The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-04-15
The r1azet Committee in New York.

the current investigation Of York City affairs by
committee legislature the lines of inquiry
laid direction quite different
from those followed by the Lexow committee few years
ago the latter body came down metropolis AL
bany ripped things wide open far aordng pub
lie view Of the actual quasi connection of city officials
with vicious unlawful enterprises concerned The
lid was taken off the cys secret resorts Of vice corrup-
ton community stood aghast at the spectacle dis
closed. shifting and redistribution Of
dives gambling joints, change in police officials and
the municipal government and the people INDUCED in
general fecaion turning of the rascals But
a years the old conditions and the old
crowd corruptoniss restored and at this
uncture, accordingly. another investigation is in order,
promising scandalous developments than the
inquiry which confined largely to the connection
authorities Of secret and
prohibited vice.
This legislative inquiry had its inception early in
year charge Albany police
metropolis had been assessed raise fund for the
pose Of influencing egsatih The city admnistra
ton had fallen again under Tammanys control because of
Republican fractional divisions and the opportunity to
public sentiment the Tiger eagerly seized
by Republican legislature So the Mazet committee has
to New York. charged with practically
authority wrong doing wrongdoers
in municipal affairs Not only the department of police with
which committees inquiry is directly concerned but also
the other multfarous departments and bureaus Of local adj
mnistraon will be subjected the searchght of inves
cation by openly hostile body Of administrative
interested partisan in revealing corruption
wherever it may exist clothed with ample power to
compel disclosures of hidden inquty.
Aside the partisan aspect Of inquiry,
which, ALL chiefly those live by politics.
upon which the committee in
will lively interest wherever people
recognize the boss in the
of local affairs and have felt its heavy hand
upon them in grinding and increasing exacons Boss
Croker unique. He is type Corrupt of the
powers of municipal administration prevails alone in
New York; Infamous custom wherever long connu-
power establishment political
juna authority which its disposal the Of
fees patronage contracts franchises of great CITY,
If the Investigations Of Mazet committee
shall keep closely to the line apparently marked for that
body at the outsehe connection between bosssm and the
city departmentsmuch and valuable information may
thus be before public The people
York City greatly interested It, minute
location and description the dives pool rooms
in the in which the average American citizen
himself in the metropolis But they, in common
with all good citizens of other communities nightly
interested in the methods by which
farmed out favorites the behest unknown
power appointments to offices dictated in similar fashion,
and private fashions years
by repued in control Of municipal governments and
franchises. Where did Croker get t?"
swered-abet halfjestng-inqury in New York for
years past If the Mazet committee shall
pete and convincing this question have
performed valuable public service; methods
of political scoundrelsm and robbery substantially
same wherever carried whatever partisan label
Of the plunderers