El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1901-03-16
A Very Remarkable Story
OF a Very Remark
able Man.
What Manner of Man the Tan1fna a
ny Chief IS--A Trained PraCti.
AS a District Captain, and How
: He Applies His Learning.

Continued from last Saturday,
J.y William Allen White in the New
Hot lo ssn ago ! New York gentleman
seeking to purge the East Side tene
ments of vice. sought. not the chief Of
- police; not the police commissioners
not the mayor. but the fountain-head
of government in New York Croker. in
his council After introducing the Pc
fitioner for reform to his manor lords
Croker said:
II want you to give close attention
ID his statement and l want that, after
You have heard what he has to say. you
EilI use every effort to correct all those
evils as far as it lies in your power
After the reformer had finished
speaking and committee had been
appointed. Croker delivered this ukase:
Right here / want to reiterate again
what | said three weeks ago. and that
Is not a dollar comes into my hands
from the landlords of poolrooms or
houses of ill-fame. If any OF you
gentlemen have been collecting from
these people. you had better get out of
the organization. 1t hasn't any use
for you. You disgrace it. / am not
talking for political effect. / am talk
ing of what you should do honest
citizens. 1 hope if this committee
should ask anyone of you leaders here
for information. you will appear and
do The best you know how to make the
work entirely successful
Some, more venturesome than the
other barons. attempted to say that the
evn complained of was necessary. Let
the undisputed report of half-doZen
of the best newspapers in New York
continue To describe the royal wrath:
Croker bounded from his chair.
walked toward the coroner pointing
his finger at him. shaking it eXcitedly-
You say you don't know what you can
do?' he asked in angry tones. What
You want to do. draising his voice. is
.ltp act and to try and do something.
anyway. You can't stop it. you say
If you do nothing except to talk about
what you can't do. you can never do
anything at all If the people find
anything is wrong you can be perfectly
satisfied that the peoplecan put stop to
it and will. Right will right itself in
spite of wrong II can be righted if
yhis committee here goes to work with |
a squad of police. And now let's see |
whether the police can help us
Emperor William could have used no
stronger language to the Reichstag. |
The mental attitude Of the man who |
spoke thus was that OF dictator. Gro
Ter was not giving advice he was pro- |
eiaiming an edict- And his proclama- |
ton was sincere. The reader must |
remember that he is not dealing with
diplomat. nor with a chess-player
nor with a second-rate politician. Gro
ker is a savage with a chiid's mind.
Political issues are his toys and he
goes from one to another with no
thought of design or consequences. 1t
is only in recent years that Croker has
found even a passing interest in his
baubles. During the first ten years of
his reign the nation was stirred deeply
by great events. and moved manifestly
by the passing issues of the day. Gro
kerr taciturn. grim. uninterested. fur
sIvely conceaIing his ignorance in sto-
the panorama of his
tory like an Indian at the show. He
has boarded an untold treasure of COL
den silence which in these very latter
days he is beginning to spend like a
profligate for wanton speech. Prob
ably some sort of carnal sense of
power has been throbbing in him and
awakened a heavy. turgid ambition in
this giant and set him to babbling.
Bryan's First Battle was read to
Croker in 1897. when he called the au-
thor Bryant" He was so carried
away with the sincerity of the argu- i,
ment that he metaphorically capped 4,
his hands in delight. He has never
realized that there may be another side =,
% arguments that please him. And q,
Cookers enthusiasm for Bryan was I'M ,
ilfoyed. They told Croker how trusts +,
t2ndicapped young men. and Croker =,
,etold the story again and again to ev- =
Try listening reporter during the cam !;