Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-11-04
THE POWER OF rAMMANY.

TINE POWER OF TAAMANY.
It Can Garry New York City by Almost An,
Majority.
Correspondence Of The Evening Star.
NEW YORK, November 8, 1881.
Tammany can carry this city BY rs, 900 OF
$1,000 majority II it is so ordered. Tamman,
Is the only genuine civil service reform organ
ization in this republic. Tammany wins all O
its victories here on the strength and immuta
bility Of its civil service ideas and their pract
cal enforcement. II Is solely from the stand
point Of stable civil service rules that Tamman,
is an invincible power. II Cleveland carrie,
| New York it will be because Of Tammany's
civil service system.
At first reading you will regard those cpl
grams as sarcastic or as attempted witticisms
But not word Is used unadvisedly or in q
| spirit of levity
Tammany used TO be the incarnation of vii.
lainy in public estimation, but the ancient
democratic organization is commanding respect
| in these later days. This Is mainly because its
foundations were laid in equity its structure
| reared upon fair dealing and its every part
| cemented with honorable fraternity.
Tammany controls q civil service patronage
| with an annual pay roll of s21 .OOO, 600.
Tammany does not require a civil service ex-
animation. There is no school boy business
| In the organization. Dilletanteism is unknown.
There are no purists and no doctrinaires with
powdered wigs and ascetic faces in Tammany
Hall. Dick Croker does not wear broad phy-
upon publican because he could not ,rr;,a -
tell the exact number of stotnts ,n;as hatrrno,,
IanlanS aud Zn,mIan U T iniies pe'"een
conundrum put to a man who seeks place under
Iammanys administration, and that is Are
in the affirmative and prove Il can mass Tan.
many's civil service examination
powpp or I'm, no1, -
A, o;...-.
an appo'n'lien' upon 'ne pay roll OF lam
many Is not merely Tor four years-it is for life.
The policeman who gets from $500 per annum
up to 81, GOO knows that his salary is fixed for
life and he retires on full nav when he is siYtv
wears of AGE To smoke tbe r;na ard III. ~.
cork as long as he lives. for Tammany- Without
enumerating the entire list of their emnIoves in
| the city and county governments lei ma con-
slider only these guardians of the peace. Every
one OF them has an easy lob for life IL he he
HAYES himself and remains true and Ioval 10 tbs
Organization. Every ono Of them bas q fan,;I,,
and the entire fom;Iy ia for Tommam~ -,
one of them has ten or more friends and they
are all for Tammany. Every one of them is
eooo 10, twenty votes. Ihere are l,3OO police
~ an CIV .m;y arc 500 lol Ho,oeV 'otes. Inns
CARDS "the force" rs a nucleus for a. 600 snre
votes.
Tammany can grant or deny n saloon license
No saloon can run in New York without the
consent Of Tammapv. Every saloon il good
for twenty votes. There are 2 ono saloons
actively at work in every campaign in the inter
est of Tammany The saloons are good for
60 900 votes.
Tanmanv appraises and assesses all nron-
erty So rich a man as John J. Aston pro-
fessedly republican, is not rich enough nor
strong enough to defy Tammanv and give n
check to the republican national committee
All the money kings in New York fear the claws
of the tiger. When n man navs IA Yes On n mil.
lion dollars worth of property he pays a big
sum of money, He doesnst G,nt TO rrn .hs
risk of having his property assessed Mt a million
and half or 50 600 600 neyt vear The New
York millionaires are willing To- let well enough
alone
York that dares to courapeonslV tackle the
tiger During the present camnaipn the nj
legged republican newspapers here have daily
criticised Mr.. GARRISON, Mr. Quay and other re-
publican leaders. but not one Of them has as
sailed Mr.. Whitney or Mr.. Croker Tbev dare
not do it,
TAMMANY STANDS BY ITS FRIENDS.
Tammany is kind to its friends. and stands bv
them for life, but woe unto its enemies, for thew
are anathema.
Everybody knows Tom Coakley. the assist
ant QOOrkeGpGr OF the House of Reprpsentn-
tives. Tom is a popular Tammanv man and
| has hosts of friends. He was candidate for
| doorkeeper Of the House during 1891 and made
| a splendid canvass. II looked as Though he Ind
what they call n s.cinch'' ON the nosition 7
| met him near woodward 4 Jotbron's eorIv in
| November. '91 and asked about h;s nrosnocts
| when TO NV astonisbment bo reni;ed. II on,
not a candidate came ofy nv ,,arcb ,aS,
| week. Dick Croker called me in and told me- 7
was not in il. Dick soid he had concluded 20
| give the place to Turner the ;ceman That
| settled it, am for Turner now and all tho
| time. and he will be elected >,
"But didn't YOU protestp'' T manfred
mary a protest. /" ouotb Tom. with a sm;le
"You see Dick called Turner off last snrino
| in order to give John r. Fellows the nomins,
ton for Congress, to succeed Turner. We'll.
Turner got on to his ice wagon and went to
work for Fellows. II was only fair 10 give
Turner the doorkeenershin. Now INV tnrn
will come some dav. / am no more iovaI N
Tammany than Tammanv is to me. Were n
band of brothers. me dear bow. n hand of
brothers. Seer'
Turner Was elected Tom Coaklev wos talap
care of. Tammany is band of brothers.
Social .r1rXr,oy. 70 nrn,n,,o,Ss
.,rpo T ~ hIt -, DhioANs'
inese Aanie'hs ieaoers are IKE the south
ern aristocracy In many ways" says u promi-
nent member Of the republican national COM
mittee "Tbev ore soptberr in oil ,h.;r ,vo,.
Men like MAYOR Grant and Dick Croker are
among the princes of oooS fellows Tbev will
| take well-known REPUBLICAN worker Ike me