Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-07-28
ATaLK WITH TOM MURPHY.
lie Gives Some Interesting Political 81 Ins
IllSf6ra,

| History"
Ex-Collcctor Murphy, of New York, ha
!Iccn in Washington for a day or two ant
has unbosomcd himself politically to
Har reporter. He says it will be yer,
hard work to carry New York for Garfield
ConklinG, however, will return from hi
fishing trip next week and then grea
effort will begin. Murphy has not We
ceased to howl for Grant, whom ho say
would have been by far the strongest nom
incc. Sherman would have been next bes
Tor New York. Oh account of his ALLEGED
strength with business men. After then
Mr.. Murphy says he thinks Garfield is per
liapS as stroug rs any one. In the interview
MIR. Murphy claims to have been the cause o
the organization of the Liberal party il
1872, but the move, lie says in fighting
Greeley, cost him So, 900 of his salary a.
collector and 100000 of his private
! means.
Bowling along the road, the ex-collecto1
for some minutes sat as if in deep medita
ton. All at once he broke out:
And if asked what state he halls from.
Th's, our sol" reply shall be,
lie comes from Appomattox
And its famous apple tree
"Do You KNOW said Murphy. "tl,at
Roscoe Conkling got the idea of para.
phrasing Miles O'Reilly's speech for use
in presenting Grants name to the Chicago
convention from me? CAN tell YOU how
it was. met him one day on Broadway
talking with two gentlemen. l stopped
for few minutes and as | was leaving I
repeated the aforesaid lines. The next
day met him again. He said, "Tom, don't
quote those lines any more than you can
help. think of utilizing them for a GER
tain OCCASION L WON'T says I; but
SENATOR 1 added, let me repeat them
again to you; you may have forgotten
them. oh. no, said Conkling. Il have
not. remember them quite well.'"
The conversation then drifted to tho time
Mr.. Murphy was collector Of the port of
New tOk. Said he, 81 didn't want that
office. When President Grant first offered
it to me [ refused point blank to take it,
lie insisted, and held the matter under
advisement. l looked over the field and
thought if took it could break down
the Tweed ring, and it was solely for this
reason that accepted the place.
"Weii. did You succeed"
ies. l did. 1t was hard fiyht,
thought
"And nOw," continued Mr.. Murphy.
'' l am going to tell some history, as to
how tie Liberal Republican party was
started. Do you know but few of tho
leaders knew Of its origin? It came about
in this way. After l had made my mind
up that Smith and Mynecr were recreant
the party. devised means to check them,
As | said before, both were members of
the county Republican committee. At a
special meeting of the committee which
was called, l offered resolution to the ef-
feet that no Republican who accepted Office
under Tammany should be so considered,
nor have a vote in the county COM
mittee. This was opposed by Smith
and Myneer, but after hard fight it was
adopted by majority of 10 votes. I'M
mediately these men sought to undo what
had been done. They enlisted at once the |
CO operation of Boss Tweed. Tweed one |
day sent for one of my weighers, smart |
Young fellow named johnny o. 'Brien. Said |
be, Johnny, if you will, yourself, vote and