Omaha daily bee., 1897-11-04
COMMENTS ON Tue RESULT
London Editors Size Up the Situation in
Greater New York.
THEIR NERVES ARE SOMEWHAT SHOCKED
Most of Them See Nothing hut EVIL
in the Return OF Tnmmnny to
Power In the Me-
trOpO1is.

'opyrlknt, 1891, Dy ireSs BuDliShng COmnany.D
LONDON, Nov. 5.-(New York World Ca
blegram-special Telegram)-It is no ex-
aggeration to say that London has been
more absorbed in New York's mayoralty
election than 1t ever has been in the choice
OF its own lord mayor. Tammany's victory
having been consistently predicted by New
York correspondents OF London papers It
came as no surprise and the event was
made the occasion of preaching innumerable
homilies on the degradation of municipal
life in New York.
las usual, Mr.. Astor's paper takes the
Rftiest British attitude of all its rivals. 1t
says: Under the circumstances 1t is per-
missible to say that we manage these af-
fairs In more satisfactory manner in Lon-
don. With us such an organization as Tam
many hall could not exist and a man or a
body of men who had once been proven
guilty of corruption could never return to
power. Tammany, under the leadership of
Richard Croker, has done SO in a manner
that must afford food for serious thought
even in a city so accustomed to bad gov
ernment as New York is"
The Westminster Gazette says: This
victory for unprinciped government OBJ
be confessed grave disappointment to
all who believe in free Institutions. New
York, from its cosmopolitan character is
hardly typical of the United States as
whsle perhaps; but we could have wished
that the greatest city of the greatest re-
public had shown keener sense of what
civic life should mean. Having made it's
bed New York will for the next four years
have to lie upon ii and the only thing for
us to do is to wish Seth Low and his 900
supporters better luck next time in their
campaign against system which, to us out
siders at least, seems absolutely intolerable."
From inquiries made in business and
financial circles l gain the impression that
Tammanys regained ascendency will react
injuriously on international commercial re-
lations. The opinion seems to widely pre-
vail in the city of London that when New
York consents to again place itself under
the yoke of Richard Croker there is no rea-
son why, in 1900, free silver may not gain
the day, causing financial chaos and devasta-
tion. Tammany's victory, in fact, is
garded as symptom of the general unrest
in the United States, apprehension of which
has so signally checked investment in
american securities.
DOG AND HIS VOMIT.
The Sun of this city, of which newspaper
Harry Marks has editorial control says:
The dog returned to his vomit is the
text we recommend pious New York to hang
on paror walls. The chief city of great
people must see it's municipal offices filled
with men who should be filling cells in the
penitentiary New York has fallen like rot
ten fruit into the hands of the boodlers, but
New Workers may console themselves with
saying that every city as every land has the
government it deserves"
The Evening News remarks: Croker has
brought off his tip and won the race, show
ing that he Is more to ibe feared in his rat.
ural arena Of politics than en- the race course.
The population of the second greatest city
in the world has elected its ruler and the
morning after election the problems occupy
ing his mind did not relate to the govern
ment of the city, but rewardlng his support
ers The experiment Of democracy as seen
in New York seems to have its drawback9
as well as its advantages"
The st. James Gazette thinks: "The rea-
son Americans allow themselves to be DOM
mated by clique whose leading members
would on this side OF the Atlantic sooner or
later find themselves in the criminal dock
Is that American politicians indulge in poll
tics solely for what they can make out Of
them, end until America finds time to pro-
duce class who will give their time to pub
lie affairs, as here, without expectation Of
pecuniary reward, Tammany will continue Its
victories in New York"
RULE OF THE DEMAGOGUE.
Commenting on the allegation that the
best classes" hold aloof from politics, the
Globe says: 1T leaves the government of one
of the greatest of countries in the world
at the mercy of a mob and of an unscrupulous
mob to his will The effort upon the foreign
policy of the country is often deplorabe. That
large numbers of decent, sensible people are
utterly without sympathy with the brus-
queries of olney and the fatuities OF Sher-
man, we all know, but unhappily they utterly
fail to make their voices heard above the din
of tho New York slums.'
The Morning Post says: "Tammany's
enormous majority leaves no doubt
that the rumor of an arrangement be-
tween Croker and the republicans was well
founded. The Citizens union deserves all
sympathy for its splendid fight Mr.. Low
gave the republicans an opportunity they
may never have again. History shows that
one party is quite as INSCRIPTIONS as the
other, and what is still more important, it
shows there is considerable public spirit in
the new community"
The Daily Telegraph says: "Mr Croker
may sleep better unhaunted by the night
mare of indictments and prospects of the
pen1tentiary. 1t is great victory for the
most corrupt organization In the world and
we hesitate to except even Turkey But an
analysis OF the figures and the statements
tend to show that 1t belongs to that class
OF triumphs of which Pyrrhus said Another
such victory and am undone.' The election
OF Mr.. Low would have been decisive. The
election OF Judge Van Wyck is only an epi-
sode in the campaign that is Just beginning
The Citizens union is indeed beaten but
Its defeat Is OF nature that promises vic
tory in the not remote future"
With reference to Mr.. Croker's manifesto
after the election, the Daily Telegraph's
editorial page says: How pleasantly these
delicate euphemisms will sound to the saloon
keepers and the proprietors OF disorderly
houses"
The Globe says when the fortunes Of the
wigWam are in the ascendant sbamalass nor