The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-10-17


organization and operation. They brought
their directors before the public al the
nominees of Tammany Hall for the great
and sacred office Of Judge. So it IL not
wonderful that that complaint about cor
Doration lawyers has entirely ceased to he
ventilated In the quarter in which It arose,
and / do not think you Will near any more
Of it from any quarter.
The only other quarter from which il has
ever been aged was another remark
able corporation, known as Tammany
Hall. Well, now. / ave heard a great deal
of complaint about corporations, but in
my judgment the worst and wickedest COL
poration that ever existed II ON thu be-
ginning OF time was this same Tammany
Hall.
II REAL ENEMY.
Our real adversary Is Tamman y Hall.
You all know the history Of Tammany
Hall in its connection with the judiciary,
but l an afraid not many OF you are old
enough to have actual recollection Of what
happened in 1870 and 1871, " nen 1t was dis
covered tina they had their On eatule "a on
the bench W no really sold justice for money
and contributed by their judicial acumen
and judicial Efforts in keeping the Tweed
ring in with the spoils taken from the city
treasury.
Well, when that was discover ed the
people lose in their might and crushed
Tammany Hall. on that occasion in 1871.
Then, not many many years afterward
you remember the Maynard incident,
when a Judge was attempted to be foisted
on he people who had prostituted his sacred
duties and powers in order to onsumm
a steal Of a Senatorial office, and again the
! people ose in their might and Tanmany
Hall was again crushed, as many verdant
people supposed.
Well, a few years later and not many
years ago you remember the case OF Judge
Joseph +. DAILY, whom l am happy to see
on the platform here tonight. Lapplausel
who was'tlfned down by MI. Croker. the
official representative Of Tammany Hall,
for not deciding as he wanted him to de-
eide. That was the long and the shoIt
of it.
And again the people rose in their might
and, as some verdant ones again supposed,
crushed Tammany Hall. But Tammany
Hall is not so easily eXtingiushed as all that
Though crushed to earth Tammany will
rise again; the uncounted years OF Satan
are hers. And she'll always be found rally
ing from every downfall and ready to take
charge of the affairs of the city including
the affairs of our courts.
WHERE THE REAL GRAFT COMES IN.
Now, why do they cling to these judge
ships so much and SO t~enaCiously? May l
raise the lid a little on the judicial poland
show what il going on there? For | know
something about it. The casual observer
would say. Why. il is something for them
to have NE appointment to give to their
followers and henchmen OF these eight
judgeships. hat is ST. 500 a year. But that
is a mere bagatelle TO the patronage that
is covered up under the lid to which ! have
referred.
For il we take the refereeships and the
receiverships and the commissioners that
are under the control of the courts, by
whom their appointments are made, the
value Of this patronage runs up into the
hundreds Of Thousands, n l don't know
but what into the millions, every year.
and that explains the greed and earnest
pointment OF the Judges. which they have
really got, unless the people rise in their
might and take it away from them.
Ny young friend, Mr.. Gerard, a valued
acquaintance Of all Of ours at the bar, the
descendant OF one Of the most genial and
delightful lawyers that / have ever known
there was more fun in him than any man
| ever encountered in court-he has in
herited his qualities and he got oil the most
delightful jokes at Tammany Hall the other
night.
He said that the reason why our ticket
should not be sustained and hat the ticket
OF Tammany Hall should be, was that the
sustaining of the Tammany Hall ticket was
essential to the preservation of the merits
OF an elective judiciary, OF an election Of
Judges by the people. Well, that is one Of
the biggest jokes that was ever perpe-
trated; his grandfather never got OF any,
thing half so good as that. IL there is one
influence that has been exerted and has
tended to injure and damage the elective
judiciary, it is the dictation OF this same
Tammany Hall. The ethics and the methods
of Tammany have resulted in the judges
being selected, not by the people, but by
one man, and that man not a Governor,
nor holding any responsible Office for which
he was accountable to the people, but by
the boss who had worked himself into the
head of that corrupt organization.
HOW Til OPPOSITION o ITS MEN.
And we come now to the question OF the
making up Of our adversaries' ticket.
How has that been made up? | dom
know, and ] don't think there Ia anybody
that knows. l don't think you know my
more how it il treated a you do know
from the rumblings and grownngs within
the crater of VesuVius h is going TO hap
pen until the explosion takes place and
casts out the matter which is offered to the
world. Then there come great streams
Of lava down the side of the mountain
identical in quality and only distinEuishable
the one from theHother by their numbers;
their location and their names.
We haVe heard terrible rumblings and
ings which showed us that there was a ter
ribe fight going on between the Tammany
tiger and another adversary hat was
worthy Of his claws. but all we know about
it is the result, the ticket that was pro-
duced.
! won't call it a deal, / won't call it an
understanding, but 1t certainly was a di-
vision, and nobody can deny that, Mr..