Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-10-19

Tyrannicaf TO the limit of law and lack
Ing only In those fercer and more bloody
essentials that have made the Malta dread
ed. the bosses VINO reign in New York and
Brooklyn have given new evidence of their
power. Especially has this been conspicu-
Gus in the great commercial metropolis for
there the greatest of all ''bosses'-Richard
Croker-has forced from power men who
were not subservient to his will and has
named as their successors those who will
surely be more plant and more considerable
OF the wishes expressed by the uncrowned
car. whose word is greater than the stat
utes enacted for the government of Man
haitian Island. OF those who were publicly
sacrificed. and by whose decapitation the
public will surely suffer, the more important
victim was Comptroller Myers The clever
est OF arithmeticians cannot figure out how
many millions of dollars Mr. Myers saved
TO the people of New York city, and yet it
was this watchfulneSs, this ever vigilant
honesty, this disregard of everything that
lacked principle. that brought about his
political execution Another victim of the
boss displeasure is District Attorney De
Lancey Nicoll. one of the most vigorous
law officers New York city has known for
many years He has been guilty of per-
niciouS activity Criminals who had strong
political pulls received no more consid-
GRAFTON from him than was accorded the
voteless villain of low degree. He had no
sympathy for 'boodlers,'' and easily achiev-
ed unpopuiarity with Croker and the in
fuences represented by that remarkable
parsonage There is another man on whom
Tammany has turned it's back A year ago
and Bourke Cochran was Tammany's pride,
and in the fuiSome hattery that was then
showered upon him was prophecy of a po-
litical' future most brilliant Urged to en-
thusiasm by Croker the slavish amons,
Tammany aSplauded the utterances of the
finest elocutionist the organization had ever
possessed; today Bourke Cochran is Joined
to that band of exiles who have been cast
out BY the chief and can never hope to
secure such prominence as may come
through suffrage as long as the boss sits
undisturbed upon the corruptly founded
throne. Loyalty TO the boss is the one
requirement. and because they had not this
three good citizens and able men have been
turned down" Is New York proud of
It's absolute monarchy? Could there be
more pointed reminder of the failure of
unlimited. popular suffrage in the choice of
those who are intrusted with purely NUM-
cipal functions. than is furnished by the
spectacle exhibited in many of our large
cities. of the capture of the municipal gov
eminent and the municipal purse by organ
lied bands Of non-taxpaying. irresponsible
voters? Extravaganza, corruption, despotic
acts by the leaders of these organized bands
are the natural outcome of a system which
takes the money contributed by taxpayers
and places II in the hands of an aggregation
OF son-taxpayers for disbursement or con-
fscation. II is with such warnings as this
in view that Washington congratulates
itself upon a municipal government which,
IN spite of defects. Is clean, honest, approx
mately non-partisan, and efficient