The Topeka state journal., 1897-10-14
Says Tammany is Honest and
the Hope of the People.
POINTS TO ITS RECORD
Justifies It's Methods and Stands
Up For SpOiIs.
Tammany Must Do What the
Good People Neglect.

Croker. He entities it, The Genesis of
a Boss.''
"Tammany is honest" Mr. Croker
said. 'Tammany is not corrupt. Tam
many is the best, the only permanent
hope of real reformed administration.
Therefore Tammany will win"
Mr.. Croker resumed:
They will tell you that Tammany
has ruled New York nearly all the time.
And they will tell you true Do you
think we could have done it if we had
been the thieves and rogues they pre-
tend we are? have been in office near
ly all my life; do you think the citizens
would have been such fools to elect me
ana re-elect me if had been the bad
man that some people say l an? ?Things
that are rotten do not last. They go to
pieces. Thieves are not trusted by their
fellow thieves, let alone by their fellow
citizens.
1T is not by the bad in them that
institutions and parties last, but by
what is good. If Tammany has lasted
and triumphed, that is the best proof
what it's enemies say is false And
when it carries this next election, with
all the newspapers against it, and all
the mugwumps, then you will have our
vindication."
Politics." he said, "are impossible
without the spOils. 1t is all very we'll
to argue that it ought not to be so. But
we have to deal with men as they are
and with things as they are.
Consider the problem which every
Democratic system has to solve. Gov
ernment, say, of the people, by the
people and for the people. The aim is
to interest as many of the citizens as
possible in the work-which is not an
easy work. and has many difficulties
and isappOintmentS-Of governing the
state or the city. OF course in an ideal
world every citizen would be so dom
mated by patriotic or civic motives
that from sheer unSelfish love O. his
fa1 f1a mic r nd
days in labOring for their good. If you
lived in such world inhabited by such
men, 1 admit that there could be no
question that we could and would dis
pense with the spOilS system. But
where is that world to be found? Ger
tainly not in the United States, and
most certainly not in New York
Look at the facts plainly in the
face. There are in our country and in
New York a small number of citizens
who might reasonably be expected to
be responsive to the appeal of patriot
ic and civic motives. They are what
you would call the cultured class. the
people who have wealth, education,
leisure, the men who have got suffi-
GENTLY above the common level to be
able to hear the appeals which the city
or the state makes to the conscience
and heart of men. They have received
everything, enjoyed everything, learn
ed everything. From them, no doubt,
from all citizens on their level you
might think you could meet with such
a
able you to run the state upon high
principles and dispense with spOils. But
if you were to expect any such thing
you would be very much disappointed.
What is the one fact which all you
English notice first of anything in our
country? Why, it is that every crowd
of which we are speaking, the minority
of cultured leisured citizens, will not
touch political work-no. not with their
little finger. All your high principles
will not induce mugwump to take
more than a fitfuI interest in an Occa-
siOnal election.
THE silk stocking cannot be got to
take a serious hand continuously in
political work. They admit it them
selves. Everyone knows it is so. Why,
then, when mugwump principles won't
even make mugWumpS work, do you
expect the same lofty motives to be
sufficient to interest the masses in poll
tics?
And so we need to bribe them with
spOiIs. Call it so if you like. SpOils
vary in different countries Here they
take the shape of offices. But you must
have an incentive to interest men, in
the hard daily work of politics, and
when you have our crowd you have got
to do it one way, the only way that ap-
peals to them.
Il admit it is not the best way But
it is for practical purposes the only
way.
Think what New York is and what
the people of New York are. One-half,
more than one-half are of foreign
birth. We have thousands upon thou
sands of men who are alien born, who
have no ties connecting them with the
city or the state. They do not speak
our language. They are the raw ma
terial with which we have to build up
the state. How are you to do it on
mugwump methods? 1 tell you it can
not be done.
People abuse Tammany for this and
for that But they forget what they
owe to Tammany. There is no denying
the service which Tammany has rem
dered to the republic. There is no such
organization for taking hold of the
unframed friendleSs man and convert
ing him into citizen Who else would
do it if we did not? Think of the hun
dTeds of thousands of foreigners dump
ed into our city. They are too old to go
to school There is not a mugWump in
the city who would shake hands with
them. They are alone, ignorant strang-
ers, prey to all manner of anarchical
and wild notions. Except to their en-
plOyer they have no value to anyone
until they get a vote. And Tammany
looks after them for the sake of their
vote. gratis them upon the republic,
makes citizens Of them in short, and al
though you may not like our motives
or our methods, what other agency is
there by which so long a row could
have been hoed so quickly or so well?''
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citizens of Spencer. Mo, testifies that
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Witch Hazel Salve. He had been trou-
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and had used many different kinds of
so-calIed cures; but DeWitt's was the
one that did the work and he will YER
ify this statement If any one wishes to
write him. G. W. Stansfield, 623 Kan
SaS avenue.
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