New-York tribune., 1901-10-12
MR.. SHEPARD'S ASSOCIATES.


The notion that the Tammany ticket headed
by Mr.. Shepard represents something else than
CroIerism is completely disposed Of by the
nomination Of the men whom Mr. Shepard hopes
10 have associated with him in the conduct Of
the city government. Let Mr.. Shepard be as
good as he will. Croker and Sullivan will still
be in power, If their candidate for Mayor can
drag the Tammany ticket with him into office.
Under the new charter the borough president is
almost as important the Mayor, so far as
patronage and public improvements go, and he
has two-thrds as much influence as the Mayor
in the Board of Estimate and AppOrtionment
which controls the city budget That. office has
been allotted to representative of Tim" Sui
livan-Isaac Fromme, a person chiefly notable
for his gOrging abilities at beefsteak eating con-
tests, and commonly reported to be one of the
attorneys of the gambling combine Mr.. Shep-
ard must be proud TO run on the same ticket
with him. The Croker candidate for District
Attorney, Henry w. Unger, is also a witness to
the fact that Tammany is not reforming. as Mr..
Shepard's personal supporters would persuade
u.s. but rather is prepared TO "stand for" all
the denominations of the last four years. He
was an assistant to Asa Bird Gardiner of fra
grant memory, and was driven from the Dis
trict Attorneys office by Mr.. Philbin, who
nomination as preferable to Mr.. Unger's
"think it would be likely TO do less harm to
''the cause of decency." Mr. Unger is close
friend of Carroll, and is the attorney for
the police officers who have been Caught
with the goods on them while doing the work
OF Devery. The candidate for Sheriff John r.
Oakley. is an Avenue A salOonkeeper and the
candidate for Register Frank j. Goodwin, was
formerly Il salOOnkeeper in Eighth-ave., and
then became Croker's instrument to defeat
Sheehan in his district. These few of the
men whom Mr. Shepard, with professions of
devotion TO good government is trying to place
in control of this county or borough.
For the Supreme Court Croker has named
Robert A Van Wyck, the present Mayor, the
scandals of whose administration are too well
known for comment His nomination is the
seal of party approval on Mayor Van Wyck's
career. 1t is meant as his vindication and re-
ward for the faithful service to the lord of
Vantage which Mr.. Shepard less than ten
months ago so accurately described when he
urged that the thing to do is to defeat the
organization which is in power today" saying:
We have in this city the heads of departments
and bureaus who do not take their orders from
the Mayor but from the source from which they
their political preferment They know
that the Mayor himself takes his orders from the
There is little that speaks of any intention on
the part of Tammany to stand for Shepardism
instead of making Shepard stand for Tam
manyism of the old "disgraceful blot on munich
pal history" style. Another candidate for the
Supreme Court is Mr.. Charles w. Dayton, whose
record as a reformer makes him look as queer
on that ticket as Mr.. Shepard himself, and who
is without even the excuse now offered by Kings
County, that the hospitality of Tammany is
accepted for the great moral purpose of turning
and numbering the host at a favorable oppor-
tunity. In this case the association is appar-
emily. so far Mr.. Dayton is concerned to get
an office, and, so far as Tammany is concerned
to bring back some of Mr.. Dayton's friends to
the support of Fromme, Unger and the rest of
Carrolrs and Sullvan's proteges. On the night
of October Is, 1897, at Terrace Garden Mr.
Dayton, then opposing the election of Van
Wyck, said:
My position in this campaign has been said TO
be by my friends in Tammany Hall one of sor-
and profound regret TO them They had
builded for me splendid future. They had
pointed out in their minds eye q career that I