Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-01-19
Brooklyn in Ascendant.


York. But we in Brooklyn know it only
as Manhattan. we being a very large
part of New York. and In a few years
destined, as you know, to be the largest
part of New York. In place of you peo-
pie coming over the bridge in a few years
to Brooklyn you will be in terror about
our coming over the bridge from Brook
Ign to take you in. That is likely to
happen
Thus you can understand that this Is to
be a Brooklyn administration, and for
the first time in history the principal
officials will be Brooklyn men.
Appointments Commended.
Everybody except Tammany praises
the new mayors appointments. Thus far
every one OF them Is a first-class man.
He could not have made better selec-
tons. Nearly all of them are antf-Tam-
many independent democrats, and they
include several pronounced reformers.
They are business men, however. They
one or two of them are active politicians.
He has appointed no TammanyIte and
only two in the long list are in sympathy
with TanMmany. One of these, MI Drum
mond, the new commissioner of charities.
has appointed Frank Goodwin, a Tam
many district leader, as his deputy-an
honest, clean. highly respected citizen
and above criticism. But that is all Tam
many has got thus far, and the outlook
for the next four years is the most dis
couraging that society has ever known.
BY the election of Judge GaynOr II has
suffered the hardest blow 1t ever re-
ceived. AS one of the leaders put it:
The organization has gone hungry De-
years of starvation is more than the
boys can stand. A lot Of folks l know of
will have to go to work..
The strength of Tammany is based
upon patronage and contracts, and both
are under the control of it's enemies. The
citil service rules protect the Tammany
men who are now holding minor posi-
tons, but they have been warned that
the duty of a public Official. as construed
by the new mayor, is to serve the public
and not a political organization. and
hereafter no clerk or policeman Will be
exposed to discipline for failing to pay
his Tammany dues. The new mayor
made this clear in a letter written TO
Thomas Higgins the other day, In which
he said:
Politics Kept Out.
81 propose to appoint you commissioner
Of parks for the Bronx tomorrow, and
trust you will accept, for thorough re-
form of that Office is needed. Among
other things, ] find that every one ap-
pointed to work in the parks is required
to ioin a political club and pay dues and
assessments levied for political purposes.
Let all that be stopped Immediately. NO
political interference or influence what
ever shall hereafter be suffered in any
department of the city of New York
When that letter was published there
was a sigh Of relief among the subordi-
nate officehoders throughout the city,
and sigh of despair among the Tam
MANY district leaders. Similar instruc-
tons have been issued to every one of
the new commissioners and other Off
Gals who controlled patronage. They
have been admonished that merit alone
and not politics shall be considered in
making appointments and promotions.
Judge Gaynors ideas on political organ
ization have furnished the Tammany
leaders and other machine men some
thing to think about. He declares him.
self a democrat. He says he always has
been and doubtless always will he a
member of that party, but in a recent
speech he declared that IF the demo-
cratic party is ever to recover its prestige
1t must slough off the rottenness and every
thing which is not honest and become an
absolutely healthy, clean and progressive
organization. 1t must represent good
government and high ideals. and push to
the background the men who have dis
graced the organization by their clamor
for patronage and their corrupt practices.
And this must be done by the young
men. If the democracy Is to go forward
they must lead II and conduct future