Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-24


the United States Senate who is personally
distasteful to the President is it not also a
breach of propriety for the people to elect
men to the House of Representatives who
are not in personal accord with the Chief
personal proprietorship extend?
These be interesting questions would
that some ethical sharp might answer them
satisfactorily.
Not Very Dreadful Individual.
Aside from Mr.. Cleyeland's personal con-
venience, or Inconvenience, Mr.. Edward
Murphy doesn't appear to be such dread
full individual. He is politician-a sue
cessful and popular politician-anj that is
the worst. He is successful business man.
He -is man of liberal ideas The best evil
dence of his character 10 found in the fact
that he was Mayor of the town in which he
was born for five consecutive terms. He
grew up there and from the time he left
college to the present day he has been
closely and publicly identified with the in
terests of his native place. In all of the
many enterprises that make city great
Mr.. Murphy has taken leading hand He
is now Vice President of the principal bank
of Troy and is largely interested in the con-
solidated street railway system of that town.
Mr.. Murphy became early interested in
politics He came into particular prom
inence, however, in the Tilden campaign in
1874 He succeeded in defeating the anti
Tilden faction and sending a solid delega-
tion to the State convention. From that
time forward he was considered one of Til
den's right hand men in State political
affairs His subsequent incumbency of the
Mayoralty chair was marked by degree
of popularity that waits only on a wise ad-
ministration of public affairs During
that 1ncumbencv the system of sewerage
and of paving were entirely reorganized,
new City Hall was built, and the school
system placed upon a higher plane than
ever before AS Mayor of Troy Mr.. Muir
ply was the first official of the State to call
attention to the evils of contract labor in
the prisons The city of Troy was the first
to suffer from the pernicious system and
was first to enter its protest to the Legisla-
ture.
A Most Successful Manager.
But it is as Chairman of the Democratic
State Committee that Mr.. Murphy's friends
claim the laurels of the Senatorship. And
it is undoubtedly true that he deserves
much credit for the superb leadership
which characterized the management of the
recent campaign. Mr.. Murphy took the
State Committee in 1877, and to him the
Democracy of the State owes the splendid
organization it has to-day. He had profted
by the lessons OF his great master, Samuel j.
Tlden, and had improved upon them. This
organization that grew up under the hand
of the pupil became the most perfect polit-
ical organization that was ever known.
This organization is what is opprobriously
termed 'The Machine" The Tilden plan
was enlarged upon until it became possible
for the State Committee to reach every
hamlet in the State within "a hours.
For this Mr.. Murphy is called wire
puller. Under his management the State
has been carried every year for the Dem
ocracy. This makes Mr.. Murphy a mere
politician. The great political secret of his
successful management is in his quick and
certain recognition of local work No
man need ever seek office through Murphy
unless the applicant first secured the un-
qualified Endorsement of his local organize
ton. By this system he has Surrounded
himself and his committee with the young,
active, ambitious, intelligent men, having
the confidence of their local constituents
and welding a personal influence among
their fellow citizens
Mr.. Murphy-common called "Ed"-
has also a strong personality. He makes
friends easily and retains them tenaciouslv.
He is wealthy man and liberal liver
He is married and has eight children living
five boys and three girls. He is looked
upon as q model husband and father.
of the breadth of charac er of
The man, when he was Mavor hedistributed
his entire salary among the charitable in
of the city. one-halt going to the
Catholic and the other to the Protestant
Institutions.
Public Office has many times sought Mr..
Murphy, but save the position of Mayor,
which, as is seen, was labor of love, he has
teadfastly refused to be seduced from the
Talks of dignifed private life.
CHARLES 7. MURRAY.