, 1892-08-30
NEW YORK RULERS.
Some Interesting Facts by Joe
Howard of That City.

How the Greatest city in the COun-
try Is Run by three men ana
what Unlimited Power They
Have in "A Political way.
Joe Howard, the famous correspondent,
says in the New York Recorder:
I am an American.
Further than that, am a New Yorker
by birth, breeding, education, occupation.
Ifit were in my power to decide that every
official Of the city Of New York should be
an American by birth. and Episcopalian
by faith, would I do it2 Would any one
Of you who today reads The Recorder
say that it would be wise, judicious, decent
to so arrange matters, if it we're in your
power, that every offieeholder in the city
Of New York should be Scotchman and
Presbyterian, or a Welchman and a
Methodist. That is the point make. Not
that an Irishman isn't as good as any other
man, when he is not that the Roman
Catholic faith is not the peer Of any other,
but that it is unfortunate for New York
city that so large a percentage-so large
indeed, as TO be noticeabe-are Of Irish
birth and the Roman Catholic faith.
Isit intentional?
Ahl Now you raise a question which 1t
would be difficult to answer. New York,
owing to its tremendous influx of foreign
born men, is democratic, Americans, as a
rule, are republicans. As between the two
great parties, our friends from the other
side have an idea that a democrat is a man
opposed to an aristocrat, therefore, they,
without thought, give their allegiance to
the democratic party Coming to this city
they find the democratic party in the
hands of one faction, Tammany Hall, and
ttat one faction III the hands of a commit
tee, nearly all Of whom are Of Irish birth
and of Roman Catholic faith. They find
that the committee is dominated by trio
Richard Croker born of an Irish Protest
ant now an Irish Catholic; Bourke Cock
/ ran an Irish Catholic, and Thomas Il. Gil
roy, an Irish Catholic. These three men
/ control Tammany Hall, Tammany Hall
controls New York city, and as it in turn
often dominates the state which again and
again has turned the tide toward the dem
ocratic presidential candidate so the three
Irish Catholics in Tammany Hall may vir-
tually and honestly be said to have made
the president Of the United States time and
time again.
Again / say, and content myself with
saying, il is unfortunate.
1t is unfortunate because, when a set oi
men have everything their own way, they
become careless of the public interests and
seek their own aggrandizement at the eX
pense of their fellows. Don't tell me they
don't. ] know they do, and you know they
do. All you have to look at to give yoJ
ocular demonstration Of this assertion II
their present financial status compared
with that Of few years ago. Men wh'
we're as poor as poverty pocket fifteeI
years ago, without any apparent occasion
or opportunity outside Of politics, hav
gone up step by step until today the,
have superb residences in town, magnih
cent estates in the country rest on thei
oars four-ifths of the time and devot
the rest Of the year to a manipulation o
the politics, the conventions the ballots
the taxes, the incomes of their fellow
citizens.
This is so largely throughout the coun
try.
Look at Brooklyn, for instance.