Show FRAUD AND SHAM Fraud and sham have always been the articles of agreement under which the Republican party organization has acted The latest illustration of the kind working work-ing together of these two wellknown Republican yokefellows is now before the country in connection with the prohibition pro-hibition movement Recognizing as promptly as usual a fraudulent opportunity the Republican party has clothed itself in the sham of antisaloonism Especially in tho State of New York Is this fraudulent masquerade in full progress pro-gress In this great State every Republican I Repub-lican fraud every party sham must be I worked to the utmost Trickery and treachery must be resorted to in New York for New York is the key to the situation situ-ation In fraud and sham is comprised the only Republican hope in New York and consequently in the country at large Fraud and sham are the only Republican weapons available in the great American Commonwealth which gavo Grover Cleveland a Gubernatorial majority of two hundred thousand votes and followed up the glorious record by sealing the National triumph of Democracy De-mocracy and the people in 1834 Hence we have in New York the anti saloon Republican shamthe prohibition prohibi-tion Republican fraud New York City itself is the centre from which is radiating radiat-ing these fresh lines of characteristic Republican trickery Antisaloon Republican Re-publican meetings are being held in the city Of one of these meetings the New York World says that tho terms in which the speakers referred to their I party as the enemy of saloons caused avery a-very broad smile among the oldtime Republican Re-publican leaders in the city The World then proceeds to vigorously and effectually probe this antisaloon Republican shamto expose this Republican Repub-lican prohibition fraud It proves thai the Republican party in New York City has always been a saloon party and shows with the clearness called for by r cold facts the extent to which the party has used and is still using the saloon as an instrument of party SUCCCSP The World deals in statistics Robert Graham General Secretary of the Chun h Temperance Society has been put to considerable pains in preparing these etatistics which have been found to be useful to the student of machine politics generally They were gathered during the Presidential campaign of 1884 From the table Mr Graham has constructed it appears that in that year of the 24 Republican Re-publican Ausembly conventions 9 were i held in saloOns and 3 next doorthat is connected with the saloons by a convenient con-venient private ctitan average of 50 i r per cent in or adjoining saloons and that the 24 primary elections 9 were in calobns and 8 next door an average 01 50 Per cent In other words one out of every two Republican conventions was held in a rum shop These statistics were prepared over two years ago but says the World the facts are not different now from what they were then In proof of this reference to the last local primary elections which were held April 22 is made showing that of 25 Republican primaries 13 were held in liquor saloons or in halls where liquor could be bought conveniently The World says I The Eighth Assembly District is veil known as a liquor saloon district It is guarded faithfully in the interest of the Republicans by John J OBrien and although it is a close district it has a Republican Assemblyman elected by the liquorsaloon machine In this dis trict which is bounded by Division and Stanton streets and the Bowery and Norfolk streets there are 57442 people and 482 saloons or one saloon to every 119 of the population Most of tho saloon sa-loon keepers in this district are Republicans Republi-cans and this is due to the master hand of the recognized party eader Police protection from ar arroet for violation of the Excise laws itis the district leaders duty to supply sup-ply to saloon keepers and it is noticeable that there are more arrests of Democratic Demo-cratic saloon keepers for breach of this law than there are of Republicans the reason being apparent Next to OBrien in point of influence in this district is Barney Rourke who besides being a wealthy distiller himself is interested in six retail liquor places in the district Rourke is a power in the district which tho city politicians do not fail to recognize recog-nize in fact he is almost powerful as OBrien a circumstance to which is attributed at-tributed the coldness now existing between be-tween the two If one wishes to find an example of another Republican leader and liquor man there is Sheridan Shook the brewer who once wrote a dispatch which fell into unexpected hands and told how successful ho had been in securing legislative protection for New Yorks Republican saloonkeepers Then again the World points out how largely the saloon element enters into the makeup of the Republican County Committee showing that it is a pro saloon committee by a large major ty with the notorious Sheridan Shook the great brewer as Chairman To illustrate the workings of tho Republican saloon machine the World cites a notable instance in-stance the election of Ashbel P Fitch to Congress over General Vielo in the Thirteenth district last fall Fitch the Republican candidate was the attorney of the Brewers Association At the electionin 1884 Vielo was chosen by 6595 majority while Fitch his opponent last fall with the big brewers influence at his back overturned that majority lane was himself elected by 3672 votes over Viele The influence of the wholesale brewers in the city and State politics is1 wide one the World says and exerted on the Republican side Again quoting the World Brewer William A Miles of this city who was reelectedpresident of the United States Brewers Association the other day at the convention in Baltimore said in an interview not long ago that twothirds of the brewers and saloonkeepers saloon-keepers in this State were Republicans and this is the army that is called into action by the Republican leaders one I election after another And yet Republican managers get up antisaloon meetings in New York and tell the people through the Tribune that their party is the enemy of the saloons No one 5a deceived by this sudden 1 developed de-veloped Republican antisaloon zeal and least of all tho Prohibitionists themselves them-selves Of a late Republican anti saloon meeting Dr Fink the editor ol Tlie Voice the Prohibition organ says The meeting at Cooper Institute was a deadalivo sort of affair There were only about four hundred people present What was said does not reflect the penti ments of the Republican leaders from what we know of them If Shed Shook wanted to fill that hall with prosaloon Republicans he could easily have done so The Republican party in this city is largely a saloon party We should say that twothirds of the saloon men in New York are Republicans |