repute in my neighbor-
hood; il is something awful: my congregation
SAID T. 4 W send shoa oF the 9e Captain no right
away" oh. no; cont do that; don't send for the
was a greenhorn. but knew thing two. and
ana he d pSro A Re GsPaa is
had place; there is no question it is a bad place,
Stationed in front men there tT have h ba mao detectives
letya
Sap tain want to say one thing to you-there Is
office is my very limited experience. and that is
that IL the captain Of precinct wants 10 get a
dlsoTderiy house out Of his precinct it goes EVIL
Now" l said. captain, wish you would please
DO your best to get that house out of the district
A few days after that the captain came down. or
irUlsg Wa gone. Now, gentlemen. that was ohe
experience OF every man who attempted to ad-
ton. and that is that legal evidence was required;
and that was the objection made every time TO
the removal OF any great nuisance. But when you
the houses Of prosfituti6ns Notwithstanding the
This community-and that relief possible;
taat Iammany government meant destruction 1f non
s that Fl Y6yn f r ya a Te into peS
house@ali she would have to do Would be to raise
the window and call upon the police TO help her.
You know any policeman IN the city Of NcwYork
ask him i it is true If the policeman on the beat
n would he found tbepe tbat that house was under
the protection OF a district leader And what would
then be Done? Would anything be core No A
desk who mi might be as honest man as any here
,9-nht but yh9 is dePndent Upon his saag ce aGF
reserve, many of them as necessary. TO
that house. complete inspection Of the house
would be made, and the result would be nothing
would be found.
Frederic W. Hinrichs said he hated to intro
duce the personal note. but the opposing candi-
date. Mr. Grout, had tried to vilify his record,
and he wanted to put in little defense.
He said in part:
do not like TO make any special references to
myself but am bound 10 do so this night and with
been Obliged to dictate to my stenographer to-day
in answer 70 she oW do not mean 70 get into
controversy with my adversary: but ] know new
against The Democratic city ticket in Brooklyn in
@ A i Pad AZ dan dG for Mayor Of
brooklyn in 1895, against the Democratic eanddate
date for Mayor in 1897 and think he vas , agains.
am not sure He is against the Democratic candl-
date for Mayor this year, as he was two years ago
know it personally. have covered ten years.
Then Mr. Hinrichs read the record of his po-
litfcal work from 1876 to the present-a record
Of consistent Democracy. supporting always the
clean man, lapsing to the support of Repub
lican only once, when he, with Shepard and
many thousand other Democrats, elected Mr..
Schieren Mayor Of Brooklyn. Grout. in the mean
time according to one of his auditors, was
turning somersaults.''
Then with a blaze of enthusiasm, from the
house came Mr.. Jerome. with his little body OF
attendants. When he could talk after the
cheering he said in part:
Mr. Chairman Ladies and Gentlemen "a cry Of
eat them alive daughter. trust You viii, bear
cause l ought be in bed and not here. But
somehow or other / could not keep away from here
m SGI nG cause Rep for one hng and could
90 Laar aWav for another thing because IL was TO
be ' ne 1ppefn Of Democrats and 10 me Democracy
means and always has meant something. II never
my q Brien ! never had any use for these fake
Democracies that are put on foot to serve some
ported by Republican funds. and then disappear
s,s beiteF that there are clean and decent and
honest Democrats in the city Of New York TO form
ards OF Democracy from the barroom. the pooTOOm
and the haye no fosSt there are
know such. But it is not the best training school
no doubt there are many poolroom people and
horse racing men who are eninenttiy respectable:
] don't know any SUCH but l do know that ii IS
ers OF a real Democracy 1t may DO very well
for the leadership of band OF political grafters
u H5V d"es Tanmany differ to-day from the Tam
many which Mcclellan Endorsed in one OF his IA,
NOUS tyloewriten speeches back I'm 1901? Same old
Tammany and pretty much the same old typewrit-
ten speeches Has he got any convictions In his
heart? II he has. the people Will forgive him the
words ne uses IL he viii only express them.
THAT RENEGADE CIRCUIT"
He a Democrat, with this Alsatian and that
treacheroIs renegade Grout tackled TO his ticket,
these men 10 give US Democracy they TO dc
tate 10 US what does and what does not constitute
Democracy and he TO tell US that II he goes mo OF
nee everything viii be pure But what are his no
lions OF purity What more unequivocai indorse-
ment OF what was under Van Wyck could be given
than he gave in 1901 ia Tammany Hall when he said
ours is the credit and the HONOR Now he