New-York tribune., 1901-10-14
SHEEHAN SEES VICTORY.

oihed Observation-Disclosures. 81 .OS2
Queens, Low and Tracy combined 2,25O
Richmond. Low and Tracy COM
oined 7O8 3O,O3S
Total Low and Tracy over Tam
many 10.416
JOHN C. sHEEHAN's FORECAST on THIS
YEARS VOTE.
Manhattan and The BRONX. fusion pIu-
10000
brookiyn. fusion plurality 10000
Queens. fusion plurality -............ 2.5OO
Richmond, fusion pIuruIfty......... I.OO0
Total fusion plurality this fail 3J.5OO
My reason for believing that Tammany will
be defeated by more than $4,000 plurality this
fall" said John c. Sheehan to a Tribune re-
porter yesterday. lis that the people are aroused
against them row Just they in 1894.
following the exposures by the Lexow Commit
tee. l a district leader in Tammany Hall
then and ought TO know something about IL.
If anything. 1 think the feeling against Tam
many is more intense now than it was then. but
IT is fact that all reasonable men will concede
that Tammany has far greater resources now
than it ever has had. The organization. handi-
capped as it is with a leader whose record as an
English country squire angers even the loyal
members of the Tammany organization, and by
the fact that criminal completely with the
gamblers has been proved against it-laboring
under these handicaps. Tammany will still.
account Of it's large number of well paid office
holders and the number of merchants and corr
porations 1t can squeeze. make game fight for
it's official existence.
HAD PATRONAGE IN 1894. BUT LOST.
But Tammany had the patronage in 1894.
and still it was driven from power by the voters.
who were disgusted with the way things
going on Colonel Strong IN the old city rolled
up a plurality OF 46 1S1. even with the police
friendly TO the ruling administration. But for
its enormous corruption fund and its leverage
on account of It's officehOlders. I should be in
clined 70 say that the fusion plurality against
Tammany in the territory OF the old city this
fall would equal that Of 1904 and it may do
that anyway.
Il consider that thirty thousand in Manhattan
and The Bronx as the estimated fusion plurality
is rational and I shall be disappointed if it does
not reach that. The signs multiplying that
the people are not with Tammany they were
in 1897. AT that time the administration OF
Colonel Strong was somewhat on the defensive.
Things had occurred TO make many people be-
Iieve that their liberties going TO be de-
stroyed. The Raines law and RoOseveltism both
unpopular, and the German Democrats
were anxious for a chance to turn the reform
administration out But even with all this feel
ing against the outgoing administration, 1t is
worth the while OF Mr.. Croker and his friends
TO note that there was in 1891 an anti-Tammany
plurality OF 19416.
"Tammany in the campaign OF 1897 IN this
county rolled up a slender plurality Of 1O622
against It's combined opponents. but across
the bridge the Low and Tracy votes combined
gave plurality of 27.0S2 Queens followed suit
with plurality OF 225O. and Richmond with
one of TO6, giving a combined plurality OF 30O3S
in the three boroughs as against the Tammany
plurality OF 1O622 IN Manhattan. net anti
Tammany plurality OF 59+lo ,,.d m .hs TR're "a - city
in Manhattan and The Bronx. 6.93S in Brooklyn
1.O06 in Queens. and 5S3 in Richmond. or a.
total of 21 693 In the whole city
II don't undertake to say that all Of these
21 900 votes will come to the fusion ticket this
wear. but / do assert with confidence that we
will get two-thirds of them. There is nothing in
the Tammany ticket TO attract the George men.
while the fusion ticket both in this borough
and in Brooklyn they have representative men,"
why do you think the plurality Will be as
much as 10000 this year when Bryan carried
the county by over 10000 last year?' Mr. Shee~
han was asked
ONLY ONE TRUST THIS YEAR.
The fight last year was on national lines. with
several newspapers of large influence steadily
hanging away for Bryan the trust Issue
National lines are this year wiped out. The only
trust in the field is the Tammany trust. and the
men who hate trusts all lined up against
Mr. Croker's close corporation. There are more
powerful influences working against Tammany
created those influences. There has been
ganized and systematized grating and squeez-
ing and coercion for every man who has come
within the reach Of Tammany's official power
Croker struck the keynote when he declared
he was working for his own pocket all the time
After that all the smaller fry had their cue.
and they too began working for their parucular
rockets all the time The Ice Trust with Van
Wyck with his pockets cTammed tull or snaress
and the Fire Department. with Marks selling is
stufY at his own figures. are samples But ths
.yraftfns' went further than that Every small
Dealer on the East Side was made 10 feel the
screws Jew peders and Italian bootOlackS
,yare counpeIled 70 buy three or four chOWder
marty tickets at So apiece once OF twice year.
80 the new Croker system of running every
+btno, on a commercial basis steered by skilled
IagaI talent who have been remarkably sue
csssfuT In most cases In keeping within the law
80 been developed and pushed along until it
rs cot TO be a second nature with the ma
to-J,,- ~ Tammany officials to expect something
%vbsre thew are not entitled 20 anything and
- sgbt for that something until they get It,,
- natter whether any one is hurt or not.
.,This system has made the people sore. Every
1,,. shopkeeper in this borough can tell his tals
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