The daily Nome industrial worker. [volume] (Nome, Alaska) 19??-1918, 1913-08-15
The victory for Tammany appears

The victory for Tammany appears
to be complete now that the AS
sembly has approved the report Of
the Frawley committee and impeach-
ed Governor Sulzer. Long ago we
said that Tammany knew very wei,
when it proceeded to fight Governor
Sulzer to finish it knew the man
it was tackling; Tammany knew
that there were flaws in his armor.
At the same time Tammany is
fighting a losing battle. Tammany
will fare just as the machines are
faring all over the United States.
Big Business has discarded the ma
chine long ago. 1t is too expensive
and it has been unreliable. The ma
chine has now and then to cater to
popular favor in way that seems
unscientific to big business which
knows it's power.
All this hurrah about purifying
politics is not what it seems to be.
1t is being purified because the open
corruption has served it's end. 1t is
being shown to Big Business every
day \that other methods of control
are easier, are more reliable, and
oro Ioco ooci1v 6otootoh 1o
Tammany taken all round is dis
gusting nuisance to Big Business. 1t
has identified itself with crime and
vice so distinctively that it repels
the people just when it should fasci-
nate. And Big Business when it has
most urgent need of Tammany does
not want to identify itself with vice
or crimes however vicious and GRIM
inal it may be per Sc. And that is
really why there is such an impetus
to this reform movement the coun-
try over; why Roosevelt is backed
by the Morgans, by the Perkins and
by the McCormacs. For Big Bust
ness believes in going to Church of
a Sunday, donning frock coat and
tall hat, and being in a word res
pectable.
This Tammny stunt is not at all
what it should be. The men smoke
cigars in the side of their mouths,
they wear derby hats on the side of
their heads, they go to no church
more often than not, and they drink
in tough saloons and have good
time, and do not seem to care who
knows it with women of sportive
tendencies who like Magdalen have
loved too much. All that is far from
respectable; it brings Big Business
politically into disrepute, and it
looks black. After all politics are
all in the outward seeming. 1t mat
tiers not to the politician that they
have that within which passes show,
at the political court the inky cloak
of the mourning Hamlet is no more
unwelcome than the cap and bells Of
the drunken Tammany jester. A
good politician has to be a good hy-
pocrite if he will pass muster with
Big Business, and Tammany wears
its vices as it's sportive members
wear boutonieres- smiling gayly,
and debonnaire. 1t will not do at all.
Rockefeller knew what he was about
when he started a crusade against
white slavery and against cadets,
and when Carnegie builds libraries
and talks edifyingly about uplifting
humanity he is also wise in his
genration. Then the biggest steal
and the biggest corruption that
has undermined the social life
under capitalism is forgotten for
people judge by the outward shows.
The world is still deceived by
ornament, said Shakespeare, and
who may say that the deception is
not just as true today as when the
Bard of Avon placed the lines in the
mouth of Bassanio. Surely will
Tammany be cleaned out-surely
will Boss Murphy find that he plays
a losing battle, that the forces which
oppose him are terrible forces, and
that shifting sands are the sands
upon which his house, the house of
him and his, have been so ill builded.
.Sulzer is but a pawn in the move
ment. His poor appeals to the
people to sustain him against the
Vaccinations of the boss would
strike deaf ears enough but that
huge interests would have the peo-
pie heed and hear. His frantic ap-
peals against the ruthless attacks of
will in the end be echoed
by Tammany itself when the real
power brushes Tammany as Tam
many brushes Sulzer. Not for moth,
ing are the powers Of wealth,
through the press, through the pull
pit laundering against the Tiger