New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-09-11
JANSEN.

have reached your midday hamboyancy. or the
movement OF your mouth has begun to monopo-
l,ze olI the forces OF your animated nature To
the neglect OF a proper superintendent OF your
intellectual processes, will you kindly bend this
wov your large German-American ear! We
would have word with you. Hansen, what
really and truly Is the matter with you! For
Sheriff who has statutory functions to perform
and important public responsibilities 10 dls-
charge. which must necessarily make some de-
mands upon his time and might DO expected 10
OCCUPY 10 some extent his mind, you seem 10 De
attending a good many pcnics and Things where
the enforcement Of statute laws Is held 70 De
In decidedly bad form, and men who In such
positions as you hold do obey their oaths ana en-
force law are extremely unpopular And you
are reported. Hansen, TO be not only continually
In evidence at these pcnlcs and things Dut 10
no also I'm a chronic state of eruption about the
outrageous behavior OF the Police Commission
ers IN ordering the enforcement Of n law You do
not like, and the general dreadfulness OF ne
Reform administration elected last fall upon a
ticket TO which your own name lent po'h popu
larlty and picturesqueness2 And IL Is also sald'
Tamsen. that at these plcnics ana things many
persons have stayed and heard you through from
exorIum TO peroration. Which suggests mat
YOU have better success in holding folks al
picnic than In Ludlow Street Jail. though from
all accounts your Ludlow Street charges seem
to be having a continual picnic
Now. really Hansen, what Is the matter?
Have YOU been deceived? When YOU reluctantly
consented last fall to enter public life and to
Drop up with your name and fame and prestige
In hiring
the support of the ticket the vast array OF Ger
mau-American voters who had commissioned
YOU to do their political thinking and deliver
their votes as you saw fit did you understand
Tamsen-now, let us get right down to hardpan
did you understand that in consideration OF
the great weight your name gave TO the ticket
and the enormous body OF voters who supported
II solely because YOU told them TO. You We're 10
have the privilege In the event or success I"
select from the statue-book the laws you wer"
willing 10 obey, and. on the other hand. thoSe
from which you demanded exemption! Was
that your understanding, Tamsen: 1t would
seem so from the way In which you are gong
on with your mouth and your arms at pi'ncs
and things Has every body been disloyal To You!
Have You been buncoed into a green goods
game 10 which you gave your great name and
numerous following in the hope and expectation
that when II came 10 the enforcement or law.
which was the purpose Of the movement In
which you took part-if 1t had any purpose
you and yours would BE- specially favored by
exemption and immunity? II that Is So, 1t
really Is too bad But you should remember
Hansen, that the victims Of "green-goods'
games never get much sympathy from the gen
eral public. You should have got the agreement
in writing as I.auterbach and Jake Pat'er-
son and Plat did theirs with "Old Strong
or say they did. II would not have been neces-
sary to produce 1t. only TO say at intervals and
at considerable length, as they do, that you
had ii.
But. Hansen. after ALL Is II beer that oils you?
Have YOU and Crosse and HOebcr worked your
selves ND TO the state Of mind In which You all
appear TO be at the picnics and things Just be-
cause you have to buy enough bottled beer Sat
urday night 10 last you over Sunday instead or
being able to get 1t fresh and foaming from the
wood ut two or three places on each block all day
long every Sunday? Do You actually think that
personal liberty and free institutions and the
foundations Of free government are In danger
on that accounti Is that why you and Crosse
and Hoeber are going around TO picnlcs and
things waving your arms and firing Off your
mouths and swearing that all the German
Americans who voted for Municipal Reform and
good government Inst year Will turn tail on the
whole business end try TO bring back the Tam
many regime? Nonsense. Tamsen Pull your
self together and give your mouth rest. You
are making yourself quite unnecessarily ridicl-
lOus.