Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-10-12
NO. Iv-THE DIRECTORS

and strength to the weak; raft all over space
from the drudgery Of the present to some
thing easier Now, the placeholders have
sublime faith in Jim McNichol and the Vares
they never think 1.-THE Organization" cold,
cruel and hard, as it really is. They have
been bought and paid for. Promotion can be
secured through subserviency alone; hence
the illusions of nobility in this or that leader
one hears expressed loudly yes, loudly, in the
bar of Chestnut street headquarters, or
around the corner in 18th street at an equally
we-known place.
Moral and physical capacities and facul-
ties have no value in a candidate for place.
The important qualification is-Has he some
brother. uncle cousin or other relative who
is a member of the Legislature, a Councilman
or ward committeeman? Once in the job,
constantly before his eyes on the screen of
advancement are thrown such overnight pro-
motions as the catapulting of John j. Har-
rigan from a $4,000 clerkship into $4,000 Mag
istracy, when his ward chief, James A. Carey,
was moved UP into an $4,000 Mercantile APP
praisership. So the placeholder trails along,
voicing his own secret hopes for rising be-
hind blatant certificates OF character to the
higher-ups in THE Organization"
II Is the same with hundreds OF citizens In
the wards who are unsuspectingly linked into
small favors from ward leaders or commit
teemen, the directors or active business
agents of THE Organization" An electric
light is located on the block where a single
property owner wants It, relative UP for
some infraction Of the law is discharged with
a soft reprimand by Magistrate. So goes
the process of binding dependable servitors
under obligations. Whole communities come
to believe that government itself is a dis
tribution of individual favors a grab-bag for
all. A man expects something, and he
finally gets it-a sort of free lunch with his
monday beer.
Which Of us will say that the large inter
ests of our wonderful growing city should
forever be sacrificed for the small personal
interests of few individuals? Influence will
probably be bought and sold until the crack
of doom. But, apart from the morality of the
practice, are the people getting value re-
ceived? Hardly! Just put on side Of the
ledger all the benefits done individuals by the
business agents of "The Organization" and
upon the other the citys losses from the
operations of the contractor overlordsT the
cleanup OF the middlemen is staggering, and
their huge gains come out Of everybody's
pocket.
Only men who make business of It would
take the time, let alone the patience, to build
along in this way, peddling small tavors
right and left, year after year. Each favor
done is appraised at high value, and pigeon
holed among the assets of "The Organiza-
ton" Tammany Is the master builder along
these lines working among the alien poor
with free Ice in summer, and free coal in
winter.
The business agents OF The Organization"
are less prodigal but more subtle, for the two
story house people Of Philadelphia would
spurn charity. They do not need It. When
one reflects, one must perceive that getting
around the local voter is about as delicate
matter as a surgical operation, requiring
some tact, and much experience.
There are times, too, when the expediency
of an election requires surer road to office
than through the legitimate voter. Then
The Organization quickly throws off tho
cloak of a kind grandmother. and appears
before the Little Red Riding Hood public as
a savage hungry wolt, with glistenins row
of white teeth. OF this, at another time
OF the 4s wards of the city 27 are owned
outright by Jim McNtchol, IL are driven by
the wares and nine are OF mixed ownership,
Perhaps II win be Just we'll TO set the
wards all down with their business agent,
central committeeman or ward leader and
whom he represents. Here goes:
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and fees: for the VsrsS
2. President Harry O, Hansisy. Of Select ceun-
ell; Mercantile Appraiser; 5000 in fees Gsso-
eat6 OF the Wares
O. Ex-Msrcautile Appraiser Harry J, Tralnert
wholesale and retain liquor deaisrf lines up with
the Wares
{. City Commissioner Robert ]. Moore; salary.
t5OO6 decomposition ana former sman ONCE
holder; called Neutral Bob"
g. Mercantile Appraiser James A. Carey; 5000
in fees ex-poIlcaman and former MaEistrats
for lLcNehOl.
Register OF Wills offiosj salary, Ii5oOi for No
Nichol,
I. Select Councilman Charles ssgsr; ex-pias-
tsrsT and sK-torsmGn in Birs Department.; Pen
rose man
g. Edward cooEI eT-saioonkeeper represent
ing Mercantile Appraiser Edward A. DsYln.
commonly called Buck" DsyllnG also Pom
adhhrent
James NJ ReelYG saissnksspsrI for Mo-
Nlchol.
10 state Senator james p, MeNichoI, former
Eslsct CounciimaHI genius OF tho Organization,
contractor overload de luxe and member OF
the Executive Committee
IL Common Councilman John =. CoRH6ilyI
ehairman Of the Finance Committee, lawyer
and mouthDisos of the Organization in Common
CouBcils usually found with HeRiohOl
t. Register Of Wills Jamss 3, aheahaR! sal
ary elhO00, sI-snall OficsholdeF, grip CARRIER
and court Jester 70 AcNiehOli merry fellow,
i3 CLERK OF auaFtsF ReaaLsHs John r. Fiah-
srty; salary, 5000 and fsesI also Select Council
mani for MGEieheL
Il X, 6eattI Wali-to-ds lawyer OF extensive past
praGtiRs Ia the courts Of Quarter Sessions; nov
iiRed uB with the Wares
Is TipztaH John b, celIihsI salary. tsaOoI for
AcNich0l
ia "a Membar of the Legislature John Ed
yard Publ, representing Select Councilman