New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-10-11
GONE TO THEIR OWN PLlCE.

| OF what IS in store for the cause of good gov
eminent and municipal reform. of good or evil,
! Of success or defeat, we know nothing as yet.
| But while we await the unfolding Of the future
| let us at least be happy and rejoice in the good
| that Providence bestows Edward Crosse has
| gone over TO the place where he belongs. There
| is much to be thankful for in that. With him.
| let us hope. with only little less vehement
spluttering and foaming at the mouth. have
gone Hansen. and Ilocber. and the other howlins
dervishcs who for several weeks have been tear
| ing their hair and rending their clothes because
| they could not under law-enforcing municipal
| administration get their beer or their whiskey AT
| any minute Of any hour Of any day in the week
| all the year round. They have all gone where
their everlasting noise is lost in the general din
| created by the same kind of noise. and will no
| longer disturb the peace and quiet OF orderly
| peichborhoods As the old woman said. when
condoled with on account Of the death OF her
| dissolue sOninlaw: 1T isn't so very bad. Tor
| now we know where he il nights.
| Crosse and the rest Of them have been yer!
! active in the cause OF Reform. For several
ycars-we don't know how many-Grosse and
the rest have insisted that the only way 10 OBJ
tain good government and honest administration
was an Anti-Snapper in the campaign of 1892;
| the Tammany crowd being the snappieSt KIND
of Snappers from Snappersville The Federal
| Administration being Anti-Tammany and Anti
Snap. Crosse consented to collect revenue for II
at stated salary Not because he wanted the
office-perish the thought but because he repre-
| scntcd with persistence continuity ana most
marvellous fux of speech great many thousand
niTammany and AntSnap GerlnanAmerl-
cans who clamorcd for his appointment Crosse
clamored little himself. but that was only to
keep in touch with his Gcrman-AmericanS. who
| would not be appeased unless he was appointed
| TO something. lie had to take the place IN order
| to retain his influence with this vast body OF
voters and hold them solldly against Tanmany
| In the same way Tamsen who controlled great
| many thousand German American votes, ana
| was also one of the most enthusiastic opponents
| Of Tammany. felt compelled to accept the nom
nation of the AntTammany alliance last year
| for sheriff Hansen likewise has oratorcal
gifts. and has cultivated them. Then there was
| Hopber another German American leader 10
| whom several thousand voters looked for in
struction and direction in their political duty.
| Upon the imperative demand Of this enormous
| body of Anti-Tammany voters Hoeber was put
on the AntTammany ticket for Coroner, it
being considered essential that the investigation
| Of sudden deaths should be In the hands Of an
uncOmpromising opponent of Talnmany. Hoe
Der also was fluent a little cultural. of course
| and sometimes tempestuous in his flow, but a
talking man: and what the German-American
Union wanted above all things was talking men
| These three powerful leaders We're all In office
and Tammany was down. They kept on talk
| ing. They grew more and more animated as
| they talked. They filled large part of the po
| lltical horizon. TO the casual listener, observer
or reader they conveyed a very distinct impress
sion that they had done il al, and that but fol
them Tammany would have continued in con
troll: matchmaking, corruption and lawlcssncsS
would have gone on, and all the hopes Of good
government and municipal reform would have
evapOrated in thin air Presently. along about
midsummer the municipal reform which thes,
three eminent leaders had been 80 potential III
Initiating went wrong They had been careless
and confiding They had let somebody else into
il besides Crosse and Hansen and HOeber, and
the other fellows had stccrcd the Reform into
the enforcement of law which hit them in The
| stomach For a few hours in each week which
the law had set apart for weekly rest they
had 10 Oct their beer from a bottle instead oi
having ii fresh and foaming from the kes II
was hardship they had never dreamed of. Ih'
German American brewers were losing money
the dstillerS were losing money: the saloonkeep
erS were losing money: laboring men whose
habit il was 10 get drunk on Sunday ana make
things lively were obliged to keep cold sober all
day and astonsh their families; civil liberty was
IN danger. and the savings banks were getting
money that properly belonged TO the brewers
and diStillers
Then Crosse and Hansen and IIoeDer DcSau
10 howl in chorus They had been deceived
When they insisted on a reform which wonlo
down Tammany by the enforcement OF 'h'
laws they meant TO make an exception OF 'n'
excise law. And they said. and kept saying
they shouted it in various keys and repeated II
in mixed dialects. that unless an exception was
made in their favor in the enforcement Of law
they would go over 10 Tammany with all theil
following and belonging, bag and baggage. with
thcir thousands Of votes and their thousand
horsepower throats and lungs and timber jaws
And on Wednesday night they went. Let us re
iocc in the comparative calm that follows thcil
dcparture They have merged their camor in
4 larger disturbance, in which ii will not be Sc
conspicuous nor so discordant. We shall mis-
them. perhaps. but we shall have the satsfac
ton of knowing where they are nights.