Show T l New ew York Prosecutor I Going After Fixers Fixers' District Attorney Dodge has certainly begun to keep his prom promise e to prosecute Criminals even if 11 they are under the protection of Tammany Finding In the pigeonholes in h his office of lice fice neglected records indicating a barefaced and contemptible swindle by a former partner and political lieutenant of a Tammany district leader he had the case called for trial It involved the payment of to the Tammany man by an Italian who was assured that the money would be used to fix the Judge before be fore whom his son was to be tried for burglary The case is of or less importance in itself than in what it signifies It indicates in one way in which Tammany adherents have preyed upon the ignorance ignorance ig ig- ig norance and credulity of people in inthis inthis inthis this city city especially especially the foreign born There was never of course any possibility possibility pos pas that a judge could be fixed by bribery But hope was held out to this Italian that Tammany influence could be hired to bring about either an acquittal of his son or a very light ligh sentence for him The whole thing was plainly an Imposition at once one mean and mercenary But the present presen point is that the district attorney elected though he was on the thc Tammany Tam Tarn many ticket was so outraged by th the baseness of this crime that he at once did everything In his power to bring the Tammany scoundrel to j justice sti e. e It augurs well vell for tor the conduct of the district attorneys attorney's oU office ce under its ils new head though Mr Dodge well understands un un- un that he will n need d to hew to the line in this way for a long longtime longtime longtime time before being able fully to convince convince con con- vince the community that he intends to make himself a terror to evildoers no matter what as the phrase is is their political faith New aIth New York Times |