The evening world., 1903-09-21
"A Funny Fellow Is the Dis
rict-Attorney, and One of His
Characteristics Is "Undigest-
ed Eccentricity."
A HIM FOR TROUBLE.
The Minister Says Mcclellan Is a
Fine Man, ut R!dicules the Idea
that He Would Be independent Of
Murphy and Tammany.

Rev. DIR. Charles II. P~arkhurst, who
Ia just pack from Europe, talked to-
day oel the Mayorllty campaign.
THE situation is "A delicate one. but II
we do not make ourselves foolish I sec
no reason why We cannot win in spite
of Jerome he said. jerome IL a funny
fellow. One of his distinctive features
is undigested eccen;ricity. He is doing
an amount of damage which lie car.
hardly realize. lie is publishing to the
world that his work has been a failure.
for If II had not been for him the pres
ent administration would not have been
in. The question is not whether the
administration is perfect: the question
is whether Mr.. Low has succeeded in
the last two years in maintaining au
administration that has been conducive
to the interests of this municipality and
of the people Of it of all classes. the
poor as well as the rich, those who have
no Influence as well as those who are
protected by their affiucnce.
Much Good Has Been Done.
Now, / claim, as regards that point.
that there is no room for debate. No
one can have studied the work in admin
istrative lines OF Mr.. Lows commits
sioners without realizing that they have
lone good and effective work during the
last two years. That they have MADE
the city perfect no one can Calm. There
are no perfect municipal administra-
tions, but that they have been working
concertedly and cJnscientiously toward
the best good of the city, no one who
ID familiar with facts cen deny. No one
can have come into touch with the
commissioners themselves, as l have
been privileged to do. without realizing
the untlrlng sincerity with which they
nave given themselves up to the city's
benefit.
There are complaints of this kin
arst is T that ne hes Is col ID a5 M Now Th L
makes no difference to me as a citizen
whether he has blood or whether he
hasn't any blood at all; or whether his
heart beats fifty times 4 mi. Ate or one
hundred times a mlnute, provided the
instrument he selects for administrat-
I've work are distinguished for honesty
and ability.
Another complaint made by a good
many people IL that they have exper-
fenced some rebuff at the Mayors
from him. Well, a man who Is willing
to put his own personal preferences In
the place of the city's municipal inter-
himself as to be unconscious Of the su-
preme demands of the tow at large Is
q man to be commiserated and re-
GREETED.
Good Man in Office
"sThere are some who are so anxious
for the interests OF their W party
that they are willing the city should
go to the dogs IL their own party can
not be the winner. That Is the Tam
many principle. and II Is no worse in
Tammany than in Republication or in
Independent Democracy. 1t Is to be
execrated in either case.
1.-THE administration of a Municipality
Ii n great business enterprise. and like
any other enterprise. say manufacture
esty and intelligence. 1t needs men
who are straight and men who are
able, that's all. The men who have
lone the administrative work Of tho
are able. These are facts that ought
TO be digested by jerome or by any
body else that is not 50 overshadowed by
his immensely as to be unable to
attain to a true perspective. And IL 1t
comes about as a result of Jerome's
characteristic .pyrotechnics that tho
public esteem and is defeated at the
polls, the responsibility therefore viii!
rest or the shoulders of our District
And II he to such a degree is success.
full in antagonizsng the continuance OF
the present administration, and we fall
NDdCk MO the nanQS OF murphy q Co..
no will be betraying us into the hands
OF the same people that he spent six
weeks two years ago IN damning.
Mcclellan N Fine Man, But
Now, with regard to Mcclellan,
whom 1 believe Is to be their nominee, I
predicted some time ago that he would
be the nominee. He is the best card they
can play. He Is a fine man. of admir-
able antecedents and his name Is a
name to coujure by. l feel a special in
terest in the man because OF the admir-
alton and love | had for his father. His
father and family were members OF my
church when i first came here, and with
my mind l have always followed young
Mcclellan with peculiar interest ON that
account. But the persona interest
which 1 nave in Mcclellan has nothing
whatever to do with the position which
/ ought to take as a citizen. A man Is
not fit to be a citizen who cannot sink
his own personal regards in sush mat
tiers.
MI. Mcclellan Is quoted as saying
that he Is not going to he Mr.. Murphy's
man. Any man, even an ~archan2el
would be fettered and handicapped by
the party of which he becomes the off,
cial representative. The Car of Russia
cannot do what he would like TO do, and
for the reason that he is a part OF the
Russian system.
1.-THE same would be true of Mcclellan,
Whatever his personal character, his adj
mlnistration would be a Tamnlany ad-
aninistration, 80 that even with the pros
pect of Mcclellan at the City Hall the
two alternatives are: Tammany govern
ment and anti-Tammany government"