New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-10-11
MIR roDB1LAvs ASSOCIATES.

TO-, +bo hatter class of Mayor McClelan's
own supporters are Disguised at Ine thouen' 70
what the Tammany ticket as Whole means
and are beginning TO be shaken III lher conu-
dence I'm Mr. McClellan's impesonauon Oh uio
role Of Tiger tanner. They like TO owen upon
the Mayors agreeable personality ana persona
honesty. They have tried hard to think that ne
-TouId dominate Tammany for good and could
So felv be trusted to give this city four years OF
of least fairly decent government They nave
been telling us how he WIS getting the upper
hand and shapfng the course OF the organlzauon
and nreparing to be better Mayor in the futnre
than they are able with the best viii In the
world. to say he has been In the past
He IT was who patched up peace between Muir
nhv and McCarren. These two worth1es ha1
been bitterly at war for many montns, anu
Mayor Mcclellan had allowed all the resources
of the appointing power to be scandaiousiy IniS
used as weapons in that warfare. Men We're
turned out of Office to punish them for peing
friends of McCarren, and in turn McCarren's
few friends in elective office. like Controller
Grout. found berths for the dismissed as far as
nossibe When however, Mayor McClellan's
own fortunes were at stake he became a great
neacemaker, He forced the faction leaders to-
gether He was the architect Of united party,
and its fruit is-Jimmy Ridgway.
That is what Mr.. Mcclellan means TO BrooK-
Iyn Mr.. McClellanS independence dnu eu-
periority to Tammany are directed TO turning
over the paving and sewer contracts and vast
amount of other business closely touching the
life of the people of Brooklyn to the tender
mercies of this discredited relic Of a regime
driven from power for its carnival of corrup-
fion In the Borough of The Bronx Mr.. McClel-
Ian means Haffen renom1nated as fellow can
didate with the Mayor, who unquesdonably had
an influential voice In choosing the ticket. In
Queens the Mcclellan ticket is decorated with
the name of Cassidy. To know Cassidy is to
distrust him. Even his own followers in Queens
complain of his rapacious machine which uses
them and their official salaries merely to get for
Cassidy what he wants Just what Mr.. McClel-
lan's Independence and benevolence may have
in store forsthe people of Manhattan and Rich
mond is not yet manifest. But in each case it
will probably be something equally as good.
Ridgway, Haffen, Cassidy! Add to these Oak
leys Unknown, whose one political principle.
revealed In the Board of Education, is violent
antipathy to the merit system-an opinion prev
alent in Oakley's Pensacola Club-and we see
the array of talent which Mr.. McClellan's SUI
perior virtues extort from Tammany. Mr.. Nc
Clellan is planning, If he can, TO bequeath the
Mayoralty TO Mr.. MCGOWAN in year. And his
zeal for the city's welfare amounts to turning
it over TO Board of Estimate presided over
by Oakley's man MCGOWAN and containing "Lit-
tie Tim" Sullivan, the prospective president
of the aldermen and successor to the presidency
in case of vacancy; Jimmy Ridgway, Cassidy
and Haffeni That is the Mcclellan idea of good
government and faithful discharge of an Of
fetal trust