New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-12-04
RETURNING TO ITS WALLOW.

III.
couraging, indication that the P.-Q' machine ~
on its last legs and about to pass INFO ihnocu-
ous desuetude appears IN Fridays Issue or It's
confidential organ. 1.-THE New-York Sum-" in the
form Of an editorial article. entitled MT. Cro-
ker Rack for Work." II Is as follows:
The report that Richard Croker VIII resume
tho nominal as we'll as the real. leadership or
ono OF the most wonderful political organlza-
tions In the world by becoming again the Chalr-
man OF its Finance Committee. ought 10 sraliy
both the friends and the foes OF Tanmany.
Tammanv is about to begin, for good or Tor
evil an entirely new chapter Of experiment and
effort. Those who hope for It's success IN the
great experiment Of governing acceptably the
second city in the world. not less than those
who are praying for its failure and downfall
will be glad to have the real Tammany entertain
in a place where the laures or the bricks VIII
fall directly upon his head
Mr. Croker is a man Of courage. He IS not
man to dodge or shrk his proper responsibilities
The instinct Of the rodent forecasts the sink
Ing ship The attractions OF the wallow IN
the mire recall the waDderer home. Home TO
zone of the most wonderful political organlza-
tons In the world" which II deserted IN the
time OF trial under the temptation OF sor'er
snap for similar and no less congenial service
The work IN which the 20. outht employed "
did not differ from that with which It had 80
long and so diligently served Tammany II
made no sacrifices, not even or consistency
when It turned abruptly from the championship
of Croker and Tammany TO laudatlon or flatt
and the PlattQuigg machine There was no
regeneration, no conversion. no repentance no
change Of heart or Of mind. or even OF methods.
Il glor!ned Plat for the same reason ana IN al
most precisely the same terms In when II hau
held ND Croker for the worship Of his creatures
and the admiration Of all mankind. For years
It extolled Croker as "a man OF courage SUD
denly II wiped out Cookers name, and now FOR
many months It has been saying over and over
with characteristic and monotonous iteration:
"Platt is a man Of courage" Yesterday out
went Platt's name and back came Croker's
During all this time It has been reprnt.ng
day after day the tiresome slobber with which
II used TO gloss over the iniQuitics OF Tammany;
only substituting the Republican county ma
chine and its corrupt activities for Its maudlin
worship Out Of the same magazine OF false
hood SANDER. personal spite. truculent malig-
nifty and implacable hate with which 1t assailed
in the earlier period all who opposed Tammany
or endeavored to lift the municipal government
out Of the mire Of corruption and fraud 1t drew
the ammunition with which day after day 1t
assaulted the advocates OF good government
and pure politics, who by virtue OF that ad-
vocacy, were IN antagonism TO Plat and his
machine 1t changed Its idols, but never Its
principles, its methods or the ritual OF It's
worship. With the same fusome fattery and
fawning sycophancy with which It had fol-
lowed the fortunes Of Croker II ran with super
serviceable zeal to the glorifcation OF Plat.
At the heels Of Republicans who opposed the
methods and practices of Platt 1t kept up the
incessant yelping with which aforetime It had
followed after and snapped at honest Demo
Gratis who revolted from Tammany.
So now 1t goes back to its own; to "one OF
1.-The most wonderful political organizations IN
"the world" and to that man OF courage,
Croker, who us not man to dodge or shirk
his responsibilities" Maybe he isn't. But X
1t be true, as his friends say. that he Is pos
sessed with the ambition to disappoint his enc
mics and give the city good, honest, whole
some and decent government there Is one thing
that he will certainly dodge. and that is the
publisher of The New-York Sun" One re-
sponsiblity ne will surely shirk. and that Is
the responsibility for an organ and mouthp!ece
whose record Is rank with treachery and poison
GUS with venom; newspaper whose only virtue
Is its consistency in wickedness and It's unde-
Waiting fidelity to the instinct Of baseness, the
habits Of the BLACKBOARD and the practices OF
the blackmailer and outlaw.