Life — October 23, 1913 — page 19: what you’re looking at

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“HaRK! Sulzer that would match his need of prudence. But Sulzer, being really in- terested in politics (unlike Tammany) and enormously interested in Sulzer, got overexcited and ran amuck. Whereupon Tammany proceeded to destroy him, Unhappily that has been only too easy. Sulzer with immense provision of sails had neither rudder nor compass and was unable to navi- gate. It was really a service to the state to beach him, so utterly unfit he was in character and training for the office which he obtained. Tammany is better than Sulzer, in that it has discretion and business responsibility. But it is vastly more dangerous than Sulzer because Sulzer was sure to blow up in time because of the very THE TOMB” high combustibility of his constituent elements, whereas Tammany has plenty of sense of a certain kind, and will never blow up, but will stay in the ring indefinitely and must be pounded as effectively as possible every round. 7 \ ~ N the mayoralty round that is now on Tammany has put up its own man, Judge McCall, a typical Tam- many master and fairly good of his kind. With Mayor Gaynor gone, Mr. McCall will get all the votes Tam- 699 many can produce and we suppose Mr. Mitchel will get the rest. Mr. Mit- chel is a fair candidate. His character is good; his abilities are, at least, much above ordinary. The obligation to vote for him which voters will feel who want good government in New York rests on a much more solid basis than any personal difference between him and Mr. McCall. It rests on the fact amply demonstrated and widely understood, that such govern- ment as is due to New York can never come to her through Tammany, but must be secured head. Every local Tammany victory is good for Tammany, and bad for New York and for the Democratic party here and in the state and every- where. Every thing that entrenches Tammany in power, feeds it, en- courages it, strengthens it, delays en- lightened and patriotic government for New York. By all means let us all support Mr, Mitchel. He is a clean candidate and will help all he can. Let Tammany if we can this round. It looks as though we would. Anyhow let us scare it all we can, for next to beating Tammany the use/ullest thing is to keep it thoroughly scared. But the best way to scare it is to beat it. over Tammany’s us beat ELL, the tariff bill is a law and there is water all the way across the isthmus of Panama. The cows are really coming home—cows, some of them, that have been a long, long time out at pasture. The currency bill is going to pass presently or sooner and is going to be a good bill. The Colonel has gone a to South America. O Navis, fortiter occupa portum! and Mrs. Pankhurst has sailed for this port and will reach our readers before these lines do. Great times, these; very great times, without counting the baseball series which hereabouts is felt of course to have been a tragedy. comicbooks.com