New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-03-30
THINKS MURPHY SINCERE
JEROME ON GAMBLING.
,Soye Conditions Are Worse, bat
Praises Mcclellan.

A
,ee-roon mar De believed Mayor Mcclellan and
49,, leaders a. 'rsu1uary gIau were making an
borsst cr1rt 70 break Gle connection between
size -e-i,sr s---oe---fc organization Of this ci'y
ar6 .be criminal CLASSES. EIs said nc Thought
9; was good q.lidos 1T this time for the laIA-
many leaders 20 undertake s1cA a Joh lH1--
-erfe-t Democrats. De said. could not he per
fuadea % Join She Tamuauy organization 8
long as t.e organization was allied WITH jAe
.arlllerv booksellers and keepers % dons OF
Etce.
ado sou think the Mayor and Charles r. II.
g---r-v are keeping the I'D down FOR pohJlca!
f.-a sorso" was asked.
i would not De understood rs even intimating
trat Mayor Mcclellan was moved solely by po-
l.tfcsl reasons" Nr. Jerome said. i can Wen
believe that he Sc moved by moral considerations
,n seeking O. have the I'D kept down. belleNe
lie is in earnest En- his efforts for the good OF the
city. and that Police Commissioner McAdoo Is
,- earnest 700 NIr Murphy and other Tam
many leaders may be equally earnest on moral
grounds Putting aside al questions Of moral
ttv. however ] believe 81 Is good politics for
fI7or, n freal the connection between the Tam
many organization and the criminal classes
us Tara-rauy 20 BE arrayed against the gam
bIers2"
..rse dominant leaders Of the organization
yre The gambling question has become more
important then most people realize FOR many
Years elections in this city have been changed
on. wa, or another BY thousands OF IeInocrallo
,-o.ers who have kept out Of Tanrnally Ran
,,s-s4so they believe that organization Is al
,,5 with the criminal classes OF the city. Many
- .re-,, are sensible thinking men who realize
,b,t 10 make political action effective lley
should be I'm some political organization. Ihss
feel that q political party ought 10 o1sasSo
clsfa ITSELF with any connection Win CRIME
and II they believe Tammany han WlA 40 1''is
they viii be willing 10 support the orE-L-~4-
lion and Join IT, Every time TarrnahN mas
been beaten IN the past Il has not been because
OF politics. but because Of its alliance WIN
criminals. There has been no doubt that such
a alliance has existed, snd il has caused TAM
many 10 lie Stunned by independent Democrats
not only in the city. but throughout the couh-
Try Now I believe that the political lheApe-
,Siencv OF any further alliance Of that kino -
realized by Murphy and such leaders as Hayes
scully, keenan,. Downing and AheaTn 1hey
seel that the contributions OF money, votes ana
patronage 10 the organization by the criminal
classes are not equal 10 the oetrlnlehI 1neS -'i-
nict on the organization"
us this city as bad as n was four or hve
years ago?"
mo. it Is not 20 bad, FAR as gambling
houses and poolrooms are concerned. ae II was
IN 1901 It Is worse than Il was IN 1908. You
see when Tamrnanv Hall went into power this
criminal element, which has always supported
Tammany and which has been its greatest
We llness. thought that It would run riot and
return 10 the conditions OF the spring OF l'el'
when there were between seventy and eighty
rambling houses IN a radius OF one-haf or
three-ouarters OF a mile OF the Thirtieth-st. po-
Ice station. Anything that Murphy or Nc
c1-ran said prior TO election they took with a
wink but 20 their surprise. they found radical
opposition 20 any return 10 the old conditions
,-.h-n Tarnmauv really took up the reins OF
Government When they found that Murphy
was sincere. apparently, they turned in ana 4
said. We're going TO do Il anyhow police /
commissions who is outside the organization /
gets three competent deputies. and then you find .
really four men against 5000 Others, who are /
policemen. ] don't mean this as a condemna- F.
ION of the whole police force. but the men on I
whom the commissions can rely for help are .
so limited as TO be a negligible quantity. one I
~ the Oldest police officers IN this city-a man
az thirty wears expcriencs-tod commissioner 4
that not one man on the police force could be /
trusted 70 obtain evidence against another po-
Are We justified in expecting from these re-
marks 10 see you land IN Tamnany Hair"
he BELIEVES ~ ORGANIZATION.
Il believe "a orgaaizatlon.~ said Nr. Jerome.
ana he smiled. You must have organization
IN great country like this, and most men who
stay- out OF an organization are not doing their
whole duty as citizens. Of course. in an or
ranization there wiz DE fghts. and they may
have 10 take things they don't like, but ] be-
.leve that a man should belong 20 an organiza-
tion But There are some men who are can
taalzerous whose mental and moral makeup
Goes not lend itself to cooperation and 10 disci-
mine I'm very much afraid m one OF those
Whose temper is l-ot aua15'.e1 20 Nolh WIN
IN organization. II = was younger i might
be inside but when a man As 1Orty-fve ana
,ever has belonged 10 any Organization BE
might as well finish out the JOB as lac begall.
an inclined &c believe shat j had worked
s,fta equal diligence -r an 0rganizati on--eHen
,rau.rnauy Hall. * yea will would have more
grauarce to-day. AS for organizations There
q re only two. Tammany Hall ana the RepUbh-
can organizations. And ~ far as political tone
goes commend me 20 Tammany Han.
rs the criminal element not as numerically
rtrong as the ranks q independent democrats
shot would be ettractedI'
..-lle criminal element is not a marker 10 this
suGependent Democratic vote. il Iarnnany nan
could 60 through The state and really show The
sincerity % tie efforts or ihe people N c9nJroI
ard their probable success 10 destroy THIS con-
meet ION with crime the usefulness az TarnTnany
Hall IS bugaboO in favor OF the republican,
ars eeai1st the Democrats would be ended Il
would tend TO lead people TO me support OF
Democratic principles j don't mean 10 say lhat
al independent Democrats are cOuvisCed or the
sincerity OF this effort, but for one ] believe il
There Is one thing in regard 10 the liquor CUES
Yicn that I GO not think is generally known, and
fhst IS that Murphy has mace 81 strong effort
20 hsve Honor deaIers refuse 20 pay money for
privileges / don't 6ncw this OF my own l1nowl-
edec but I am informed o. g., and I believe it,"
isn't this a rather resent conversion or Muir
phy2" asked {. reporter.
Z have understood that Charley Murphy al
WAYS stood against the gambling element ! am
,-s5r,red hv persons who have 10 reason 10 de-
a 49, M -rrn1.i fr1 rfz