New-York tribune., 1905-04-11
BLAMES ODELL CABLE.
Ford Says 1t Helped Murphy XIII
ELSberg Bill.

R. Fulton Cutting presided over the mass meet
ing for municipal ownership at Cooper Union last
night. Standing room was at premium. James
S. Lehmaier spoke the Goodsell bills now before
the legislature, Senator John Ford said in part:
The Elsberg bill was killed in the Senate by a
vote Of 40 TO s. 1t provided that in building the
reasonable and convenient transportation facilities
they should not be handed TO the existing
city Control It meant more in direct benefits to
the people OF our city than all other pending legs-
crush the transportation monopoly.
bill That meant most of the Republican Senators
against IT, Boss Murphy issued orders TO kill the
bill That meant most OF the Democrats in oppo-
sition. The Republicans and Democrats who look
for more than mere orders on bill affecting rich
corporations were taken care of by the Belmont
syndicate and its allies.
Resolutions read by J. AspinwaH Hodge were
adopted condemning the bills of Senators GoodseIl
and Raines and Assemblyman Beden which Will
give validity to a supposed tunnel franchise under
the East River and will make possible a per-
petual franchise for 4 tunnel extending from the
present subway station. at 42d-st. under the East
River. and the BedelI-Goodsen bill, granting in
creased powers Of condemnation to railroad corpo-
rations.
Julius Henry Cohen and Bolton Hall spoke and
then D. Cady HerTick made plea for the Cor
ruDt Practices act. He said, in part:
There have been before the legislature three bills
70 prevent the buying OF elections. You people
but Up the State We. too, do a few things our
selves. 1 have heard my predecessors blacken
Tammany Hall, and have heard the Tiger as
sailed. but just let tell you that Tammany
methods are pure and white the driven snow
compared with those in in some of the counties
up the State. My friends there. up the State.
the politics are unspeakably rOtten-the politics
OF no one party am speaking OF now. When a
father goes to the polls. and deliberately bargains
for the sale OF his vote and those OF his sons;
when a openly sells the votes Of his followers,
then something shoald be done.
You hear OF election expenses, Of so much money
being spent by the various candidates for their
campaign. But you hear little Of the agents who
come into a country district and pay the expenses
OF campaign for candidate. Should he be sue
cessfuI is II strange that such candidate should
be fettered hand and foot to the interests that
have placed him in his office? The Republicans
and Democrats may fight the polls, they may
blacken each others characters, but they will
tell what becomes OF the money where it comes
FROM II is still true in politics that the
cessful man IS he who spend the most money
and spend it most sk1lfully. How many elections
for the Presidency have been decided at the polls
IN my memory and yours, by money?
Resolutions were adopted condemnng the bills
introduced by Senator Cassidy and Assemblyman
Bedeu amending the Transportation Corporations
law powers Of electrical companies; the Leg
the charter Of the Niagara, LOckpOrt and Ontario
Power Company. 1t was also the sense of the
meeting that the so-caled Herrick- Belmont bill TO
insure publicity in connection with political re-
ceIpts and disbursements should be passed