New-York tribune., 1901-05-03
IN THE OpEN

DeVery, we note with pleasure. has taken our
ADVICE and thrown off the mask of virtue Yes
terday he INDUCED in TRADE against Justice
Jerome thereby showing his sympathy with
the criminals whom Justice Jerome and the
COMMITTEE OF Fifteen making so uncom-
Portable just DOW. II is better So Both honest
men ana criminals can get on more con-
Venienty with the attitude Of the Police Depart
ment frankly avOwed OF course. nobody pre-
Tiously was under any illusion. but II was
troublesome for both sides TO have 10 keen mn
The fiction that the police were irving TO detect
crime and were friendly to reformers attempt-
ing 10 enforce the law when everybody was
shaping his course OF action in accordance with
an opposite state of facts. II will be easier for
Derery not 10 pretend 10 aid the raiders when
IL Is well known that he tries 10 thwart them.
ana when no raider would trust his men for
an instant not 10 betray TO the laWbreakers anv
intenoed movement against them. The final
open alliance Of the city administration with
wee has been all along inevitable, spite of
ishmanys ostentatious reforming t.al last
winter A criminal organization. # mAy super
ncialiy pretend TO virtue. but when the real
serious issue is Joined by the law of it's own
being II is compelled 10 range itself on the side
OF vice. At crisis its interests are unfailingly
those OF the criminal classes
Apparently the crisis is reached wbatbar
the gambling house safes have Welded up
secrets which Devery realizes will prove the
intimate connection of the administration with
systematic gambling or the general tightening
or the lines for the coming mayoralty cam
paisn has made halfway measures idle. nj
last Tammany is AT bay. 1t no longer pretends
10 sympathy with efforts 10 clean up the town
Dnt SHOWS its teeth in undisguised rage as
the pursuit OF the protected criminals becomes
more earnest and the protectors Of those crimi-
hals are more closely approached Deyery's
temper is distinctly Illuminating. His denuncI-
arlons or Justice Jerome contrast strangely with
Mr Crokers parting invitation 10 all good Gift
zens 10 join in hunting down and ext,rnatinq
the vice which he was led 10 fear nigbt hoya
been permitted 10 flourish In spite of the good
intentions Of the organization Nersr,halass .,
is the Legitimate evolution toward avovvad ou,-
ance with crime, the earlier stages az which
we have already noticed Mr. Croker's y,rtua
bore fruit in Mr. Nixons committee. II started
DfaNei!' but i's courage oozed. and before
long IL went out or business. II was succeeded
as the exponent OF Iammany reforms by Colo
mel Murphy, who made brave promises about
enforcing the law, then concluded that the sun.
preston OF gambling was not police business
fhen relapsed into silence and now his ass,sta,,
voices the gamblers anger at the raiders who
interfere with their business IN spite of noItea
protection and all the efforts OF the tipsters n
warn fhem.
II is. OF course, no news 10 the raiders th,,
Devery does not like them. They have all
along been as much on their guard against him
as against the gamblers In their campaign 10
enforce the law. His outbreak ought greatly
70 encourage them. They are clearly making
the criminals nervous and their sympatbizerx