Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-06-14

get away. Two of those seasons we were
making money hand over fist for our GUS
toners. The third season we were trying
to keep them from losing 1t: But. OF
course, we got our commissions. Now
there isn't enough business to keep one
terth of US going. but we made enough Tor
the bad year or two. and the rest Is good
for us. The public will come into the mar
ket again by Another year and wen all
get busy again. There's no good in laying
this dullness to Roosevelt
/ repeated this statement to another man
who also is in Wall street and a good many
places besides. He looked at me first with
disgust and then somewhat sadly. Finally
he vouchsafed the explanation: = is
all right, II, as he says. he stuck to his
commissions, but he's probably lying to
you. Most Of us would have been all right
If we had just taken our commissions. But
we all got in too deep to swim out
Then he detailed many of the woes of
Wall street during the last eighteen months.
All of them apparently were due to the
fact that the big and little fnanciers had
had to unload on one another because the
public swan out before they did. Yet even
this man was fairly cheerful regarding the
future. Everything was dull now, he said,
and 1T would be dull six months from now,
but he didn't think the conditions would be
any worse. In fact he thought they might
be little better. or at least that the turn
might be In sight. He also. while person.
ally hostile to Roosevelt, did not want to
mix politics, and 1 judged from his talk
that he would vote the republican ticket.
When he did talk politics he complained Of
local affairs, and remarked that the repub-
Leans ought to get a much larger vote in
New York city than they credit themselves
with. Very reluctantly he said that this
vote could be got because Roosevelt had a
grip on certain elements which naturally
leaned to the democracy.
Tammany's Policy.
This opinion has support in various quar-
ters. l asked Tammany member what he
thought about it. He said 1t was true that
Roosevelt was very popular on the East
Side and with foreign-born or foreign par
entage voters. But" he added, well bring
them into line" Then he explained what
Is already known, Tammanys perfect sys-
tenn of organization. including Its social
features He furthermore remarked: your
foiks. you know. don't care to have too big
a vote In some parts of the city"
L don't exactly know it, though in former
campaigns l have seen evidences of it. A
western politician who has settled in New
York and from natural liking has taken
little whirl at politics, gave me a concrete
instance In Chicago he had had some sue
cess as an organizer, and he is a great be-
lever in what he calls the enrolled vote
That is. In getting every voter into club
or precinct organization. He went at the
same thing in New York enthusiastically
ana was enrolling republicans in certain
assembly district where they never before
had been enrolled beyond a limited number
The assembly leader came to him and told
him to stop it. IF we get any more in the
organization" said this politician. I'VE
won't be able to control them. We want
just enough, you know"
If the just enough" theory obtains in
New York city this fall. Roosevelt will not
have the votes to which he is entitled. In
stead he will have the normal minority.
Governor Odell is In full control of the re-
publican organization, and better things
are promised this year. Republicans who
are not interested in limiting the vote to
That which can be controlled by the local
district leaders pray for these better things.
CHARLES NJ. PEPPER