Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-11-13
Iowa Newspapers
HoNEsrY. VS.. DISHONESTY.
Dispatch.
[Sioux City Journal
7"Where did he get it,"

Where did he get it?'
That was Jerome's tremendous ques-
ton In the New York municipal CAM
paign. Charles r.. Murphy did not
dare to answer it. George b. McCael-
Ian, as good a man as he Is believed
to be, could not get away from fta
Tammany Hall never received such q
knockdown 1t was never SO Ill pre-
pared for the blow. Five weeks before
election it was universally conceded
that Tammany had walkaway. SO
confident We're the wise men that moth
ing could be dome to dislodge Tamm-
any that the opposition became
neryeless. Who was there to stand
against Tammany? There did not APP
pear to be anyone; certainly there was
no one laundering for the job. Inc
republicans lost heart. The citizens
union went to pieces. There was MOTH
ing to suggest that the shedding would
not be easy for Talnmany. Certainly,
Mr.. Mcclellan had made a good mayor,
he was confident of that himself, and
what he wanted to do, and what ne
expected to do, was to hold the cam
paign to his personal recorid. He was
picked out by Tammany in the first
place for that purpose. He was SO
good a man it was question at tine
opening of the campaign in 1904
whether he ought not to be SHIFTED to
the head Of the democratic national
ticket; but Tamnlany was not ready
to let him go-there was the promise
of a more convenient season.
There will be little debate in the I'M
mediate future of Mr. Mcclellan as a
presidential possibility. Things turned
i'm such strange manner that the sins
of Tammany were rnloaded upon
him. The figure that came to the
surface was the figure of the boss of
Tanlmany 1t was toward him the
finger of MIR. Jerome was pointed.
'wlhere did he get it?"
1.-THE lesson isl said the New York
Tribune on election day morning, that
the popular conscience can always be
aroused on an issue such as this CAM
paign in its last two Or three weeks has
wildly presented"
Where did he get it?"
That was the issue. Graft or mo
graft; public honesty or public dis
honesty Mayor Mcclellan could not
escape his situation. What he was
Tammany had made him, and what
ever he might be Tammany was hit. /"
"Tammany illustrates now, as ever,
said the Tribune, 'merely the cone
sive power of public plumber 1t
exists for what it can take from the
people for the cost of its honest
graft must, all be borne ultimately
by the people. This fact 1t added,
voters of all parties have learned to
recognize, and the popular revolt of
the last four weeks-trnexpected in
it's proportions-is welcome evil
derpce that when a simple issue like
honesty versus dishonesty presents
itself the most powerful political or
ganization has to trim its sails and
run for safety. Murphyism and Nc
Carrenism cannot stand in any Amer
lean community against an aroused
and intelligent public sentiment
Where did he get it,
1t was an awful question. There
would have been nothing in it If
volumes of damnable reply had not
been stored in the public mind ready
to be quickened into eloquent eN-
preston by the flame that touched
the public conscience.
William Randolph Hearst was as
much surprised as George B. Nc