The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1895-03-07
THE TROY ELECTIONS
Majority Report Of the Senate
Investigating Committee
Scores Murphy.
ROTTENNESS PAST ALL BELIEF
They Say Was Shown by Tes-
timony-Repeaters and
Their Protectors.

ALBANY, N. Y, March THE report
If the majority of the special senate
committee to investigate the Troy cleo
tions is a bitter attack III United States
Senator Murphy. After alleging that
repeating, riot, assault and wen murder
have been committed. it says:
1T is the exemplifed work of a des-
perate and hitherto resistless political
machine, SO adjusted, organized and
run as to enable individuals in the name
Of the Democratic party and in defiance
Of law, to overthrow government and
thwart the rights Of suffrage. This
machine is an organization composed Of
professional politicians. having q recog-
aized, acknowledged and responsible
head, and operates through Democratic
slection officers and other outlaws sup
ported by a police force and a police de-
partment obedient to it's obligation.
This organization known as the Muir
ply Machine approves, rewards and
protects it's tools and nus perpetuates
its power.
The Process Known as Repeating
is accomplished by persons not entitled
to vote, going through the city singly
or in bands, voting in the various dis
tricts on the names Of legally registered
voters. A sergeant of police, an ex-presi-
dent of the common council, q member
of the detective force are samples of the
official positions held by those who es-
corted and guarded those criminals in
the commission of their crimes. In rare
instances, those aiding the repeaters
claimed to be Republicans, but they are
known a Murphy Republicans" a
class as much distrusted in Troy a the
Murphy Democrats themselves. They
are IN the board of police commissioners,
ON the police force and in other stations,
and abject submission to Murphy is the
apparent price, of their appointment.
Their chief value lies in their pretended
utilization with the Republican party,
for Democrats can be found in abund.
n C to commit crimes; the need is to
find men who will do vile service and at
the same time, by processing Rspubli.
canism, place part Of the odium upon
the Republican party.
Say 1t Il Beyond Belief.
Under this machine a system so de.
graded and rotten has been created and
fostered, that no person who has moi
actually heard the testimony could be-
lieve that q condition 50 appalling and
corrupt could exist in a civilized and de-
CEN community. The Republican
| party is in no way responsible for thil
condition, but some individual member
Of that party are responsible. year
after year Murphyism has gained
strength. One Republican has surren,
| dered himself for Office; another fol
business advantage, another through
fear or cajolery, until scores of promi
nent Republicans who were willing tx
trade their political principles for per
sonal advantage are now serving a
Murphy Republicans.
THE conclusion of your committee is
that City of Troy election crimes are due
to the utter disregard of the law by the
leaders of the Democratic party; to g
dishonest and incompetent police force
and the subserviency of many so-called
Republicans to atrocious service of the
Murphy machine