New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-10-02

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END OF THE HERRICK RULE
1t was in this same spring that Justice D.
Cady Herrick sat in his chambers In the SUI
preme Court rooms at the City Hall, in AIoahy'
although his court was scheduled 10 meet IN
Ulster County that same Election pay ana
counsellsd with his political teutenants' the
editorial comment on which incident is quoted
above The END of the Herricl1 rule in Albany
was rapidly approaching. The Argus IN
cident had reused even the dullest selsibiities'
Ii will be recalled that 1893 the Maynard
year in state elections. the year that saw Da-
vid B. Hills accomplics in the theft OF the
State Senate buried under colossal tidal wave;
= saw Cord Meyer. the present chairman or the
State committee. that is trying to elect Justice
Herrick soundly beaten for Secretary OF state
II was this election that saw. also. the highest
end the lowest phases OF the Herrick machine
rule-the highest in the efficiency of corrup-
ton. the lowest in the degradation of popular
franchise For years Albany County politics
had heen corrupt. They were corrupt under
Daniel Manning, corrupt before he took the
helm: they were corrupt during the first eight
years that the Judge Boss held sway; but it was
rot until 1898 that Albany divided with Buffalo
end Gravesend the doubtful honor Of primacy
in civic corruption and that the names OF Nc
Kane Sheehan and Justice D. Cady Herrick
were classed together. Citizens OF New-York
are used TO the prostitution Of the police. they
have seen regimes when officers OF the law and
elected public officials united to defeat honest
elections and to protect every sort of corruption
at the polls and it was such a sight the citi-
zeIs of Albany witnessed in November. 1898
Long before Election Day the evidences of
approaching outrage were to be noted; the close
OF registration was followed by wall from the
ewspapers OF every political shade. More than
twelve hundred illegal voters we're registered
from vacant lots registered soldiers and
sailors registered with and without even the
fantest suggestion OF legality. The year 1893
was an off year. The registration throughout
the State declined The papers of the day speak
in emphatic tones OF the prevailing apathy.
Yet In the face of all this, without an apparent
cause. the registration I'm the city OF Albany
advanced until it exceeded that OF the pre-
ceding year-a Presidential year.
There followed the usual appeal TO the police.
New-York citizens did the same in the Deverv
days. The Croker machine was not more alb
soute then than the Judge-Boss's in Albany in
this year. Public committees appealed the
Mayor sought 10 prosecute the hoaters, and
paused in their labors only when local Demo-
| Constitution in a memorable decision. which
sustained the rights of the foaters. Soldiers
and sailors" is still a familiar phrase in Albany
| County. The Democratic Argus" the Repub-
| Iican Evening Journal and independent news
papers in neighboring cities raised the danger
! cry. but appeals in the name Of civic decency
were made TO ears as deaf as those OF Mayor
| Van Wyck here in later days.
It would be impossible 20 find a single citizen
! Of Albany who is not convinced that n word
| from d. Cady Herrick would have made i'm
| possible the carnival OF crime that was i'm
! pending. For nine years he had been in per-
4 feet control OF the reins of the dominant ma
chine; his creatures had occupied public Office
and governed the city. There ought 10 be no
misrepresentation on this point only year be-
| fcre he had attended the convention that NOM
! mated Grover Cleveland. and as a reward for
! his hight that day against the anti-snap
movement of David b. Hill, he had become the
| Dictator of federal patronage in Albany County.
| Whatever his power before election. The Even
| ing Post" in an exhaustive review Of the ca
| reer Of the Judge-Boss. published on September
| IS. said:
As showing how close Herricke supervision Of
county politics was, II Is recorded that assistant
| in the waterworks department whose brother OPP
election, because OF his brothers course.
A correspondent of The sun in the issue Of
March a. 1888. thus summarized the versatility
| Of the Judge Boss
As / understand the case. the Hon D. Cady
Iier!ick is member OF the Democratic State Com
nittee. and boss Of the Herrck machine in Albany.
there IS board Of election commissioners Cor the
city OF Albany: majority OF this board appointed
election The minority in violation Of the Ia w
| The minority of the board consists Of Mayor Man
ming. who represents Boss and Judge D. Cady Her
,f min Fffn
| board. Ilerrick as judls sits in Judgment as "a
lar ieeatIi'y 81 M ~ 5:ei 49, re- t,e o al
a member. to review his own acts as boss.
The writer Of this signed himself "A Demo
| GRAFT"
| CLAMOR FOR IMPEACHMENT OF JUDGE
| The Argus" incident followed this. the clamor
! for impeachment OF Justice HerricK was
abroad: it was demanded by Republican press
and also by a Democratic organization of law
| yers Charges were actually formulated copies
of which remain. in which both incidents
referred TO above We're cited was also
the failure to appear I'm court in Kingston
on Election Day. BY this time the scan
dal Of the dual role was as wide as the
| State but STILL on the eve OF the fall
| election Of 1893. undisputed master OF Albany
County police and officials. Justice Herrick per-
| mitted the judicial dignity, which had not pre-
vented every previous interference with politi-
| cal conditions and management to prevent his
raising his voice for an honest vote. Chief
Judge Parker at EsOpus, TREMENDOUSLY awaiting
| the Democratic nomination was not more OBJ
| servant OF the proprieties OF judicial demeanOr
| than D. Cady Herrck when word from him
| might have saved Albany from a shame still un-
| forgotten farcical court proceeding that
wiped off the rolls the names of nineteen OF the
twelve hundred floaters-this was all that the
protests Of the citizens of the capital city ac-
complished.