Show OUR PUBLIC NEIT an american political ross boas from a french point of view the pans panama ma scandal revealed d the ui fact that hat Frene hinen krow something ot of corruption in hish places of honor and power but aut evidently M C d de e Vari gry wrens in the revue des deux beux 31 mendel ondes paris seems to think that after all al amerle Ameri americana cala is the sinner ane all sinners in this and that richard grower crober is t the of 0 all the sin sinners stera he says bays if t it Is true crae that all roads lead ead to rome it la 13 equally true thai there are I 1 m mor ore roads to aca lh in ill the united states slates sati rhan can well ivell be ba conn coined red most of 0 these are not very cleat clean and there here la a especially ore that chat Is S as dirty as a it Is 19 crowded by a class ot of men ale r I 1 who have i neither todal social rann rank n nor or means mean i anese people are called politicians in america they are the fit tural non comila gloried officers of the e cotlon it anny n atti hope to become chiefs y I 1 aney ax j already vry numerous as a a caas c ass and their ranks increase from I 1 day to dr day they have become a ow I 1 erful factor actor daoa pernicious its influence b 1 Is 1 evident in broad d ight how Is I 1 lt it ie e thil that a man gnoe neme Is I 1 almo almost 51 unknown to this the world in general goni geni I 1 whose mode inside or of a a livelihood Is as dark and doubtful as ills lil former life who wao has neither an nor a a anatal coddon po pod eHn don and his has not even been elected to the legislature yet rues ono one of rie ne most mast thickly and andrt richest chett ot of the slates sates as a veritable veritably abl a dessi despot pot how Is U lt it possible for such auch most miu to obtain such weighty influence thit he be holds the tha balance 0 f power between the two parties darlles pAr lles S such ue b ques ans must naturally arise v hory one of clr it richard croker ono one dow does not like to pronounce ounce his big nanie name and does so only with a beelin of tear fear and many know no ahlas abott hm except that he boas no position and that lie be la Is the ehe bozo bass ot of tammany hill and a ai 4 such the or of ur mr john ke kely ly it if this does docs not satisfy questioners a ase silence Is preserved preserve il or the deop people a express themselves in I 1 so mystical and cautious a marl manner that one feels the bie chief of tammany hill hall Is a mighty personage a roan nIve to be feared a man whose choso detectives det L ct 3 are and indeed tills this to Is true I 1 no abse absolute lute monarch lias bits ever exer cased a more despotic power thin than the ross in his good city or of new york translated tor for tam literary digest |