The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1909-09-07
NEW YORK'S GAM
PA|GN FOR MAYOR
AMAZING FORECAST MADE CON-
CERNING IT-CRIME AND VICE
UNITE TO ELECT A SUCCESSOR
TO MAYOR MCCLELLAN.

New York, Sept. 7.-Tammany
hall, the most corrupt and vitiating
American political institution, nov
has on its hands the little job of
electing a successor to its present
mayor, George B. Mcclellan. It's
September, it's hot, election is not
far off, but Tammany is cool and
active in the work of lining up its
criminal allies-thieves, thugs, white
slave traders, divekeepers, saloon
keepers, Migrants and riffraff-who
are depended upon to unite forces on
1.-The big day" for the big causes of
graft and lawlessness.
That Tammany will this year, as
| usual. depend upon professional GRIM
inals to carry the election is shown
by recent sinister events. But there
will be a slight change in methods.
To elect Tammany mayor will mean
to the big grafters continued control
of $50, 100000 annual city expendi-
ture, besides untold millions from
other graft sources for the little fell
lows-the criminal element
The other day there was big po-
lice shake-up. Gen. Theodore A.
Bingham, whom Mcclellan made po-
Eoo oop,p, icc;npor 1ybop To,,,p,apv
had to give law-abiding citizens some
assurance that the Bowery wasn't 60
ing to abscond with Fifth avenue en-
tire, was unceremoniously fired by
Mcclellan at the behest of politicians
high up. Bingham was a gruff old
army man who had tried to keep the
city in order, but. Of course. was very
often betrayed by his subordinates
and was reasonably harmless to Tam
many criminal allies because of the
general viciousness ana incompetency
of the Tammany-b ossed rank and file
of New York cops But decent peo-
pie trusted Bingham
When Mcclellan promoted w. F.
Baker. first deputy police commits
sioner and a professional cop, to the
big job. every crook muttered hoo
ray for Tammany. Professional
cops are supposed to know enough
not to interfere with Tammany meth
DDS. and Bingham had let it be
known that he didn't give a rap
about Tammany. Suppose Bingham
should set out to arrest ballot box
suffers on election day-what then?
So the underworld supposes strong
arm men. walters in dives and sa-
looms, white slave herders, Migrants
and down and out gamblers (for
gambling is dead), will this year
have to conform to new rules. Here
tofore the thousands of repeaters, or
ganized into bands led by notorious
desperadoes, voted as often as they
were told to. Travelling in small par
ties, they voted under fictitious
names in the forenoons voted hit AMI
miss upon the names of citizens dead.
i'll, detained, drunk or for other rea-
son not appearing. There is now a
new law which provides that voter
must write his name in the registry
book and write comparison sigma
ture when he votes. Tammany has
such complete control of election Of
ficers in the tenement district that
she fears little, because, as the tip
went out in the underworld, "they
won't compare
Nevertheless the hall is making an
elaborate plan for repeating, using
one particular man for each false
name. This will necessitate the in
telligent support of the big criminal
gangs, and. as If to encourage the
gang leaders to loyal support,
Monk" Eastman, the most notorious
and vicious criminal gangster in the
history of the East-side, has just
been released from Sing Sing, having
been pardoned because of his "exem-
plary prison conduct" and without
consideration of his previous be-
havior'