The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1913-11-05
Tammany Defeated

Tammany Defeated
New York is today going through her periodical
exaltation shouting ''Tammany is dead-long live
Iammany.''
For the Tammany machine went down to it's
Waterloo in the election yesterday
Several causes contributed to this, chief Of which
was probably the death of Mayor Gaynor. Gaynor
was 70 have been Tammany' stalking horse to divide
the independent vote His sudden taking off in the
midst Of the campaign left Tammany to make an
open fight for its life without subterfuge. And
whenever an open fight be made with the people
aroused Tammany must lose.
There are more honest and decent people in every
community than dishonest and corrupt and the only
hope Of the latter is to becoud the ISSUE to prevent
m alignment Of voters.
The sulzer impeachment also helped to undo the
1.mmany machine And the time was ripe for an
This Is not the end Of Tammany hall
Twenty years or more ago Henry George and
Theodore Roosevelt gave Tammany an awful scare
in mayoralty race A little later Mayor Grant did
actually combine the opposition and crept in.
But Tammany came back into power.
Then Seth Low on fusion ticket swept the city
and Tammany was supposed to be dead But the
fusion diffused and Tammany came back at the next
election.
Now John Purroy Mitchell and fusion victory all
along the line have given Tammany solar plexus
In two years from now Tammany will probably be
burning red fire in ubilaton on the evening of cleo
ton day.
why?
Because Tammany is a solidified force in politics
It is party machine Every saloon in New York is a
Tammany club house, every gambler is a recruiting
officer, every cadet is Tammany henchman, every
crooked contractor who wants graft is a worker,
and the corporation crowd of special interests who
want governmental favors for which they willing
TO pay, are for Tammany
And while the decent people, the moral elements,
the reform forces who have so magnificently awak-
ened in the present contest and swept Tammany off
the municipal boards will 60 home self satisfied
and hugging to their bosoms the delusi0n that Tam
many is dead this soidfied force will be working on
the Job all the time
It is the same old story Tammany hall will never
be permanently eliminated from New York until the
saloons are wiped out, the cadets sent to JAIL the
gamblers lodged in Sing Sing and special interests
broken up and permanent political machine Of the
decent people established that will keep the moral
and honest citizens Of New York working at the game
Just as continuously as is Tammany today.
The futility OF these spasmodic reform waves OF
fusion such as swept New York yesterday was en-
pha8ized on the same day when George B. Cox, the
crooked political boss of Cincinnati came back into
power again in his home city, and in Toledo where
the old gang undd the work Of dozen years Of CON
centrated effort on the part of Golden Rule Sam
Jones and Brant Whitlock, the great independent
mayors who led Toledo and kept her out of the hands
Of the corrupt and crooked interests in dozen cam
paigns only to lose finally
Tammany hall and George B. Cox and the rest Of
the shrewd political corruptonists know that polt
zeal machine that grinds all the time cannot be per-
manenty put out Of business by spasmodic moral up
risings that win victory and then go to sleep.
New York may well keep an eye on Tammany hall
The fight has just begun
Dr. Jacques Bertilon figures out that suicide is
rare among book agents and very high among music
ians We'd already noted the remissness the part
of the book agents.
s Omaha News readers are discussing cts there a
hellf' with ferceness that's going to a saw
ing on the News office coal bill.