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Show SPIRIT OF THE PRESS.- The Tammany Menace. Kansas City Star. . ' The republicans in New York give evidence of their political sagacity in making their fight upon Tammany instead of giving their attention to national issues. They have attacked at-tacked the opposition at its weakest point, and by making war upon the most un-Amer-iean and formidable political machine which has ever existed in this country they have invested the canvass in the Empire Em-pire atate with a moral significance which makes it a matter of national interest. inter-est. Tammany represents the most malign ma-lign possibilities- of municipal misgovern-ment. misgovern-ment. It illustrates the vast power which may be centered in an organization held together to-gether by the cohesive power of spoils and plunder. It exemplifies all of the worst features fea-tures of a corrupt -municipal government. It demonstrates how the destinies of a great city and, incidentally, Of great, republic, may be placed at" the mercy of influences which are wholly evil and which extend to the remotest ramifications of the body politic. pol-itic. Tammany absolutely controls New York city. That city, with Its enormous vote, frequently fre-quently determines the result of the state elections. In presidential years the position of .New York aa a nivotal state is such as often to decide the national contest. Thus Tammany, with its vast power for harm, holds, in a sense, the destiny ot the nation in its hands. This is-a startling fact; bntthere is no escape from this unwelcome conclusion. It is against this combination of abhorrent forces that the republicans of New York have shrewdly arrayed themselves, and this judicious alignment lias attracted to the support of Mr. Fassett th& independent element ele-ment which has been driven to the extrem- ity of choosing between Tammany and what it looked upon as a 3esier evil. The tljflit in New York is significant of the awakened condition of public sentiment in regard to the question of -municipal government. govern-ment. Mr. Fasett did not exaggerate the truth when he declared that the greatest source of danger to -the American republic is the mi?governinent of its cities. The evil is well nigh universal, and its effect is sufficiently suf-ficiently alarming to fully justify the concern con-cern which it has created. The malady would he serious enough if it could be con-lined con-lined to the several municipalities affected. But the political poison which is generated at the great centers of population spreads itself throughout the state and touches even the affairs of the general government. Worth Mure Than Fifty White Houses. Lonisville Courier-Journal. - There arc possibilities and possibilities. The stars may still be sought for omens. The heavens are as full of secrets as ever they were. And what of this newcomer, this wee thing, stealing in at the wee, sma' hours, at very midnight; and having the audacity au-dacity to come as a girl, and not as a boy? Is she to the father the presage of great ambitions am-bitions yet to bo fulfilled, or "to mother and father both a blessing and a hope Perish the breath that asks the question! Neither may know it now, but there is more to tlwm in this little one than fifty houses, fifty times as big and fifty times as white as the White houe. This tiny life is, and must ever be, as all the world to nothing with them, and all the outside chatter and ado is but the pleasant warbling of the winds. |