San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-03-06
BEATS THE BIG SIX.
A HARD DRIVE ON MURPHY.
Is the Report of the Special Senate
Committee.

ALBANY, n. ", March 6.-The
report Of the majority of the spe-
Cial Senate committee to investi-
gate the Troy elections, is bitter
attack upon United States Senator
Murphy. After alleging that re-
peating, riot, assault and even
murder have been committed, 1t
says: at is the exemplified work
OF desperate and hitherto resist
less political machine, so adjusted,
organized and run as to enable in
dividuals, in the name Of the Dem
ocratic party, and in defiance OF
law, to overthrow government, ana
thwart the rights Of suffrage.
This machine is an organization
composed OF professional politi-
clans. having a recognized, &C
knowledged, responsible head, and
operates through Democratic cleo
ton officers and other outlaws,
supported by the police force, and
police department, Obedient to its
obligations. This organization is
known as the Murphy machine,
and approves, rewards and protects
its tools and thus perpetuates its
power"
"The process known as repeating
is accomplished by persons not en-
titled to vote going through the
city singly or in bands, voting in
the various districts on the names
OF legally registered voters. An
agent of the police, an eX.preSident
of the Common Council, a member
of the detective force, are samples
Of the official positions held by
those who escorted and guarded
those criminals in the commission
Of their crimes. In rare in
stances those aiding the repeaters
claimed to be Republicans, but
they are known as murphy Re-
publicans," a class as much dis
| trusted in theory as the Murphy
Democrats themselves. They are
on the board OF police commission
| ers, on the police force, and other
stations, and abject submission to
Murphy is the apparent price Of
their appointment. Their value
lies in their pretended utilization
with the Republican party, for
Democrats can be found in abund-
ance to commit crimes. The need is
to find men who will do vile SER
vice, and at the same time
by protesting to be Republicans
place part Of the odium upon
of the Republican party. Under
| this machine system so degraded
and rotten has been created and
| foStered that no person who has
not actually heard the testimony
could believe that a condition so
appalling aud corrupt could exist
in a civilized and decent commu-
nifty. The Republican party is in
no way responsible for this condi-
ton, but some individual members
of the party are responsible.
Year after year Murphyism
has gained strength; one Re-
| publican has surrendered him
self for office, another for bust
ness advantage, another through
fear or cOnjury until scores of
prominent Republicans, who were
willing to trade their political
principles for personal advantage,
are now serving as Murphy Re-
publicans. The effect upon the Re
publican party, OF this pernictous
system, is that large numbers Of
apparently respectable citizens,
claiming to be Republicans, can be
put into immediate and deter
mined action at the bidding Of Mr..
Murphy, even though such action
be against Republican measures
and against the best sentiment
of the Republican party. In the
fall Of 1898, although the state gave
majority OF over 100000 against
Isaac H. Maynard, Troy in spite
OF the overwhelming and unprece-
dented popular uprising, gave
Maynard a majority OF nearly g.
900, the frauds of that cleo
ton being without parallel,
even in that corrupt and degraded
city. The conclusion Of your COM
mittee IN the city of Troy election
crimes is due to the utter disregard
of the law by the leaders Of the
Democratic party; to dishonest
and incompetent police force, and
the subserviency Of many sO-called
Republicans to the atrOciOuS SER
vice Of the MurnhV m9chinp