The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-05-25
rAmmANY,s COMING DOWNFALL.

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The air is full Of predictions Of victory
for the opposition to Tammany Hall in
New York politics. The Republican
local politicians and the Democratic pol
iticians who have been thrown out of
Tammany Hall have united, as they
! have at intervals during the past forty
years, and now look forward to being
able to get the offices away from the
Tammany people and take possession Of
them themselves.
There is nothing more than this involved
in the forthcoming great struggle in New
I York city. The issues are just the same
| as they were when Mayor Strong and
| the anti-Tammany Republican combine
was elected. They are the same as they
were ten years before when a similar
union was made through the capacity
for political manipulation of the late
President Arthur and several Republican
and anti-Tammany politicians were
elected to a few important municipal Of
fees. Tammany has now, as 1t had on
every such previous occasion, offended
| the public opinion of the community It's
! police force is found now, as it was
often found in the past to be, through
certain Of it's responsible officers acting
in collision with criminals Hush money
has been paid recently to police officers,
as it has been paid since New York first
! had a police force.
The opposition on the other hand are
making the most extensive claims to re-
form intentions. If only they are paced
in power all the occasions of corruption
! win lie wiped out, and New York city
burden of social crime and political and
official wrongdoing about which we
have heard every day in the week, Sun
days included, since first any of us be-
gan to read the newspapers.
So far as may be judged at this dis
lance of time and space, Tammany Hall
will suffer one of those defeats which
when they are accomplished, look as if
the end Of that organization had come
The people are aroused; or, If they are
mot, they certainly ought to be by this
time Every daily paper in New York
! city, Of every color Of political belief. is
filed day after day with stories of Tam
many unrghteousness. Every newspaper
correspondent in the city sends to his
paper, more or less frequently, accounts
of the prevailing corruption and wrong
doing in official circles The belief has
been cultivated sedulously that New
York society is polluted mainly because
of the example of the Tammanv people.
There prevail drunkenness, social vice OF
every known and many unknown
varieties, the laws are dlsregarded, the
insolenee of Office is unbounded and
ignorance and disease is the lot of the
poor-al1 because number of clever men
have the running of it's politics, and they
are recognized to be in politics-as, by
the way, are professional politicians In
every city in the country-just for the
money gain which is involved.
1t is impossible to fight successfully
against such forces. The victory will in
all human probability, unless some I'M
foreseen event should arise, rest with the
opponents of Tammany Hail. The ma
jority of the voters will the day after
election regard themselves as having
achieved great thing for the city, and
that it will be all reform sunshine for
all time thereafter. This always follows
when Tammany is overthrown at cleo
tons. It always will; and the good peo-
pie who lead IN the operation will forth
with proceed to take possession of
the valuable offices which they find at
their disposal. and to administer them
pretty much as they had always been
administered before. In Ave years there
will not be trace of the work done
in any improved condition of official life
that anyone of ordinary discrimination
can discover. save that few reformers
viii have been still in Office. This was
the case five years after Tweed's over