The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-11-10
NEW Y)RK'S ELECTIONS.
THE THRE FACTIONS TOGETHER
SPEND 100000 ON THE FIGHT.

Boss Crokr Tells What 1t Costs Tam
many to .un It's Ticket-The Expense
to BOSS Powers Followers and the
Republions-Fifty Millions in Pat
ronage tie Stake.
(Copuidht.l
NEW YAK, Nov. 9.-In small apart
ment abdt the size of an ordinary hall
bedroom, overlooking a section of the city
hall parH and affording a glimpse of
Broadwab sits dark-visage. billous-look-
ing man. The revolving desk before him
is strewnFith mass of papers and callers
cards. Iere are only two chairs in the
room-hlown and one for the visitors who
may CON. for the occupant of this diminu-
tive ofic doesn't believe in wasting his
time enchanting a number of callers at
once, beGies, the nature of his business
is such thu one visitor at a time is enough.
He swirss about in his chair. his hands
thrust int his trousers pockets and his
straight, rm lips puckered into sort of a
cross between whistle and smile. The
hair and tosely cropped beard are black as
COAL SAVIOR here and there stray strand
of gray tat tells of age creeping on apace.
The eyes ae dull, dreamy and interpretive.
There is 10 animation in the features,
which are hose of thinker and plodoer.
he mightbe even an ascetic, this silent
man; for he has the same grave, austere,
pre-occupid air one sees in monkish faces.
The completion is sickly, but the expression
as whole, one of intense sincerity. A
year ago hisife hung in the balance, and
he is still SOfa What Of an invalid
Richard Cpker. the successor of Kelly
as the "boss'bf the Tammany organization,
Is an artocrain municipal affairs From
his little balloon which might, for all its
Size, have bea some lumber closet rescued
from oblivio, he issues his orders to his
$1,000 followts, and they are unquestion-
ably obeyed. No one in New York knows
better than how to handle the lever of
the politicl machine that controls
and thfe are few shrewder
judges Of political probabilities. Tam
many hall hs had big fight on hand this
Year, althdgh the offices at stake were
comparatiely insignificant. There were
SIX countybfficers to be elected, besides the
usual nunper of aldermen, state senators
and assenylymen. There was no mayor,
| no governor and not even sheriff, the no
torlous Flick, of divorce conspiracy fame,
sui holding on to the most lucrative OF all
the county offices.
Possibilities of defeat seemed to have no
Harms Tor the swarthy little man in the
mall room. He would sit and bite his
iubbv beard as he studied out the political
tarhnd figured just how much money
oull be needed to lubricate the voting
Ncfnery of this big metropolis. No man
ca bgure more closely than he on the
@oht necessary to carry a county ticket
tnagh the ordeal at the polls.
en- met Mr.. Croker yesterday he
vs. smiling grimly over the charge that
hi been made by his rival Boss Power.
0tle County Democracy, that one of
dnnany's candidates had been assessed
SOOO by the organization for the expenses
ems canvass, while the entire emolu-
mts of the Office for which he was run
ig only reached $4,000. OF course, this
Med OF corruption.
his talk about fabulous assessments is
ser nonsense" he said, testify. 1.-THE
aunt contributed by Tammany candi-
a,s IS In proportion to the actual expenses
drred in their behalf at the polls and no
p. Now, here is little estimate of
.at Is necessary to expend in taking care
Candidates on county ticket: There are
the city 1,020 election districts
lgether. A candidate on the