Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-11-01
GOSSIP FROM GOTHAM
Tammany's Desperate Struggle to
Retain Control in City.
ATTACK ON MAZEF AND M'CULLAGH
Boer Exhibit at Paris Dependent
on Result of War.
ROW IN NATIONAL GUARD
pecial Correspondence OF The Evening Star.

Special Correspondence OF The Evening Star.
NEW YORK, October 30, 1899.
The last week of the campaign opens
with all the republican and Independent
organizations In the city fully aroused to
the real issue and actively at work to get
out the antiTammany vote. The issue in
the city has narrowed to a question of
turning over local government to the I'M
disturbed possession of Tammany Hall. In
the past few days the republican campaign
managers have sent out agents and OBJ
tanned reports of the substance of the
speeches of all the Tammany spellbinders,
as well copies of all the literature
sent out from the wigwam and the various
district headquarters. Every statement
from the Tammany campaigners is sub
stantially the same, which, translated into
pain English, means: I'VE own New York
city and no man has any right to question
or interfere with the government we pro-
vide
All the Tammany campaign orators talk
of nothing but Mazet and McCullagh. They
are not permitted to say one word about
national or state issues to attempt to
defend the present high rate of taxation.
They tell the voters that it is outrage
for committee from a republican legis-
lature to come down here and attempt to
pry into Tammany methods of conducting
government as private business. They
denOunce Superintendent McCullagh In I'M
measured terms for daring to interfere
with the work of making fraudulent citi-
ZenS who will vote the Tammany ticket.
The general issues that are supposed to di-
vide the voters into political parties are not
mentioned by the Tammany speilbinders.
The Republican Club has issued an address,
signed by the president, Senator Depew,
in which the attention of the public is
called to the present attitude of Tammany.
The address points out that Tammany has
this year accepted the issue of personal
government for private gain, and that
every vote against the fusion ticket will be
a vote to continue the present system. On
Wednesday night the Republican Club will
hold a mass meeting in Cooper Union,
which will be addressed by a number Of
prominent speakers.
Money Pours Into the Wigwam.
Money is pouring into the wigwam in 14th
street. Whence the contributions come Gro
ker knows but he is telling neither their
source nor their amount. But the import
ant thing is the use that is made of this
money. The assertion IS made openly about
Tammany Hall that liberal portions of this
LEGAL tribute had been sent to help cam
paigns in other states. 1t was said that
Mr.. Woodson, the member of the national
democratic committee from Kentucky, had
touched successfully the purse gath
cred by Croker for the election of his coun-
ty ticket ard intended to be spent in cap
turing a majority of the New York as
sembly.
1t is declared also that q personal agent
of Bryan, whose name is kept secret, has
carried a roll of Tammany money away to
Nebraska. The further statement is made
that an application by a visitor from Gin
cinnati for money for in Ohio has been
refused by Croker, with the remark that
Mclean had money of his own to burn.
This talk of helping outside states fosters
the report that Tammany is stretching forth
its claws far beyond Manhattan. This is
local campaign, but it is asserted that
the election of the Tammany county ticket
and the attempt TO create a democratic
majority in the assembly are national in
their ultimate purposes. 1t is said that il
will not merely be the city hall nor the
local courts nor the Albany legislature to
whose control Richard Croker now aspires.
He IS alleged to be looking forward to the
next democratic national convention, to the
subsequent direction of the democratic
campaign for the presidency, and to the
patronage that the management of that
campaign would give him. This campaign
patronage in itself would be prize suffi-
GENTLY fat to lure the arms of Croker into
a gesture Of entreaty: But he has gone
further than that The Tammany boss,
perhaps=for the first time in his life, is be-
lieved to have taken to rainbows Hard
headed as he is, it is asserted he has be-
come enamored, apparently, Of the delusion
that William Jennings Bryan has not only
a surety 1of nomination for the presidency,
but possible chance of election.
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TO the Paris exposition says that of all the
foreign exhibits at the Paris exnnsftiop of
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the Transyaal would have IInGn thi. ax
hlblt OF the Beers depended, he says, upon
ne LGsu az Vi tile war, put the lransVaal
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French authorities anntted 10 III pal nc
about 10000 square feet. and this linitad
space President Kruger proposed to fill with
novel displays from the TransvaaL
The pastoral life of the Beers" saws
CAPTAIN Mattox. will be sh6wn under the
asnect of a Foer farm, with All rho rustic
and IN some irstancns avon nov, ~ tba
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NruSef ihtehded 10 ulspIdy an geographical
uucuaehlS' also eAholts d tle milltary aH-
mlilStatloIl, pupllc instruction ana the IN
tefestlns ministry OF mines. In the Boef
farm VIII be exhibited wild ANIMALS OF the
TranSvaal which the Beers delight In h'int-
ing. The farm house will be equipped with
the curious household furniture used by
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