Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1906-06-07
POLITICAL GRAFT
A White Chip
-Lstle- Tim Sullivan Of New You
Sermon1es On Favors IN
Politics.
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fMAnA0pA&fs
New YORK 10 ~ good or - bad ~
the people In il want 1t to be.
Graft exists aaIy where people are
willing @ pay II.
No official. high or low in New York
city eau do any great injustice a.
an, nambeE Of people without hay
Ing to pay the penalty for the same.
Most every official or msn In an
thority In this eity's administration
would prefer to run his department
along the strict lines laid down by
code and statute.
II he isn't willing. however. TO do
fayofs" once In awhile. which seems
an inter probation Of the code that
would moi stand FIRE In a legal pro
ceeding he soon finds that the latch
strings on the door Of the party that
put him there Is jerked up with al
snap when he Is seen approach
ing.
"ravors" are easily stretched into
big concessions. and they don't look
well when they are told about In
Investigations.
No official can get along satisfac'
taorily without doing these fayors.
and the man who can do them with
the least friction makes the kind OF
an Official the New York public want.
"Nothino Doing"
I went TO the corporation counsel OF
a reform administration and laid facts
before him that showed great inins
tice was being done To three men who
had becomes involved innocentis
enough In n legal tangle with the city
and the corporation ~counsel's onice
was automatically working out a pros
ecution that would mean financial
ruin for them.
When he had heard the facts he
said,
What can I do for ~"
pointed out 10 him that II he would
usa his p~reroeatlva TO have the pre-
ceedlngs stopped TIL the men coul,
remedy the fault which came ahou'
IN an unusual circumstance he would
be doing a fair thing and would harm
no one and the city would not lose In
the matter.
He said he would investigate ths
matter and see me about II In the Mt
ternoon.
! went back In the afternoon am
he said:
What you want done Isn't good
law, and wouldn't look well In a cam
paign speech made by a man on the
other side, but It's commo sense and
Justice. and ri do H."
by the way he continued. these
men are Tammany men. amt they?'
I said they voted the Democratic
ticket. but we're citizens In good
standing in the community, and paid
their taxes.
He said: II don't really care what
they are, they are deserving OF con
sideration In this matter, and they
shall have IT,"
That man did many Of thes things
while he was in Office. II mattered
not to him whether a man was .
Tammany man, a republican or a re
former. So long as he was convinced
that a man was not a professional
dodger Of laws he could get consider
alton and exemptions from the hard
ships Of automatic procedure any time
n anpeared that he was to suffer unus
uaIiy.
That man did many Of these things
corner of the city as the right man a
be an Official, and two nominating
conventions Of two different parties
put him on their ticket for almost
any Office he would signify his In
tention to accept. .
He told each committee that waited
on him that he had lost about s6.eot
"a year while serving the city, ant
as he couldn't find II In his code o.
procedure to take any money but bill
salary while In the city's employ HI
thought he's 30 back to work.
Rapid Fire Newspapers
A man who has a record cieat
enough to be put on a political tfck
let to he placed before the marks
Imanship of the rapid-fire newspaper
LOT New York city is pretty near goo'
enough to wear wings. and when n
lean come back and get a denomination
hes pretty nearly all to the good. an
lis satisfactory to the majority OF tn
people. and we are told the maiorit
is entitled 10 rule
Nowhere in the United States doe
politics pay as little reward as IT doe
In New York city. No man who 10
lows politics year after year eve
gets away with any large profit .
Once In a while a man gets a pul
Tic Office where he a get inside y
formation and make enough to pa
him for his trouble, but In nine case