The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-03-19
The knell of MurphYism.

There is pending at Albany bill for
lice force of Troy in which all friends
of good government are interested.
The case is not different from that in
New York city except that the posi-
tions are reversed. In Gotham the hon
est people have an honest mayor. In
Troy, the mayor is a creation of the
Murphy machine system of politics by
which Robert Ross was assassinated
and by which the taxpayers of Troy,
for a generation, were unblushingly
snubbed, w-beaten and, we dare say,
plundered. What Gotham wants is a
appointment and dismissal in Mayor
Strong's hands, because he represents
the honest electorate. But what Troy
wants is q police bill which will take
that same power from a boss-ridden
mayor, who is Edward Murphy's cousin
and vest it in the safe hands of a
reputable, bipartisan commission. The
case is we'll stated by the Troy Times
which excellent journal has occupied
the leading position throughout Troy's
memorable uprising against it's AFRO
giant despoilers-when it says:
We have a distinguished Republican for
governor who has nothing in common
with the Murphy machine" He is an
| entirely different type of man from his
| predecessor, who was simply u facle in
| strument in the hands of the Hill-Croker-
/ Sheehan gang. We have a Legislature Re-
| publican by d large majority. The Repub-
| liCan party was voted into power on its
| pledge of reforming the fragrant state and
municipal abuses under the Hill-Croker-
| Murphy -Sheehan regime. No city has suf-
| fered more from wicked machine" ty-
| ranny than Troy. The people, especially
| the Republicans of Troy, demand relief
! from Governor Morton and the legislature.
VIII that relief be denied them? 1t Is be-
J. iieved our appeal will be heard and an
: swered. The entire state, understanding
| the frightful condition of affairs in this
| municipality, sympathizes with us and
| supports us in our petition for help, which
In justice cannot be denied us. When
| Troy Republicans went to the polls last
| fall they had not a doubt that I'm case we
carry the state at the November election
we should be furnished with a police force
which would protect US at the polls, instead
OF shooting us down. They ask now, when
| New York and Brooklyn and other cities
| of the state are cared for by beneficent
| legislation, whether they are to be left to
, the tender mercies Of their oppressors?
| The only hope OF anti-Murphy remedial
| legislation that can possibly accomplish a
reformation in the Troy police force
! lies in the bill which has passed the senate
| and Is now in the hands of the assembly
cities committee. To oppose 1t is to play
into the hands of Murphy. To support 1t
Is to help overthrow the machine. 4"
| There is no middle ground to occupy.
We who, from distance look upon
| the battle for reform in Troy as second
in numbers but equal in principle to the
larger battle which Is yet waging on
Manhattan island have every conf
dence that Governor Morton, who has
shown himself so well-disposed toward
the cause of good government in the
one locality. will not lack zeal in the
rlghtful adjustment of the other city's
needs. The Republican party in its i'm
pulses as they come from the people
has never a taint OF the crookedness
and deception which have character
lied the sway of such men as Edward
Murphy, the boss of Troy. We do not
therefore. believe that the leaders OF
the Republican party, however circum-
spect and wary they may be, can be
blinded to the fact that their constitu.
ents expect them to show Murphyisn
no quarter. They have not merely
played a game which puts them in office
while their opponents have been put