Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-11-08
They Threaten to Expel Him
From leadership Unless He
Voluntarily Retires.
David B. Hill Looming Up as a
State Leader..Tammany
Reorganization.

i
ties with the CRIME of the gutter al
brought municipal government down
the level of the Sums. Under rule
brute force Tammany has discourage
decency and promoted brutality and is
norance. The present defeat of Tan
many is one of the worst 1t has suffere
III Its history. 1t is driven out Ct til
city and county offices. and many polit
| zeal regulations and careers go down /
oblivion in the fall of Tammany TIL
men OF the organization who will suffe
by this defeat are today intensely bill
ter. All their explana tons and excuse
/ are condensed into two words. Fror
one end of the city to another Tam
many men in anger and bitterness o
/ spirit are saying: .sD---- Croker.,
! Many thousands OF times since The re
suit of the election was known hav
! these words been spoken by RUNE,
Tammany men. From the borough o
Brooklyn, from disgraced and discred
tied democratic leaders who were In ALT
ance with Tammany comes a strong an
sWering chorus of D. Croker,'
trlct leaders of Tammany, say thai
Croker alone is responsible for defeat
and that his career as master of ths
organization is ended They saw Crok.
er at Vantage and Devery at the head
OF the police department, run in the in
terest of the lowest forms of vice were
too heavy a load to carry. Then came
Croker from Vantage. The first thing
he heard were the protests of the men
who really had Tammany's interests at
heart against the continued retention of
Devefy His answer was the posting
oil Devery' $, name for membership In the
club. which was considered a persona!
affront by every man who objected to
Devery. They made their protest felt at
the polls, which accounts for the stump
in the Tammany vote in the stroncholds
of Tammany.
Then Croker, still ignoring the sensi-
Die advice of the decent men in Tam
many. tied up with Sullivan and the
gambling ring, and permitted Sullivan
and Carroll to dictate the county nom
nations, Then he trieo to fool the peo
pie by taking up Shepard as a respect
able cloak to detract attention from
himself. Devery and Deveryism. and
TO try to make a political issue of the
campaign. Had he succeeded in doing
this he might have won, as on a politi-
cal division under ordinary circum-
stances this city is democratic. He
ialied utterly, thereby disproving his
boosted shrewdness as leader.
Already there is a report that Cro,s.
er Will quickly retire from leadership.
designating John F. Carroll as his sue
cessor II is also openly threatened that
unless ne retires when the committees
meet in December to reorganlze his
name will be dropped from membership.
which would be equivalent to forcible
expulsion. No other leader of Tam
many was ever so friendless in defeat
as croker. He is no longer feared. He
Is only hated. The old leaders whe
helped him rise to power despise HIM
The new friends Of his brief career of
Insolent dictation can not help him.
Attic Croker denied yesterday that he
rad relirquished the leadership of Tam
many Hall to John f. Carroll, il is
believed that ii such a step has not been
taken something of the kind will soon
be done. A close fr!erG of Croker said
Yesterday that all he woul,! ask the ex =.
ecutive committee would be to let him
go without making fuss about it. He
said there would probably be no resolu-
ion passed. and that when Cookers
came would be proposed for reelection
Is chairman of the finance committee
At the annual reorganization he would
tecline in favor of Carroll.
This would be an effectual ending of
Sroker's career, career which hereto
ore has been one of undisputed power
Z the organization which he controlled.
He has ruled the city as a king has
Welded his scepter over an empire Ap-
continents have been held up until he
has been consulted, either here or in his
home in England. No political boss In
history has ever so completely do,ni-
1ated party as Croker has dominated
rammany.
The news that Carroll has been chosen
&c fill, in way, the shoes left empty by
he squire. came as no great surprise to
hose of the elect in Tammany Hail. and
~ the rank and file 1t was received with
Many practical politicians
II Tammany are already pulling them
,elves together as best they can and
flaming for the future. That there will
De some sort of reorganization is not
lenied, but the extent of it can not be |
'stimated at this time. The organization
viii not only be without patronage. but
will be poweress in the next state con-
'ention. The Croker Mclaughlin Muir |
,hy combination that was in control of
y, To cta -,
lied like house of cards in the defeats
# Tuesday. 1t is predicted that David |
}. Hill will promptly resume the state
leadership of the party and will con-
rol the next state convention.
In the campaign just ended Croker
vas on trial by his own organization. /
lie dictated the nominations and turned /
lown men who We're the choice OF a /
arge majority of the district leaders. 1t I
vas his ticket. and he made the issues
+ the campaign. He was himself the
ssue, because he endorsed Devery and I
IAN Wyck. His long time and loyal I
riend. John Whalen, was turned down
nd Inundated because he had offended /
)every. IL the ticket had won there
tould have been no reorganization. In
he scramble for patronage differences
,ouId have been overlooked and hatreds
or time forgotten. But he lost The
erdict of his organization was against
I'm, and of all who fail none is left SO
riendless as the political leader beaten
y his own party. TamInany will be
eorganized to some extent and the
quire will rule no more The Tam