The Press., 1894-01-04
(From Harper's Weekly.) WHY IS CROKER RICH :?

WHY IS CROKER RICH
 Richard Croker is rich man. His as-
 sociates in Tammany hall are also rich.
 They have become rich in politics, where
 spect of their countrymen have remained
 poor. These men are not respected. They
 are hated, despised, feared, and fawned
 on. Croker himself is to-day, in his gild-
 ed state. as vulgar, as ignorant, as much
 shunned by good people, as when he was
 accused of shooting down fellow-tough.
 How has Croker gained his riches A
 few years ago Mayor Grant testified that
 when he was sheriff he presented Croker's child with $10,000. He swore that he gave this money because he was the child's godfather, and he knew that Crok- CT was poor. Croker himself corroborat- ed this testimony, and confessed that at that time he hadno bank account.
 Croker's prosperity has come to him since he obtained full possession of the city government through Grants election as mayor. When the city government passed into his hands, he gained the pow CT to levy a tribute whose splendor and extent have been recently shadoWed forth in Mayor Gilroy's articles on the ssW edith of New Y .ork. !" The ssboss'' of u S metpop- oils of the country may control the expen- iture of 9 large share of the city s revenue. No man can secure contract for paving streets, or building schools, markets, ar mories, or any public buildings, or for supplying the various departments with needed furniture or apparatus, against his will. If he consents, the laws and the city ordinances may be defied. His tools and emmissaries may extort money by an- moving enforcement of municipal regula- tions. His police agents may fatten on vice. The guardians of the peace may make gain through the meanest and most degrading of the occupations of the vic- ious. There is no opportunity for bribery of which Croker may not take advantage if he is so minded, and there is no corpo- ration or person doing business with the city who is not at his mercy, There are few city expenditures from which he may not, if he will, extort fee. He may de- base the suffrage, and corrupt the very of <, our free institutions by selling nominations. He may interfere With the counting of votes, and, at ordin- ary elections, make the expression of the voters nearly what he chooses. He may procure the passage of laws by the legis- lature: for the protection of knavery, and he may have those laws executed for the of the gamblers of the race track, and the suppression and impover- ishment of the gamblers of the pool-room.
 Since the day when Croker and Grant sWore thatth autocrat of the city was poor man, Croker has bought house on 5th-av4nue. He lives expensively and in luxury; A few years ago, according to the testimony, cab fare must have been consideration with him !; now he rides in fine carriage of his own. He has bought an interest in a stock farm at reputed cost of $250, ,O00. He is magnate on the race track, the owner of stable, and one of the rich horsemen who control and de- grade the sport. He is prominent fig slre wherever money may be spent vulgar lyiiand profusely. His strong and coarse features are as familiar as was once the face of Tweed Since the days of that world-renowned plunderer there has been no time, until Croker appeared, that New York had ruler who made a public dis play of the wealth whose source few know but many mar suspect.
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