Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-07-25

that the lack Of enthusiasm In the camps
Of the old parties may be due 20 the fact
the worst the campaign managers have
ever known. The ordinary sources OF sup
ply seem to be shut on tight. The insur-
ance companies no longer will open wide
corporation contributors Of the past have
been awakened into courage to say no to
the politicians. Individual CONTRIBUTIONS
appear to be the main stay OF the coming
campaign. Economy will be the watch
word everywhere, and there Is nothing the
professional politician and spellbinder. the
boys who work up the enthusiasm and
torchlight parades. 50 much detest as par
simony. The last two syllables Of the word
have a pleasant sound, but the 'parsf
prefix knocks 1t all out.
The republicans, who have been In power
80 long. and being the party which has had
the confidence Of the property interests.
will undoubtedly suffer the greatest from
the cutting on OF campaign contributors
from the big concerns. The grand OLD
party has always had money enough to
conduct a lavish compaign and give ex-
preston to the declaration that unbounded
prosperity prevailed In the country How
''the boys" will relish the new conditions
remains to be seen. The democrats have
never been very literally supplied, and con-
dftions in their treasure box this fall Will
be about normal, not that they have ever
had much conscience against corporation
coin; the question with them has been how
forget 1t.
Hearst and the Campaign.
One can easily picture Mr.. Hearst grin
ming at the discontinue of the old party
men at the failure of the money crop. He
is not affected by it at all, and here again
he will prove factor this fall Mr.. Hearst
has money enough of his own. and to spare.
and he can carry out any plan of campaign
his managers suggest Only three demo-
cratic county conventions have instructed
their delegates to the state convention at
Saratoga. These are Tioga, Broome and
Orleans. All three were captured by Mr..
Hearst. In thirty more other counties
his forces are at work, and in preparation
for emergencies; an Independence League
organization has been effected in each.
The question resolves itself apparently
into one as to whether not Hearst Will
gates from New York city and Brooklyn.
Here is where the rub will come, and the
action of these delegates will decide
whether the young editor and representa-
tive Is to be the regular democratic nominee
for the governorship or whether he will run
on the Independence League ticket.
Many of Mr.. Hearst's supporters do not
fancy his striving for the regular dem
would not follow him into the regular or
ganization. J. G. Stokes. who was one of
Mr.. Hearsts running mates last fall, be-
ing the municipal ownership nominee for
president OF the DOarQ OF aldermen, mas al
ready Topped over completely to the So
cfalists. Mr.. Stokes did not lend much ma
terial strength to the Hearst campaign of
1905 however, and his detection is only of
passing interest that of rich man join
ing the radicals with whom he had long
been in mental sympathy. Mr.. Stokes is
said to favor campaign which appeals di-
rectly to the people and Is opposed to the
maintenance of an expensive political Or
ganization.
Speaking of Tammany. few persons know
that there are two distinct Tammanys in
New York city whose organization is sepa-
rately maintained although the important
personnel of both is practically the same.
The real Tammany is nominally charita-
BILE and social organization and 1t controls
Tammany Hall, the big building on East
18th street. right across the street from
Tim Sullivan's big burlesque theater. The
general committee of the Tammany de-
mocracy is the political organization. but
1t cannot use Tammany Hall without the
consent of the real Tammany which is
known as THE Society of Tammany, or
Columbian Order and whose grand sachem
is Representative William Bourke Cochran,
whose forthcoming marriage to daughter
of Gov. Ide of the Philippines has attracted
much attention socially.
The Tammany Democracy.
The Tammany democracy has no difficult
ty in obtaining consent to make its head
quarters in Tammahy Hall. for all the
SacnemS OF the society are h1gh mOgulS In
the political end of the combination The
list of sachems includes such distinguished
Tammany names as Charles Francis Muir
ply, Patrick Keenan,, Louis F. Haffen, DAN
lei F. Mcmahon Victor ]. Bowling Jno J.
Scannell. Rudolph Guggenheimer, Asa Bird
Gardiner, Timothy d. Sullivan and John
Fox. The secretary OF the society is
Thomas F. Smith, the treasurer Is Peter F.
Meyer, the sycamore mot Sycamore HID
Is Bryan 2. Henry, and the Wiskinkie
(whatever that may be- is John A. Boyle.
The Society of Tammany was formed as
long ago as 1889. and was the effect of O
popular movement in New York having
in view a counterweight to the
so-called "aristocratic'' society Of the Gin
1t was essentially anti-federalist
or democratic In character, and it's chief
founder was William Mooney, an uphol-
sterer and natve-born American of Irish
extraction. 1t took its title from noted,
wise and friendly chief of the Delaware
tribe of Indians named Tammany, who had
for the want of a better subject, been
by the soldiers of the American
revolution as the American patron saint
The first Tammany meeting was held May
u. 1879. The act Of incorporation was
passed In 1905. The grand sachem and thir-
teen sachems were designed to typify the
President and governors of the thirteen or
iginal states. Founder Mooney was the
first grand sachem. The charitable and So
cial features of the society afterward devel-
oped. and now the identity of the original
tenets, has almost been swallowed up by
the political organization
Tammany thus is seen to be no modern
institution, as many persons have supposed
IL is an old hand at the game of politics
Ihats why 1t knows so many tricks