Telegram-herald., 1890-07-18
ROUND ABOUT GOTHAM.
WHAT the Zig City - Taking OF
During tie E2xsy Dog Days
CFoksrss Ksal Ceaditioa Ssarasshsns.
s1d Roilfies es-Ths Labor sfrastasA-
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fcoPs x10az iss9 At 8AcaziLEa co-r
His "trip - Europe sni his treatment
a. tie " issb4dsn baths have lifted ths
shAdos Il death htsls froa Richard
Croker, bas the Iamma1y Chief l. still
= very sick man. Il = u less eoass-
susnos - bis family What he shall say
g. the Inyestigst COMMITTEES IN re-
ply % the charges made by his brother
ia-laE, AcCann. than that the stFickea
leader sh0ald be isfs alone q peace aud
oven a ehsnes for his life. l saw him
bF . momsnt, three DAYS after ais zrri-
laI. 10 anyone who knsS BIN year
20, and sa0 kad marked his arm,
PIRACY step and ths squars-set should
Ts and kindling eye under the lstty
rows, there vas a story OF sndtsn de-
eay Ia Ehs dali orbs, the pun face
though bronzsd q trins by the sea air
tie trembling hsnds and the halting,
almost iuhrnl gait- Il ~iil be sarpriss
20 many, who knOw al the facts Of bis
condition, IL Croker ever TAKES part Ia
smother eampaign.
Nsurasthsnla. the disease from which
he suffers, Is declared by our leading
medical msA % be peculiar 70 this coun-
try. IL is almost unknown abroad.
norsVer, il aHiicts only a certain class,
ninety per cent. OF its victims being
politicians, although IL occasionally
ssizss a great speculator or railroad
king ILs victims are men on whose
shoulders lie great burdens OF response
bility aud who are constantly under the
harrow 0f severe asryous strain, such
"a Is inssparabls frSn political manage
meat. Large, easy, lymPhatic men sue
cumb quite az speedily IS thin, ner-
vous individuals, there seems TO be no
discrimination. The symptoms are
Irritation, sleeplessness, chronic stom-
ach weakness and lassitude, the sufferer
after each attack being as limp as "a
wet rag, snd his nerves all on edge,
like the machinery Of clock that has
been Jared. Disappolntments and sue
eesses or reversss affect the victim
equally Stubborn John Kelly died of
A.; witty Sunset Cox's demise was hast
ened by the same insidious ailment; the
eloquent oliver T Morton, of Indiana,
Horace Greeley, Johnny O'Brien, Dan
Manning and Robert Garrett, all dis
played in a marked degree the symp-
toms of the disease that is the forerun-
ner OF paralysis, unless checked by
proper treatment aud an absolute with
drawal from all excitement. Blaine had
a touch Of il, too, a. one time; but had
the strength of will 10 pull up in time
10 save himself Those who suffer un-
eomplsiningly, and who try 10 shake it
of by plunging into still deeper excite
ment, never round out their lives. Such
is the verdict Of science regarding this
strange malady that Affects only politi-
cal bosses and money magnates. OF
course, Croker may recover. He is still
q comparatively young man-much
Younger than Henry d. Purroy, his rival
in Tam many, who is similarly afflicted
and who has also been compelled to
pull out" Of politics for time. But
man ot his logged nature would
rather die than be put on the shelf just
"a he had reached the height of his am
bition.
Croker, like Purroy, Is man who
has no scruples in politics, and who is
intensely jealous OF any blow st his in
fuence in his own faction. 1t is this
jealoasly more than the pending inves-
tigation that has brought him home,
almost at the peril OF his life The
Tammany leaders from Tweed's
time till now have all been men
OF this narrow moral stripe, whose
ruling passion has been TO make
their personal influence paramount.
man power" in New York politics.
condition that carries with IL the ele-
ments Of ultimate defeat. When n man
sets mp FOR a boss he invites attack
from every quarter, bat more particu-
iarly from his own organization. and Il
Is from thence. and not from the legiti-
mate foe. that his deathblow comes.
Croker has no fear whatever Of investi-
tion. Whatever the result. IL would
only affect him "a it augmented or de-
stroysd his influence in Tammany. A
long political career makes man
Obtuss morally with greater certainty
than anything else In this world. At
the worst, If driven into retirement.
he viii bs very far from poor man"
for the last ten years OF his life have
been improved 40 we'll that he will be
quite able 20 live the rest Of his natural
existence withou. any danger OF be-
coming . charity patient. a. some few
noted local politicians have done before
him.