Arizona republican., 1899-06-16
NEW YORK POLITICS
Many of inc Old OrgGnizd-
 lions are no More.
The Future Is Full of Unseen Things But There are Certain IndiCa- lions That There Will Be an AnfI-Tammany War.

New York, June 15.-In preparation for the next local campaign the first ct the Independent organizations will
 make it's appearance in a few days. Ii
 is to be a peoples body in the place of
 all of it's predecessors that have
 sprung up and after the work was
 done have Cied The Citizens Union
 is dead The Peoples Municipal League IS dead. Half a dozen other
 Independent bodies which did remark
 able work in their day are dad The
 independents now favor the name the
 Peoples League" and their objects
 are substantially the same as the or : garizations that have gone before. Some of the names of the packers are Charles Sprague Smith, George K
 Lloyd, John B. Clark and Bartley J. Wright. Of them all not one s known in public life or politics, but this has been the case with all the other bodies. They began with no- body of consequence to back them gathered backing and strength, and finally came to include the full list ot about all the best known citizens wno are not politicians.
 The unknown ia the new league are making the following professions to persuade others to join them: One is for home rule under the title of civic autonomy" This also may mean complete separation from the state government and the province of the legislature. The city's charter shall be thown out as it is, a new one adopt ed after the ideas of the refOrmers, and this new one so protected that it can be amsnded only by the vote of the president. Added to it is the in itiative and referendum system as ap- piled to important local legislation and to all state laws affecting the city. The present charter is not defended, TOT on the other hand is it attacked The men in the movement say simply that it won't do, and that experience, has demonstrated it's comparative wof t1s.iiiessness. =
 The new body takes as radical ground on the ownership of public franchises. These ought to revert to the city. A pension system for all employss, and not for the members cf the police and ire departments alone, is advocated. To be entitled to a pan- sion the applicant must have held of fica for 20 years and jbe over 60 years of age. It is no surprise that after this the platform throws ;a a few inci- dental reforms like eight hours work and the payment of union wages on all city work; free education from bottom to top of the school system: representation and compul> sorry laws against the tramp and other The latter are to be com pelled to work if they are found idIa within the city limits.
 The full list Of trustees, governors and active men in the former Citizens Union have been asked to become members of the new organization. Public interest is to be drawn by meetings which are being arranged for The platfozn outlined may prove too radical to attract many at the start, but citizens movements have the habit of beginning with visionary platforms and ending with the substi- tuition of the working platform of but a single plank. This plank is, knock the bosses out'' Nothing else than this is in the minds of the projectors of the league. Their platform is convenient cover to their real design. The conditions are not good for an- other citizens organization tEis year. but the projectors are going ahead in the usual way. They have already en- listed the interest of some Of the rich men prominent in the Citizens Union.
 Conditions are admitted to be bad for a repitition of the historical strug- gle of the Citizens Union against the bOsses. The belief is that the repubIi- cans this year are going to prepare for an all around union against Croker and Tammany Hall. The last experi- ence cost the party and Senator Platt personally too much. It has, more over, been the general understanding for more than year that Seth Low was to ibe renominated for the next republican municipal convention. There is no other man by whom all possible anti-Tammany votes can Ee 
 RENEWING THE CITY.