TAMMANY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8012, 26 December 1905, Page 3

TAMMANY.

Ail American journalist writes to the ''Now Zealand Times" :—"Tho triumph of Tammany" is what, a Wellington paper |terms tho victory of tile Soddon (Jovt-niiueiil. It has been common /during the campaign to hear the Government accused "Taminunvism." l)o the ]>ersons who use jthe term seriously mean what they say ? To oik; who knows} what "Tammanyism" ancang, the accusation, by inevitable implication, is the same as a direct assertion that the J'remier compels every jjerson hcl<lin< ra r a place in tho Government service to pay to him a percentage of his salary ; that he collects, through the police, tribute from publicans, from gamblers, from keepers anil inmates of inmioral| houses 'for protection against the law ; that no mall can secure a contract fori public work unless 'he arranges to divide nis profits with Mr Bedtlon : that crime and vice (of every sort and degree are licensed privately by the "machine" ; that Mr Seddon is tho secret partner of the pander, tin: jiinip, and the harlot ; that his lieutenants stufT, the ballot-boxes and falsify election returns at his behest ;' that the l'ranier of New ZJjaland, "Boss of the Machine," is accumulating a vast fortune for himself, and debauching , Parliament with bribes. '

[ Seddon do not > wish to be misunderstood as making such charges against the .Premier j if they do not desire to blacken the name of New Zealand in America and spread abroad the impression that this country is a sink of iniquity, they would do well to expunge '' Tammany i sm' - from their, vocabulary,