The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-06-02
Low ON The TRAIL OF LOOT?
TATE THAT ADMINISTRATIVE
mas SENSATION IN RESERVE.
Said TO Have Found "Higher lp." Who
Got the Police Graft - Have Dug
Deep Into several DrpartmrntS--No
Campaign Prosecutions for jerome.

Tie head OF political organization
which has not yet defined It's attitude in the
coming municipal campaign said yesler-
day.
Il know why the friends of Mayor Low
arc gaining confidence that he will he re-
elected. They have been pushing private
and searching inquiry into the depart nlents
as they were conducted under the last
Tammany administ ration. and they intend
to save their disclosures for the campaign.
"They have about established where the
bacimal collected in the Police Depart
msnt went and they have enough evidence,
they say. to make a successful moral cru
sade such as jerome made in 1901.
1t has been known for some time that the
accountants of the administr have
been gathering evidence that has been
kept private. Their inquiries into the
Dock Department have been prying, and
some of their discoveries have revealed
favoritism, but not in such form that the
District Attorney could properly be called in
II the Low administration has found
where the graft went in the Police Depart
ment it has done more than District At
torney Jerome has been able to do. Since
he went into Office he has broken plenty
of captains, but he hasn't been able to trace
the loot higher up. When Mr.. jerome was
asked last night what his official course
would be il such evidence az the Mayors
friends say has been secured should he sub
mitted to him, he said:
"If any such charges should be presented
to me in the heat Of campaign ] would
leave the prosecution Of them until after
election unless there was danger that
some person so accused might escape.
A District Attorney am neither Demo-
crat. a Republican nor Fusionist. 1t ls
not the business OF the Office to make or
to assist in making any campaign. Unless
the interests of Justice were to suffer by
delay ] should leave such matters TO be
disposed OF after election, when fairness
can be done TO the individual and to the
public"
Many of the current reports about the
disclosures to he made in the campaign
have been set in motion by Devery's candi-
dacy for Mayor. Some Of the talkatiye
fellows in Tammany have INDUCED in OBJ
servations as to what might be printed
and said of Devery If he really dominates
himself. To this the Devery men have been
started Big Pill might come back In way
that would stimulate the out going European
passenger business
Devery was told last night what Jerome
had said His comment was That Teller g
ali right. He's on the level. So far as I'm
concerned I'm ready to meet any and all
charges day or night don't know OF any
crimes they haven charged gainst me when
nv back was turned. They've limited at
things In cartoons and whispered things
in their little counsel rotNns. but they can t
come straight out and ga me. ..
said about me, tell some one about it so 8
| can hear something new. When I'm
Mayor | think I'll know how to go AT in
vestigat ions and turn up trump. ! won't
20 up an down Broadway foggin' scare
crow"
The Tammany men said last night that
the Mayors friends were bluffing. and that
everything they had been able to get had
been shown in the newspapers.