TAMMANY RULE

Hokitika Guardian, 25 October 1932, Page 7

TAMMANY RULE

\ IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, October 10. How the Tammany Hall machine brazenly rules America’s greatest city is illustrated by thp cynical spectacle of the nomination of the County Surrogate (judicial officer), Air John O'Brien, as the Democratic candidate for tilt Mayoralty of New York. Thirty thousand delegate- attended a nomination convention, ostensibly t: chouse t!v* candidate.Actually the Tammany leader (M John Curry) and four of the boi'ougi partly chiefs met * n secret conferenci and chose O’Brien. Curry calmly told the newspaper me:of the choice before the meeting open ed, Most of the delegates hiad not beer informed until the nominating speech, when many left, since the vote wa purely technical, none daring t 0 rebe against th e hearty decree of Tammany. The machine leader?, sensing th; publ a change, had repudiated tb { former -Mayor (Jim Walker), who hat resigned following investigation inti graft charges, to save their and hr political faces They induced Walker, who is nov aboard ship returning from abroad, usend a cable declining his nomination which, for political expediency, they would, under n 0 circumstances, me've. The Acting-Mayor, McKee, has tmr shelvod became 5m was antagonizing Tammany with an economy pro gram me. which aimed to save the city 1C0.000.000 dollars (£20.000,000) a venr