New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-10-18
IN A PANIC.

| The Tammany organs ought to get together
| and agree upon a story Of the WINS candloacy'
| At least the different pipes OF the same organ
| should learn to sound In harmony. MIR. WINS
| cannot be Odells and at the same time not
| be- The Republican organization cannot nave
so much at stake In his candidacy as to drive
| its enemies from his support, while 1t is indit-
| ferent to his success and making no effort 20
assist him. Yet in their panic at finding what
| they thought was to be a triumphal march Ior
| the NIurphy-McCarren franchise grab0erS
| turned into life and death struggle to avoid q
| four years exile-which would be enough
nearly to starve Tammany to death and pave
the way for decent Democratic party IN this
city-the Tammany papers are saying these Ut
terly contradictory things
In one column we are told that Mr. WINS IS
the creature Of the Republican machine and in
the next that the Republican machine is furious
over his independent attitude and anxious 10
see him defeated Both statements cannot be
true and in fact neither is Mr.. WINS has never
been associated with Republican party manage
ment. He was Democrat whose later support
of the Republican party, ike that OF thousands
of other good Democrats, sprang from the de-
cay Of organized Democratic opposition to ram
many and the utter decentralization or the ma
tional party as an advocate Of free silver MI.
WINS did not seek the nomination. He Is per-
1ecuy independent 1uo hePuOaAS0AA P4A tA
pledges the party to a non-parhsan administra-
ton Of the city government, and MT. WINS VIII
no more become, If elected, the representative
of q political machine in the City Hall than
Seth Low was Yet 1t may be worth while to
recall that two years ago the Tammany organs
were denouncing Mr.. Low as partisan Re
publican candidate and representing him as a
creature Of a machine In the same spirit OF
reckless contradiction which they now display
they also made much of Republican machine
GOODNESS toward him because he had not been
its creature and given it patronage.
II NAV also be worth while to recall that the
same propbets who are now trying TO scare
thoughtful citizens from the support of Mr..
WINS BY representing Mr.. Hearst as the candi-
date likely to succeed unless all his opponents
rush in g. panic to support Mr.. Mcclellan tried
the same game in 1897. Then they daily
shouted that Henry George was the menace
and that General Tracy was the only man who
could defeat him. They were sure that MI
Low would be q bad fourth in the race. The re-
suit was q Tammany victory, with Mr.. Low
second and their leading opponent Of Henry
George" third. These prophets were equally
sure that Governor Higgins stood no chance OF
election Their predictions have long been
known as mere unscrupulous bluf1ng. They find
themselves the victims of a surprise and are
confronted with a dashing movement by an
evident master Of campaigning which threatens
TO sweep all before it, and in panic they are
making all sorts of wild statements. Before the
campaign is over nobody will be In any doubt
about MI Ivins's ability and independence, or
about the untring earnestness OF the RepuD-
ican party to defeat the Murphy-McCarrsn
plan for three years Of MCGOWAN