The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-09-06

~ judge, and a scort of sub
ordinate Tammany leaders
or ofIiceholders implicated in the ice
trust scandal have been found out,
the Scranton Times "has no apology
for them" Yet it was this same Judge
Van Wyck, holding at the time Zee
trust stock in his inside pocket, who
wrote the Democratic party's furious
onslaught upon trusts and who, as
New York states representative on the
platform committee helped to secure
the adoption of that plank by the
Kansas City convention. And it is
this same Tammany gang of trading
tricksters that is furnishing large
part of the snews of war for the
Bryan presidential campaign.
Rumor places the Tammany contri-
button at 50, 100000. We have no means
of learning what the figures are; but
William E. Curtis, the Washington
correspondent Of the Chicago Record,
who is one of the best informed men
in the United States concerning cur
rent affairs, especially of a political
nature, writes from New York to his
paper, which is independent with
Bryanistic leanings: 1.-THE Democrats
seem to be well supplied with funds
everywhere. The Republicans cannot
even guess where the Democrats get
their money. Croker can get all the
money he wants and can furnish the
national committee with an abund-
&c 6 l. col
terest in the election of Bryan, for
Tammany hall has methods of raising
campaign funds that are not within
the reach Of ordinary political organi~
cations. Through the police of this
city millions of dollars can be raised
in a few days. Every saloon, every
gambling place, every dsreptuable
house, every pool room, every quacli
doctor, every crook and every other
individual and interest that is exposed
to police persecution or prosecution
can be assessed for any sum Mr.
Croker thinks necessary, and he has
the machinery to collect it, Every
groceryman who puts a basket of po-
tatoes on the sidewalk or exposes a
tray of radishes or lettuce in front of
his shop can be made to pay for the
privilege. Every corporation in New
York-and there are thOusands-par-
ticularly those who furnish supplies
to the city government, and others
that are dependent upon police pro-
lection or can be pinched in any way,
know by experience how easy it is for
Tammany hall to get campaign funds.
1T was less than two years ago
that the city authorities made a raid
upon the Manhattan Railroad company
from several different directions be-
cause the management refused a COM
pressed-air company controlled by Mr..
Croker and his friends permission to
hang their pipes from the arches Of
the elevated tracks. The board of
health condemned the railroad cars
as unsanitary and forbade their use;
the same body condemned the struc-
ture of the elevated railroad in several
important places and ordered it re-
moved and replaced, which would cost
a million or more dollars. The board
of public works passed a resolution
directing the removal of the elevated
tracks and stations from Battery park,
which is city property, and various
other orders were issued for the en-
barrassment of the company although
they were never obeyed. The company
declared that these attacks were
intended for blackmail; the news
papers took them up, the stock
of the Manhattan elevated went
tumbling down the scale on
the stock market, until the Tam
| many people, who were holding up,
We're compelled to abandon the fight
| There have been, however, a good
many reports of a compromise between
Mr.. Croker and the elevated railway
people on a financial basis"
This is the crowd which is backing
| Bryan most energetically in New York
state. Even the local Democrats, when
| trying a few weeks ago to ratify the
| Kansas City nominations, were not
| content to call on local oratorical
| lights but had to send to Tammany to
| forward speakers for the occasion,
| mus Nlluol PINS elliillltlIS llltlHOuS ana
morals. Can an outcry against trusts,
| emanating from such a source, seri-
ously alarm the thinking people of
| the United States? No one is defend
| ing the evils of bad trusts nor saying
| that legislative restrictions and super
vision should not be increased over all
forms of capitalistic combination. But
|
snorter a type that it would be pru-
| dent to elect to office or put in a posi-
tion to control or hamper a national
administration? We think not, and
the Times. Wen wager, in its own
heart thinks not too.
Sentiments expressed by Mr.. Hill
and Mr.. Croker indicate that there
is but little concert between the EN-