The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-07-12
GOSSIP OF
nlETROP OILS
Hot Weather Does Not Stop
Political Talk.
A sH1PBUlLDING COMPANY
4 SHIPBUILDING COMPANY
Man Made Receiver by Court Com
mands Great Respect-Shamrock
Expected to Lift the Cup-Llt-
tauer Presidents Friend.
By.JOHN MARTHOL.

NEW YORK, July 11,-MidsunlIner heat
has no staying effect on municipal poll
tics Perhaps 1t is because it is cool,
If not cold, game. Fusion on one side Is
TO battle with Tammany on the other.
Ownership of the municipality Is the
stakes. There Is difference petWeeis
municipal ownership and ownership or
the municipality. 1t is for the latter the
district leader puts his shoulder to the
wheel and becomes the grand patron OF
the summer picnic and the childrens
walking party. 1t Is for politics the ward
boss becomes ward benefactor. In every
district there is activity. The November
voter is being gotten into line.
Once more the people are to select Low
or the Tiger. Each has record. Much
capital is being made out OF insinuatons,
inuendoes, etc, concerning the Iammany
control of the Dock Department. At the
best, all that can be furnished will be a
companion picture TO that which was set
IN by Commissioner Hawkes. during the
Low administration. From the citizens
point Of view and from that OF tho tax
| payer, It makes little difference What
name the favored one may bear, whether
| it be Murphy. brother OF Boss Murphy,
| or Odell Governor Of New York and
chief owner of Hudson River steamboats,
carrying freight to the Newburg grocery
| firm.
| our SnuB-ldCGu AldyOI 'IHahSo u oS'N
| front for virtue. He Is reformer, ana
reformers are not made OF lasting mate
rial They are quick to assume virtue
| IL they have 1t not. BY neat device ~
| book-teeping-a subterfuge-it would ap-
pear that the city tax rate IN Mammal
| tan Borough had been decreased. AS a
fact, the rate is lower. This is due to tho
city counting into Its valuations all parks
| and property wherever located IN the city,
and all church. religious and other exempt
property. This, too. Increases Its Valua-
| lions and w!dens the area of the DEBT
! limit The energy Of the administration
is now directed in swelling tho debt by
assuming new obligations, so that IN the
event Of Tammany victory at the polls
| 1t will be curtailed In expenditures II
this is bad for Tammany, how is 1t good
| for Low? 1t smacks of favored contrac-
tors. From the taxpayers point Of view,
! ii makes little difference who gets the
money; it means more debt and more
Interest to meet.
But let the vlrtuous men Of Lows camp
shout, proclaiming their virtues to the
house-tops; the public knows them 10 pc
Pharisees, New York does not want the
rule Of the Pharisees longer, 1t prefers
sin-stained Tammany. It Is nearer to the
plain people, The Low administration nts
the men who stock their cellars WITH
wines, gamble at clubs keep racing sta'
! Dies ana SeNu lHcIIa lHpIICy w ~ -
commissioners The Tammany admin,
istrat!on fits the men who have a pal
filled with beer at the side door, who
have no clubs and who do patronlze the
pool rooms, IN great city ike New
York the entire gamut OF morality, from
low to high, can be run. and to every
note struck some human being responds.
Tammany grants much liberty, but II
suppresses license. IT does not screw ur
to standard to impossible heights, II
lis a city government not refolmatory
institution. The New York public is
weary of the pretensions of fusion; 1t
would welcome Tammany.
Now who Is a likely canddateP under
stand Congressman Jacob Rupert. Jr
is talked OF as a possibility Rupert Ia
well-bred, clever man of ability In bust
ness and affairs. He Is a native New
Yorker and thoroughly understands the
needs of city government, II TammanS
is wise enough to select Ruppert as III
candidate for the mayprality il will pu
forward a man who will appeal to tbs
property holder and the laborins classes
The yellow dog candidate" belongs Z
J an era that is In the past. Thousand
OF men prefer to vote the Tamman!
ticket than that OF any other organiza
| ton nevertheless. they will not vote 70
any rag-tag and hob-tail citizen Tam
/ many may select. whose sole recommen