The age-herald., 1901-11-17

T 0o Ew YORK. November l6.-Tam-
 MI many Halls defeat in the last
 N election may mark the retire
 AS ment of Richard Croker from
 ie political arena and his final efface-
 en from the politics of New York, of
 hich he has been the absolute dictator
 pr so many years. Aside from the pass
 ig of Croker which is the most talked
 bout and locally the most important fcident pertaining to the election, the 'erdict registered at the polls Tuesday f last. week has a most important bear ng upon the politics of the nation, and one that the peopel of New York city have not had time as yet to realize fully.
 Croker's defeat brings David Bennett Hill out from his enforced retirement. At one bound the discrcdited former lead CT of the Democracy of the Empire state is placed upon pinnacle as one of the most conspicuous men In his party in the United States, and as the one man around whom the Democrats of New York may rally and reorganize after their recent crushing defeat The slogan of Hill q am Democrat" is likely to be the ral- lying cry of the Democracy in the next national campaign, and as matters stand today David Bennett Hills life ambition to be the nominee of his party for the Presidency seems in a fair way to be gratihed.
 The retirement of Hill was due solely to Croker. The two men have been poiit- ica1 and personal antagonists for years Hill has been supreme among Democrats in the upper part of the state, and has refused to ally himself with the party in New York city. His career as Gov ernor was not to Croker's liking, either md he proved himself an intractable quantity. Many other men once high in the councils of the Democracy have done the same, and all have shared a similar iate-extinction in politics. This policy q Mir. Crokers has resulted in the coa- lsscing of these men into faction that now one of power. The reorganization that is likely to come in Tammany as a r,sult of last weeks defeat is sure to bling these men to the front again, and tie Democratic party in New York will rtlly around the standard of Hill as the only leader who can guide them to vic- t,ry and power again.
 ] As for Croker, he retires into privete lfe-not obscurity. for man like Cro- Ter cannot be forgotten, and his utter snces on things political will always be boked for and carry weight-one of the most execrated and atthe same time one of the best loved men that ever directed the vast powers that the leadership of Tammany Hall confers. His career has been one that has never had it's equal in the political records of American life. For years he has ruled with the powers of an autocrat the greatest city of the United States. He has elevated men to high position with a word and has de- graded them with a nod. He has dicta- ted the nominations of his party to every elective or appointive office in this great city, from Mayor to alderman, and has controlled the actions of his men after their installation in official place. Woe to the man who, blinded by his possession of office, has dared to disregard the mandates of his creator. That man was at once marked for political oblivion, and New York is strewn today with the corpses ok those who have forgotten that the same power that made them could unmake.
 Giiroy and Grant ex-Mayors; Bourke Cochran. ex-Congressman, and David B. Hill, ex-Governor and ex-United States Senator, are eases in point, for the power of Tannany Hall under Croker's lead ership has ramifed into State and Con-