THE DEAD LEGISLATURE.

New York, 1895

The State Press on the Faithlessness and Failure at Albany.

(From the Rochester Union.):

Coming in like a rocket of reform, the Legislature goes out like a scorched stick. Each house winds up with charges of bribery against members of the Republican majority.

(From the Utica Observer.):

The record is absolutely sickening. For common safety, for the credit and the honor of the state, for the confidence of the people in government by the people for the sake of purity and decency and good citizenship, the people of the state must stand together and demand a Legislature of better character than this Platt-ruled body.

(From the Rome Sentinel.):

Measured by what it has accomplished compared with what it had the power to accomplish, this Legislature has fallen short of its promises and has made a record chiefly of partisan efforts and grasping for spoils.

(From the Syracuse Courtier.):

The Legislature has been permeated with corrupt practices. Not the Senators alone, but Assemblymen as well, have been openly charged with corruption, and it is gratifying to know that the law may yet reach the alleged guilty parties.

—Reprinted in The Long Island Farmer, Jamaica, NY, May 31, 1895, p. 5.