New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-11-07
WILD GUESSING rs TO CAUSE
ENEMIES OF Low ADMINISTRATIONS
AsCRIBE DEMOCRATIC GAINS TO 1T.

Msvor Low and his associates prominent in the
fusion administration will stand by the two years
record when that record Is complete and VIII not
noN make any apologies for results or lack OF re-
suits thus far obtained. Since Tuesday many peo-
pie who had contracted habit Of exploiting
theories OF the famous question. Who struck
Billy Patterson have suggested that the size
Of the Democratic plurality in this city was due
to the unpopuIarity Of the Low administration
The criticism Up to date has come largely from
people who either want Tammauy 20 come into
power again who were charged with selling the
Republican party out to Tammany in the cam
pagn Of 1897. one of Mayor Lows heads Of de
rartments said yesterday;
of course. take il out Of Low Why not II is
easy for the political SrRfters to try To make a
scapegOat of some one one man Is hot because
vice laws and removed Tammany Hall Democrats.
Another critic Is angry because there are thou
the city under Republican officials
Why is there no bill Of particulars? Where has
at the right time? Tine Police Department is be-
ing un- Deveryized fast the law will allow
seven old captains whose relations with the old
manner of GOing things made their usefulness
questionable have been retired by Commissioner
Partridge. One inspector has been retired for the
same % rnS % Nv, nT Sr tb haS aPPG
was appropriated last year, The Tenement House
at the head of the Tenement House Commission
His appOlntees are from the Civil Service lists
stead of a department filled with Tammany poiit-
zeal heelers, the Tenement House Department. Is
duties properly. The Health Department has re
duced its staff inspectors by half and doubled
the efficiency of those who remain
And there is soreness account of the Civil
Service. is there? Well. let for a minute or
two about that The Black Civil Service law was
passed just as Mayor Strong was going out OF
office. The Tammany men returned To power and
under the new ''starchless" law they ran out all
the Republicans and ran in their men, That
a Republican law; Then came the White Civil
Service law, passed while Van Wyck was In power
Under that new law the Fammany heads of depart
ments prepared for possible storm They put into
the classified lists all their employees. and then
with the bars up they smiled when the Low adj
mlnistratiOn came into power the first Of last
January Why not throw these Tammany men
out? Let any one try IL once. and where he
lands. The law is there. "A Republican law. signed
by Republican Governor, and that law is as solid
~ a rock The that Is In is protected He
cannot be thrown out unless on charges. and when
dismissed he goes 10 the head of the waiting IIst
and must be reappOinted when there is any work
he do. That is the law-Republican Law
Colonel Ogden is good Republican and he has
Temedied lot of abuses in his department but ne
cannot change the law. The howl against the Civil
Service Is Claptrap- The remedy. IL there is 10 be
"A remedy, must come from Albany.
Take any department go right down the line
and the Low administration is I'm position 10 chal-
lenge successfully comparison 20 results. u will
honestly Double the amount of paving is being
aSo. There Is a marked Improvement In adminls-