Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-09-22
DESPERATION I'M NEW YORK.

UcSfCnA lUN IN NEW uOnN.
New York state is having its eyes
opened to the dangers of its powerfui
political organization which builds
great citades of strength upon the cor
ruption rampant in large city. New
York has been opening its eyes 20
Tammany Hall in every campaign hu.
thousands of well meaning democrats
have never seen the real danger untii
this year. Now, Hearst, the man who
seeks TO capitalize all the radicallism in
our body polite. is candidate for gov
ernor, promising to organize "a gov
eminent ownership of everything,
league or party if the democratic NOM
nation Is not given to him. Tammany
Hall, under the renewed supremacy
of Boss Murphy, promises TO give him
the democratic nomination. Yet less
than six months ago. in the may orally
campaign, Tammany Hall adopted the
following resolutions:
Every proposal that municipality
assume operation of all public utilltles
and reduce rates to persons USING
them, regardless of what the service
may actually cost lis an attempt 10
force some men to bear the expenses
Of others, because where the outlay
for operation exceeds earnings the de-
felt must be made up by taxation, ana
this we denounce as socialistic and
therefore hostile to justice and sub
yersive of democratic government
I'VE denounce the socialism which
seeks to make government the SOLE
agent OF production as nothing less
than a proposal to re-establish the m
stitution Of tyranny and industrial
slavery which persisted before the ad-
vance OF Christian civilization. For
the very essence of despotism is to vest
in the state absolute control of all m
dustry and therefore ownership OF all
it's products; while the essence OF
democracy is to confirm in every man
the right to dispose Of his own labor
and possess in peace everything pro-
duced by 1t.
Realizing every socialistic proposal
however cunningly disguised under
sonorous but misleading phrases, to be
ster, leading inevitably toward the
re-establishment of despostism IN gov
eminent and servitude in labor. the
democratic party must always be vigil
liant in unmasking it and infieXible IN
opposing IT.
This was the deep conviction OF
Tammany Hall on government owner
shin six months ago. Now the eXpedl-
ency of disciplining Mayor Mcclellan.
who has disobeyed orders In trying 10
be as honest as he can under the CIR
cumstances, has put Tammany Hail
square around in support of the cand;~
date and the very radicalism toward
which those high sounding resolutions
were directed.
pha New York World grows dramat-
ic in it's cry, Shall the Democrats
Party Die?" 1t says:
perhaps Mr.. Hearst is right-per-
haps. Perhaps the old historic demo-
cratic party has finally run its race
and finished it's course. II it is capa-
ble of nominating Mr.. Hearst for gov
ernor on a platform which Tammany
six months ago compared with the IN
stitution of human slavery; 1tf 1T is
capable of allowing man like Muir
phy to prostitute it's principles pub
liclv in order to wreak personal re-
yenge ON Mayor McClellan; If it is
ready to be anti-socialistic one day.
pro- socialistic the next day, and some
thins, else another day, making Itself
the plaything of a sinister, sordld boss,
then thousands will agree that MI
Hearst is right-rhat the democratic
party in New York, no longer standing
for any principle of government no
longer representing anything but the
lust for power and pelf, ought to be
destroyed"
The moral for the rest of us to learn
is that political machines such as Tam
many Hall built by the corruptionists
or any other built by special interests,
either by traction magnates in munl-
cipal politics or railroad bosses in state
politics, never possess sincere convlc-
tions as to principles in our public
affairs. Being shrewd they may hide
behind beautiful masks but they are
democrats in the democratic counties,
republicans in the republican counties,
individuals in March, and socialists in
September but always for the special
interests. Reprinting those resolutions
presents much the same situation as
the reprinting of editorials from GER
tain Iowa newspapers controlled by the
special interests.