The age-herald., 1901-10-08
SHEPARD LOOKED
 ON AS WEAK MAN Reform Record Hurts Him as
 1ammany Leader MAY BE PUT UP AS A LOSER One Theory Is That croker Knows Tammany Can't Win and Is Throw ing Boquet at the Brook
 lyn Crowd.
MAY BE PUT UP AS A LOSER
BY ALBERT HALsTEAD.

Washington, October 7-(Special.)-No
 that the two candidates for Mayor of
 Greater New York have been selected in-
 terest is increased in Washington in this
 important political contest. The fact that
 Tam many selected as its candidate Ed
 ward M. Shepard, whose chief reputation
 heretofore has rested upon his attitude as
 reformer. is not regarded as strength
 ening the chances of the Tammany ticket.
 In fact, 1t is held by shrewd students of
 politics that MT. Shepard has lost his
 standing with the public by accepting
 nomination at the hands of an organiza-
 ton that he has so severely denounced in
 the past. It is feared that MT. Shepards
 professions of reform were not sincere
 and that he Is ready to forget his past professions in order to promote his own political future. But 1t Is felt that little could be expected of a man who during the late Presidents life spoke of him in such shockingly brutal terms in denounc- ing the policy of securing insular posses sions
 It Is argued on the other hand, that if
 MT. Shepard during the campaign poses
 as reformer, standing, as he has said by his former record there can be no
 earnest support given him by Tammany. Some think that Richard Croker, appre- ciating that Tammany cannot win this year, thought 1t a good opportunity to destroy one odolized 'reformer" and at the same time make the Mclaughlin crowd in Brooklyn feel little less sore
 because of the turning down of Comp
 troller Coler.
 Inc into fn hn hat
 Richard Croker would have been wiser to
 have selected some out and out Tammany
 man of good personal reputation, such as
 Representative George B. Mcclellan, who
 presided over the convention, than to go
 out of the way and choose former re-
 former. It is expected that MT. Low will
 be elected by large majority, notwith-
 standing the fact that so many thousand
 voters in New York cast their ballots un-
 thinkingly for any one whoo bears the Tammany brand.
 Few persons in Washington regard the New York campaign as having any na- | tional significance, notwithstanding | Chairman McClellans attempt to enthuse | the boys by telling them that 1t had. | The fact that Republicans, Democrats | and independents and all elements favor | able to good government are unitedly supporting MT Low destroys all elements 1 of partisanship, making the fight one be- l tween good government and the hunger for spells and everything that can be l made corruptly out of the administration l of a great city.
 | It is rather interesting to note that had l Senator Carter of Montana not signal | ized his closing hours in the Senate by defeating the rivers and harbors bill
 there would have been less of a surplus
 in the government revenues than Is now promised for the fiscal year. That rivers and harbors bill carried s50,o00.0O0 in ap- propriations and continuing contracts,
 and more than half of it would have
 been expended in the present fiscal year. | In this connection 1t is to be observed
 that the new Congress will probably pass | an appropriation bill for rivers and har- | bors improvements carrying an equally | large sum, so that this must be consid- | cred by Congress in determining what, 1 if any, changes are to be made in the governments revenue laws. It Is also to be remembered that if bill to promote
 the national merchant marine by the payment of subsidies is to be passed by | the coming Congress, from $5,000000 to $9, 100000 annually will probably be added to the total of government expenditures Then there are many propositions for the erection of government buildings that will be pushed at the coming session. The fact is that with large revenue surplus the tendency of Congress will be to make | rather extravagant appropriations. Then again, it is likely that naval appropria-
 tions for the next fiscal year will be larger. But, on the other hand, army ex- penditures promise to grow considerably smaller. The visits of General Corbin | and other departmental chiefs to the Philippines will result m reductions in
 expenditures. and then the situation in
 the Philippines. which has made 1t un- necessary to enlist the army to it's full
 strength, has caused the army expendi- lures to be smaller. The question of re-
 ducing the government revenues is one of the most important that will come be- | fore Congress, and so many things have | to be considered in this connection that
 1t Is impossible to know beforehand what
 is likely to be done. It Is a subject upon
 which capable legislators may we'll dis | agree.
 | One thing is certain, and that is that | nothing will be done. with the revenue
 laws; no revenue tax will be reduced and no reciprocity treaties which may have
 the same effect will be ratified unless the Senator finance committee. of which Senator Aldrich of Rhode Island Is chair
 man. and Senators Allison of Iowa and l Platt of Connecticut are leading mem
 bers, deems it best. The House ways and means committee and the speaker of the l House may propose to amend the reye-
 nue laws and stand firmly for time, but they must inevitably yield to the Senate finance committee, which is all-
 powerful. The latter committee may pre- | tend to make concessions to the House.
 but when these concessions are studied in
 connection with other provisions of the | same legislation 1t will be discovered that the Senate finance committee has had it's Ixxya lIxr fxx,~