Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1900-11-16
CROKER FOR REFORM.
Tells Tammany to Make War
on Vice.
COMMITTEE is APPOINTED.
Isidor straus Invited 60 Tell Executive
Committee of Evils N East side cro-
ker says Assessors Evil should Leave
the Organization.

New York. Nov 16-The executive
committee OF Tammany hall held a
meeting, M which Richard Croker
babe All the leaders goodhy and took
hand in s,arting movement 80 rid
the city of vice. IN a little speech the
Tammany leader said he was going
to Europe for health, not pleasure,
and introduced IsiGor Straus, president
of the educational alliance, as a man
who was acquainted With the c0ndi-
ion Of things on the East Side. add
ing:
Il hope you will give attentive hear
ing to his statements of the condition
of vice thaf exists there and that
after you have heard what he has to
say you will use your every effort to
correct those evils as far as lies in
your power"
Mr. Straus said he had met Mr..
Croker at dinner accidentally and had
talked with him for two hours over
the conditions in the East Side and
Mr.. Croker had asked him to talk to
the executive committee of Tammany
hall, and then addressing the COM
mittee, Mr. Straus told of what was
needed on the East Side to suppress
crime. He said that he. as Demo
crat, had frequently cast up to him
the statement that Tammany hall re-
ceives the greater parts of its revenue
from people III these evil conditions of
life and that no good can be accom-
plished unless the power of Tammany
hall is destroyed. Mr.. Straus had re-
peated this to Mr.. Croker and the lat
ter asked him to come before the COM
mittee with the statement and had
promised his aid.
Lewis Nixen then, by resolution, had
a committee Of five appointed to I'm
vestigate the moral conditions of the
city and to receive and suggest RENE
dies for the corrections of abuses,
Mr.. Nixon was made chairman and
the other members are George {. Clau-
SEN president of the park board, Col
onel Michael c. Murphy, president of
the health board; John ]. Scannell,
fire commissioner. and John w. kel-
Ter, charities commissioner.
Mr. Croker then arose and said:
Il have nothing to add to what has
been said to you by Mr.. Stratus, be-
cause he is familiar whit the matters
on which he has spoken to you. |
hope that this entire committee will
give its full strength towards helping
him and his work. We should heart
ily endorse his remarks and aid him
in the work of crushing out this awful
crime. And right here | WANT to re-
iterate what | said three weeks ago
to you. and that is that not one dol
lar comes into my possession from
landlords of pool rooms and houses OF
i'll fame, and If any one of you gen
tlemen are collecting from any of
these people you had better get out of
the organization. 1t has no use for
you You are disgrace to 1t. The
organization can't and won't stand
for any such thing
The meeting broke up in confusion
because of the attitude of Coroner
Fitzpatrick. the Tammany leader in
the Fourteenth assembly district who
denied that there were any disreputa-
BILE houses in his district. He said
that if there was vice there it was
in tenement houses and could not be
controlled To this Mr.. Croker eXcit-
edly replied that the coroner did not
know what could be done until some
effort was made.