The Washington times., 1905-10-08
SUNDAY. OCTOBER g. sOS.
Organization and Tammany.

Many pious people wonder why the
wicked spread themselves like green
bay trees; some high thinkers find
it hard TO understand the apparent
success of low social standards and
wobbly political arguments; all of
US are appalled, by the resources of
of opportunism TO put down move
ments for the public veal. The an
swer is always difficult. but 1t may
be indicated generally as resolving
itself into the power or organization.
The prospective success of Tam
many in the coming elections will be
due to its excellent organization.
That 1t is a political machine for
grinding golden grist for it's leaders
no one doubts; that it's growth and
power is blight on the city of New
York everyone knows. that it is
practically invincible, this year,
seems to be the general consensus
of opinion,
Tammany is the apotheosis of po-
litical organization. It's first appeal is
to the personal needs of it's adher-
ents. the chance to work, the pos
sibility OF making a competence, the
hope Of wealth and power. Its lead
ers display not only the more COM
mon vices, but the greater and more
practical virtues of charity and i'm
mediate help to the needy. 1t finds
places in its work for thugs, grafters,
practical politicians, as well as for
men like Mcclellan, who, according
TO DR.. Parkhurst, is a gentleman,
and has the instincts of a gentle
man." In the broad bosom of Tam
many there is room for all to shelter
themselves, there is comfort for the
highest and for the lowest, and the
bond that draws them together is
selfishness.
Tammany offers to the crook the
protection of it's enormous power and
its wide affiliations; it offers to the
politician a chance TO WELD a ma
Jority of the votes OF New York
city; it offers to the business man
increased trade and exemption from
the petty prosecutions of the local
government; it offers to the great
number of those who remotely or d.
rectly derive incomes from vice and
crime the immunity of latitudina-
rian administrator of the police.
On the other hand the reformers
have no bond of union save the de-
sire for civic righteousness; and that
is rope Of sand compared with the
iron bands of selfishness and personal
greed that tie the Tammanyites to-
gether. Tammany has long been
corrupt, but 1t is as wise as serpent.
Its real leader is not Mayor McClel-
Ian, he is Charles f. Murphy; the
real leader is never put forward by
Tammany, but rather some man or
more or less fair character who can
stand between the leader and the
public. Mr.. Mcclellan is ambitious,
he has listened to the purrings of the
tiger and the tiger has made good
with him. Nor is Mr.. Mcclellan the
only ambitious man, with the in
stincts OF a gentleman, who has
bowed the pregnant hinges of the
knee to the beast of New York; not
to multiply instances, Mr. Bryan
vsooed the velvet paws of that treach-
crcus animal
Tammany is organized on a basis
that the lower part of all of us can
understand and sympathize with.
The reform element in New York, as
elsewhere, is split into hundred
warning factions, and besides it Of
fers something that can only appeal
TO those who are clothed and in their
RIO mis-. IL.