Abstract

New York's Jimmie

The first four-year term of James J. Walker as Mayor of New York ends December 31. He is a candidate for re-nomination. Tammany Hall is the nominating agency and Mayor Walker, despite all his denials, is the man from whom Tammany takes its orders. Unofficially he has been re-nominated, and only the formality of a primary remains. The actual method of the Walker administration can be described in two words, "do nothing." The reference, hereinbefore, to Walker as Lord Mayor of Gotham was not entirely facetious. If New York had an office the duties of which were comparable to the pleasant ones of the Lord Mayor of London, no better man than James J. Walker could be found to fill it. As it is, he Was made his post, primarily an executive one, as nearly like the London job as possible.