The age-herald., 1902-05-11
New York Letter

New York, May TO-, Special.-It would seem from the many, and unmistakable signs of the times, that the cause of
 "good government as represented by Mayor Low will never again receive the support of politicians. Neither the Re-
 publican organization nor the fusion of anti-tammany clubs, who struggled for his election will have more of him or what he represents. They believed the offices he could give would be but few
 but they did not believe that he would
 sweep them all as prizes for his friends.
 His latest appointments, that of Olm- | stead to Judge of the City Court for
 term of ten years, at salary of 5000
 a year, and that of Peter T. Barlow, to l the place on the bench of City Magis-
 trates made vacant by the promotion of | William H. Olmstead, to fill an unexpired 1 term of four years, at $7,0O0 a year, has
 caused a rumpus. Olmstead is Repub- l lican who has never been active in pol
 itics. He was engaged in newspaper
 work when appointed to the bench, by Mayor Strong. Barlow failed to register last year, so he was not active enough even to vote.
 Politicians now see two of the most lucrative places given to men who did nothing to save the city, or who have , not even got the name of being good lawyers. That it makes them mad is
 beyond all pusetion and they are not backward in saying that the Mayor is i turning the power of his office to grat- 1 flying his own personal fancies.
 Republican leaders laugh. They say: We only joined in to help the demo-
 crats, who wanted to destroy Tammany.
 Our desire was to take the city out of
 the hands of Croker." Tammany men
 say: But where was that mighty man
 John c. Sheehan, who claims he did it? 1 Where are Cantor, and Hepburn Rus
 sell? Why did they if they are pow
 erful with their one-horse organization, 1 the Greater New York Democracy se- .I cure these places?' It is a strange thing | indeed, that Sheehan could not secure
 this place on the City Magistrates bench 1 for one of his supporters? Mayor Low
 must have thought very little of Shee-
 hans men, when ne gave the place to
 a man who did not take interest enough
 in the great election to vote
 This Is the way 1t appears But be-
 hind this there is some thing more l Sheehan has no influence with the May
 or for the same reason the Republican ! County Committee has none Mayor 1 Low recognizes no influence beyond him ! self, save one and that one Is Roosevelt. l Barlow is the son of the late Sam Bar 1 low, a corporation lawyer, who had a country seat at Sands Point, Long Is- | lard. That place makes Pete" Barlow
 a summer neighbor of Roosevelt. They
 are about the same age, and were at 1 Harvard about the same time Socially | they moved in the same set Mir Bar | lows. appointment Is due to President | Roosevelt who. is seeking to build up | strength in the Low clique in Manhat- | tan.
 | But Roosevelts influence at the May 1 or's office is bad for Sheehan. His or | ganization at the polls showed a vote of about ten thousands; and the recruiting done at the several district headquarters Is the result is the desire of thousands for employment by the City. His cry Is
 Mayor, Mayor, give me patronage or we 1 per tsh. But the Mayor does not care to | build up democratic. strength when his | friend Roosevelt is in the field for re-
 nomination. Sheehan's supporters hay
 ing discovered that he Is as feeble In
 securing places as he Is robust in mak- ipg promises, are beginning to float back
 to Tammany Hall district organizations
 Leader Nixon seeing the drift of affairs
 urges his district leaders to hold out the | hand of welcome. Leaders, having dis | covered that this clear cut business man | pol sesses the qualities of a great leader.
 rally about him, adopt his policy and are
 rapidly building Tammany up to its orig l inal strength.