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Tnmmany's Setback the Leading
Topic of the Week-New York will
BE Cleaned Up but Not Closed Up
by the New AdministratiOn-Cu
Gus Effect of Mayors Chair on Its
Occupant-The Eloquent, if Not
Elegant Speech of Noted Golf
GirI--Attenpt of the Theater Trust
Photographic Publicity of a Sim
guIarIy Beautiful Face-Wan
Street News and Views.
New York, Nov. 9.-Without being
such a landslide as that which swept
William L. Strong, the last fusion can
didate into the Mayors seat, the result
of the election is still decisive enough
to please the most violent anti-Tam-
many man. There is hardly a district
where Tammany held it's own. That
Low should have carried Manhattan
and the Bronx constituting the old
New York city, is surprising enough,
but not so surprising and by no means
so dismaying to Tammany as the cleo
ton of Jerome to the district attorney
ship, by a vote we'll ahead of his ticket
There is no doubt but that the Tam
many leaders made special efforts to
defeat Jerome. That they failed seems
to indicate lack of control very I'M
usual in the organization. The figures
show that Jerome won votes in the in
most strongholds of the tiger, and
against men, some of whom have had
the fear of term of seclusion In strip
ed clothing from the turmoil or poll
tics, as an incentive to work against
him. The remainder of the vote is not
especially significant, except for the
surprising way in which Ladd, the
Democratic candidate for controller
ran behind his ticket in his own Dor
ough of Brooklyn, and the close nsnt
for sheriff between Oakley, the Demo-
cratic candidate, who is personally very
popular, and O'Brien, the fusionist'
who has been a little of everything IN
his time Mayor Van Wyck OF ice
trust fame encountered an avalanche
on his journey toward the supreme
Court bench and was showed under by
many thousands of votes worse than
the rest of the ticket.
To the query that comes after the
Knockout, what hit us?" there has
succeeded, in the Tammany mind, the
question incident to recovery OF sense
What next?' AS to this, opinions
are many Croker is done. Little
doubt of that. But who takes his
placer. John +. Carroll, his right-hand
man, says some. Carroll represents
the Sullivan Devery interests, and
seems a likely candidate. whoever
the nominal leader of Tammany Is, ne
must be acceptable to the SulliVans,
for their domination begins with the
defeat Of Shepard. and to-day, state
Senator Timothy Dry Dollar sullivan
who pulled his district almost intact
out Of chaos, is the biggest man In
Tammany Hall. II is interesting TO
note that Charles w. Morse. the leader
OF the ice trust, who has always been
ranked as a Republican. Is spoken OF
by Tammany men as likely 10 WELD
strong influence in Tammany here
after. He viii undoubtedly represent
corporate interests.
New York is asking itself to-day
what kind OF city Il Is 20 be in 1909
have the opinion Of a man who Is
very close 10 Mr. Low and Mr.. jerome
HH 70 what Kind OF a city u viii not
~. IL VIII not be a "wido-open" town
NOR VIII "a be- closed tight
II our ticket goes through" said
We man few days before election
pew York win get "a common sense
communication. Low and Jerome WILL