The evening world. Newspaper, November 2, 1901, Page 3

CROKER, VAN WYCK, DEVER “TLL REMOVE DEVERY,” IS SETH LOW'S SLOGAN. “Partnership Between City Officials and Protected Vice Must Be Made Impos- sible,” Declares the Fusion Candidate for Mayor. BLACKMAIL AND SALARY ; GRABS ALSO ASSAILED. Seth Low in his speeches since his nomination for Mayor by the fusion forces has made these charges and potnts against the Tammany Administration: I.-ABSENTEE GOVERNMENT. “Tammany permits the control of this city by one man, who governs it from his English homo like a second George III. and makes millions for himrelf and his friends out of his rule as though y York were his private gold mine. “In the train of Crokerism every imaginable evi! that bad government can pro- @uce has befallen this city. “The government ‘of this city !s conducted primarily to make political leaders rioh."—In reply to ihe Cllizens’ Untoa notification, Sept. 77. U.-CITY BA 2 MANAGED. “gisow Yorks. A” bad city government, administered to enrich one man and "Reply the Austro-Hungarian Committee, Oct. 2. “@ SCHOOLS NEGLECTED. é 1 ‘on Inadequate school faciilties. All children of New York ing Ike an even chence to grow up Into strong, healthy, God- snd the city ““vernment should wage relentless war on Ear ONE WD. ng, the iayihene little vies to stumble. “jm LABORING Fane mos: yp TUBED. eaq,. THe city ought to be..,...',: ployer, co-operate with its laboring people in ‘ising the stindard of I! encourage the eight-hour day and the payment of dley prevaiting rate of wages. Every citizen should be free to enter the city's himploy ' 7i_-BXORBITANT SALARIES PAIN,. th “The city’s resources should be used for the public benefit and not: a quandered !n a constant increase of the salary list by the maintenance or creation of sinecures. ce merchant should be able to deal with the city without being obliged to gv through favored channels in order to secure favorable consideration of ne bids, In particular the Fire Department should have at its head a man who can conduct the business side of the department without subjecting nimscif to indictment. VI.—CIVIL-SERVICE LAW NEEDED. “I have always been a believer in the Civil-Bervice law because of ita demo- cratic side, No other law but this makes :t possible for a man to enter the public service on his own merits. VII.-PARTNERSHIP WITH VICE. ‘The partnership between city offictuls and protected vice and crime must be mado impossible; and when policemen ere to be tried for offenses against dis- cipline they ought to be sure of coming before a capable, upright and impartial Judge. “I shall spare no effort to confidence of the citizen. VIII.-EXCISE LAW OFFENSIVE. “The Excise law contains two provisions, both of which are well intended, but both of which in their application to the city of New York, with {ts casmo- politan population, are sources of very serious evils not contemplated by the law. I refer to the provision under which have sprung up the so-called Raines law hotels and to the clauses prohibiting the sale of liquor at all hours on Bunday. “The hotel clause ie an attempt to define « hotel in such terme as to permit the sale of liquor on Sunday under reasonable conditions; but the effect of the requirement that there shall be a certain number of rooms to constitute a hotel has been to add to many saloons an attachment that lends iteelf to un- speakable infamy. There was a similar, though I presume not an {dentical pro- vision in the Excise law as tt stood twenty-five or thirty years ago; but it was repealed, because then, as now, it became in practice very offensiv IX.—LIQUOR DEALERS BLACKMAILED, “It is a matter of belief so general as to amount to common knowledge, that Nquor dealers escape interference from the police on Sundays by paying for i, while those who do not pay are persecuted. <.—‘CROKER FOR HIS OWN POCKET.” FF°-croker himself ts my authority for the statement that he ts In politics for 1is own pocket all the time, The fair inference from that statement is that ho has been able to make use of his political influence so successfully in amassing a fortune that he has got his great wealth in a few years by that source. Another fair inference 1s that he determines his political action in every emergency from that sole consideration. That spirit goes all the way down in the city govern- ment. Crokerism means absentee government, a government for private gain.” XI.-SHEPARD WILL BE HELPLESS. ‘Mr. Shepard ts a fallen angel, who in the next campaign against ‘Tammany may be on one side or the other, He will be as helpless to tide of corruption as Canute was helpless to stop the the » The sca mocked him. (Charges preceding were made by Mr. Low in his opening speech at Cooper Unton, Oct. 5.) XII-—SHEPARD REPRESENTS DEVERY. “In his letter of acceptance Mr. Shepard quotes the Democratic words of Silas Wright, Horatio Seymour, Samuel J. Tilden, and he seems to forget that in this campaign he {s not the candidate of those gentlemen—he appears an the repre- sentative of Mr. Croker, Mr, Devery and Mr. Carroll, “Aa soon as practicable after the first of January, if I am elected, tho official heads of Mr. Murphy and Mr. Devery will roll upon the ground.” XIIL—POLICEMEN BRUTALLY TREATED. “Mr, Shepard has accepted a nomination at the hands of Mr. Croker upon a platform which sees nothing to criticise in the present Police Department. The Conmitution protects every man from cruel and unusual punishments, and I sub- mit it to my fellow-citizens of New York !f the roundsmen and patrolmen of the Police force, when they come up before Mr. Devery to be tried, are not subjected to cruel and unusual punishment in the harsh and unusual language such as the Constitution ftself forbids.” (Charges preceding made by Mr. Low in a epeech at the Grand Central Palace, Oct. 9.) TO ENRICH OFFICE-HOLDERS. “Is {t reasonable that a city so created, that a olty so powerful, that a city that has recognized such allegiance to the ideal in many waya as New York has done, showld continue to keep in power a city government that ts dominated by only one Idea, and that to make those who conduct it rich? XV.—OPPONENT OF “DEVERYISM.” “Mr, Shepard intimates that [ have broken the Constitution because I have etated distinctly that if I am elected Mayor Mr. Murphy will not remain Police Commissioner and Mr, Devery wiil not remain the Deputy Commissloner very Jong. He calls that a promise made to secure votes, I call it a frank, outspoken definition of policy. I told you without reserve what I propose to do tn the Police Department, because I stand in this campaign as an aggressive opponent of Dev- erylsm and everything it means. XVI.-SHEPAED WITHOUT POWER, Mr, Shepard is running on the city ticket {n combination with the county ticket, which hasn't a trace of Shepard's character on It. Tammany’s platform ta: ‘We don't belleve in civil service reform.’ If Mr. Shepard {s elected the New York County ticket will be elected, and this county ticket Is exactly what could be expected of Tammany. Mr. Shepard will control own three votes In the Board of Apportionment, and Croker will control sixteen. Think what power we give Crokerism! Shepard would have to contend against great odds—agalnst oddw that no sensiblo man would put himself into position to oppose. ~Deverylam stands for the alliance of the police with the lawbreakers, must go.” (Mr. Low at Carnegie Hall, Oct. 16.) XVII.-EVEN BOOTSLACKS BLACKMAILED., “1 will show you some of the different ways in which persons having control ef the city powers can use them to enrich themselves by indirection. ‘This very day I heard from one of the dootblacks of the clty that every year he is com- pelled to contribute out of his small curnings to some Tammany official XVIII—A SHAKE-DOWN OF POLICE. : “Deveryism stands for the use of the Pollce Department for extracting money from everything with which the police come into contact. They will get It if Siay,can from legitimate business, and they always will get it from the Ilegitt- mal “Now, what does tt mean in the Pollce Department? You have seen within the last few weeks Patrolman O'Neill dismissed from the police force because he ‘would not stand for a shake-down. Do you know that the rank and file of that force, I belleve, and as Mr. O'Neill says, 1s called upon to pay every two or three months #25 or whatever it may be in order to protect themselves against arbitrary restore to the force as a body the respect and It assignments, to protect thomaelves from being changed to parts of the city very rechote from {9 only one way in which the powers of the grees hirttears to extort mone; = Manhat and Norman avenues, Greenpoint, Oct. 19.) x2 TRUST IW GO tt "In the city of New York this governmental trust of Tammany Hall uses not nly, the power of the organization but the entise gowes of the lly goverament (From The World, Feb. 25, Se os OD “THEY CAN'T REMOVE THIS, DEVY!” to crush out any man who may oppose it tn any way, and so they make it a trust] in government. i “You know what has been openly charged In the Fire Department, that nobody | can sell anything to that department except through a man by the name of Marks. | “You know that bondsmen have to go or think It Judictous to go to Mr. Freed- man's company. ‘You know that auction sales are sent to Peter F. Meyor & Co. "You know that in the architectural line Horgan & Slattery are favored by the city government. “You know that in the Street-Cleaning Department Barney's dumps have been employed in place af those belonging to the city. “You have heard of Roebling’s fire-proofing and you have heard of Naughton & Co. and what happened to the Third Avenue Rallroad Company.” Qtr. Low in addressing the Greater New York Democracy In Cooper Unton, Oct. 21.) XX.—LADD, VAN WYCE’S ATTORNEY. “This 1a not a contest between camiidates, It tn a contest between Croker and those who hate Crokerism and who want to destroy tt. “Does Mr. Shepard ask any one to vote for ‘his colleagues? Does he ‘ask any one ¢o vote for Mr. Ladd, attorney to Mayor Van Wyck, of Ice Trust fame? Does he ask any one to vote for Mr. ger, counsel for Bis- sert? I have never heard of it."—At St. Nicholas Rink, Oct. SHEPARD PUTS BLAME ON REPUBLICAN PARTY. In reply to the charges made by Mr. Low, Edward Mf. Shepard, Democratic candidate for Mayor, has made these statements: ‘Whatever the burden of responsibility resting upon Democrats may be, the evils and wrongs of administration have in large part been created by Repub- cans and by Republican legislation.” “I promise if my nomination bo ratified at the polls that from the Ist of January, 1902, until the end of 1903 the Police Commissioner of the city of New York, if I shall ive so long, will, barring interference from Albany, be in effect the man who !s Mayor of the city, acting through a competent, honest, resolute citizen, who shal! at all times, whether {n season or out of season, whether by day or by night, practically enforce the standard which the Mayor himself upon his conscience sets up for police administration. “To Clvil-fervice reform [ shall remain alsolutely and tn good faith dedl- cated, not in theory only, but practically." Mr. Shepard, at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, on Oct. 12, replying to Mr. Low's promise to remove Devery, sald: ‘ “Not until after the peopie snai nave vested me with power will I give any pledge or promise that I will, tf elected, remove any man from any office that he now holds. Let thete be no :nistake about thin. “If I be elected Mayor the Police Commisstoner will, therefore, represent the {dens of public,order, decency and morality which are held by Edward M. Shepard. Thus far evill I go by way of public pledge. Nor will I for the offtce of Mayor, nor for all the offices In the land, go one Jot or tittle further.” On the question of inadequate schools Mr. Shepard said: “The teaching of the children of the city and of all the children and of every child of the city—their teaching not a few hours now and a few hours then, but their teaching fully and systematically, thei: teaching in wholesome, well-lighted, well-heated, well-alred echool-houses, not unduly ornamental or expensive, but; meeting every essentiab condition, al} of this should, after the maintenance of Ne order and decency and the admiMistration of Justice, come nearest to the heart and brain of the Mayor.” Touching charges ns to the oondition of municipal affairs, Mr. Shepard sald on Oct. 17 at Tammany Iall: “I suppose the present administration requires investigations conducted reso- lutely and fearlessly, The mere lapse of time makes this neccssary. “I belleve that specific reforms are necessary. I have no doubt they are neces- | sary not only in the Police Department but in other departments.” | Hiririritericrniniit 1901.) ee ae evict , aaa int i einhieirisicbicisieleefeleifebe ind (From The World, Feb. 20, 1901.) RPP EE HH A DEMOCRAT 10 DEMOCRATS: EDWARD Wl. GROUT'S CHARGES. Fusion Candidate for Comptroller Tells Democrats He: Is Running Because Richard Croker Is Not the Democratic Party. Against William S. Devery, Deputy Commis- sioner and Chief of Police. (“ The Best Chief of Police New York Ever Hail.’ “NOTHING TO SAY.” —Devery. Van Wyck.) =} PUBLIC OFFICE MERELY DOOR TO PRIVATE PROFIT. Edward M. Grout since hiv nomination for Comptroller on the fuston ticket | has made these charges: i 1, At Cooper Unlon on Oct. 6—Shepard 1s merely the mask of Democracy which Croker puta before his face I, Tatnmany Hall ta nothing but @ business investment. HI, Tammany’s district leaders are going to support Mr. Shepard because | they think he is golng to put money tn thelr pockets, They will kill hia with thelr Importunittes until he surrenders, IV. In his letter of acceptance to all ant!-Tammany organisations, and por- tleularly to Democrats—Tho present administration of Tammany Hall has re- peated Its misrule of thirty-seven years ago. | V. There have been bosses of many kinds, but never before has a boss treated us with such contempt as to suppose that three months’ residence tn n year was enough to preserve his dominion over us. ‘The result In a costly and corrupt pe rule, VI. Public office has become the open door to private profit. | VIL. The letting of a contract has become the opportunity to make money out of the people. i VIII. Specifications are easily drawn to limit competition and to exclude all but favored bidders. The prices are then made for whatever It Is thought the public will stand. The favored contractor has political leaders as his secret part- here, of ts & corporation whose stock ts held by politicians. The public offices swarm with u esary and {dle employees, who !m- pedo rather than ald business, who have heen sppointed for political reasons and who are often overpald and underworked. X. The schools are tnadequate to seat all school children, but the tax levy and the budget have Krown to an unexampled figure, while the erection of tho few new school bulldings provided for Is delayed by the scheming of poltticlans to mako money out of the acquisition of achool altes. XI. The rank and fle of the police force are tyrannized over, while a corrupting Partnership with crime exists. XII. The men who know Shepard best are convinced that he will not remove Devery and Murphy. XIL—The Brooklyn Democratic organization thinks no better of Tammany Hall than you or I do. The Brooklyn organization has practically sald to mem- bera in tts own ranks: ‘We had to ally ourselves with Tammany Hall; our tndi- vidual membera aro free to follow their own conactences.”” Mr. Shepard, in a speech at Richmond Him, 6. I., Oct. 2, sald: “Every Gay that Murphy and Devery remain in office until Deo. 1 ts a certif- cate of character for Murphy and Devery from Benjamin B. Odell. "If I shall be elected Mayor I promise to give the city a police force of which every member shall be 3 magistrate, representing a good, eMctent administration.” Mr. Shepard, addressing a big meeting on the Bowery, Oct. 29, anid of the Devery interview printed In the World that morning: "If Chief Devery’s Interview correctly represented what he asid, then T have to say that his utterance was unfit to an extreme degree and deserves! severe reprobation. “The statement that this election involves the vindication of the Police De- partment or Chief Devery, or any men tn the Police Department, !s absolutely false with regard to the party and absolutely false with regard to myself.” XIV.—There are 1,602 employees on the city pay-roll to-day who during the years 1698, 1899 and 1900 had thelr salartes increased. These additions made a total addition to the annual pay-roll of $7,813,868. Every dollar of that increase was voluntarily put tn the tax levy by Tammany Hall. h XV.—To Demoemts I will say IT am here because Richard Croker {6 not the Democratic party. XVIL-I question Mr. Shepard's sincerity. XVIL—If Shepard bo elected ho tn elected so that Mr, Croker can oontinue in politics to make money for his own pocket. TI,—Tammany Hail is not a Democratio organization, Tammany Hall ts jena Investment of Mr. Croker, Mr. Carroll and Mr. Van Wyck. XIX.—It fs a shame and a disgrace to honest Democrats of this olty that Tammany Hall should be usurping the name of Democracy, abi SEVEN POLICE OFFICIALS N Devery, Bissert, Diamond, Glennon, Sheils, Dwyer and Nesbit Have All’ Been Indicted and Bissert Has Been Convicted of Accepting a Bribe. ‘There are at present seven members of the Police Department against ; whom processes of the criminal law are In action. One man hax been con- victed and sentenced to prison ond 1s avotding service of his term only through the technicalities of the law; four are under indictment and are i struggling to keep thelr cases from going to trial, and two others are under (31 arrest and out on bail but not yet Indicted. i WARDMAN GEORGE BISSERT, of the Fifth Street Pollce Station.—He Is} under sentence ef flve years and six months In the penitentiary for brivery. was convicted of accepting a bribe of $9 from Lana Schmidt, the keep disorderly house at Stuyvesant street. He was arfosted June 14 dicted four days Inter. He was convicted Aum. 12 and in now in Sing Sing han been taken to the United States courts, The evidence showed that after the woman gave up %40 to open the hour and paid $9 a month, Biasert tried to extort another $9, When the woman re {used to pay It he raided the place. ofa nd dns Appeal CAPT. THOMAS J. DIAMOND, of the Fifth Street Pollce Station.—He 14 under! for aseauiting Indictment for neglect of duty for fallure to suppress the Schmidt woman's dia-!days' pay. He Ww orderly house. | He was Indicted Aug. 13, the day following the conviction of bis wardman, but he mado a motion for a change of venue from Recorder Goff's court, and hi case has not yet come to trial. His Indictment was the direct result of his own testlmony in the Bixsert case, "Thirty especial dut He | tr j thm cha was arrested ( the Parkhurst soclety “tip off” way a rald He swore that Lena Schmidt was the most notorious violator of the law he had, bail, <' OW IN THE LAW’S HANDS. His own records showed that he failed to report the place to Police 1 IWARD F. GLENNON, “Devery’s man," oMcially attached to reet Station.—Ho {# under {ndictment for neglect of duty esa the disorderly house of Laura Marat, at No. M$ West the Wi for failure to #u) Ae {mony of Capt. Flood, Glennon's superior, it was his fter the suppression of disomerly houses in tho precinct. ily made at the station-house against the Marat woman's raided unt! the Parkhurst soctety raided tt. !and arrested on Aug. 22. He was held for trial, but Be 8, of the West Thirtieth Street Station.—Ho {s under for fallure to suppress the camo house that got to look ainty were 40 of du nd Wardman John Dwyer went to the woman's house after a compli been made by the Parkhurst soclety and a raid was threatened and, © testimony of agents for the soc! who were concealed tn the house at the warned the woman that a rald was to be expected. He has applled for a ha t Thirtleth Street holly and are ba ton.—The don the WARDMAN JOHN DWYER, of the Wy inst him are identical with those against © ‘The ease has taken the same cou y WILLIAM 8, DEVERY.—Ife ts out on bail, charged with oppression rit abuse of E d O'Nell, a polleeman who was on trlal before him . charged with aiding a person accused with avolding arrest Specifically ‘he ts accuned of trying to make arrangements to haye agents of dlsomterly houses in that precinct whenever there impending, He was held for examination in Special Sessions in $1,000 ay ‘ contr. EJECTED BY LEGISLATION. . = afterward ¢ Deputy Police Commissioner and Chief under. Police a clvillan, He ealed ¢ bum" and fined him thirty] ston Murphy, whom Mayor Van Wyck appointed, and since then has apsiled for a actual head of'the Polles Department, RDMAN JOHN J. ardman of the Mulberry Street Station.—He ARRESTED FOR OPPRESSION, on compl Deputy Commissioner Devery read through the ‘facts on record’® herewith presented, and handed them back with the remark: “I have nothing to say.”” fivienielieiieicieieieieisst UP ON CHARGES. ie was made a captaly was before the Pollce Commissioners lows SEV: 1 rt when ordered; reprimand, fined two days’ pay. nt from roll call; fined one day's pay. nplaint dismissed. fined one-half day's pay, duty; reprimand. PROTECTED DISORDERLY HOUSES. Pri commanded the Twenty-second Precinct, which included the nol “f isorderly houses in Fifty-third street between Sixth and Nefore the L. ‘ominittee Edgar A, Whitney testified that’ med mall gambling house at No. 1616 Broadway” a month prote ‘oo Devery. $ 1 Jury indicted Devery for criminal negiect of duty as to four of the 3. He was brought to trial on the ine > street, a few doors from his station. vurs and acquitted Devery. USED OF BLACKMAILING. acquittal of Devery led to a demand for legislative action, and that: cule minated in the appointment of the Lexow Committee. harles Priem testified that he kept a disorderly house at No, % Bayard ad hud to pay an “iniUation fee” of $500 when Devery came into the ol. Afterward he patd $0 a month, hoda Sanford, of No. 24 Bayard street, testiNed that she paid $50) to Capt, Devery’s wardmah, Glennon. 4 TRIED BY POLICE BOARD. the Lexow Investigation was proceeding in August, 189, the old Police) sisting of Mesars. Martin, Sheehan, Murray and Kerwin, put Capt. ry reported II] and was absent on sick leave. Devery was diam ed on Aug, i331 04, but the diemf il was ree versed by the Appellate Court because the trial proceeded without him while he was alck, He wae reinatated by order of the Court 1m Inns, INDICTED FOR EXTORTION. At the close of the Lexow Invest! an Indictment against Devery, char a builder FW. Seagrist, 1 Mr. ae stated positively =, 1987 ones tion an Extraordinary Grand Jui that he extorted and teceivea nd he was tried in March, at he was compelled an al and an alibl on the t Devery tot owed to tear down a building, , timony of Police Inspector he saw Devery at a i » - Tho defense way i « Williains, who sald t say yj ats a Are aa a x ve refusing, they brought In avondiet of not mUllty. eiahanation IN IsoG 1807, ON RECOMMENDATION OF TAMMIANY’S DISTRICTe FELLOWS, N ALL PENDING POLICE INDICTMENTS SSED, AND THESE INCLUDED THE INDICTMENTS AGAINST Eat 4 found — from ‘ NEW CHARGES BROUGHT. In the latter part of 18% tho new Police Board formulated aainst Incipally on bis administration of the Eleventh Precinct grist charges. served on Devery, and the case came on the tral calem= January, 1597. > Applied to the Supreme Court for’ a writ to prohibit the Police Board from (trying him aud obtained a stay of proceedings pending a dedision of the motion. Devery dar before Commissioner Andrews tn made Inspector and Deputy Chief and Acting Chief an@ Chief WITH THREE CHANGES 6TILL PENDING, BRANDED AS A GAMBLER. Before the tee, 1899, he was questioned about protecting baie h out his friendship for Frank Farrell. who, ft is bling syndicate, and James Mahoney, tho pool-room pley petition of Alfred Marks, fled Aug. 2, 100, amoung. the tae fx item: “William 8. Devery, No. 310 West ‘Twenty-ciguth street ts debt, a note having been given for the same. e debt was: ry was Indicted by the Grand Jury on the charge cCullagh tn the performance of his dutles as State dated orders to the police to pay no attention to MeCullagh's: ated with Mayor Van Wyck, holdin or sont word to Devery, who rescind: tward dismissed, ponally respon. The indietme: Chief Devery was legislated out of oMfce on Feb. 2, 1901, but was tm Rela bec lon, Devery ubused O'Nelll’at @ trial when he sald akedown.”" %; Fd for @ change of venus ia mow pending On Sept. 17, 1901, Devery was arrested on int of Policeman O'Neill, who charged him