The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-08-22
Not Surprised TO Find Him
Leaning to Hearst
IS COMMON POLITICAL BOSS
Hearst Also Gets busy and Says the
People Need Not Only Square
Deal" But "New Deal"
and No Marked Cards.

New York, August 2t.-Charles F. Muir
ply leader of Tammany Hall, today
said he had not observed any sentiment
in Tammany for the nomination of Dis
trict Attorney William Travers Jerome
for governor by the democratic state
convention, but there was. he said, plenty
of sentiment for w. r. Hearst
Mr.. Murphy declared that he was not
committed to any candidate, but 1t was
the rule of Tammany to be guided by
the sentiment of the organization, and he
would be guided by it at the state con-
venton. Mr.. Murphy said the Tammany
delegates to the convention would be
bound by the unit rule.
District Attorney Jerome tonight gave
out the following statement
"It is no surprise to me to find Muir
ply practically in the clearing for Hearst
The only reason for taking an active part
in politics this year is TO carry on the
fight of last year which was a fight to
free the people and parties from the dom
ination of just such political panhandlers.
Cannot Doubt Murphy's Position.
Birds of a feather flock together and
WITCH q ptASpli iilANliV1AddiiS oAciiiof SO-
cially vulgar and morally obtuse insults
the decent people of the state irrespec-
tive of party, by seeking the nomination
of a political party by advancing dol
lars and not ideas, and by methods akin
to those of the backmailer no thinking
man could doubt where Murphy could be
found.
II should fear / had lost all my ideals
If I found men of this type support me
except under absolute compulsion. IL
1 ever come to have any influence in the
democratic party it will be used to drive
out of 1t base bosses OF tnis type.
Both the democratic and republican
parties have long enough been dsgraced
and dominated by men OF this type, con-
trolling party organization. Party or
ganlzation was created originally to rem
der effective the will of the people.
Servant Has Become Master.
"The servant has become the master,
and the executive machinery controlled
by small groups of selfish and unusually
corrupt men has been used to deprive
the people of the parties of their political
freedom
ne HHHl Is llOl 10 utSllOy peiillt6
Parties are essential to the proper work
ing of our political institutions. The fight
is to free the parties from just such men
as Murphy, to deprive them of their con-
troll of the executive machinery; to re-
store 1t to the discharge of the function
for which 1t was created. the effective
expression of the will of the people who
compose the party. When this is done
we shall have leaders and not bosses. We
shall then have convention of real dele
gates seeking to determine whom the
peoples voice has been potent. and who
will feel that their responsibility is to
the people, and not to some political boss
who created them"
Hearst Gets Busy.
William r. Hearst tonight gave out the
following statement:
II have no interest whatever in the fac
tion disputes of Tammany Hall. These
declarations for or against me are nothing
more than attempts to Influence votes in
the primary contests.
"Over three months ago l gave out an
interview to the Brooklyn Eagle defining
my position, which / have not altered.
II repeat now that l am absolutely and
unalterably opposed to the Murphy's and
the McCaren's, and also to the Sullivans
and the McClellans, and the kind of poll
tics they all represent. l am opposed to
II am opposed to corporation control of
parties through machines, and the fact
that a boss, or machine declares for me,
does not alter my attitude in any partlcu-
lar / am also opposed to the Ryans and
Belmonts and their Jeromes in politics.
to the corrupt use of wealth to debauch
the ballot. and to the purpose of puppets
in office.
81 am opposed to these paid puppets in
office who serve their corporation masters
slavishly and shamelessly through their
whole term Of office, and only develop a
semi-sense of decency. and a pretended re-
gard for the people when an election Is
pending.
1.-THE country needs a purifying. inde-
pendent movement because the old par
ties are infested with the vermin of
bosses, corruptionlsts and rascals In office.
who mouth empty words about civic right
eousness while the dollars of their cor
poration masters are jingling In their
pockets.
"Mr. Roosevelt says the people need a
square DEAL would add that TO have
a square deal they must have a new
deal, for nearly all the cards in the pres
ent pack are marked by the corporations
and dirty and dogeared from the corrupt
uses to which they have been put