Evening journal., 1894-05-29

OF ok Boss Croker and is, perhaps, the
most probable candidate for the new
chief Of Tammany Hall
Like Mr. Croker Mr. Scannell has had
career. It IL career as is career. II
Is unique, conspicuous and horrible A
short epltome Of it is, that having come
through all the degredations Of the New
York tough, fighter, plug ugly and out
law, Scannell has gradually advanced
from murder TO the second place in Tam
many Hall
His career is astonishing. His charac-
ter is monstrous. His influence is unsc
countable, but supreme
Twenty years ago. Scannell, Croker
and Stokes we're companions in the
murderers' row OF the Tombs prison.
Croker has become millionaire; has
been supreme and unquestioned ruler
Of New York's political machine. has
faymed out the Offices of New York city
for six years and on the eve OF being
investigated he took warning from the
fate Of Tweed and retired TO private life.
Scannell has proceeded through the
same gradatons Of infRmy and crime
till he, from one office to another, from
the same Office, in fact, which Croker had,
is about to assume command of the
political energies of Tammany Hall and
amass million The energies Of
Mr.. Stokes have not occupied the same
lines of industry in the same channels.
He bloomed into hotel keeper and is
living comparatively respectable, OBJ
scure life. But the friendship formed by
the apparent affinity Of dispositions and
talents have made these three men fast
friends. They are fast friends still, and
the fact that each ons of them has killed
his man, has. apparently, made bond Of
union among them which is lndlssoluble
and mutually advantageous.
There is no objection to the interest
which the Irish people take in politics.
1t IS commendable and ought to be ad-
vantageous to tho city and state But
bow is Il, that 50 many are callous to the
characters Of the men they promote to
office, that New York and Tammany
Hall present these phenomena Of Kelly,
Croker, Scanuell, Diver and Martin, hav-
ing not only high authority in the chief
organizations, but worse than that, ignor.
ant aud brutal that they are apparently
oblivious to responsibility as they are,
they become supreme in authority
These men are not simply politicians
Of low order; they are all criminals
Scannell committed a murder so cold
blooded, so outrageous, so feroclous,
after the third attempt, that he was
compelled to 60 TO an insane asylum for
few months to escape the gallows.
These are not campaign stories; they
are court records.
The Irish people have produced some
of the finest specimens Of manhood the
human race has known Why is It that
TO this falrest. most generous and most
glorious country In the world, the Irish
people give the meanest and most
desplsable characters in their race to sit
in the highest places?
It makes a mans indignation rise to
anger to think that Bourke Cochran is
pushed aside, rejected and treated with
lndignity by Irish people who prefer
Croker, murderer and a sudden mil
li5naire, for Scannell, also a murderer,
who expects TO be a millionaire.
This ID not an objection to Irishmen,
but 20 murderers, thieves and scoundrels
as rulers of the greatest city in the
Union-the finest city in the world