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FEBRUARY 1921
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DARK AYS IN THE TEPEE
These are cheerless days for the
statesmen of Fourteenth, street.
Whichever way the Sachems turn the
outlook Is dreary. The results, 01
1919 and 1920 have taken much of
the "pep" out of the old-time leaders.
They are. plainly unhappy.
In the old days Tammany's
strength rested on the cGrner saloon.
Every saloon was a financial and po
etical recruiting: station for the Wig
wam. Most of the corner saioons are
gone now. The few that remain are
more interested in the fortunes of a
revenue inspector than in those of a
district captain. The last two elec
tions furnished cumulative evidence
.that Tammany had not created any
thing to take the place of the corner
saloon. But it was not until after
the votes wero counted last Novem-Jto get into action early, and if pos
ber that any of the Tammany lead
eu seemed to recognize what had
happened.
One district leader confesses to the
Evening Post that the Democrats
have been unable to organize the
women as the Republicans have done.
Another leader is planning to organ
ize move shows for his constituents,
overlooking with consistent" Tam
many stupidity the obivous fact that
his constituents would probably pre
fer a film of their own . or Mr.
Selznick's selection to one "passed
by the board" on Fourteenth street.
A third leader found by the Evening
Post reporter laments the fact that
the young men of his age no long
er seemed eager to serve around
headquarters in the hope of future
political preferment. A fourth lead
er is back at the old task of hunting
jobs for the unemployed of his dis
trict a service which Tammany has
employed with much advantage to
itself and others in the past.
These public expressions of -Tammany
leaders enable one to visualize
the blind groping of these men who
see power slipping away from them
and do not just understand what is
going on. It is noticeable that but
few of them, even when taking pri
vately, are hopeful that Murphy may
yet conjure something is fast wan
ing. Many of his lieutenants have
cold-bloodedly even disloyally
scanned his record and find it lacking
in actual accomplishment. They
point out that Murphy failed signally
to annex a lot of Federal patronage
which ' has been floating around in
the last eight years; that he was
even unable to Keep at Aioany n
friend who could ta"ke care of some
of the most deserving. Murphy's
incursion into business and inci
dentally into the courts did net
help the Tammany prestige.
There are immediate problems at
Tammany Hall, pressing problems
which are likely to be solved soon.
There's the question of what to do
with Enright, who won',t quit; and
what to do with Hylan, who won't
ttifake him quit. There's the question
of who is going to get caught finally
in the mesh of Investigations now in
progress or threatened. There's the
question of who is to be called upon
to act the part of the Sacrificial Goat,
if one is finally needed. Over them
all hovers the cloud of next fall's
municipal election, already threaten
ing to be more disastrous than those
of 1919 and 1920. New York Even
ing Post.
very mischievous boy. He has a way
of appearing and disappearing; of up
setting the calculations of others and
insisting on Calculations of his own,
quite disconcerting.
And time does not cure him of the
habit. He upsets calculations as joy
ously today as a quarter century ago,
when he took the platform at the
Democratic national convention and
disarranged everything the Cleveland
wing of the party had in hand there.
Another opportunity for the display
of his talent and disposition ap
proaches. The men most urgent for
the reorganization of the Democratic
party are anti-Bryan. Their calcula
tion is that he will appear at the next
national convention with a platform,
and maybe a boom, and essay, to con
trol the proceedings. So they want
sible forestall him.
Will Mr. Bryan upset this calcula
tion? His friends are closefy follow
ing all developments. They are announcing-
no plan of their own. They
have put forward no candidate for
the succession when Chairman White
of the Democratic national committee
retires. Washington Star.
MR. BRYAN AND HIS FRIENDS
A venerable lady in Illinois ;a
cousin, it is mentidned, of William 0.
Bryan has just passed the century
mark.
The politicians would do well to
note this. There Is longevity In the
stock. Mr. Bryan, who has turned
sixty, is quite a boy in years by com
parison with this relative.
And not only a hoy, but a very
active boy, and, as some maintain, a
HEAVEN AND HELL
Bwedenborgr' exeat work. 400pase, 16 cents postpaid,
Stostor Laadeabaraef, WiaduaPiaea, St. Loais. Uo.
COAIi MEN ROBBED PUBLIC OF
BILLION, SAYS N. Y. SENATOR
The opinion that the American peo
ple were "mulcted" of a billion and a
half dollars last year "by the men in
the coal trade," was expressed today
by Senator Calder, Republican, of
New York, who was a witness before
the Senate committee considering his
bill for federal regulation of the coal
industry.
"Very well, how about the flour
men, the shoe men and some of thu
rest?" asked Senator Reed, Demo
crat, of. Missouri.
"Yes, yes," replied the New York
senator, "but this trade is the one we
are starting with. Coal is a neces
sity." Senator Calder is chairman of the
Senate , . Reconstruction committee,
which has Investigated the coal trade,
and which, it was announced today,
will begin an inquiry next week into
the lumber industry.
Senator Calder appeared before the
committee to reply to the statements
yesterday of former Gov. Curtis of
Maine, that coal men favored the
measure. He read several letters from
coal men complaining about terms
of the measure and others from con
sumers urging its enactment.
Senator Calder said: "The taxation
provisions of the bill, upon which
Gov. Curtis based his assertion, were
drawn to drive coal direct from the
coal mines to the retail dealers." "
"We have found in investigating
this subject," he said, "that coal has
moved back and forth between deal
ers, accumulating in price by the
profits and commission involved, and
these tax provisions, which would
take for the government ninety per
cent of the commissions on resales,
when they get above 5 cents a ton,
are intended to tax this kind pf busi
ness out of existence."
Senator- Reed questioned the right
of congress to use the taxation pow
ers for such a purpose, and a long
constitutional argument resulted.
Washington Star.
fcATIN AMERICA HONORS MEM
ORY OF GEN. GORGAS
A Washington, D. C, dispatch
dated Jan. 1G, says Representatives
from many nations gathered tonight
in the hall of the Pan-Ameri.can
union to pay tribute to the late Maj.
Gen. William C. Gorgas, former sur
geon general of the United States
army. Diplomats, prominent army
and navy officers, members of con
gress, and other officials attended the
exercises, held under the auspices ot
the Southern society of Washington,
of which Gen. Gorgas was 'once presi
dent. The ambassador of France; Maj.
Gen. H. K, Betholl, military attache
of the British embassy; the ambassa
dor of Peru, the ministers of Cuba
and Ecuador; the charge d'affaires
of Panama; the secretaries j)t war
and navy; Dr. L. S. Rowe, director
general pf the Pan-American union;
Maj. Gen. Peter C. Harris, and Dr.
Clarence J. Owen, past president of
the Southern society wore the speak
ers. Cablegrams of tribute were read
from the presidents of Uruguay and
Costa Rica and from the governmenv
of Colombia.
Congress will bo asked to make
appropriation for a suitable memorial
to Gen. Gorgas, it was announced.
Further honors will be paid to his
memory by- the presentation of a
painting of him by the Southern so
ciety, to be placed in the library o
the surgeon general's office.
"Gorgas honored the United 'State,
but his fame and his work now he
long to the world," declared the min
ister of Cuba, Dr. Carlos Manuel d
Ccspedcs.
"It wag in Cuba whore his brilliant
career, so full of notable and use
ful achievements, reached that hrgh
point at which ho ceased to bo mere
ly a distinguished servant of his own
beloved country, to become a bene
factor of all the human race."
After speaking of the sanitary
work done by Gen. Gorgas in Ecua
dor, the minister from the country,
Senor Rafael H. Elizalde, said:
"He came among us with out
stretched hand and purity of pur
pose, winning our hearts. We are
proud to owe a great national debt to
him."
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