The Savannah morning news., 1902-03-09

is as much a reformer against dis
honest conditions as a clean Republi-
can, and in expressing this fact by
industrious advice and close percep-
ton of the agents of his organization,
Mr.. Nixon sets an example as politi-
cal leader for any municipal govern
ment.
How are you going to purify Tam
many Hall?" l asked him.
We'll certain men who have done
the organization no good, will not be
encouraged. / cannot arbitrate the
characters of our members, l have no
authority over their morals, but when
they come to see me, these men who
are not wanted, ] make my wishes
quite clear to them. They seem to
understand me, too. for they don't come
around here very often"
"You do not absolutely dictate, as Mr..
Croker did?"
Il define my province here as chief
counselor, a sort of balance wheel on
the organization. 1t is a leaders duty
to organize, and the reconstruction
plans | am making exclude everything
and every one that can in any way
clog the smooth, clean running of. the
machine. 1t would not be within the
principles of Democracy to dictate,
parts of the organization, to make it
useful unity of power, towards the
best interests of the entire commun-
ity."
$50 you find the man who has made
politics a life-study useful MEMBER"
1--WE want the places of the older
men filed with young men. We need
the young men in politics, and we ARE
going to train them to fill the places
of the old" said Mr.. Nixon, warmly.
You are an optimist," l said
Il believe the general welfare of the
community should be the ideal a poll
tician must follow Provide for the
safety of all by selecting honest politi-
cal agents"
"The young men are more honest in
politics than the 'old?" l asked.
The young man is more likely TO
have singleness of purpose, his intelli-
gence develops the advantages of in
tegrity of character, over craft and
shrewdness. Young men. l think as a
whole, are more temperate, too, in their
habits than the old"
Richard Croker has been a politician
all his life. Lewis Nixon has been
trained as a ship-builder. The trend of
his mind is constructive, exact, accur-
ate. To make a ship float. she must
be built on certain standard lines.
! There are deHnlte rules 10 observe, ana
| there is no mystery about them. The
older members of Tammany Hall did
not take kindly to Mr. Croker's state
ment that Lewis Nixon would be their
chief when he resigned. He had not
grown up with the organization; he
! had never been captain, or a district
| leader. How could he know anything
about the intricacies of the machine?
Mr.. Nixon did not care anything about
previous plans. Like all young men,
he was a straight out and out voter.
He had certain intelligent reasons and
convictions that governed his vote. that
made him Democrat, as different con-
/ victions might make another a Repub-
/ lican.
Il made a personal sacrifice in ac-
i cepting the leadership of Tammany
4 Hall, but every man has some duty to
/ his country. and I had mine" Grad
/ ually the old heelers, the men who have
! lived off the political revenue of Mr..
/ Cookers wonderful political system.
will find a different spirit in Tammany
Hall. The man who designed the
/ oregon is planning a great Democratic
ship. which he will launch in New York
and send out as a specimen of what
party principles look like. apart from