New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-12-04
CROKER IS BACK,
PERHAPS TO STAY
America Looked Welcome,
Says EX-Tammany Head,
Here for a Year
WOULD VOTE FOR
WILSON IN 1920
"He Kept Us Out of War"
Won for President, For
mer Chief Is Sure
Huh HIM. 7 don't know"

Huh HIM. 7 don't know"
Twiddling his thumbs in red
plush armchair q. the Hotel Savoy
last night, Richard Croker was inter
viewed more unsueeessfully, perhaps,
than Charles +. Murphy ever tried 70
be. And his dark-eyed young Indian
princess wife on the divan across the
room was a wOrshipful admirer of her
husbands artful lodging
Wedding out the "huhs." "h'ms" and
81 don't knows" these few may be Sc
down as definite, explicit views of Mr.
Croker on a small variety Of topics:
Wilson is great President, and the
former Tammany sschem would like
10 vote for him for a third term.
Murphy is sensible "feller," and
it's wrong 70 suppose that the organi-
zstion laid down" in the recent cam
paign.
Mitchell has the right idea about let
ting the town keep open. but a Tam
many Mayor after all, is the best the
city can get.
Hall Weakened by Exodus
The Irish exodus from Tsmmsny
has weakened it perceptibly, so that
the Tiger will have to fight harder
than ever 10 hold it's own, and Mr.
Croker is not telling what will happen
He says he does not know.
New York is paying high taxes be-
cause it is living twenty years ahead
Of itself. It is paying for things that
its grandchildren may enjoy.
ireland is in a precarious condition.
torn by factions and bowed down by
mere living expenses. 1t should have
had home rule long ago.
England is angry because the United
States does not enter the war on the
Allies side.
Mr. and Mrs. Croker arrived yester-
Gay on the American liner st. Louis.
They intend 10 remain here at least q
year and probably for the rest Of their
lives. The one-time powerful Tam
how long they would stay, but he ad-
mitted that America certainly looked
welcome. He has been abroad three
years At his beautiful Irish estate at
Glencairn, and looks younger now than
when he sailed away with his bride,
fifty years his junior
May Not Go Back
Are you going back to Ireland" he
was asked.
~ don't know" he replied. houneing
about in his chair for a comfortable
position. as though he were twenty
four instead Of seventy-four. 81 may
take a notion TO 90 back in year or
two. Il all depends"
"On what? How long the war lasts -
MAYBE" he ventured. and then in
CURED how long his visitors thought
il would last. One said two years, the
other ten.
you're way off," he told the latter
al think If they keep on at the rate
they are going they'd sll be killed in
a couple OF years. The war would end
by exhaustion
Near Irish Rebellion
You we're near the scene of the
Irish rebellion ," some one suggested.
"Yes." he said, I'VE were five miles
from il and could hear the shooting
But / don't want TO say anything about
Ireland or England. ] am still living
in ireland. you know. ! think those
fellows were brave lads who went 30
their deaths foolishly. Conditions in
ireland are very bad. Living expenses
are terribly high. There are too many
factions and the principal trouble is
that one faction in the North Of Ire
land is permitted TO arm, while the
rest is not. think Ireland should
have had Home Rule long ago, but
nobody knows what the prospects are
now"
Mr.. Croker's views on the election,
for publication at least, were somewhat
meagre.
"I'd like to know" he said, "why
Wilson didn't run away with the cleo
ton. II should have been a walk-over'