The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-12-14
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BY JOHN MARTAeL
DIV YORK, December 1B,

M Ew YORK December 1s.-The
 vote pesled at the municipal elee-
 \ v ten which elected Beth Low mayer and W, T. Jerome dls-
 triet attorney has been consider ed the voice of the people deuone- ing Tammany rule, The last eleeion ln- dicated that the people had no reason
 to feel satisfied with the mayor or the district attorney, It ls nonsense to say that New York eity's voters are a pend
 ulum swinging this way and that way. The fact is that popular education has
 brought te the polls great body Of cit- isens who are not the property of any party, but electors who desire to bring
 into the city government men capable
 and intelligent to run It's local govern
 ment machinery. They indicated their approval of the Croker faction in Novem-
 Der. 1901 and of the fusion ticket in 1909.
 It is safe to say that had Mayor Low and District Attorney Jerome been candl- dates last month that they would have
 been more than defeated. They would have been buried. Lows feeble efforts are well understood and the district attorneys
 wild crusades against gamblers have ceased to interest and have begun to an- noy decent citizens. Leaving out of con
 eideration tho evil done by gambling and
 the tacit understanding that 1t was to
 be suppressed. the public at large is
 weary of the opera bouffe perform
 ances of Mr. Jerome. His antics have
 brought ridicule on the city and county.
 His raids have grown more yellow as l time has gone by. Today he claims the l defectlVe who
 has all the requirements of @ stage
 sleuth. He changes his appearances rap
 idly by the means of wigs and reversible I coats. He can be a Beau Brummel at one moment and a tramp at the next
 This parsonage is credited with obtaining
 entrace to the most carefully guarded and exclusive gambling houses and plays
 faro" or roulette" with the right hand
 while his left fingers the trigger of a con- cealed revolver. Having sworn to losses made in these places, warrant Is issued and a police with scaling ladders burst into the premises and seize concealed gambling paraphenalia- When the police are in possession the deputy commission CT of police appears and likewise the dis trict attorney These raids have been made time and time again and the pris- oners are generally discharged by the police magistrate on the score of insuffi- cient evidence to convict.
 
 The office to which MT. Jerome was elected Is an important one In municipal government. It represents the people in it's position of prosecuting those who in- fringe the law. This covers all offenses.
 and that there are many or them Is shown by the crowded condition of the city prisons. The great majority of these
 offenders are men without means and of no means Their prosecution would af- ford no great credit to the office of dis trict attorney; conviction or acquital
 brings no particular feather to the cap of the district attorney. But picturesque raids are fully reported ana keep the district attorney well to the front in the public eye. It is an open question wheth- | CT the district attorney has moral right | to allow men to lie for weeks in the Tombs awaiting trial while he is off on
 a sensational rampage It is to the inter-
 est of the community at large that those who are guilty should be speedily con- l victed, and those who are innocent should l be at once set free. It is a moral wrong l to the community as well as to the &C., 1 cused that they lie in the Tombs await 1 ing trial. The efficiency of the district att l torney is proven rather by the speed with
 which he pushes his criminal calendar than
 than by his becoming police official. There Is no doubt that to raid Canfeld's | was a temptation to a man built on the l lines of Mir. Jerome. This weil-known I gambling house had apparently existed
 in defiance of the police. To raid it was 1 in a measure a 'stunt." Mir. Jerome has
 many friends in the Union club and MT. | Garfield has many customers in the same 1 institution. The customers jeered ter | ome and Jerome said Watch me" It
 was a well-known fact about town that l Jerome intended to raid Canheld's. It is
 not at all unlikely that Mir. Jerome's in- l timation to his friends that he would raid l Canfield's was by those friends conveyed
 to MT Garfield Canfied's establishment is 1 as much part of social life at the Union | club or Delmonicos. Men of the type of l Jerome's sleuth are not wanted in that | establishment. If western miners and al- 1 legged Mexican senators visited his es- 1 tablishment except in the conventional 1 evening dress and well introduced they | would not pass his door, and it Is not at
 all likely that any man who would accept l S10 as a "steerer would be himself al- lowed to enter much less be considered 1 a good introducer for doubtful looking person. Garfield has built up his bus | mess by catering to fashionable men, and he has no desire to have small players. It was this line of policy that made him what he is-king of gamblers.
 I know from those who have visited this place that Canfeld does not wish men of small means, not only because they are poor customers, but because he does not wish them to be the witnesses of heavy players winnings or losngs. It is not what is commonly called an open house." and those who play are men or wealth who can afford to lose, Even Tn the old days at Twenty-sixth street, Can field would often take young man aside and tell him very positively that Whlle he had no objection to his coming as often as he liked, his play would not be allowed. When Garfield has customer he learns his financial standing, and if bis inyestigation shows that the wouId-be player Is a man of small means "a cIeark on a salary or a man with small income-the privileges of the table are promptly and absolutely closed to him.
 If is curious to note the trend or ntiga- tion now A days It Is one thing to se- cure property, and the next to hold It. Ownership seems to be an invitation Tor outsiders to 'break in,'' as they say Tn Wall street. The whole atmosphere Tn the financial world is 2ermeated with what is called corporation litigation. No sooner has the air been cleared or the Colorado Fuel and Iron litigation when an attack was made on Huntington, ana now comes an attack on William U. | Greene of Arizona; w. A. Hallenborg or this city, and John Edward Addicks of | Deleware have entered into new field l of litigation. They bring suit against w. | z, Greene for equity in mines in Sonora.