The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1901-04-05
NUST ABOLISH VICE
Tammany Chieftain FavorS a
Cleaner New York
He ISSUES HIS ORDERS
To Prepare for the Next Mum
icipaI Election

New York, April 4.-Richard Croker. de
spitereports to the contrary, was never II
better health than he is now, according tc
DR.. William j. O'sullivan, who returned
on the t. Louis yesterday from visit tc
the rammany chieftain at Moat House
in Vantage, England. DR.. O'sulIivan said
that Mr.. Croker would be pack in time tc
shape and manage the municipal cam
paign for Tammany Hall, and that he
felt confident of victory.
1t was SAID last night that DR.. O'sulli-
van, who was counsel for Tammany be-
fore the Mazet investigating committee.
was the bearer of messages from Mr..
! Croker to his lieutenants regarding the
| preliminary work OF the campaign. While
/ DR.. O'Sullivan would not discuss this sub
! ject, he indicated that it was Mr.. Croker S
wish that Tammany should purge itself
Of any suspicion of completely with vice
before the campaign begins.
Mr.. Croker told DR.. O'SulIivan that he
was thoroughly in earnest when he in
structed the Tammany committee of five
to stop at nothing in its crusade against
vice. OF the disbandment of the commit
tee and the reorganization OF the police
department he had nothing to say.
Z telegraphed TO Vantage from Lon
a on as soon as I arrived there on Febru-
AT y 2S,' said DR.. O'Sullivan last night Ito
lea m if Mr.. Croker had returned from the
con tinent. He had been at Heidelberg
ana Vichy. 1 received an immediate ans
wer inviting me to Moat House, and I
spept twlve days there.
Il 3 aw Mr.. Croker every day at meals
and ~ lille we were riding together. He
IS an e1 pert horseman, and one day when
we retu med from riding I asked him to
step on ; he scales that were used for the
weighing OF jockeys. His weight was 2Ol
pounds.
He slee IS well, takes abundant exer-
Use and ha s good digestion. He has not
been so well in fifteen years as he is now.
he spends m UGH of his time riding across
he downs al d he enjoys this greatly.
''AEr Croker seemed much annoyed at |
interviews pun porting to have been given |
" him and pu blished in the American pa
9ers. He sslid he had given no interview |
IN politics since he went abroad. Many |
# his ffrfeu, Is, alarmed at the reports re-
yarding his. health, wrote to ask him if !
le was wen. an he seemed more annoyed |
It the anxiety which hao been caused
hem than at anything else.
Mr.. Croker also spoke of the false re-
,orts that had been printed regs riding his
assessment undtsi' tne English income tax
aw. I saw a Mr.. Jottam, of Letcombe,
he head OF the AK department in which
Mr.. Croker lives, and he showed me the
official record of his assessment It
showed that Mr.. CT SDl1er had been assess
ID on an income of $4,000. Last year the
ate was eight pence on the pound, or
about three per cent. This year. on ac-
,ount of the expenditures for the South
African war, the rate viii be about five
)er cent.
..NIr. Croker said he wished the tax
we're one hundred times as large as it is,
because that would show that he was
making money out of the Englishmen
through his stable.
"EIe is completely in touch with every
hing that is going on in New York City.
He said that Tammany was unalterably y
opposed to vice and that the instructions
given to the committee of five to do its
work thoroughly were sincere. He is
confident that the work done by the COM
nittee viii be productive Of a great re-
orm in the city.
mr.. Croker VIII be back in this coun-
~ in time to shape and direct the munic-
PAL campaign. He intends to demon
itrate that Tammany is in earnest in de
handing the publication of the city"
News of the defeat of the metropolitan
,olice plan by Governor Oden had not
cached England when DR.. O'Sullivan left
md he was therefore unable to give Mr.
Cookers views on this and othre recent
developments in the situation. He ex-
PRESSED himself as satisfied that Mr.. Gro
7er was never in better trim to lead a po-
itical fight than he is at the present