The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-03-07
MURPHYISM AT TROY
SEVERE ARRANGEMENT OF A corr
RUPT DEMOCRATIC MACHINE.
Report of Investigating Commit-
tee ON the Methods of New York
Senator's .HeeIcrs..

ALBANY, n. Y, March 6.--The report of
the majority of the special Senate commit
tee TO investigate the Troy elections is a
bitter attack on United States Senator MUIR
ply. After alleging that repeating, riot as
sault and even murder have been common
it says: ut is the exemplified work of a
desperate and hitherto resistless political
machine, 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 or
ganization composed of professional politi-
clans, having recognized acknowledged
and responsible head, and operates through
Democratic election officers and other out
laws, supported by a police department and
police force obedient to its dictation This
organization, known as the Murphy ma
chine approves. rewards and protects its
tools and thus perpetuates its power The
process known as repeating is accom-
plished by persons not entitled to vote go
ing through the city, singly or in bands,
voting in the various districts on the names
of legally registered voters. A sergeant of
police, ex-president of the Common
Council, member of the detective force are
samples of the official positions held by
those who escorted and guarded those Grim
1nals in the commission of their crimes In
ers claimed to be Republicans, but they are
only SO in theory, and are as corrupt as
an ne Murphy Democrats p,, themselves. They
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 affilia-
ton with the Republican party, for, while
democrats can be found in abundance to
commit crimes, the need is to find men who
will do vile service and at the same time,
by processing Republcansnl, place part of
the oditlm the Republican party.
Under this machine a system so degrad-
ed and rotten has been created and fostered
that no person who has not actually heard
tion SO appalling and corrupt could exist in
civilized and decent community. The Re-
publican party Is in no way responsible for
of that party are responsible. Year after
year Murphyism has gained strength One
Republican has surrendered himself for Of
flee, another for business advantage an
other through fear or cajolery, until scores
of prominent Republicans who We're willing
sonal advantage are now serving as MUIR
ply Republicans. The effect on the Repub-
lican party of this pernicious system is
bic men claiming to be Republicans can be
put into immediate and determined action
such action be against Republican measures
and against the overwhelming sentiment or
the Republican party.
III the Idll VI lcJs,k GU - -t'ic. 1919
gave a majority of over one hundred thou
sand against Isaac HI. Maynard, Troy, in
spite of the Overwhelming and unprece-
dented popular uprising, gave Maynard a
majority OF nearly six thousand, the frauds
of that election being without parallei even
in that corrupt and degraded city,
1.-THE conclusion of your committee is that
in the city of Troy election crimes are due
headers of the Democratic party, to dis
honest and incompetent police force and
the subserviency of many so-calied Repup-
licans to the atrocious service OF the Muir
nhy machine The grave abuses that now
prevail could be greatly remedied and a
ment in that city rendered by the passage
of an act of the Legislature creating a
responsible and efficient police department.
honest force III