The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-07-26
ball and a faro bank from a sand bank. And they never became informers.

the colonel of the Twenty second regf- ment MT Bartlett Is a member of sev- eral leading clubs. TIe IS well known and Is extremely well liked, commanding for himself tho respect of many who have known him at the bar in the mili- tia in social and club circles and in the political world where he won distinction as a member of congress. In selecting representative man like Colonel Bartlett. Tammany meets the fusion movement with candidate for mayor In every way the equal if not the superior of Seth Low. It would be absurd to intimate that the city government would fall into weak or yielding hands should Tammany elect Bartlett mayor. His nomination and election would be splendid evidence of Boss Murphy's ability as leader and do much to restore confidence in Tam many as an organization.
 Speaking of Murphy. I am reminded of the endeavors of the fusonists to dis credit him The yelled threats, the in- situations that he and his associates on the old dock board had been dishonest have been promptly met by Murphy. He says in substance Let there be a fair, honest Inquiry into facts in open court. Let all concerned be allowed to explain and I will gladly testify" But this is not the way these people act. They pre- fer to sheer. point the finger and insin- uate. It Is about time that the wicked ness of Tammany, If such wicledness did exist, be placed before the public. It is about two years since the fusionists promised to do this If put In power. They were put fin full possession of all departments of the city and the promise has not been kept. If there are skele- tons in the Tammany closet 1t Is time they were produced, otherwise the fact must be that 1t was all campaign talk.
 Mayor Low, it is very certain, will not be long out of office in the event of his failure to be his own successor. Some of his friends have already selected the post he is to occupy, namely the postmaster generalship, in the place of MT. Payne, whose career In the cabinet Is not des- tined to be of long duration whether the condition of his health permits 1t or not. A foreign mission would suit MT, Low much better, but that depends upon the Presidents reelection, which Is becom- ing more and more uncertain as the months go by.
 have talked with many leading demo- crats respecting what Is called the western movement to make Mr. Cleve- land the candidate for President next year. Not one of them took 1t seriously, and dismissed it as midsummer politics. The New York democrats, who are look ing in the direction of New Jersey for the nominee could be counted in very few minutes All the speculation with reference to the ex-President and the possibility of his selection comes for the most part from republican sources. The man really feared by the friends of MT. Roosevelt is Judge Parker. As against him on the right kind of platform they are almost willing to concede the loss of New York, New Jersey and Connecticut.
 George Gould is now the chief figure in the railroad world upon whose plans and operations the eye of capitalists and of the magnates of transportation are intently fixed With enormous resources of his own and the command of outside millions, the number of which is ade- quate to the accomplishment of any pro- ject however stupendous, he ..ds reached an eminenee in the industrial and finan- cial field to which no man of his years ever before attained, and but very few men even double his years. That he will be content with Baltimore as the Atlan- tic outlet of his roads is not believed probable by railroad men. They are all agreed that this city is his objective point and that he will ultimately get here through some combination or other. MT. Gould in business is the personifica- ton of caution, while his loyalty to those who cooperate with him in his ventures is one of his chief characteristics.
 It has become a sort of proverb that New York is a good place for a young man in which to make a fortune. With in the last twenty years or so another class, far from young, have come to look upon 1t as the mine where they are to strike 1t rich. The gentlemen to whom l refer are the great "exes' of political life. There was Tom Reed of Maine, for instance. When he laid down the gavel of the speakership of the house of representatives, he migrated to Man haitian, and set up in the law business Long before his day, there was Roscoe Conkling. When he left the senate, he did bury himself in his old home at Utica. Ex-Presldent Cleveland was an- other. At the end of his first Presiden- tial term, he went neither to Albany nor Buffalo, but into a big legal firm right in the financial center of the me tropolis. Governor Frank Black, when he became enrolled among the "exes," struck his tent in Troy and set it up in Manhattan. John G. Carlisle of Ken lucky shook the dark and bloody ground" when he became an lex" and has been with us ever since. more recent accession was former Secretary of the Treasury Gage. From Iowa a new recruit is on the way here, ex-Speaker Henderson. In fact so many big "exes" are to the front in New York that they would make a good-sized club. Dan Lamont by the way, is another one of them.
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