Widnes Examiner. — 1901-11-08 (Widnes, Cheshire, England)

THE EXAMINER.  R0VE31138131 BTa 1901.  IT looks as if the sun The Overthrow of has at last broken Tammany Hall. through the dark bank of fog which has so long lain on the horizon of the United States, and that the political dishonesty and municipal corruption which have been attended with such dire results to social morality, especially in the chief city of the States, are to be dispelled. The news which comes of the vieto:r3 of the combined forces of municipal and purity over the Tammany Hall rings in the New York election is an omen of good fortune which cannot be over-estimated. Let it be borne in mind that the same forces which have carried the election of Mr SETII Low for the Mayoralty are those which were successful:Ain forcing Mr Roos VELDT upon his opponents as the nominee for the Vice-Presidency, audit will be seen that the sun' cess which has now been declared is no mere snatch victory or temporary Itriurnpli,;but the arrival at ' maturity of a great power which has been. awakened in the minds and consciences of the American people. For a long time they have submitted to the strings being pulled by corrupt politicians iwhonsought and sold public offices they would goods and chattels. The terrible scandals of police administration which _became matter ofnotoriety _a _few years .ago proved the great mass of the community to be but dupes in the hands of .unprincipled, scoundrels, who filled their pocketsj with the proceeds of immorality, robbery and even murder, committed with the connivance and sanction of 'the police authorities, under a system ofblackmail which has had no parallel in modernj. oivilisation. The populace were groaning _under itheraippression, and an awakening has takenZplace which should d° much to raise private and public morals to a much higher tone. The immediate cause of the revulsion which has led to the overthrow of the evil, so far possession in high places is concerned, may ba found in the fact that thelsystein of TammanY administration had reached the reductio absurdum of the autocratic principle upon which it had been,built up. The principle was that of huge machine,2perfect and complete in all itS parts working without scruple of conscience for the advance to political preferment and publie office of those who were prepared to pay for it, and recoup themselves by fair means or foul out of the public purse. The machine was controlled by one man, Boss CROKER, whose shrewdness and precision were only equalled by his unscrupuloile loess; and for many years it has had the election of New York, city and State, at its disposal. B'S., cently, however, Boss CROKER seems to have tire of the turmoil, and, perhaps, of the unsalutarine,ss of his occupation, and canae:tolEngland to enjol a measure of retirement The ruling passion t°, control would not permit him to give up the reins °I government, and the attempt to play the dictat° at such a distance seems to have introduced weakness and discord into the component parts of the charmed ring. He played a bold game when he went over to America a few months ago to take control of the machine on the spot. Not only wee the huge system of criminal corruption, fraud and blackmail which New York citizens had been fighing with the energy of a life-and-death struee homologate and fortified, but a nominee Was forward for: the vacant judgeship in t" disreputable ex-Mayor VAN Wvox, whose elec.tion would have damaged fatally the reputtse: tion of the Supreme Court of the St 11 g, The very grossness of the daring policy Tyll'e sought to place a corrupt judge at the head °I reseed.: demoralised police force has stung every able citizen into action, and the election roretan;" which have now come to hand, are the rep made by an exasperated people. It was deroils development of fortune, unseen by the into. a strange agent who made it possible, that the Presinen'