The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-12-01
NEW YORK CITY
In A TURMOIL
Reform Forces Are Arraysd Against
Tammany and Its Chief.
COMPLICATED SITUATION.
COMPLICATED SITUATION.
Bishop Peters Crusade ~ ga INST Vice
par,akc- OF Nature of !. Kev..u-
tion-Many Cana .da,cs to Choosc
From 10 Oppose T.,,nn.auy.

NEW YORK, Nov. So-Chaos describes
the podt-ca. situation mere at the present
time Richard croker be..eyes that Tam
many is stronger To-day than it has peen
! IN many years. He tnlnks the vote casu
for Bryan IS u Gear demons Grafton on tnat
point. This op4nlon is not shared by the
snrewd and far-seeng politicians IN the
olsan4Aat9on. Iney Cannot cio.ee tle.r ears
against the rumble of revolt ltlat is heard
everywhere! They cannot smut Their eyes
against the evidence presented IN every
Newspaper OF hostility to Tammany.
NearIy every day some new reform or.an-
iZatit.l is born or some Old that md pass
ed out of existence IS revived. BlSlop
Potter, it is felt more ana more every
every day, started q revolution when
| he began the crusade against vice on the
| east side OF the city. The great bishop
has proHted by the b.unders of DR.. Park
hurst and his society in their efforts to
bring about better conditions. The ya-4ant
Clergyman meant Wei; he did brave work;
but the methods that We're employed I'M
fortunately allenateG a multitude OF SYM
pathizers and the last state is worse tnan
the 4lrst. Inc ueGa. Is hat marked the pro-
gress of the Parkhurst assault were re-
pu.sive and nIUseating, While that fierce
first attack lasted the daily newspapers
were regarded with horror in the homes
whose doors swung outward against the
sensational publication OF criminal condl-
| tons. DR.. Parkhurst sincerely thought
that it was necessary to exhibit the VI
cious size of New York in ali its hideous-
ness; that reform could come only in that
way: out he made m6calculatLon and SO
accomplished nothing. Bishop Potter aims
not at the exposure of vice. but at the de-
struction OF the Government under which
vice fiourishes. This line OF attack has
brought to his standard following larger
and far more influential than Dr. Park
hurst ever had.
TAMMANTY CONFIDENT.
In the battle to win the control OF Great
er New York next fall the inner directory
of Tammany confidently count upon VIC
tory. They believe that the forces antag-
onstic to the organization cannot be SO
aarmonized and welded together as to
present an unbroken front under single
leadership. And in this forecast of the
future it cannot be denied that they are
fortified by the eX7erience of the past.
Tammany would have been beaten in the
last contest if the Independents and the
Republicans could have united. Seth Low
would have won easily if the Republicans
had not insisted upon running candidate
of their own. Is Mr. Low The man now?
Perhaps tie is, but there is little or no
evidence of it. Then he was Mugwump,
Hnd SO high authority as Mr.. P.att pro-
claims that he S now sound Republican
Muswumpery has vanished as a political
factor but there are no 'shouters'' for
Low in sight or within hearing. The
Republicans in the last CANA gn were
CAD apparently to see him on their plat
forms, but they do not seem very anxious
to thrust mayoralty honors upon him.
After all they like man like Roosevelt,
not a sanity refOrmer like Low
FORMIDABLE OPPOSITION
The fact is that the situation is full OF
complications. The opposition to Tam
many within the Democracy is so formld-
able that it may feel itself strong enough
to put candidate of its own in the field
or attempt to dictate who the candidate
shall be. The leaders of this movement
have their political home in the old Man
haitian Club, which Croker did his best
to destroy. but which has survived his
assault and is now on better footing
every way than it has been in fifteen
or twenty years The club will hold with
in the next two weeks a great anniver-
Sary celebration. and it is not impossible
that the jollitication will be the first step
toward a new movement which shall have
for its object Democratic reorganization
locally. and it may be nationally. The
trouble with the Manhattan Club is that
its members care very little about Prac-
teal politics. They do not look TO politics
as a business or a profession, like the
men that compose MIR. Cookers Demo-
cratic Club. nearly every one of whom
holds an office of some kind. Running
the Machine" is distasteful to them, and
the Democratic masses have never taken
kindly to the organization. 1t is, or was
the Union League of the Democracy,
without either the wealth. the vigor or
the fervid partisanship of the splendid
Republican organization. But, beyond all
question it represents the best elements
in the Democracy of New York. Posi-
hly it represents the only Democracy of
the latitude of Manhattan Island. for
there arc thoughtful men around that
affirm Mr. Cookers club bears the wrong
label-that "autocratic" would better de-
scribe it than does the word Democrat
ic," which it tiaunts on its flag.
SCORE OF CANDIDATES.
Is Croker right or is he wrong? That is
the question to be decided. The OPPOSE
ton to him has a score of candidates
against any one that he may decide to