Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-10-12

II it, a saying that the morals of a COM
munity or a nation are what they are per-
mitted TO be or are made by woman. II
this be correct. then the women of New
York city have a great responsibility and
must be held accountable for much that is
dscredtable. There is. however. promise Of
movement that will throw of the incubus
AM prove to the world that the good women
Of Manhattan Island are not i'm sympathy
with the degenerate municipal conditions
that have made the name of New York
by-wcTd among respectable people. After
many toO-successful efforts to evade all
manner Of charges, Tammany has at last
been corraIIed and branded as the foe to
decency and the uneomp-omising enemy of
good governmental result which has result
Ell IN almost immediate coalition of many
ard diverse elements intent. each in its own
way. upon erasing the stain that Tammany
had spattered all over the city's real char
Rct"r. Aroused by the insstent elOquence
and Uncompromising accusations of DIR.
Parkhurst. the good people of New York
slowly made up their minds to break the
chain by which Tammany was holding
them. Consequent upon the Parkhurst rev.
slations was the Lexow investigation, WHICH
has developed a state of affairs barely
limited at even I'm the strongest of the pre-
invcstigdtory denunciations of DIR. Park
hurst. The outcome of all this agitation In
favor of municipal cleanliness was the join
ing 81 hands by strong men of varied politi-
cal beliefs to the end that Tammany be
defeated at the forthcoming election. Per-
hdps there was some doubt to the posi-
bmty Of this being done. but the season Of
dubiousness has passed away. and unless
there be miraculous Intervention. Tammany
IL doomed for the women of New York
the pure. home-loving wOmen-are organ
izisg against the monster that has for years
fattened upon its own dishonesty. There
WaS, prior to the announcement of woman's
intent 10 enter the campaign, a chance for
Tammany, but today there cannot be found
Cledr-headed student Of politics CONVEX
SAINT with the situation who will claim for
an instant that Tammany has even the
shostliest sort of a show. Long ago Tam
many became expert In dealing with men;
those whom 1t could not placate or pur-
chase. it crushed; and great was its
power and so widespread its influence that
men whose conscienees revolted against
anything like association with corrupt
ing an institution were compelled to do
Many harily-excuSable things. But women
such women as are planning-to aid in the
fight for better conditions-are beyond the
be purchased nor cal oled nor frightened
The presence Of woman in the campaign
cannot but be of great advantage to the
gnti-Tarlmany men, 1t has truly been said
that the intuitions of women are better and
readier than those of men and that her
quick decisions without conscious reasons,
are frequently far superior to a mans most
careful DEDUCTIONS" Lacking the forceful
holiness which is supposed to be essentially
a manly quality, woman has courage far
more pertinaclOus and less given to cOmpro-
mise than that possessed by the majority
OF men. In the work of reform which has
called her 10 the front in New York, she
Will lind many most disagTeeable features
and will be compelled to associations far
from pleasant. but she has enlisted for the
war and Ill not be deferred from doing her
whole duty by any OF all of the bugaboos
that Tammany can set up. Today twenty
nine thoroughly representative women will
meet 10 map out the campaign which
woman will make against Tammany. Tam
many might well throw up Its hands.