The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-03-05

in New York city last fall, according
to Representative Dunphy, who has
been member of the Tammany gen.
eral committee and who ought. there
fore. to know, under offers of prizes to
be awarded by Dick Croker to districts
showing the greatest majority for
Election Return Thief Maynard. the
entire registered vots was polled and
in these districts Maynard got every
vote. This startling unadimity OF
liking for smirchsd criminal proved
such poser to Mr. Duuphy's con-
science that he has washed his hands
of Tammanyism, regardless of conse
qusnces. Yot this little incident is en-
titled to dismissal as inconsequantial
and trivial as compared with tho al
legged vote for Maynard of interior
Troy. under the personal orders and
supervision of Senator Murphy and
his smoothly. working subsidiary forces
of false registration. police intimida-
tion, ballot stuftilG AMI dazzling
mathematics in tho count Whereas,
last fall, Brooklyn showed Repub-
lican gain of $1,000. Buffalo. Que of
10000 and even rotten Gotham, de-
spite Dick Croker's premium list for
expert franchise pollution, one of 1000
it remained for Troy. under the clutch
of Murphyism, Moloyism and the sub
ordinate factors in Democratic suDre-
macy, to return Il majority for May
nard OF 5000. or nearly double the av-
erage Democratic excess.
1t would take solid page Of The
TRIBUNE to tell what its editor person
ally knows concerning the irregulari-
ties that are prnctissd at elections in
this Trojan citadel Of thugtsn. police
brutality. professional repeating and
uublushiug pervsrsion of the popular
will Another page would fail to con
tain the supported testimony which he
has heard rendered by others. Not in
the widest flights of the Keystone i'm
agination, MS applied to electoral
frauds, has there been conceived such
degree of franchise proclamation az is
here developed and systematized into Il
machinery that moves forward to its
corrupt ends with the unerring preci-
sion of an automaton. For twenty
years this mechanism has been eX3cut-
ting it's perfect work, and not once has
it failed to do Just what its owners
and bosses wanted it to do. The pub
lie has alternatively sQuiriaed, howled,
fought and pleaded; but with its one
hand it has held the public steadily by
the throat, while with the other it has
coolly picked the publics pocket,
This year by one OF those strange
co-incidences in which reverent OBJ
servers perceive the haudiwork of a
compassionate Providence. the Murphy
plundering machine has bsen jeoparded
by a revolt within its own ranks. One
of its creations, Dennis Whalen, three
times its choice for mayor, has, like
Representative Dunphy, reached his
limit of tolerable scq uieScencs in fraud,
ana has turned upon his old-time
masters The Republican committee,
assured through score Of humiliatinG
failures that straight Republican
nomination would encounter only de.
feat, mas endorsed Mayor Whalsn and
is giving his independent candidacy its
best energies. Opposed to Whalen as
the embodiement of Murphyism in all
its black phases. is Francis j. Molloy.
The struggle has been so bitter as to
necessitate Senator Murphys personal
presencs on the battle field. Regard.
less of his public duties ha has devoted
the past fortnight to a personal inspec.
tion of his fraud mill, and to redoubled
plotting in the mills defense. Under
Murphy's orders Governor Flower has
just vetoed Dill giving Troy lections
non partisan supervision. The culmin.
alton of the battle will be reached to-
morrow; and its result will play an
important part in discouraging or in
accelsrating honest elections in oul
greatest state.