Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-04-18
with Freedman about it," asked Mr.


Moss.
Never said Mr. Croker, Now are
you satisfied?'
NO. am not satisfied" said Mr..
Moss.
Mr.. Croker said he was short on no
shares of any stock.
Mr. Moss asked Mr.. Croker again II
he had given his son Frank $1,000 with
which to buy stock in the Roebiing
Construction co. Mr. Croker refused
to answer. Chairman Mazet instruct
ell him to answer and he refused. The
same thing occurred when Mr.. Moss
asked how much stock of the Auto
Truck Co. Mr.. Croker held and how
much he paid for his interest in that
concern. Mr. Croker said these ques-
tions had nothing to do with city ar
fairs.
Mr.. Croker said he thought the city
would be much better without a civil
service law. Each commissioners
should be his own civil service law.
When MIR Moss said that MI croker
had found that in business matters ike
that of Peter Meyer q Co, members OF
the organization could help each other,
Mir. Croker said angrily, You are try
ing to make us out a pack Of thieves
in one combination together and you
can't do it,
And YOU think that these questions
indicate that persons who do these
things are thieves" queried Mr.. Moss.
That is what you are trying to get at, "
said Mr.. Croker. thoroughly aroused. IL
say taat the people Of the city of New
York when they voted for our ticket
voted to put in an organization. and they
believe in organization and believe that
organization should run this city. And
when you were put out of the police
board. that is what you We're put out for
because You were not an organization
man.
There was applause A man in the
front row clapped his hands. and Chair
man MaZet had The scrgeant-at-arms take
m from the room.
MIR. Moss told Mr. Croker that was
simply play I'VE might as well attend
to business, the Tammany leader re-
piled: II look YOU square in the face ana
answer any questions in my judgment
that are put to me in Il gentlemanly and
honest light II you are true ana want
to get at the true facts without any bias,
] am ready 20 answer all questions"
Mr.. Moss remarked that it was evident
ihat Mr.. Croker realized the seriousness
Of the occasion.
The Tammany leader retorted; Not
very serious. am not going away !
am going 10 stay here until the circus Is
You arc not going ID Europe" said
Mr.. Moss.
you are going 10 stay: you can have me
any day YOU want repl ed the witness. |
II am glad We shall not interfere with
your trip. said Mr.. Moss.
You nave nterfercd with it pretty
much" was the retort.
Mr.. Croker declared he had never SAID
he would never resign from the leader
ship of Tammany Han He had merely
stated that he would remain in TdmmanE
Han as long as he lived. lie, said there
were no Inducements IN the way of ref |
erences offered TO young lawyers TO JON
Tammauy Hall.
Mr.. Croker said he had not paid his |
last years personal tax on $4,000 because |
the mortgages on his real estate amount |
"a 10 more than the taxes.
when judge DAILY refused to desGEa e |
pr sign the designation Of your sale |
room on Broadway. ANA refused 10 up-
point Mr.. DAILY e. clerkshp, why WIS |
asked Mr.. Moss.
That was no. the reason" said MIR
Croker.
What was the reason
Because we put in a better man re-
Piled the witness.
And that was the reason you selected
Judge Leventritt rather than Judge DAILY. |
that he was better mani
"a better man. ana would attend 70 his !
business better"
Mr. Croker said that the district con
ana Judge LeVeutritt.
You said. the other dag. that You he
lieVed most of the corruption was at AL |
bany. Did You ever hear Senator Sulii- |
vans name mentioned in connection with |
corruption there?
No"
Have YOU never heard members VI
your own party IN the Senate speak 81 |
corruption az represented III his person.
Never, ! don't sanction any corrup-
members Of the Senate not TO come dowr |
TO see him. but 70 remain IN Albany. oI
in the Capitol. and would they hav,
obeyed him?" asked Mr.. Moss.
:'Hc would do ii, probably. If he was i,
croker.
Yes. said Mr.. Croker.
"With contracts carried out by mem
bcrs Of the organzation?'
Yes"
"Tammany right clean through"
Tammany right to the ground, was
the emphatic answer.
You want tbs whole business
Yes"
Everything you can get"
Yes. the same as YOU got under
Roosevelt, exactly and there was laugh
ter at this reply.
cciVcd large sums of money from inIi
rduals which were not your profits 81
earnings from any business asked Mr.
Moss.
NO" said Mr. croker. ana he repeated
his answer.
Mr.. Moss said that he had some quGs.
lions that had been drawn up by lawyer;
who were taking an interest in the mat
ter of judicial assessments. but he Wout
defer them until a future time.
Mr.. Croker has said he is going L
stay with us and we can give him a it'll
resi- said Mr.. Moss. Il think. Mr.
Croker. we will subpoena you for the
time being for week from today, and ii
there be anything to change our plans
we will let YOU know before that"
The committee then adjourned unit
Friday.
When questioned. tonight. concernin.
the charges made against him before th'
MaZet committee. today. by Simon Butt
ner, Capt. James X. Price handed out tbs
following written statement:
The only statement | desire to maxi
until the examination of SIMON Buttnei
(Gumbossyp : concluded. is that the ties
timOny given by him, so far il refiec.
on me as a police officer is absolute!,
false. | plead guilty to having closed
the Broadway Garden, resort foI
thieves since Aug. l. 1898
81 arrested u women IN and around tn
Broadway Garden. and only TWO wer,
discharged. | made - arrests in the plac
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