ROME RULE IN NEW YORK by Editor

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jan 7, 1889

ROME RULE IN NEW YORK.

By Editor

THE following from the New York Mail and Express, of November 7, presents the power of Rome in the metropolis of our country, and it is not a greatly overdrawn picture of many other cities:—

The Roman Catholics have taken the city.

Their hand was in the sale of the Coogan party to Hugh J. Grant.

They already have every member of the board of tax commissioners.

They have for years had, and still have, the control of the board of aldermen.

They have the mayor, the sheriff, the comptroller, the counsel to the corporation, the whole board of tax assessors, the commissioner of public works, the superintendent of the street cleaning department, the clerk to the board of aldermen, the superintendent of the bureau of elections, several of the justices of the Supreme, Superior, and Common Pleas Courts, the control of the board of estimate and apportionment, the majority in many of the ward boards of school trustees, a large portion of the board of education, the control of the department of charities and correction, the majority in the police force, the control of the fire department, of the board of street openings, the whole of the armory board, the register of deeds, the commissioner of jurors, one-half of the commissioners of accounts, supervisor of the city record, the collector of the port, the subtreasury, majority of the commissioners of the sinking fund, the majority of the delegation in Congress and in the State Senate and Assembly.

The Church of Rome is nothing if not political. It is the dominant party in this city. The majority of voters in this city belong to that party. The head and leader of this party is Archbishop Corrigan.