Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-01-09
Tammany Vigorously Weld
ing a New Broom.
IN TOUGH DISTRICTS
MAYORS PRESIDENTIAL BEE rs
SAID TO BE RESPONSIBLE.
In the Matter Of Gambling, However,
the "Gentleman's' Games Still
Quietly Continue.
peeIsl Correspondence of The Evening Star.


NEW YORK, January g. 1904.
Signs multiply that the wide open town.
crowd, whose gloating JOY was so Wild and
unrestrained for days and nights following
the Tammany victory. will. for few
mcEths to come. at any rate. experience
naught but bitterness and heartache.
Temmany. 1t appears. has gained wisdom
The SCATTERING Of its citadel through It's
uphoiding of Deveryism, graft and the red
light system Is not to be forgotten. Tam
many is going to follow Jack Falstans
precept and live cleanly." That, at any
rate, appears to be the present program
The program may, under extraordinary
pressure. receive some punctures later on,
but just now, at the outset Of the new
regime, Tammany appears to be deter
mined to be good. Skeptics make satirical
remarks about the new resolve. and aliude
to the old habit Of the new brooms.
But even the reform people are willing
to admit that the Tammany crowd now In
charge of the destinies Of the town are a
far superior lot to any previous Tammany
ensemble, and many Of the politically indie
pendent reformers of note have already
announced that they will support TammAny
now and later on at the polls II the or
ganization adheres to the wholly respect
able policy that 1t has mapped cut for it
self.
McClellan's Presidential Bee.
It is certain that the well-known presi-
Dental aspirations of young Mayor Nc
Clellan will prevent the town from falling
into the awful slough of corruption which
mired the Croker-Deyery-Van Wyck regime
Young Mr. Mcclellan although unpreten-
tious has good deal more personality and
strength of character than is generally
supposed. 1t Is not to be supposed that,
with the presidential bee buZzing in his
bonnet he would take the chance of sully-
ing his decidedly clean and meritorious
record by giving New York an administra-
ton Of the conventional and characteristic
Tammany sort. Even supposing him to be
a mere Instrument of his political fashioner,
Mr.. Murphy, it may be observed that Mr..
Murphy himself has many qualities apart
from those of all previous bosses Of Tam
many Hall.
Considering his upbringing and lifelong
environment the well-known austerity Of
his daily life is little short of marvellous
Taking the situation by and large, the fu-
sion or republican forces are not very san
guine of being able to unhorse the Tam
many crowd at the next municipal election.
The main people of the present Tammany
organization are not unmindful of Greater
New York's Importance as the pivotal
city in the deciding of national contests
and Tammany is keenly enjoying the atti-
tude of filtration with which 1t is being
regarded by the leading democratic presi-
Dental aspirants of the country This en-
joyment is not diminished by Tammanys
remembrance of the fact that many OF
these same democrats of national promi-
nence were in the habit, in former years. of
aIraigning the Tammany organisation as
the yilest instrument for evil known In the
history Of mankind. Now, however. these
ene-time reviiers are making the most visit
fui goo goo eyes imaginable at Tammany,
and Tammany is calmly sorting them over
and appraising them at their real value and
ieisurely making up Its mind about them"
Effect ON the "Wide-open" Gang.
Returning, however, to the dashed hopes
of the "wide-open town" gang they have
already received SO many and such sharp
rebuffs at the hands Of the new regime that
the majority of them are already going
about in a state of abject mournfulness.
Scores of them were in line at the city hall
on the very day following the installation
Of the new TamMany administration, and
their countenances were wreathed in con-
fident and glowing smiles. They thought
that they would simply have to ask to re-
ceive. Messrs. Murphy and Mcclellan had
carefully refrained from announcing. in ad-
vance of the actual taking over of the city
government. what its policy was to be as
to the wide OPEN proposition. but the
Tenderloin panderers and others took it for
granted that, with Tammany in. they
were going to have one of the old-time
swings.
They came away from the city hall
wrapped in gloom. and they have been de-
parting from the. municipal building with
the same heavy and doleful atmosphere
about them ever since. Not only were the
requests of majority of them fatty
turned down." but many of them were
reproyed in unmeasured terms for having
the termerity to advance their requests.
For example, the proprietor of the notori
Gus 10Th street all-night ''eafe.' in which a
mans head was cut off last year for the
H. IL. IL
all but thrust out of the city hall when he
confidently asked for a renewal of the es-
adjustments license. He was told as he
went that he might as we'll raze his build
ing to the ground if he had any hope what
ever of ever being permitted to utilize it
again as cafe" while Tammany was in
power.
The proprietotrs of all the other all-night
cafes that fiourished during the Croker
Devery-Van Wyck epoch-the Cairos the
Egypts. the Tivolis. and so on-were in
formed that under no circumstances would
their establishments be permitted to re-
Open Not only that, but the notorious
Haymarket. which has continued in opera
ton even during the reform regime. will be
compelled to close its doors for good and
all, it is said
Exice Laws to Be Enforced.
Virtually the same sort of policy as to
the enforcement of the Sunday excise law
as the one pursued by the reform admins
tration is to be adopted by the Mcclellan
administration. That Is to say, extremely
quiet and weIl-conducted establishments in
which liquor Is purveyed ON Sundays are
to be tacitiy permitted to do business as
usual The gin-mill men who run the
noisy, Drawing plants, and who expected,
when Tammany got I'm this time to
throw their doors wide open on Sundays as
well as on week days, and to be allowed
TO throw their keys away have already
been informed. individually and collectively,
that their expectations were wholly err
roneous.
Gambling Is to be regulated" Only the
highest class" bells will be allowed to 10
business" The Tammany victory was no
sooner announced than brace" gamblers
from all over the United States continent
began to pack their traps and make for
New York. complaisant in the belief that
when de gang took a-hold" the old sys-
tenn of gambling graft would be renewed.
They are now leaving New York in sets of
tours and squads, the firm "nothn' do n {"
word having been passed along to them
The "gentleman's game" is to be allowed
but the poor mans game" is to be squelch-
ed and kept squelched- Wherefore there
are murmurngs like the rushing of many
waters from the benefactors who conduct