The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-07-30

its own. Nothing that Injuries New
York's standing as a city can fail to be
harmful to Tammany. Hence the zeal
BUSINESS with which the public peace is
preserved and offenses against property
and the person are punished. The public
credit is maintained at every cost and the
public business is conducted expeditiously
and well.
Then why is Tammany In such bad
odorl it may be asked.
Because whenever Tammany's interests
as power clash with New York's Inter
est as city the latter is invariably sacri-
feed 1t would be of Immense good to
the city to have clean streets in every
ward, but the attainment of that end
would reduce the funds available for the
Tiger in other directions. The real gain
to Tammany is in the personal power of
its high officials. Opportunities for gain
ing wealth are found In the control Of
franchises, the ability TO revoke corpor-
ate privileges from which thousands are
now annually made, and the award Of
great contracts which are always condi-
tional upon the employment of Tammany
henchmen in all sorts of positions. A
Tammany laborer, for instance, can al
ways get work from a city contractor.
The al" roads dare not refuse To employ
man recommended by Richard Croker
or any one of his lieutenants. Many peo-
pie who wonder how Tammany holds its
power and evades it's enemies would be
less puzzled by bearing these facts In
mind 1t is doubtful if a single adhe-
rent of the tiger would break a law or
steal in the vulgar acceptation OF the
term.
RUssIA's WAR SHIPS AND LOVE.
The course of true love is responsible
for the non-appearance, for some time TO
come at least, of a Russian feet as per-
manency in New York harbor. 1t will be
remembered that a near relative of the
car was recently going about among the
Four Hundred and having all sorts of
nice things said about him. But it has
not yet been revealed that the Russians
had with them party Of spies, who, all
the time the vessels remained in the
river, were industriously Investigating
the Russian colony in New York, with
view TO taking advantage Of the new
Cleveland treaty with the car. II Is
grave question whether even an accusa-
ton of dlsloyalty to the car would not
be enough to deport Russian from the
United States to MS own country, whence
he could be legally banished TO Siberia.
Hence if the students who recently met
in Moscow and denounced despotism had
fed to New York instead of TO Turkey,
they could, under the Cleveland treaty,
be taken from our territory and punished
by the Russian government. They could
not be taken from Turkey
However, all the time that the spies
were going about New York's slums, the
czar's relative was visiting New York's
palaces. In one of them he met and ad-
mired a young lady, who 1t seems did not
prove Indifferent TO his attentions. The
affair was assuming a serious aspect when
the editor IF q society weekly got wind Of
IT, and, needless to say, saw the maxim of
fine story, especially as the wealthy and
aristocratic relatives of the young lady
were not friendly to his paper. But
day or two before his journal was to APP
pear, who should call to see him, but the
young lady herself. So persuasive per-
son did she prove to be that not word
about her and the royal susceptible was
printed. But enough information did
leak out TO make it certain that one reason
no Russian feet will remain long in our
waters is that the court of 81 Petersburg
does not wish to have one gifts ornaments
making himself conspiciously lovelorn for
the edification Of the Gothamites.
RUMoR AND FORMER VICE PRESIDENT.
cit is odd,'' remarked Levi =. Morton,
not long since, "that persistent rumors
should be always going the rounds about
me- The particular mOrsel, of gossip he
meant was doubtless story that New
Yorks banker-politician intended perma-
nently settling in Paris with his family.
The report has no foundation, and doubt