Evening star., 1900-11-19
THE WAR ON VICE
Bi hop Potter's Efforts Begin to Show
Good Results.
TOUGH RESORTS BEING CLOSED
Question Whether NewYork's Busi-
ness Element Will Aid Him.
ATTITU q DE OF GRO ER
Special Correspondence of The Evening Star.

ments are extremely interesting, but the
chief question is whether they are i'm
portant Tammanv Heu noIittciars soon,
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tA'' 'ie p'S' means '"9-iiea''
ana the leaders on the East Side are ap-
parently convinced of the sincerity of
Croker for tbev ara ordering tho differant
rssor,s IN tbo ..poz I,b.,, ,;.,. ,.,
M, -. iteu I1ish 'i'1' ''oseu
up Inc lammany Hail reform wave ap-
pears not to have swept over the Tender
loin. but the Bowery is undergoing a puri-
fvtne nrocass sucb as bas NOT baan seen IN
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tiiis ci'3 SINCE the Gays Oh 'he iate Mayor
Strong And 1t was the Bowery district
and the East Side of the city that attracted
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u us'ueS 'sa-hst wee
Inc probabilities are that Richard Croker
has drawn a sword that will cut both ways
and that will have the sharDest kind of
edges First of all 1t is extremely i'm
probable that he will be able to convince
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likely Therefore to rnal,s dacided inroids
upon the church and reformer vote unless
ne consents TO allow the nomination OF
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ceeds apIfnst the iiya tteners with vim ana
vigOr he will lose thousands of votes for the
Tammany ticket. just as Mayor Strongs
>attdchS Oh wee toTt GSHeIat lraCE 'Iou- %
test " N
hen W. l.. Strong was mayor ana When
- 1n,isi b,Tr.t affnr+s 1yar mn
f0iI- 90 ~. MI. In a.,fn~ca the laws T3mt
the outcry was So strong that even q man
OF stroEg character like Theodore Roose-
He vent 10 WASHINGTON To accent an as
sist.,,f sacrefaryshir If h.. had made the
rae for s,o,-4rror at thar time he would
g.. -, aaf.rtaG b,. bundrads Of -hou-
sands of votes
Roosevelt at that time held the theory
IA - = "a - 80 ~ anforcs i IiS
TraSt. " of - nersmrs Who hGnght : cents
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w "T' - ~ ~ go ", ,r 49, Tba, tbe mass of
bricL ard ion and stone in that section
Of n III v-as ELa y furnace made him
DarsmnaIiy one of the most unnoDular men
l., tba cit, That no was able 10 recover
his nooIIaritv so quickly shows that he is
Iii ~ a Strnrp NAV in many respects.
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What the Heforners VIII fiHu.
II is probable that Bishop Potter and the
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gate vice will find that about all that can
be done will be TO regulate the vice of the
rnstronoIis and prevcnt the immoral from
p''-' "iu i,. - sa 8
haunting their iihhiofaiits III 'iie iaces Vi
the respectable elements of society. The
breaking I'D of the dives during the last
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tered vice through the tenement mouse ais
trlcts and through the apartment houses IN
the upper poiliolis ol tie SitS ~ 10 ptop
able that II even increased the amount OF
vice, Tor the reason tnat IL mace young
people who had no special fondness for the
TeEderlo1n and the Bowery thoroughly Ia
miliar with immortality in some of its worst
forms
10 ,l't ,Iie mn "a % me-
interests of the city, which hold the balance
OF power, prefer wide OPEN town to a
city that is clean morally, for the reason
aiat .hS ilnllot min d .1Mn hiahes business
Ihat dives existed tba, mad The criissGa
of Dr. Parkhurst and the career of the
LeXow committee success, resulting ulti-
mately in the downfall of the Tammany
administration and the triumph of Mayor
Strong by union of the republican and