The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-10-25
OUIGG KEEPS AT CROKER.
PROTOKES TtMMISYS Ross INTO
hNOTHER CKr or "PLdTT'

the PooIroom Money lie Knows Who
Has Earned It--Croker Retorts That Half
n Million Was Sent Ia Albany by "PlattS
Inv Firm" to Corrupt the Legislature.
President Qugg Of the Republican County
Committee hauled of and slambanged again
at the Hon. Richard Croker yesterday. Mi.
Quigg did not like what the Hon. Richard
Croker said about his statement regarding
contributions from poolrooms. and Mr.. Croker.
whom he heard what Mr.. QugR had done. Just
about fumed in his wrath. The day closed
with the feud between the two eminent gentle
men still on. Each was waiting to get n fresh
orack ut tho other. President QugR did not
see MI. Cookers statement until he read the
PAPERS yesterday morning When he got down
to his office ho found crowd ofreporters wait
ing for him. 10 them he said
1T was natural that Mr.. Croker should deny
Tammany Halls partnership with crime. but
he might as we'll deny his own existence. IL
anything were needed to show how Nauclcss
Mr. Croker's denials are 1t 10 found in the
statement that lie does not know that there IL
puoroom in New York. What he processes
not to know IL the most notorious Tact about
the present condition OF New York city. Don't
we all remember how after his Chief OF Police.
Deyery. had been upon the witness stand. deny
ing that there were any gambling houses or
poolrooms or other such resorts in town the
Mazet Committee produced list of more than
two hundred such places. giving names ana
addresses. and how every newspaper in the
city printed that list the next morning; Ana
doesn I every body remember how two or three
week later the committee proved that every
one Of those resorts was still running wide
open and so bra2eny that. az Mr. Clarke said
the other night. every nighthawk cabman III
New York coull driv" 10 any ono OF them as
straight as to the Grand Central depot? And
NJ ,lari ute tp
face OF all this that such places do not exist.
1T is a part of the Tammany plan OF govern
ment for such places to exist. They are neccs-
sary to the Tammany system. Their employ
ees are appointed 10y the Tammany district
loader as directly as he apponts watchmen on
the Amsterdam avenue Improvement. iehNes
their salaries. too. and the poolroon keeper pays
Them and then he sends them up in the Nine
teenth Assembly district to hire room and
register from it. and vote against Mr. Mazet.
All this is involved in the Tammany plan
OF conducting the town and its affairs.
Tammany could no moro get along with
out the poolrooms and the gambling
houses and all the other places Of i-lame than
they could get along without Tammany. Mr..
Croker asks me to- give the name OF the man
who is getting the three hundrcd-dollar cam
paign subscription for Tammany Hall from
these places. | do not know who is getting
the money. but do know who has earned 1t.
and IL he is letting anybody else get it, he is
bigger fool than the people Of New York take
him to be.
Mr. Croker had arrived at Tammauy Hall
and was receiving congratulations on his as
sault OF the night before when the reporters
got there with President Qugg's interview.
One reporter said Mr.. Croker. Mr.. Qugg g
"Quigg! Quigg," said Mr. Croker, waving
his hand: "Quigg Hes beneath the dignity
OF our notice yes. sir: he and his associates.
too"
But he says" said the reporter valiantly-
What Quigg says or what his friends say
isn't OF the slightest Importance and hasn't
the slightest effect on us" announced Mr.,
yroker decisivsly. Il tell you he's beneath our
notice"
The Hon. Richard Croker stepped off two
rteps and then back again and said: What
did he say. anyway? ?" adding hastily Tell me
in your own words: don't want to read state
msnts by Quigg."
We'll. he said something about poolrooms in
this city" said the reporter and he was pro-
''PooIrooms." said tho Tammany chieftain
why II there are any noGlr93mis; they y should his
s so f3s Of any such pooirSoms. WHY
don't they get their friends Mr. Moss and Mr.
Mazet, and his committee and the rest or
Tlatt. which. by the, way. YOU know is the
MaXet Committee: why don't they get those
persona together and find the poo!rooms which
about ss them ali the time, il they would do
that would no glad to help them in any way
can. 1t is well enough to say that there are
poolrooms. but where are they2"
He rensserts that money Is received from
poolrooms for campaign purposes" said the
repT3rrter,i ,o and, o,,roo tnot ,s b.r..,, N.
his friends. allegO corruption let them go to
Mr.. Plat. Why everybody knows that that law
firm OF his sent S'IOOOOO to Albany to corrupt
1t, too; The Republican party has raised the
are saying that political parties shouldn't
interfere with Judges or courts. The
went back to Albany to tell the Governor he
ought to call an extra term to try election
cases down here. went and saw Plat at the
Piatt. told him at that meeting, Platt told
him to help the Republicans out by sending a
Judge down here to scare Democratic voters.
That shows what the issue is in this fight.
IT'S decent people against Plat in this election.
II the order Plat gave Coyne Is not interior
ence with courts and using courts for wrong
How about the address to voters that Tam
many is going TO make?" asked one OF the
It's ali ready, said Mr., Croker with smpha-
tive Committee at its meeting tomorrow we
are going to sail right into them; we are going
TO sail right into them. That address wi an
. " XII Why I'll be Ssr :, bad ssp
whom We shall vote for and then whether we
can vote. But l tell you I'm not going TO no.
tice Quigg any more: let him do the talking.
quarters for the day before MIR CroEers re.
marks had been collected for him. and 80 the
controversy stands Just where Mr.. Croker