Show TAMMANYS LEADKU MICHAHD ortOKdn OTHBHWISB TUB SILKNT MAN I Ju1 the nln toe she l otllue 711 Ilillwl the ltlclir1 MiMtlmi at I IK life Sil ieruld of t rent line taster of hlmehf WISSTY YKAIIS t was the term of ser I vice Tammany V f In M fr Hall required of I t I IllchtrJ Croker i I trecameI If Mart ho became I r 4 ltd matter Instead sly of III servant In I I Hint time ho el 1t t boned l bullied plot f m led nursed and I r forced his way from the post of one of tho humblest but yet alto one of tho mot desperate of IU I subordinate to the dictatorship He becnmn the Mtrrclgn of Tammsny because I be-cause he hd fairly earned the sceptre lie developed In many ways but rapee dally In selfcontrol ns he mounted In I 156G ho wise If not a rough himself the I associate of rough In the early sixties lie WM b > trade when ho chow to ply It a mechanic Twenty years liter heat he-at receiving tho distinguished con ildoratlon of tho officer of the cry railroad rail-road company whose engine bo had once helped to make and drhc Llv Ing among men who were bullies by na tine and to whom politic meant mho association of the saloon and the 11llloa and lIon the direct violation of them law he disclosed a courage I which none of hi anuictitei could match and n power of self assertion which none of them could gainsay Hut by 1I3S he had become a man of illince peaking only when ho found It nece nrr to nleek nnd had brough his pal slon under rare control lie bid mattered mat-tered loo name of the conventionalities which give at east n hint of rrllned ox aoelatlona Ho bad iMrned to govern by moral force intend of by the fist lie had discovered the power that It In a look a won rather than brutal homing and tough and tumble ex plnlti on the itavement lie had horned that If hn waa to mailer Tammany Tam-many he mint first bo the mauler of lllelurd Crokera weaker nature Ho knew that within Tammany or Indirect Indi-rect associated with It were men who cored for the rough only to urn him at caucus and on election day and who other le shrank from association with him and thus ho became ambltloui while ruling Tammany to control It r 4tY l iiiciiAiiD molten ahih tome pretense of gentility and to keep tho Ilowcry swagger as Inconsplc iion ni pOBilblo In the procccdlngi of Tammany Hall Moreover ho know that whllo to bo impeded la the lot of any political trader to long na iiisplc Ion liON not lead to proof It need not se rlouily harm tho man whoie ocntlon lithe li-the control of political affairs Therefore There-fore ho seems to bate ao ithnpcd his conduct that whatever might be said of his iiibordlnatci no one could fortify forti-fy accusation with proof of legal lapses on his part |