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Show TAM MANY CHIEFS AREJNOTKICKING N Dinger of Split With Mayor on Account of a Few Jobs. MILLION DOLLARS WORTH FRANCHISES TO COME Famous Club Can Afford to Let the Real Issue Re Ob-scared. Ob-scared. NEW YORK, Jan. 6 Mayor aCcClel-lan aCcClel-lan appears to have adopted a middle-of-the-road policy n naming the members mem-bers of his cabinet for the ensuing four years or that part of four years, at least, that the nominees persist like force and hold on to their "Jobs." ThoiiKh then- is considerable "kicking" In Tammany Hall, the fault-finding is Individualistic and personal rather than general It Is not fair to say on ihe one hand that the appointments have given satisfaction to the organisation, organ-isation, but on the othir hand It Is equully unfair to say that the recognition recogni-tion of Republicans, Independents, mugwumps and George B, McClellan-Ites McClellan-Ites has split Tammany Hall In two In the middle. No Split Over Appointments. It may be taken for granted that there will not be a split between Col. Mi - Mellan and the organization on account Of the appointments already made. If a split should occur it would come over matters of policy and not over the recognition or non-recognltlon of three or four Tammany Hall district lea.J.rs. And a split would not occur at the present time. It would come six months or a year from now. If Mcdei-lan Mcdei-lan failed to "stand for" certain contracts con-tracts and franchises which the loaders load-ers of Tammany Hall want put through. Franchises the Thing. Beside the billion dollars' worth of franchises which must be disposed of during the four years nf the rule of Mayor McClellan a $5l'00-a-year salary paid to a Tammany Hall district leads : er Is a mere drop in the bucket. Leader J Murphy Is not going to kick over the bucket of water because the Mayor I has given the Republicans and Independents Inde-pendents a mere drop of water out of the pall a drop which It Is true ought to have gone In the ethics and the I equities of the case to the thirsty Tammany Tam-many leaders. If Mayor M cClellan should tak It Into his head to kick over the entire bucket of water, or patronage In the form of offices and franchises, there would be "something doing" 30 far as the relations between Murphy and McClellan are concerned, but If such a kick-over Is on the Mayor's May-or's programme it Is for the distant fu-tute fu-tute and not for the present. And then- is not one chance In ten thousand that the Mayor will be forced to break with the Democratic organization organiza-tion as Mayor WsSLTer broke with the Republican organization in Philadelphia Philadel-phia which nominated him. It may happen, but may an lux anion of the earth by the Martians and "Moonltes." And one event Is Just about aa likely to occur as the other. Me.tter of Comparison. A knowledge of the relative importance impor-tance of the salarhs paid the Tain-I Tain-I many officers who failed In thlr efforts I to secure reappointments for places In Mayor afcClellan's -ablnet. as compared com-pared with the franchise! coming up for settlement. Is necessary for out- J slders to appreciate the situation as It I really exists and w hy there la n dan- ! I ger of a break between the ndmtnlstra- I I tlon and Tammany Hall over a few j ' relatively unimportant office- Th salaries of the Tammanv officials who have been deprived of their positions ' . as a result of the changes in the May- 1 j or's cabinet slate may (rhaps run up ! to S2&.0O0 or tSO.000 alone. But what Is that when contrasted and compared with the- thousand million dollars to be J controlled In he matter of contracts ' and franchises" Obscuies Real Issues. And yet in the howl that is going up j tx cause half a dozen notoriously bad . Tammany chleftalr.s hae failed te se-I se-I curs reappointments, one would think j that the MCMlan administration and i Tammany Mll and the entire world i were nmilrm to an end. This Is be- .aus. Leader Murphy und May or M. - 'lellan have not attempted to even prevent a gpontaneoui outburst of this kind. The complaints cannot possibly amount to anything, nni th- men high up In Tammany circles know It. but It doei no harm and probably .)....s g 1 by obscuring the n al Issues to allow the- "kickers" to get rid of their superfluous super-fluous en-rgy In this way. That the situation has nuzzled even I the political writers Is found In the fact that W, R. Hearst s Morning American Ameri-can claimed that the- Tammanyltes ! were disgruntled to the point of breaking break-ing up In a row. while the Republican New York Press claimed th;it d same old Tammany gangs' were m control. And w ho shall decide w hi n anti-Tammany doctors disagree? Oon Bingham on Trial. Of all of the appointments the most ipectacular was that of Qen Bingham to be Police Commission r. Gen. Blng- i ham has been a Republican and a I Democrat by turns, but he has never boen a Tammany man, having novel resided In the . 1 1 of New York However, How-ever, that is not likely to count seriously seri-ously against him because h- has been an army officer in education and training, train-ing, and hre In this section at least, i It is getting to be pretty generally understood un-derstood that army and navy offi. ers pref.-r not to be active partisans Ami not even the fact that he did not know where the police headeiuarters was when appointed ond was compelled to Inquire the way would not count seriously seri-ously against Gen Bingham, because the people of New York are sensible enough to I" willing to give a soldier at the head ,,f the pollc for. e a fnlr trial Indeed. In certain high-, lass quarters for many y e.-g -s (here has bt I 0 a clamor for Just that sort of a thing. Command Sympathy The fact that he lost one Of his legs in the Government service al Buffalo, though of course not engaged In n. military operations at the time. Is apt t.. command for him a .-rtuln amount of sympathy and appreciation and .'-.I- 1 log that he must have been a man of conslele rable ability to have surmounted surmount-ed all obstacles and risen to the rank of General, even though the title may have been that of Brigadier anel created only recently by President Roosevelt. Thing Most Feared The thing that makes Gen. Bingham's Bing-ham's friends efarful of results Is not the man's ability or adaptability, but the. fact that he has been a sort of a s... :nl secretary at th Whit. H'.use for President and Mrs. Roosevelt. This would not matter so much, for It would naturally recjulre a man of capacity and knowledge of the world to fill the role of social secretary Indeed. In some respects It Is difficult to Imagine a position requiring more Judgment and knowledge of human nature. The danger dan-ger lies In the fact that the opportunity Is afforded for the newspapers to have a great deal of fun and make the new Police Commissioner the butt of all of th. Ir Joke. This will not be done with malice, perhaps, but simply be-cuuse , the two occupations, that of social des- j pot at Washington and police despot j here In New York are full of chances for the enterprising paragrapher, Joke artist and cartoonist. Danger of Being a Joke. Even this might not matter so much If Gen. Bingham Is really an able army officer and a man who con rise superior to little things. Hut the tr.u- J ble lies In the resultant, reactionary, secondary effc-et on the men them- , selves. The surest way to destroy a man In New York Is to make him appear ap-pear u Joke. He may go around pro-testing pro-testing a" ths remalnder of his days that he Is sober and serious, but the j people here prefer having their "fling'' to having anything that is serious und j sober. Devery, though a strict disci- i pllnarlan. was utt rly destroyed SI n police official after the reporters dis- I Covered that be was an "original." and that his sayings and doir.gs could be coined Into fun. May Get in the Theaters. The mere Idea that Qen. Bingham, "the King of the Dudes." of Washington, Washing-ton, has come to New York to command com-mand the Broadway Squad, the "fly cops." and the plain clothes men. Is enough to convulse the Tenelerloln with laughter. lien. Bingham will be m-tremely m-tremely fortunate u his career as so-i so-i lal secretary for Roosevelt and Police Commissioner for Met 'lellan docs not find Its way Into the theaters along with The Great White War." 'nside of a fortnight. And If Gen Bingham attempts to riop such a production he rould only make himself more and more the laughing stock of the entire city. , |