The evening world. Newspaper, November 2, 1903, Page 8

Ey of f ¥ THE WORLD: MONDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 2, 1903. SEALS HER LIPS Mrs, Leonard Refuses to Tell Why She and the Eighteen- Year-Old Boy, Who Stole _ $10,000, Became Infatuated. DENIES, HOWEVER, THAT HE TOLD OF DEFALCATION. He Got the Money, and Half an Hour Later the Young Couple Paid a Visit to the Little Church Around the Corner. Mrs. Clarence Leonard, formerly Kath- ‘arine Miller, bride of the boy defaulter ‘and forger, made a prisoner of herself fm her own home in East Orange to-tlay. Bhe denied herself to relatives and felends and refused to tell why the eighteen-year-old boy who stole $10,000 to elope with her should have become #0 Infatuated with a woman of her age. ‘Mrs, Leonard, the former society fa- vorite, who is several years older than her boy husband, denied that Leonard had told her he was a defaulter either Defore or after she eloped with him on Det. 12 last, but this is not credited, for the reason that more than $9,000 of the Stolen money was found In the young Woman's stocking when the pair were Placed onder arrest in Vancouver, B. C., @everal days ago. This denial was made to ‘young Leonard's father, who is an oMiclal of the Tobacco Trust and who, it fis believed, will pay his son's shortage and if possible save him from prosecu- tion, Mr, Leonard met his son and the lat- ter’s bride when they arrived in N York from Vancouver in churge of two Getectives, The boy was taken to Po- Moe Headquarters and locked in a cell. There was no charze on which Mrs. Leonard could be held, and she was al- lowed to go. In company with Mr. Leonard, she started for her home in Bast Orange. It was while making the trip with her father-in-law that she Made the denial concerning her know!- @dge of her boy husband's shortage. Hold Wife Responsible, ‘That the Leonards will not forgive . Leonard for eloping with the boy and that they hold her responsible for the youth's forgery is sald to be a fact. Wt is said that she, being much vider &nd a woman of experience, had an In- Muence with the lad that was equal to hypnotism. That he planned his thert @ays beforehand and that the elopement (was arranged to follow the theft has al- feady been shown. Heonard, who was !n Haskins & Sells, went to He cashed a forged check for $10,075 and five minutes later joined Miss Miller, ‘The forgery: was discovered ten minutes after the check was cust but the Police could get no trac Leonard. At was then discovered t Katherine Biller, who lived next door to th nards, in East Orange, was missing, Showed | that she een manried half an hour after he got the money from the bank. The young couple went to the Little Church Around the Corner ami Were married by the Rev, Dr, Houghton, the boy representing that he was of use: With the stolen funds concealed in the itis stocking the “couple started ‘on ir travels, Ey 'y elty in th ‘was notified of the theft and th the employ of bank at noon. ntry police Were ‘told to arrest the udsconder wit the girl who was with him. So. suc- cessful were they in eluding the police pay had they gone free another y they would have taken snip for Japa, When arrested, Leonard at first retuned fo come back to New York without Requisition papers. He consented to ar- mpany the detectives only after his mite Pleaded with him, and she pleads when told that both he and she could De sent to prison for bringing stolen fands into Cancouver. The girl seemed Ao ifear for her own safety: Wife Cheers 1 Wednard was brought to New York handcuffed between two tug detectives, The girl followed him and laughed and with him, trying to cheer him "MH fix it all up at home,” she itéd hundreds 9 ftimes, They won't let you be punshed.” she would add. When Leonard arrived at the Grand Central Station he and the two de: ives stepped from: the train, Behind hem came the girl. She walked boldly until she saw Mr, Leonard, her ran-law. apjproa mafner changed. ed with blushes nd she stammered | * DUELS AND DUELLISTS. How Men Settled Quarrelx in the! Relzn of Might. In @ recent number of Macmillan’s| Magazine there is an Interesting count of de Boutteville, the Breatest duellists of the seventeenth century. De Boutteville seems to have | Deen a worthy peer in real life of the three musketeers distinguished for their dueling prowess in fiction. He still young In years, though in expe: fence old, when, after an encounter in which, as usual, he had killed his man, he hed to fly from Parls and took} Tefuge in Brussels. In spite of the Mew edict, which had made his offense “@ capital one, he came back to Parls to / Might in a public square a relative who wished to meet him to avenge his kins- fan's death, It 18 probably the sad fate of de Bout- Meville—hanged ax a malefactor in de- Vflance of popular sentiment—that has made his name specially fumous A colonel in the French Guards, in fara for @ perfectly unprovoked blow led out his asxailant, and appeared pthe ground wearim: a plece of court- ron the offended cheek, Having funded his. antagonist, he cut off m-of the plaster which ho thea eed on his cheek. When his ad- had sufliciently recover he im out again, and having wound- & second time, decreased thi (his patch, A third encounter re- in the patch be'ng still further @. In a fourth he killed his poor versary. and then sald, "Il may olf my plaster.’ lo. It seems, made its first ap- dn italy, and from that countr: ted into France, where {t nial a soll that France 8 excellence. matters were settled 000 old. Rahs Her face became | ac-|thelr marr 1 Clarence Leonard: when she spoke. With Mr, Leonard was Mr. Sells, a member of the (rm that employed ‘young Leonard. ‘The greeting | between father and son was cordial but not affectionate. The father seemed in| great grief and the son lowered his | gaze in his shame. The Soy spoke to Mr. Sclis with a careless nod | When Mr. Leonard spoke to the girl his manner was frigid. ‘This only udded tohe r confusion. Mr, Sells tried to get @ statement from young Leonard, but the boy refused to talk. ‘I haven't anything to say, his former employer, All the way. to Pollco Headquarters Mrs, Leonard followed the boy husband, Bhe scemod to hope until the last that he told he would be released. When the de MIs. tectlves took the Hegel fro iene ae wrists and he was gulded to a cell ¢he| girl broke down and threw er arms) MILLER. about him. Ghe was then taken in} charge by her father-in-law, and the] boy ‘was locked tn a cell. CLARENCE LEONARD AND THE SILENT BRIDE OF THE YOUTHFUL DEFAULTER AND FORGER. nhart, jr, of Atlantic A. J, Newbury, Mrs. David A. Blehop, Mrs. GeGorgo R Se her guest last week Miss| Miss’ Edge, Mrs. W. C. Fisk, Mre Van tee of Yonkers, N.Y, ie Van Wink 4 Mrs. Buen ar WV grt Y Lud lolee s d Mra. «'. 3 len da Af, Farrlar.,of Headey, A48;| Stes, Dore, Rogers, of Harrison LE MALS Ri] "Ine, delegate to the national conve Of ob of the Patnotlc Order of Amer! Mra, Frank Snyder, of Glen 81d¢ Pa.s/Camp No. & and Miss If, Moy iy vialting her mother, Mrs, Baile, Of/Gommunipaw avenue, representative of | Ariingtotn avenue the Orphans. Home ‘Fund of 1 1 7 4 uehre Clu was) Camp, are ome from Reading, Pa., eerie ron Laaiee Buchre Gume” ct] Where the national eession was hetd Misa Grace Armstrong, on Janden ave-| Mrs, Charles H. Norton, of Central nue, Mrs, &, EB. Bush and Mes Will- lam Outwater wo: eects * The executive board of the Wom The executive boa Wom favenue, has as her guests Mr lenok Bates and daughter, Mirs Bates, of Stamford, ¢ rod ithy Club will. meet to- lay at “Mise Minnie Conway, of Belvidere, | Hall, Crescent and Harrison uvenves. |NoJ, ts spending a few days with Miss | Mrs, Harney, of Moationlo avenue.| Eather Kirkland, of Graluam street Wil bo homtes Atorday at a meeting Of) Mire, Henry Wertz and Miss Minnie the rami has Ce A AM Michadtng ts, Of Summitt avenue, were guests will be made for the a ga + yesterduy of Mrs, By e arker, od the. Jor: City Club-house, Dic, 12. | Pemyerey Of Mw, Sumuel Hark < ; of Webster averie, s ATES Mra. Perey |, Mrs. Frank Symes, of Summit avent 1 ml ‘ 3 4s entertaining Mrs. Frank Carlson, Devere, of apa SeiNerth eth Port Richmond, 3. 1. ‘ Miss Jonnte p i pois i} Mr. Frank B. Van Zandt, of Summit Ie home tram a visit ¢0 friends in Red avenue, has roturned from “Trenton, 'N. . .. where he attended the State Council Mr. Peter Morris, of Bristol. Ro. te] oe (ney ; satel atest MT EEbton Marts (08 es ganic fine TO. U. A.M, In Musonle ‘Tem: Kelly, of No. 018 Jerey on cnolds, of _Mrs. Walter Alten, of Congress Mr, and Are. George Reynold with | @ireet: hay as a guest for thren weeks Cambridge avenue, ni Mrs. Irene Vi NS v z ranch, Cambridge avenue, gpont | rs drone Van Kirk, of Long Branch, Mrs, Robert Edmunds, of Summit ave-|" \try panic Halstend gave a pinochls last week her parents, nue, entertalne ‘Phurston, of Tarrytown, 1 Mrs. party at her home on ¥ The prize winners were pster nvent Mr. a. Mrs. Stanley, Mr. and Mrs. Oswald and Mr. and Mra.| Mrs, Neal, Mrs. F. Briggs and Moc Jac 1, of Brooklyn, had dinner a few! Conont, ah wo with Mrs, Frank Blalr at her) tre, Fred Rockwell, of South street home on Central avenue, is entertaining Mrs. Albert Sawyer, of Miss Mabel Stanton, of Congress| Elmira, N, Y. Yenterday these Iadt street, will Ko to Napanoe, ister Coun-| were guests of Mrs, Arthur Rockwe y, N.Y. to spend a few weeks with|of Arlington, N. J. i her grandparents, | [Mise Mabel McKinstry, of Gandiner, ‘The representatives of the Woman's N. Y., has returned home after . Club at the State Federation meeting in| Ughtful visit to Mrs. H.W. Kenyon, % t Trenton were Dr, M. F. De Hart, Mrs.| Cambridge avenue, ~ HARLEM NOTES, Timothy Kiely, one of the leaders in the Miam! Democratic Cluo of the Thir- ty-second Assembly District, has been dging especially. active work In bis dis- trict four Col. MoClellan, ¥ eparations are belng made for the ballot the, Wichita, Club of Harlem which ts to be held In the near future. de ohn Deltz, the candidate eee TO the aiitrtycuccond Ase sembly District, and Jullus Brosen, the candidate for Assembly, are both cdnfi- dent of velng elected. fe ea h agement fs announce ol Balle Sitsioct to W. hdgar Levy. Mrs, EH Pieper, of No. Go? Bast One } Hundred and Fifty-second street, gaxy 4 reception to her friends Saturday eve ning. avon Octet with A parc: at her home No, % East One Hundred and Thirty seventh street. jlower half of the Thirty: bly District in January, Mr. and Mrs. George W. Hanna will be at St. James's Cour Ninety-second Street and Broadway, this winter. Mr. and Mrs. B. J. Ludwig, of No. 51 |East Hightieth street, announces the en- | gagement of their daugh Miss Mur- \tha Ludwig, to Max Laker Miss Esther B. Barnett, | Mr. and Mrs. L. Barnett, |One Hundred and Twet married to Leopold Bal jearly winter, William A, Rowan, of No. Hundred und Sixticth street, to York Lake, N.Y The engagement has been announced a Frank celebrated her birth- | Of Miss Annie Fink, of No. 25 Wost One | Hundred and Fourteenth street, to A. 8 Wilner, of this city 7 Mr. and Mrs. Ferederick 3, Mis, Howard MacNulty, of No, 731 st. |o€ No. 487 Gentral Park West’ Nichalis avenue, ie, President of the | Some delightful recentions tn Minerva Club, which has resumed ite [pith @ series of lectures on Ind: SO Ee eee a Cinteniaenaone by Sarat C, Rudra, of London. (Mr. and Mrs, Arthur C. Yates cote-| Mr. and Mrs, ‘Tilden B. Wilkes, brated th aty-fifth anniversary of |Fordham, have returned from Irene. ast Saturday with acdin-| Mr. and Mrs. A. Silsdorf, of No, 49 West One (Hundred and Fourteenth Street, announces tho engagement ot thelr daughter, Belle, to Mr. M. Edgar levy “fourth Assem- daughter of ‘o. 21 Bast et. Will De am during the East One has gone Goodwin, are giving mn nectl + Biv of at Sherry's. Martin J, Kane, President of the asso- ation that bears hia name, Is toe | named aa the Demooratle leader of the STATEN ISLAND NOTES, Mr, and Mrs, John Collins, of Phila-| ing arrangements to hold an entertain- feat va “é uests of| Ment and reception at Turn PL peter ee sean DET: \ Miss Blanche Johnson, of Fultonville, bla street, West New Brighton, for the ¥., in being entertained at the home past week, have returned to their home. | of Me, and Mrs, Newkiric of Poet kine The tirst annual dail of the Frank E. | mond. Bheridan Association vill be held in the Union Opera-House to-night ‘The Beryen Point footvail team and the Richmond Athletic Club whl play ut the Cove, Livingston, to-morrow Mrs. Joseph Simonson, of Port Rich: A THOUSAND YEARS AGO. Russia, which ¢ried to rescue the peo- | ple of Macedonia from the powor of the mond, has returned home after a visit | levastatlng Turk by the treaty of San fo ‘her ulster in, Colorado Springs: Btefano Years ago, but was prevented ‘The Young Men's Pleasure Club, of {bY the British, and which now declines Stapleton, will ‘hold tts annual ball in|to reacue them, has had relations with the German) Ce Pare NM. ithe Bulgarians for nearly 1,000 years, wievoricigne arittitecerone anonily, The first appearance of the Russians In Washington, Dt Bulgaria was in August, 97, when a eat New Brighton Council, R. A.,| Russian fleet arrived with 10,00) men at has issued Invitations for a complimen:| the mouth of the Danube, In response tary entertainment and dance to be/to an invitation from the Greek: mon- aroh Nicephorus, who, having conquered ot to More Fan LUXURY OF BABIES. Than Steam Yachts @ Automobiles, In this politely indifferent age, when so many people are afflicted with the yoredom of living, attention may ap- propriately be called to the remedy in- volved my fallac t century baby lant rocked to sleep. in the Kansas outsides an the fearing Of a child, says City Star, A’ baby’ which wears to be only a hair- atom, has been knowa to quite transform a house- argument that all this pleasure is m than offset by the trouble ineldent yearing for the Infant has aiwaye been ous. ‘The fallacy 1s more apparent r nowadays Under modern meth- hid rearing. ‘Phe twentleth He He isn't han ey nis of © dut to bed and left alone. taken up.when he cries, and the conse rath nist, luence i that he sleeps all night, Oc- sionally baby 4s nervous or cantank- Hut the average healthy tnfant, ially treated, doesn't produce as h ingomnia in a month as a strong cup of coffe occasions in a single night, While It isn't to be denied that a boy girl In school is @ greater luxury than infant, still a baby is a plece of fur- viture not to be sneezed at, Tt will fur- ely more diversion than an nd_@ steam yacht combined. enous. ‘W. 8. Daniels, Wash: fr and fitting. forsnyaseney than in osbermion: And sells more men’s 63.50 eh. other manufacturer In the w: Political. Political. M’CLELLAN CLOSES THE _ CAMPAIGN Masterly Arraignment of the Low Ad- ministration. COST OF PRESENT GOVERN- MENT $15 PER CAPITA, Millions Squandered— Discussion on Public Morality. SPEECH OF COL. GEORGE B. M’CLEL- LAN AT DURLAND'S ACADEMY SATURDAY NIGHT. Mr. Chairman, J.adles and Gentlamen:— It may fairly be sald that we have now reached the end of the campalsa, and that the questions in issue will be submitted to the arbitrament of the people, to be by them determined on which side of this contrat ts the RIGHT, We have ‘een compelled to go tirtrh « campaign of abuse, but I submit to any man who has followed the course of the Dery eratio party in this contest whether we have not borne ourselves with the Mgnity teoum- ing 80 {mportant an undertaking and whether ‘we have not, by temperance in speech, made a striking contrest with the conduct of ovr opponents, ‘This ts the last word that = shall have to say on behalf of my party and ynyxlf, and I desire that ry fellow-cltlzens vhould bring to this discussion a calmnoas of tudament and @ fairness of mind whicn will enable them not so much to do justice to my cause as to do justice to the Interests of the city. During the last two years our municipal affairs have been in the charge of men who have shown themselves to be impractical and poorly balanced in judement. most of whom, without the experience or the mental quall- fications for the task, have rushed into the offices of the city government with an over- weening conceit that they are ndepts tn the actence of government sked the people of this city and thelr plan of ‘They have to return them to power, campalxn has been precisely the same after one tenure of office as it was before they held office at all In other words, believing that they can decelve the public mind, or pervert the pub- Me judament by exciting prejudice, or by siandering thelr opponents, they have tried to evade the only question which should Properly be presented by an administration which asks to be returned to power—aues- tlon of the efficiency. the economy and the decency of their administration. id here to offer any excuse for 1 do not sti the shortcomings of any previous administra- tion, nor do I wiah to take tho position of asking the public to forget or to forgive any Injury which tt may feel it has sustained at their hands. I simply ask them to accord to me a pa- tlent hearing, the presumption of honesty of Durpose, until something has been shown that would justify them in belleving that I had forfelted all right to It. I presume that every one has acen enough of the xovernment whose ahibboleth is that magical word “reform,"’ to realize that hu- man experience has never yet established the axiom that professional reformers are more unselfish or purer in purpose than other men, and that it Js impossible for wreng to be done in its sacred nam I presume that as well from the experienc: of the last administration as from any al- lexed “reform” administrations which have 83,50 The Testimony SHOE ‘Wise conceerranetne ‘of tho St: Laule Republic, writes ‘ © am aconstant wearer of W. L. Douglas 80 hose. Have al found them dura. recelve more valus. This is the reason W. L. than any te patent leather made, ns aot apes Take bo substitate, Fast Color Eyelets used exclusively. WEWYORK STORES _) 95 Nassau Street. RHOOKLYN. 708-710 Broadway. Hi 1867 Broadway. re kN 410-421 Fulton Street, i a Q5GNixth Avenue, preceded it in the history of this and other eltics, you have noticed that these profe atonal reformers believe that the acts which —1f done by others—would call down upon the heads of the doers the retribution of the people, may be done by them with impunity, and even with the expectation of the ap. plause of the public. ‘The aincular weakness of the attitude of these men Is that they endeavor to establish one standard of measurement for the merit of thelr own acts and another for the merits of the ects of thelr opponents. We might almost conclude from this illogisal attitude toward public questions that these people themselves belleve that they cannot do wrong and that nobody else can do right, Some «eneral features of this campatgn, it seems to me, cannot be too strongly emph: sized. Two years ago the Fusioniats attacked with cyclonic visor the overnment then in power, and charged it with responsibilities for the existence in the city of New York of certain soctal evils which, unforunately for frail humanity, have existed from the beginning of socloty itself, ‘The existence of evils which seem to be inseparable from metropolitan life was cribed to their political opponents, and, not- withstanding the fact that this form of vice 49 no more characteristic of New York City than of London, P St. Peterabure or Pekin, But when the still exist, and, in fact, multiply under thelr administration, those of them who have the sense to see the Weakness of their position. or who are so in- sincere as to persist in error, declare that the evils have been elther greatly diminished B50 W. 184 Fifth Avenue. 4 845 Kighth Avenue, pO SS ire during the variable fall season is recognized by all held in the hall at the corner of Broad- Crete and Cyprus, was determined ¢o way and the Terrace, on Nov. 11. Miss Sophia Mallet, of itchester, Is subdue the Bulgarians, The Russians were led by Sviatoslay, whose food Ww the guest of Mrs. J.'N, Henry, of Man- horseflesh and whose couch was a bear- ners Harbor, Mrs. A.C. Hillyer, of Vreeland street, skin laid upon the ground. ‘he Greek: ‘Bulgarians soon afterwabd united to Port Richmond, has as her guest, Misi | Edna Veveridge, of Baltimore, Md, drive away the northmen, who had ap- parently come to stay. After an interval 8 ‘The ladies of the Ald Soclety, of the 000 years the Greeks ani Brighton Baptist Churob, Arranging to" hokl'a bazaar oy Nov pe Are again bitter); ‘Russian Caar holds. aloo ve or completely effaced. In order to influence the public mind and Produce therein a feeling of abhorrence which every right-minded man experiences at the thought of the degeneracy of public morals, they exaggerate far beyond even the sem- blance of the true state of facts, and, as If to further increase the state of alarm, they resort to exposure of the evils which they have not cured and which they cannot cure. There ts one relief from the social evil, It will come when men, whether they be professional reformers or not, learn to esteem cleanness of heart as a virtue to be prac- Used, A diminution of this avil will follow then, but not before, Reform really begins with the reformation of each individual man in the community, ‘The government can only be held responsl- ble for the needless exposure or the encours agement or the dissemination of vice, and any organization of men, standing even in a quasi-public position, should clearly be held responalble with the government itself if it besomen an abettor in the propagation of this evil, If this principle be true, and I think the experience of humanity will justify its sertion, let us judge for a moment our fuston friends by that standard, It matters not, #0 far as the public good is concerned, what @ man's personal motives may be. They may make for bis own merit, but that is purely subjective, Injury to society Is done by |] wrong, whether the motive which inspired it 1g good or bad. ‘Take, for instance, some of those tragedies which have appalled communities and have Jala waste whole pountries, frequently: the }| result of the fanaticism which, so faras the ment with having encouraged vice, or with having Intended to encourage {t, any more than I would charge any of the governments which preceded it. But if they are, as I say, to be judged by thelr own rule, we are face to face with the fact that the reporta of the police courts of the city ‘of New York show not only that these particular offen: —which are so objectionable—have been nu- merous in the last two years, but. as @ mat- ter of fact, more numerous than in the days Of thelr predecessors. I do not mean to say that thin is the result of any spectal turpitude on their part: but 1 40 believe that the increase of this form of vice is {n @ great measure avcribable to their, conduct. But when it comes to m consideration of the other phase of the case, these men can only be held free from blame on the theory shat they knew no better—which is nothing more or less than an admtwsion of their tn- competency for the management of city at- fairs, For campaign purposes they have exposed this vice unduly, and on account of the ac- tion which they have taken in reference to it they have disseminated $t throughout the: entire city, 90 that, as I sald on another oc- casion, it has invaded the very districts where the poor reside and haa not even spared the most relect and uristocratic aec- tions of the city, Before the minds of the Innocent, and espe- clally before the eyes of the young, has been paraded, as the result of this scattering of vice, @ aight of evil which can never do good, The Inherited depravity of human na- ture itself, most of us have been taught to belteve, ts due to this acquisition of the knowledge of evil. What was true from the beginning is still true, that the tree of Knowledge 1s not the tree of life, and they who have learned of evil have seldom been those whose lives—from @ moral standpoint —have been the best and the most meritori- ous, It matters not. I repeat, what the motive may have been behind such action, whether At waa basely done, for the purpose of catch- ing votes, or whether it was the remult of @ manta to let the world know how bad mankind was, or whether {t was done in the belief that it would reform the condition of affaire—i¢ the result is the same and the result as bad, it is only another Instance of what we may expect to follow when “Men rush in where angels fear to trea and they who know #0 little of the tre ment of this matter of public concern as to be m detriment rather than a benefit to the clty, are far more dangerous to the ultimate welfare of the country than if they were dishonest and profitgate with the city’s money. This in a delicate subsect, and it ts dit- ficult of treatment. No man appreciates that more than I do mynelf. I have sald before, and I repeat {t now, that if I am rlected Mayor of this great city I shall be prouder to think that through my Instru- ‘mentality It would become a city of VIR- TUE rather than a city of wealth, But tn attempting to effect that result T should hesitate before taking steps which might have an entirely different result than that which was Intended. Our fusion brethren lose sieht of th favt that two of the three who compose the city ticket were two years ago elected by them. and since then have administered the affairs of the city to the entire satisfac- tion of the public and to the antisfaction of the fusionists themselves, as they have averred frequently dudring the time, and capectally when they placed them tn nom- ination this vear, It fm of no consequence for the purpose of this argument that they refused to permit them to remain upon the ticket when these xentlemen had accepted the indorsement of the Democratic party. So that all that has been sald about the possibility or the pros- pect of the encouragement of vice in the event of the mucceas of the Democratic ticket must narrow {teelf down to the inference that to me, and to me alone, is to be as- cribed an intentioa so unworthy of any citi- zen, Now before I say my last word in thie campaign I shall again resort to a form of argument which ts distasteful to me because it 19 personal, I HOLD UP TO YOU MY PUBLIC AND PRIVATE LIFE FOR INSPEC- TION, I CHALLENGE ANY MAN TO BRING FORWARD A SINGLE ACT WHICH WOULD DESERVE YOUR REPROBATION. IF IT WERE POS- SIBLE THAT ANY ACT OF MINE WOULD INJURE MY CHANCES OF ELECTION, IT WOULD LONG SINCE HAVE BREN PARADED BE- FORE THE PUBLIC VIBW AS AN ARGUMBPNT AGAINST MB, Is the falr-mindedness of the American People to be so deadened that it cannot bo brought into play to accord to me that which every candidate has a right to ask at the hands of the electorate, that he be judged by what he has been and what he Js, and not by the prophecy of slanderous opponents as to what he shall bet ‘This is not asking much; it fs asking what every man has « right to expect from me, and it is what I am willing to accord to every other man. All the charges that have been brought against me have been vague, and to hat found expression in the idea of “Graft” and “Red light," whatever those terms may mean; there are no specifications which I can answer, and no proof has been advanced which would call for @ rebuttal from me; nor would I again refer to this aspect of the subject at all if 1t were not that I wished to place the question fairly before the minds of those who perhaps have not auffictent solid- ity of Intellect to readily understand the in- Justice and the absurdity of the position taken by my opponents, 1 do condemn, and every honest man must condemn, the attitude of @ party which would endeavor to make out of the general weakness of human nature an argument against any one who has striven for nothing except what Was good. And our opponents will not able to evade the responsibility which their two years of administration places upon them now that they come before the people for ri election, They must show, and show unmii takably, that the promises which they made two years ago, and which were proper prom- {nes to make, and therefore proper promises to keep, have not been broken, It {a not sufficient for them to aver that the preceding adminiatration was not perfect, when they promised to make thelr own ad- ministration perfect, They must show at least an improvement, and such an Improv ment as to warrant the citizens of this great city in continuing confidence in them, I have spoken of the morals of the city first, because I believe that it 1s a question which should be first considered, being of prime importance, I shall now pass to the ‘other question, ‘The question of the fiscal adminiastra- tion of the’ city, and in the discussion of this question I shall ask you to apply the same principle as that which has been employed in the consideration of the topic which I have just touched upon. ‘The question is not whether Mr. Low Was animated in his administration by a good or a bad motive. . If THE EXPENSES OF THE CITY HAVE BEEN INORDINATRL’ HIGH, IF NEGLECT OF ITS AF- FAIRS, OR LACK OF FAMILIAR- ITY WITH ITS BUSINESS HAVE CAUSED A WASTE OF’"MONBY, NO Political. Political. SS ee TAXPAYERS I8 NOT IN THE|!teus contained therein and might weigh ady SLIGHTEST DIMINISHED. Tet us make a review for a few mo- ments of the expenses of this city govern- ment, taking the last two years of the Previous administration and the two years of the present administration—(that, I think, would form a falr basis of compari- fon since, in time, they are the nearest to each other)—and we must arrive at a con- clusion as to the cost of government. Let us take the total budget for each Year and, subtracting from it the amount which ts to be paid for State taxes, strike @ balance, which shows the cost of the ad- ministration of the city. In 1900 the total budget was $00,778.072.48; the total State tax was $7,905,488.02 and the diffence $R2,873.484.40. In 1901 the total budget was $08, 100,413.43; the total State tax was $6,950,087.12 and th difference $91,141,370.51, 0 that the amount Appropriated for city purposes in the two years preceding the administration of Mayor Low was $174,014,867.07. Now, in 1902 the budget was $07,897.033.33, the amount of State tax $4,615,509.29, and the difference $93,882, 124.04. In 1003 the budget was $07,119,031.10 and the amount of State tax that year was only $550,157.28, and the difference $00,508,873.82. Remember! These differences represent the appropriations made for city purposes. In Mayor Low's administration the amount of the budget, exclusive of State taxes for both years, was $189,950,997.86, whereas for the two years preceding his term the amount was $174,014,860.77, or, in other words, the administration of Mayor Low, as compared with the administration of the two years be- fore his time, makes a difference of $15,- 046,137.00, plainly showing that the cost of government under two years of Mayor Low will exceed the cost of government of the two preceding years by about $16,000,009.00, notwithstanding that last year the State tax was, comparatively, #0 low, But) more serious still ts the question, ‘What In the altuation that confronts us to- day? and, mark you, my friends, that the budget for 1904 only appeared at noon to- day. Under the law that was the last min- ute at which Mayor Low could publish it, I very strongly suspect that the reason why it was withheld so long was that by publish- ing it so short @ time before Election Day a general diffusion among the veople of the knowledge of the facts which it contains would be impossible. MR. LOW'S BUDGET, FILED TO- DAY, AND FOR WHICH TAXES WILL HAVE TO BB RAISED, AMOUNTS TO $106,674,955.09. THE STATE TAX THIS YEAR, FOR WHICH PROVISION IS MADE IN THE BUDGET, IS $556,542.03; THIS IS ONLY $6,384.75 IN EXCESS OF LAST YEAR'S TAX, BUT THE GENPRAL INCREASE FOR CITY PURPOSES ALONE IS OVER NINE AND ONE-HALF MILLIONS OF DOLLARS MORE THAN LAST YEAR, ‘This 1s an enormous increase, and while I am on this subject I would invite your inspection of the increases which have been made for those departments which are spe- efal favorites of the Mayor. Remember that two years ago Mr. Low charged extravagance and misfeasuuce of every character to his predecessor, allesing chiefly that the salaries were too high, and that men filled offices that they might draw money in reward for party services I am not speaking now of the increase of salaries in the first year of his admin- istration, nor am I speaking of the increase of salaries in the second year of his admin- istration, which amount to nearly $6,000,000. ‘That's dead and gone. You have been al- ready mulcted for that. But what I am speaking of is next year's provision. Listen to this short summary of the dis- tribution as compared with the budget of 1902, In spite of the increase which had been Previously ellowed, the appropriation for sajartes in the Law Department for 1902 Was $420,748, but an allowance is made for next year of $460,560, or an increase of salaries In that department of $40,000. Tho Department of Bridges, another pet department of the Mayor, recelved for sal- aries in 1902 859.420, but in the budget of to-day it receives $70,850, or, in other words, an increuse for salaries of $20,000, Now the Department of Charities was al- lowed for salaries in 1902 $527,000, but to- day's budget fixes the salaries at $580,091, or an Increase of $54,000. In the Bellevue and allted hospitals the appropriation in 1902 for salaries was $114,- 484; In to-day's budget they recetved an ap- propriation of $173,820, an increase of $59,330, amounting to over 50 per cent., and in the supplies in that department we find that in 1902 there was an allowance of $808,000, but in to-day’s budget the allowance is $967,000, or an increase of $59,000, We can go into the Armory Board and there find that to-day’ for its benefit over the budget of 1002 by 88,000, ‘The same uniformity of increase, It seems, continues in the Civil Service Commission, In 1002 the appropriation was $86,000, but to-day'a budget lifts the amount to $100,000, an Increase of $14,000. Now, part of this enormous increase can be accounted for by the fact that the Mayor created a poaltion of President of the Com- misaion, at a salary of $6,000, and that at the time ho requested the establishment of thi» position he stated that he did not think that the present Incumbent would serve the clty for money; but, strange to say, the Incumbent entertained a. dit than the Mayor expressed, and could not work for the love of It, ‘The District-Attorney's office has not been neglected, “Job hath not served for naught." The allowance for 1902 was $240,900, but to-day’s budget makes an allowance of $282,- 500, an increase of $32,000, ‘The Tenement House Commission, In the budget of 1902, was allowed $217,600. To- day's budget raises it to $471,388.08, an in- crease of $258,789.98, an increase of over 100 per cent. 7 Mr. De Forest, who is the Chairman of the ‘Tenemont House Commission a the author of the bill creating {t, has more than a king's ransom at his disposal, and I am not quite so sure that the owners of property in this olty may not feel that it will be used not only for the purposes of increasing their taxes, but for the purpose of making it op- Presaive to them in every possible way, The Department of Water Supply in 1902 received an appropriation for salaries of $400,708.07, but the budget of to-day gives it $522,009.50, or an increase of $121,005.83, Stranger than all is this yeara budget allowance under the head ‘'Mlscellaneous,” whatever that may mean. It 1s unexplained, Dut 18 almost $1,000,000, and it fs an Increase of fifty per cent over a similarly strange provision made last year. ‘ I might go on through practically every department of the city governmeht and point out to you how munificent Mr. Low has ‘been in providing for those who hope to serve under him next year, in the event of his re-election, but how absolutely regardless he {s of the interests of the taxpayer and the publte. Y He denounced his predecessor for mis- fonsance and fer extravagance. Let him now prove himse}f competent and clean THESE FIGURES DEMAND AN EXPLANATION, WHICH HB CAN- NOT AVOID, AND HE SHOULD NOT HAVE WITHHELD THEM UNTIL PRACTICALY THE DAY BEFORE , ‘ explanation which the Mayor might see fit to make. He, however, waits until the last minute which the law gives him to announce it, and then throws it before the public in the hope that they will not be able to understand the significance of the situation, ‘We have heard a great deal about “Graft,” whatever that .term may meau, but in the vague way in which I understand it {t seems to me that {t has some application to the conduct of the present administration, and the advice which has been given so often to the public on the sign-boards may seem to them fit to take, at least in part, and if they cannot take the first part they at least cau take the last, and they will have a chance o# next Tuesday to “TURN THE GRAFTERS OUT.” T presume that you are as well able as me self to realize how impossible it would be ror me in these closing hours of the campaign Attempt to Ko further into this matter of the administration of the city’s finances. I shall therefore abstain from any further critl- clmm of the subject and shall confine myself to repeating the statement which I have made before, that In giving an account of his stewardship Mr. Low must first let the people of the city of New York know whht he has done with the money which he re- ceived and what he proposes to do with the money which he to-day appropriates, and why it {s that this city should be burdened with the additional increase of nine millions of dollars for purely city expenses. ‘Whatever may be the decision of the citt- zens of this city at the polls on next Tues+ day. I raise my voice to-night against the attitude of this alleged non-partisan city gov- ernment toward the interests of the people of the city of New York. and I chargo that it 4s but the slave of the Republican party, not only in the interest of politics. but also in the Interest of tho Republican State machine, New York has been for years, to the great injustice of its taxpayers, the source from which the Republican party—ty various de- vices—has drawn into the Treasury of the State money which properly never should be taken from the city of New York. Do you concelve, my friends, of the enormity of the burden of taxation upon th citizens of this city? In addition to the share of the tax which Is imposed upon us, which forma part of the annual budget and which the citizens of this clty have to raise for State purposes in tl Jaat seven years by a system of bureau gov- ernment, which takes from the city of New York functions which should be exercised by the city offictals alone and places them in the hands of men appointed by the Re- publican Governor, the enormous sum of nearly seventy millions of flollars has been filched trom us by indirect taxation, The Raines law alone withdrew from us in that time the enormous sum of over fifty million dollars, and the iniquitous #0 called “Metropolitan Election Law,” which was ostensibly intended to protect the interrity of the ballot, but which 1s used for the pur- pose of controlling elections in the city of New York for the benefit of the Republican party, has, in the six years of its existence, cost over $000,000, principally in salarl ‘The Superintendent ts appointed by the Gov- ernor and in turn appoints those under him, Always stanch Republicans, For the maintenance of this department two years ago, when Mr. Low was a candi- date for Mayor, the cost exceeded any figure since or before; it was over $195,000, and was nearly $00,000 more than the year be- fore, when @ Gubernatorial election took place. Even if the Republican party permits some men, not nominally in its ranks, to share with Mr. Low and the other Republicans in the Fusion graft, they retain certain depart- ments which are exclusively for thelr own aratters, (he situation ts simply absurd, id how tn@elligent men can for a moment sitate as to the view they should take in the matter {s almost incredible. ‘When TI said in this campaign that the re- sult of {t would have an tmportant bearing upon the State and national campaigns of 104, with one accord the Fustontsts, whatever atrino they might be, and the or- gans which supported their cause, ridiculed the fdea. Z have, during the campaign, advanced many reasons in support of this conten- ton, and I do not propose to repeat them now; but a statement from a prominent Republican—one of the most respected men in the United States—but a Republi« can nevertheless—made when trying t@ rally bis party followers to the support of the Republican ticket in Massachusetts, may, on account of the standing of the men, establigh the point. United States Senator Hoar, speaking Inst night, in Worcester, Mass. ittered these words:— “To win a Democratle victory in New York city means to win a Democratic vic- tory in the national election of 1904." T do not believe, my fellow citizens, that I am warranted at this time in prolonging this digcugsion, Before 1 conclude, how= ire to remind the Democrats present of the duty which they owe to their party in making successful this cam- Paign, which 1s the forerunner of the great campaign of next yea: I HAVE ENDEAVORED THROUGHOUT THIS CONTEST TO PRESENT YOU WITH FACTS, AND FACTS ALONE; I HAVE DESCEND- ED TO ABUSE OF NO MAN, DE- SERVE IT |HOW HE MIGHT; .1 HAVE RBEN MYSELI THE SUB." JECT OF MUCH ABUSE, WHICH, UNFORTUNATELY, THE BTHICS OF AMERICAN POLITICS SEEM TO JUSTIFY, AND WHICH I MUST ENDURE, AND FOR MY PARTY’S SAKE WILLINGLY SHALL EN- DURE. eter Sale Cama! vi over and the result what it Imag, T ghall carry no heart-burnings out of the contest, nor shall I feel any re. Sentment for any. inan, no matter how wlan rt his attacks upoh me or my party May As one is T ive © | be xrateful to those who have so loyally supported me an have believed tn my, pargcnal {ntearity an in my, purpose to fulfill the pledges which Mask my fellow-cltizens to bear witness to pibile Giectsstons tc. preserve that’ desenty Of expression which becomes ‘a gentleman * BEFORE I CLOSE I WISH TO EX- PRESS THE SPNSE OF INDIGNITY WHICH I HAVE SUFFERED IN THIS CAMPAIGN; IT IS, I BELIEVE, THE ONLY PAINFUL FEBRLING WHICH SHALL OUTLAST THE DE- CISION OF THB PEOPLE'S VOTH AT THE POLLS, THE NAME I BEAR WAS BORNE MORE WORTHILY BY ANOTHER, WHO HAS LONG SINCE BEEN GATHERED TO HIS FATHERS, AFTER A LIFE WHICH I LOVE TO BELIEVE WAS ONE OF UN. SRLFISH DEVOTION TO HIS COUN. TRY AND OF LOYALTY TO HIS MAKER. I ASSURE YOU, MY FELLOW CITIZENS, THAT NOT FOR ALL THE HONORS OF THIS WORLD, NOT FOR ANY STATION, HOW- BVER HIGH, WOULD I DISHONOR, IT. IN_THIS CAMPAIGN A MAN HAS DARED TO ASSERT THAT I HAVEL DISHONORED IT, 1 REJOICE TO SAY THAT AMONG ALL THE FACTIONISTS WHO HAVE SUPPORTED THD CAUSE OF MY POLITICAL ENE-_ MIES THERE WAS BUT. 0) MOUTH FOUL ENOUGH TO .A) THIS ATROCIOUS SLANDER, AND 1 COULD NOT FORBEAR PND THIS CAMPAIGN WITHO! i PUBLICLY TAKING NOTICD OF Rh