New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-09-24
HOW TAMMANY WAS LOVED.
g THE POSTS" DESCRIPTION OF IT'S LEADERS.
STRONG AND RITTER WORDS USED-BUT THIS WAS
TWO YEARS AGO. AND NOW THE DEAL
ol lso,,, HAS BEEN MADE

STRONG AND RITTER WORDS UsED-BUr THIS WAS
TWO YEARS AGO. AND NOW THE DEAL
OF 1892" HAS BEEN MADE.
The Mugwumps and Free Traders OF Manhattan
Island who have bargained to turn over the Empire
City to Tammany rule for another term OF years w
the stipulation that the wigwam chiefs shall cast
the solid vote OF their organization Tor CieVeahu'
have been thrown into spasms within a day or TWO
at the bare possibility Of any local disturbance "ioh
might interfere with the contamination oi inc oo"-
tract within two years pamphlet was issueu anu
sold by The Evening Post" NO. 2lo broa"""y'
price s cents per copy, postpaid. S3 per huhdrc"'
hostage and expgessage extra IL was ehu"en i"'
New Tammany Interesting Biographical oketches
II It's Leaders,, Reprinted from The Ne"-norh
Evening POST This pamphlet Is now suppresse' Az
ulGlment OF the Mugwunp part OF the contract WI.
Tammany, and cannot be had for love OF mo"ey "'
The Evening Post" once. M
The Nfugwump opinion of the organization WIN
which Mr. Cleveands friends have entered INTO inc
dcoI of 1892, is given in clear and unhcsitatlng
language in the preface OF the suppressed ne"
Tammany." IN referring to the Biographical sKelchos
Of the Chief OF Tammany Hall, the editor says;
I've have taken all possible pains to make 1t &C.
curate although, OF course In the case OF men leao'
ing, AS so many OF these do, vicious subterranean
lives, complete accuracy Is difficult to attain except
when they get into the HANDS OF justice and some
episode I'm their career IS described in court records
Moreover n great deal In the history of these men
which would be most useful in throwing light on their
characters and aims, Is absolutely unfit for the
columns Of respectable newspaper. one con-
sequence OF this is that many Of the sketches present
the hero OF the tale In much more favorable light
than IS justly his due. We must further call the
readers attention to the fact that these twenty eight
of the Executive Committee whose memoirs we
furnish merely the picked men Of Tammany-those
who have made their way to the front by some
display Of energy or force, and thus have under
public observation. similar exploration extended
on the General Committee which numbers about
350a MEMBERSHIP largest committee In the world
would reach still lower depths, and produce much
more rcpulsivc results than those which We pub
lish today
1t viii be observed that there is on this Execu
tive COMMITTEES but one member who be fairly
called a Of education and has any professional
business relations whatever with the respectable
portion Of the community and pursues any decent
calling. The rest live wholly the city, and when
thrown Of It's service by any turn In the political
wheel Of fortune return to some dsreputable occu-
patton, such liquor-deang gambling, else
maintained by divvies' wung from men still In Office
About nothing is Tammany particular than the
compulsory division Of salaries and fees, as TO make
the money go far possible among the boys
Nearly every Tammany official has to divide with
others his wages his blackma TIE deputy
their extra compensation with four persons, not In
Guiding the retaining fee' Of S35 "A month paid 10
their counsel the learned and vlvacious Cochran.
"whcre the chiefs have large families. and the
divyles arc Inadequate for their support great pain,
taken quarter their relatives on the municipal
service. Their daughters or sisters are imposed as
teachers on the school trustees. and their get
the payrolls as aborers' inspectors and watch
men. In fact, the art of getting living out OF the
city, practis'd By Tammany men. is extremely com
plicated and abstruse, and eau only be learned By
actual practice In the Tammany ranks. 1t would
furnish abundant material for large manual, and Is
full Of amusing and ingenious surprises for any out
slider who looks into It. What makes 1t all the more
wonderful Us = social phenomenon l. that nearly all
those who practise 10 with most success are lerate
ignOmnt men, who have never followed any regular
calling. We presume tdlr0y and Cockran and PurrOy
the only members 81 the Executive Committee who
write an English note with any approach 10 cor
II any decent outsider could make his way into
the tuner conferences ut which these questions are
settled. he would hear not grave discussion OF the
public interests, how TO keep streets clean. or how
to repave them. or h.w 10 light them or police then
or how to supply the city with water, but stories
" drunken amorOus adventure, laided freely with
curious and original oaths. rdicule OF reormers and
SIX stocknged people generally, abuse Of 'Mckers.
dealers and puglsts to more money out Of the
public treasury. In fact, a. We have had OF late
organization Of clever Adventures. most OF them in
degree criminal, for the control OF the ignorant
and vicious vote ~ the city I'm attack on the
property q the taxpayers. There Is not particle
combination OF Western bngandS 10 hold up a railroad
train aud get AZ the eApmss packages. II, sole
object Is plunder I'm any form which Will not attract
the immediate notice Of the police