A Body Blow for Tammany.

Thanks to the outpouring of the electorate evoked by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt landslide, the nation's largest city was voted a new charter and a system of proportional representation despite the united opposition of the intrenched political forces in the city. The Democratic bosses and their henchmen in the districts have good cause to be glum. The new charter and public relation are body blows for Tammany Hall. These innovations reduce patronage, eliminate jobs, make favors more perilous to dispense, make the shakedown of city employees for political contributions more difficult, and strike at the very foundation of Tammany's political hegemony-the geographical division of the city into aldermanic districts, islets of political power ruled with an iron hand from the clubhouses.