The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-04-08
Murphy's Stand Against an
 Instructed Delegation.
The Tigers Movements Are satis- factory.to the Yellow Kid candi- dats-Uss of clsveland's
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Advertiser Bureau,
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 Washington, April 6
 The attitude of Tammany Leader Charles F., Murphy with respect to the Presidential nomination Is mystifying to a good many Democrats in Washington.
 Mir. Murphy has talked about former President Cleveland as the strongest man who could be nominated. He talked that way some time ago. He kept up that talk after MT. Cleveland himself had re- fused to entertain any circumstances under which he would be candidate. Murphy persisted in the Cleveland talk even after 1t became plainly manifest an overwhelming Democratic sentiment, in. which many of MT. Cleveland's staunch- who supported the national ticket in 1sss and 1900 was rapidly crystalizing around Judge Parker
 Along with this Cleveland talk. Mir. Murphy insisted that the States deleya- ton to St. Louis should not be instructed for any candidate. At the same time 1t became known that William R. Hearst was working with Murphy against in- structions.
 Wisdom of Hearst.
 Hearst knew his only hope lay in ieav- ing delegates free to act individually. The Hearst people have made out of Murphy's attitude all the capital possi- ble. seeking to create the impression that Tammany and the Democracy of New York city would be for the publisher Congressman at the proper time.
 lf the Tammany leader really believes that an uninstruoted delegation will help toward a revival of MT Cleveland, Mir. Hearst is equally confident that his own candidacy will be promoted thereby. The latter has seen in the steady and viger- ous growth of Parker sentiment in New York State, despite his efforts in every county in the State. that instructions meant ruin to his hopes. not only in New York but in other States which he de- sired to influence with the prestige of obtaining the support of his own State.
 The Decent Democracy.
 It Is possible that but for the nature of the Hearst boom itself New York might not have determined that the State convention ought to instruct for anybody. Driven to unity for clean. high-class. conservative Democrat, the foremost men of the New York Democ- racy who are more concerned for the success of the national Democratic party than they are for any distribution of local spells, have run over the nondescript Hearst boomers throughout the State.
 The same thing would happen in New York city but for the Tammany organiza- ton and the talk of Mir. Cleveland. As it is, Hearst for himself and Murphy for Cleveland presents the most extraor- dinary spectacle of the meeting of ex- tremes in all the vicissitudes of American politics The Cleveland movement, fath- cred by Tammany which Is allied to Hearst who Is supported by Bryan. two of the clements working for the common end of foregoing instructions, Is a varfe gated, a poiy-chromatic combination, the like of which has never before promoted the gaiety of our national politics.
 Tammany's Record.
 It was with reference to Tamrnany that General Bragg, of Wisconsin, delivered himself in the convention of 1884: We love him for the enemies he has made" Tammany had been fighting Cleveland with bitterness of hatred almost un- exampled for viruleuce and ferocity. Tn 1SSS 1t yielded sullen acquiescence and earned the notoriety of knifing him at the polls. In 1892, 1t again appeared in the convention fiercely opposing the nomin ation of Cleveland.
 Since Mir. Cleveland retired from public office, his closest friends and poli- ticial representatives have been as bit- ter as ever fin their opposition to Tam many. fighting 1t in its municipal cam paigns and denoancing it as a criminal organization maintained for purposes of public plunder. Mir. Cleveland himself could not be gotten to say a word for Tammany in it's last struggle which elected George B. Mcclellan. The sud den show of reconciliation, therefore, Is as bewildering to the average political comprehension as would be the proposl- ton that 1t is an unwritten law for Tam many to kiss the hand that smites 1t.
 Mir. Murphy's Mystery.
 MT Murphy has apparently set about making great mystery. of New York politics and has succeeded in so muddy ing it with his Hearst alliance as to make the situation intolerable to the rest