TAMMANY'S DEFEAT.

Wanganui Chronicle, 4 December 1901, Page 2

TAMMANY'S DEFEAT.

Tammany's forces were overwhelmingly defeated in* the municipal ejections in New York on November 5. A despatch from London the following day says that the moffc vindictive opponents of Tammany Hall, even in the thick of the campaign,

could not have painted that organisation in blacker colours than do the editorial writers in the afternoon papers here in congratulating New York on the result of the elections. "The success of Sc-Lh Low is an event on which every iriend of America and every lover of virtue nd honesty anywhere has good reason to raise paeons of congratultions," says "St. James' Gazette," adding, "it is the greatest blow yet struck at the most pernicious system of organised triumphant villainj' ever foisted upon the civilised community by a gang of corrupt blackmailers, but the. terrific power of such an organisation can only be finally "crushed by a counter organisation, and equally far-reaching.*' The "Pall Mall Gazette" says, "The gods that preside over honest Government desire a libation "from I every good citizen throughout the world." The "Westminster azette" remarks, "The New Yorker seem.-; at last to have grasped the fact that he has a citizen's responsibility for the good government of his city, with a President who has declaied against ! the spoils system, and a di'-Tammanyised New York. The administrative outlook for the United States-is brighter'than for si long- time." It may be added that Low's power as Mayor is' practically absolute. He has the power of removal'and appointment of every non-elective officer in New York, and the practical distribution of over one hundred million dollars in patronage each year. Low announces he will instruct this patronage to his commissions and hold thjjm absolutely responsible.