New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-02-21
TUr VAR on UlNBlTTAN.

Last Friday Manhattan stock closed nj HIS
The next morning Tammany's order that me
comlanv shoAld vacatc Battery Park Withh
six months was published. concluSivcly confirm
Ing various indications that vigorous war
wa, on LAST ni.ht Manhattan stock closed II
1l27 If looks rs if Mr.. Gould ana Mr.. sage
were actually engaged in gratifying the IN
liu1tiou which we said on saturday they might
naturally he assumed to feel Al all events
srccul,t1rs who have sold Manhattan short are
unoucst;1nablv deriving less pleasure from the
situation than they promised themselves toward
the end Of last week 4 clear light has not
vet been she'd on the purpose of the Tammany
administration in making this sensational at
tack. but an impressive proof of public in'eill-
reucc is seen in the practically universal agree
mont that il was inspired by private. not by
public interests or course Mr.. Croker, VINO
talks q great deal in these days, says that the
mon who take his orders are only trying 70
serve the people but nobody believes him ana
scarcely anybody pretends 70. The whoie com
munity sees that 1t is strike.
last what the programme is the public which
j. sin guessing is likely ascertain before
LONG The prevailing impression seems to be
that the Metropolitan people have concluded
that they can proftaby use the elevated rail
roads in their business. and want to buy them
NJ rs low 4 price as possible. This theory does
NOT nrccludc. hut tends to sustain, the suppose
linn that Tammany spectators have Sold Man
haitian short-1O6 being the figure most com
manly newfoundland were confidently expect
ing to make good thing for themselves by
means of the arrangements entered into for the
benefit Of Mir Whitney and his associates. II
e Mr.
allies il s certain that they will not dlvulse
it. but It is more than probable that the Man
haitian managers have thorough understand
ing Of the affair. and we hope they may be
inclined TO take the public into their conf
dcnce. In the mean time such signs of de-
termination on their part to give Tammany the
fcht Of its life as the stock market supplies
are highly welcome.
This state of public feeling does not pro-
coed entirely from natural sympathy with
contestant Of whom an unfair advantage has
been taken A great many citizens OF New
York who pay little attention to the man~u-
vres of Wall Street and take only langud
interest in political operations are suddenly
aroused TO a contemplation of the possibilities
which TammanyS campaign against the Man
haitian company suggests. They clearly per-
familiar on comparatively minor scale in
New-York has now been developed to immense
nroportjons. and that If this attempt succeeds
It's authors will be encouraged to believe that
the process is capable Of indefinite application.
We do not need to repeat our frequent aSSer-
ton that the Manhattan company has made
a miserable use of the great privileges bestowed
upon II. and is not entitled on its own account
to public support in the present contest but
the cause of which it has suddenly become an
unworthy representative Is Of enormous impor-
lance. and deserves to be resolutely Defended
Measures legitimately taken on public author
itv in behalf Of the people to compel better
performance of ITS obligations would command
nonular approbaton, but this use Of the ma
chinery of municipal government for the en-
,ichmont Of individuals through the victlmiZing
of \ corporation ought to fail. II is the most
audaciously impudent performance Of which
even Tammany has been guilty in this gen
erot,on and we sincerely hope that Mr.. Gould
and his colleagues will defy and defeat it.