The Saint Paul globe., 1904-02-29
THE NEW TAMMANY.

pers at this time about the present
government of New York city. They
overflowed with lamentations and bios
somed into elegiacs after the November
election. Then they read their obitu-
ary over the bier of good government
and municipal reform, and through
editorial and news comment and car
toon committed weepingly the remains
Of the tiger.
For a few days preceding and fol-
lowing the Inauguration of Mayor
Mcclellan these tactics continued. The
public was told through the Repub-
lican press that everything was in
readiness for a restored regime Of vice
and crime. The criminal element, 1T
was said, who had been driven out
during Mayor Lows term, were flock
ing back to the metropolis by thou
sands; those who pandered to vice
and throve upon it's proceeds were re-
furnishing their establishments, and
after the first day of January every
thing was again to be wide open. So
ran the legend of the dying year.
Since that time there has been an
ominous silence on the Republican
side. One may search the news col
umns of papers which have been de-
nouncing Tamamny Hall for genera
ton past in all imaginable shades of
vituperation for a word Of honest opin-
ion about the present government Of
New York city. So far as they are
concerned, all wires out of New York
might have been cut for the last six
weeks. The reason of this, as any one
who visits New York city now and
makes for himself few inquiries of
any reliable source, Democratic or Re-
publican, is that the city is confessed
ly enjoying today the best administers
ton it has ever known. There is not
a ruth-telling Republican there who
will not admit to you in private that
Mayor Mcclellan has completely
amazed him by giving the public a
better government not only than Tam
many ever did before, but far supe-
rior to that Of Mayor Low and his
boasted reform associates.
The truth Of it is that new leaders
have arisen in New York city, and the
great organization known as Tammany
Hall finds a new, honorable and pow
erful future before it. Mr.. Murphy,
who stands at the head of 1t, is nothing
short of political genius. He has de-
fed leaders who had held their ma
chimes intact for a generation, and
beaten them easily single-handed. He
has held the organization togeth-
er against the attempts at disrup-
ton within and attacks from with
out and made it stronger than
ever. He has ruled the disorderly ele-
ment within his own party with an
iron hand. He has grasped the situ-
alton and seen that Tammany Hall,
with all its admirable qualities, with
it's minute knowledge Of human ma
ture and it's essential closeness to the
people, needed only to put its best
men to the front and to- give to the
people a. government honest, econom-
ical, efficient and neither pompous nor
puritanical in order to become a great
er power than it ever was.
By no one person is this new regime
better typifed than by New Yorks
new mayor, Hon. George B. Mcclellan.
To most people he has appeared only
as the son of his father, and there was
perhaps equal wonder on the outside
when he was selected as a Tammany
candidate, and when he was elected so
easily over an opponent like Mayor
Low. No one can come in contact with
him publicly or privately, can hear him
| speak five minutes either in his official
sanctum or before some great gather
ing of men, and fail to understand the
secret. He is a man of splendid re-
sources, personal and political. He
has magnetism, tact, intelligence,
courage, astuteness and all the ele-
ments of power.
He has taken hold Of the city gov
ernment of New York in such a way
as to amaze his enemies. He has
Strengthened out within month the
police department, over which Mayor
Low labored fruitlessly and with utter
failure for two years. Gamblers have
hidden their diminished heads. Pub
lie order reigns everywhere. There
| are no professions of uncommon vir-
| tue, but the business OF the city goes
| steadily forward on an honest basis.
| property and personal rights are Sc
cure, and the people of New York are
! enjoying today better government than
| they have known within their memory.
So much has been said and written
against Tammany Hall; abuse of the
name has come to be mere fixed and
thoughtless habit with SO many; it