The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1909-05-21
FIGHT THE BIC CHIEF
TAMMANY TO BE GIVEN A SIDE
wINDER BY PEOPLE.
Desperate Struggle of the Braves to
Keep Control of the Billion Dollar
Administration and It's Fat Pick
ings; Party in Power Will be
Pressed Hard; Election Day Is
Yet Six Months Away.
rspecla, to The Free Press.1


day still full six months ahead, more
preliminary campaign moves are being
begun in this city today than Gotham
has ever known at this season in its
fiercest years of municipal strife In
their desperate struggle to keep control
of the billion dollar administration OF
the fat financing of the metropolis the
Tammany chieftains are already deep
in the Matching of plots to shape the
coming campaign to their advantage
Day and night the fences about their
small army of office holding henchmen
are being patched up by the wigwam
bosses and their tolls made tight about
every worker or voter within reach
The Tammany tribe was never strong.
er or better cntrenched to battle for
the city, it is reported privately today
by men in Murphy's confidence. That
the party in power will be pressed as
it has seldom been in the history
of the town, is now assured by the
appearance of an anti Tammany phal-
anx already formed, the like of which
has never yet loomed up as early in
the campaign. Before the political
SILLY season" sets in this summer
there will be many mighty clash be-
tween the battle lines that are to
wage bloody battle for New York
city.
Horseman VS.. Husband
On the eve of the exodus of the
social set from its Fifth avenue haunts
during the winter whirl, no small
sensation has today been spread by the
attempt to reopen the court proceed
ings that terminated he romance of
Mrs. Burke Roche and Aurel Batonyi,
who has taught all swelldom to tool
a coach and four. The brief martial
career of this Hungarian whip and
the daughter of Frank Work has been
eagerly watched by every one of the
gilded society crowd to whom they
both were well known for years in
widely separated spheres. While the
vivacious Mrs. Burke-Roche took a
prominent part in the exclusive coach
ing runs of the socially elect, Batonyi
as hired to hold the reins and tutor
the swells in the arts of the box. In
this role the Hungarian horseman is
still more familiar today than in the
recent part which he has played in
high society and in the courts. While
every park road and boulevard is
filled with society coaching parties
this week, this case is furnishing an
endless theme for talk.
Court and Copy.
Now that a conviction for man
slaughter has at last been obtained in
a case as sensational and notorious as
that of Captain Hains, the public pro-
secutors of New York and its neigh
boring metropolitan counties are today
expressing the hope that their work
may not always be baked by the hys-
terics of the yellow press. During the
last decade hardly one verdict of guilty
has been rendered in this city in muir
der cases which it has pleased the
saffron scribes to make the mark for
their maudlin shafts of sentimentality.
Florence Burns, Nan Patterson, Sarah
Koten and dozen other women in
dicted for murder have walked easily
out of court after their attorneys had
capitalized with their juries the flood
of fake sentiment from the yellow
sheets. Patrick and Thaw alone were
finally imprisoned after superhuman eff
forts by the, district attorneys office:
but both are alive today. Though no
one gloats over the sentence of the
weak little army officer here today,
the outcome of the case is hailed
as promise of more trial by court
than by copy in the future.
Scale Scandal Spreads.
That the scandal of the scales, which
has already brought about tine dis
missal of half dozen old employees
in Uncle Sans custom house here, is
only begun today is the opinion of
some of the best authorities on the
case in this city. Where figs, cheese
and sugar are being found to be add
mitted under short weight through the
connivance of few of the governments
job holders, it is believed that similar
conditions must exist in almost every
line of goods that come for entry to
this port. Under the new collector of
the Port the official probe is now
working overtime, and before the af-
fair is allowed to end it is promised
that every CRATER, high or low, will
lost his official head. To reach the
men who stopped to plot with the
weighers for the easy entry of their
goods is an object which every honest
merchant in town hopes Mr.. Loeb will
attain.
Plauge for Pied Piper.
Beating back horde of bold rats,
the people of one whole section, of the
upper end of this island are this week
threatened with being overrun by this
novel city plague. From cellar to eel
lar and wall to wall this rodent armv
has crept upon the householders of
Harlem in the face of brooms, traps.
poison, streams of water and brick
bats. No one is, sure of the ORIGIN
of this riotous crew of outlaw rates.
though it is believed that many of
them were evicted from the ances.
trail seats by the tearing down of a
whole block of old structures in the
nelghborhood Harlem ia crvino dos.