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Show i 7 " ' ' ; ' i'-w .cf i s" Arc , yvc.. in I. "u . . ' ' clivc . .I!:::ic TGwXs; C;ini::i i. LlviJei J. E. Dowsing of the Judicial de; rt-ment rt-ment of the customs service cf .'?w York City, was at the Wilson a s'.oit time yesterday. He Is on his vay to the coast and will see the Portia r. J fair before returning to New York. "The abtorbing topic of interest In New York at present Is the Equitr.ble scandal and th relation thereto of District Dis-trict Attorney Jerome,'' said Mr. Dowsing. Dows-ing. "Jercme has long been a reformer reform-er and many think he is honest in his motives andi actions. Certain it is he is a stayer a fighter. His record shows that. He has his frlt-nds. These fay he is in the Equitable imbroglio in-the in terest of the people and that he will leave nothing undone to he'.n the reo-ple reo-ple of the country to their rights. . But there are others who say that he is simply using the machinery of his great office to boost his warmest and dearest friend Jerome into such advantageous ad-vantageous position that his old enemy, Charlie Murphy and the gang that controls con-trols Tammany, will offer him the gubernatorial gu-bernatorial nomination cn a silver salver. sal-ver. . Would Heaa Election. "Of course, such an offer would mean certain election. How could the trick be ' done? Well, there are certain knowing ones who do say that by indicting and pigeon-holing and digging ud indictments indict-ments at opportune and- Inopportune times all within the control of the District Dis-trict Attorney's office, by the way the Ryan interests could be made to see the advantage of placing Jerome in the Governor's chair at Albany where he could not find time to harm the financial finan-cial interests that cluster around the Equitable. I .... Mr. Weaver of Philadelphia. . ' "Weaver, Philadelphia's honest Mayor, May-or, is another topic of never ending conversation. con-versation. He has his partisans. These say that Weaver has always been honest hon-est and that all he ever needed was the opportunity that. has come to him to make him a champion of the public, that he was, at heart, against dirty politics, but had not the power to stem the torrent until the people came to his assistance. But there are others who say that Weaver is only an. astute politician, pol-itician, that he saw. the tidal wave coming, saw that if he did not sidestep side-step and Join the purity party he would BufTer af fate . worse : than hari-kari. That instead of creating the condition he simply was astute enough to Jump upon its crest, and. like a circus bareback bare-back rider, ride gaily into the limelight of public approbation." A |