New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-09-18
DETERY'S TRIUMPH.

Deverys triumphant entry into laminah!
Hall certainly accords with the eterhai IT.
of things. His own have received hihl' inn"
many typiies him, he typities Tanilah'-
man who WAS pronounced by the last Tam
MANY Mayor the best Chief OF folice NJ"
York ever had the man who carried 10 pei
tion the peculiar system OF government oA
which Tammany based its power, is Ill h''
nroner Mace as Tammany district leader ana
may without undue egotism aspire 10 'lie ie''N
ershjp of the whole organization
He has rivals He too openly displays Ills
character TO please some of his more timid as
sociates. who in former days were only too glad
70 take their share of the goods which he pro
vidad They would prefer a little more Of that
homage which vice pays to virtue and he is no
b,-nocrite TO pIay that game He made his ap-
neal 10 the rank and file of the party as the
friend of the .-peepui' and the ''peepuI who so
long Loyalty supported Croker and Van NYck
and Scanned rightly recognized him as the
fine flower of Tammany Democracy and gave
their loyal suffrages to this most conspicuous
officeholder under the last administration AND
who shall say that their instinct was not true:
From the Tammany point of view DeVery was
indeed the best Chief of Police NeW-1ork
ever had" and he earned the support and the
reward of his party 1t lived by backmail, it
used the city government for its own pocket all
the time If rallied to its standard the thieves,
gamblers and profiigates. Devery in Office
faithfully carried out the purposes of his party,
and its members would have shown most un-
common ngratitude if they had now repudlated
him. He is coarse, brutal, ignorant and cor
rnpt and therefore he is representative He
stands for what the Democrats in his district
want and they are not ashamed 10 say so.
S4ofa Y,lnf
exercise his voice in choosing a candidate for
Governor Wild threats have been made that
he would not be allowed to take seat in that
yirtuous asSemblage but it is difficult to see how
he can be excluded The convention is repre-
sentative body The IXth District In the eX-
ercise of its rights under the party and the
State laws has chosen him. Both legally and
morally his title would seem to be unassallable.
If he represents the sentiment of the Tammany
voters in his district too faithfully to suit the
schemes of David r. Hill that is not his fault.
For years the tendency has been to make party
organizations more and more responsive 10
popular WILL and II is one of the admirable feat
ures Of the present primary law that the voters
of a district can put their leader into the coun-
sells of the organization regardless of the will of
outside bosses who might like TO suppress him
for purposes of their own. It may be incon-
yenlent Tor those WHO WISH 10 picture IdHl-
many as a respectable organization, which de
sres reform and good leadership under a
Shepard and has suffered unjustly for the acts
OF few unfaithful officeholders, TO have it
thus shown that the rank and file of the party
do not want reform. but love corruption and
would rather be led by Dcvery than by a Shep-
ard But il is the truth, and political salvation
comes by the truth.
Devery'S victory must also cause some incon-
venience to Mr. Sheehan. His alliance with
Carroll to dominate Tammany Hall has ended
in failure while his readiness to 20 back into
that organization, though not unexpected has
deprived him of all claims to anti-Tammany
sympathy and support In his purely personal
campaigns II is good thing to have his status
fixed q wear in advance of the next municipal
election He did not go into the primaries to
wreSt control from Tammany and make the
Greater New-York Democracy the regular or
caniZation of the city. but 10 force his way into
Tammany there TO rule in conjunction with
some of the most offensive of the old gang who
ran the city for their own pockets all the time.
The situation is much cleared by the primaries.
We see that Tammany still stands for DeVery-
ism. and we have full notice OF what may be
expected of Sheehan when 1t comes 10 perpetu-
atinc honest nonpartisan government.