The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-08-22
JEROME FLAYS MURPHY
 WITH UNSPARINC TONGUE
REPLIES TO TAMMAHY LE4n- ER'S DECLARATION FOR
 HEARST.

nrds or Feather FIory.- rro
 sesher-WOuld Fear He Had ra.t All His Ideals if He Found msp ~ ,. MurDhy's Type supporting Him. ye
 He Ever Comes to Have Influence in
 Democratic Party it VIII Re Usec ta Drive Out of It Such Base Ro.s.a.
 Hearst Also Son Deck" With stnts-
 ment--AIsO Against Bosses.
 New York, Aug. FLA statement hv Charles F. Murphy to-day that be Iound no sentiment in Tannanv han for District Attorney Jerome as prospective nominee of the densocra4se. party for governor, but that on inc contrary he found plenty of sentiment for William Randolph Hearst, brought a quick response from MT. Jerome to- night. MT. Murphy in his interview de- clared that the Taannany delegation fo Buitalo undoubtedly would be bound oy the unit rule, and that Tanpnaav delegations usually were guided by the sentiment of the organization.
 Tn reply to MT. Murphy, given ant tonight. District Attorney Jerome de- clares it was no surprise to him to md Murphy practically declaring for Hearst, and among other things he says.
 Birds of a feather flock together. and when a person Intellectually star- ile, socially vulgar and morally oh tuse,' insults the decent peopleof tbe state, irrespective of party by seeking the nomination of political party by advancing dollars and not ideas. and by methods akin to those of the black maiier, no thinking man could do,rht where Murphy could be found. I should fear that I had lost all of my ideals if I found men of this tvpe supporting me, except under absohrte compulsion.
 1T l ever come to have any ir,ff1l- ence in the democratic party, it will be used to drive out of it base bosses of this type.
 Both the democratic anr repubHcan parties have long enough been disp1var- ed and dominated by men of this type. controlling party organizations.
 PaTty organization was created or lginally to render effective the will ff 1 the people.
 The servant has become the nlasters and the executive machinery controlled by small groups of selfish and uir11sy,- ally corrupt men, has been used to de- prtve the people of the parties of tteir political freedom.
 '"The fight is not to destroy parties. | Parties are essential to the proper working out of our political instttli- tions.
 "The fight is to free the parties from just such men as Murphy. To deprive them of their control of the executive machinery, to restore it to the dis charge of the functions for which 1t was created, viz: The effective ex- pression of the will of the people who compose the party. When this Is done we shall have leaders, not boss IS. We shall then have conventions of real delegates, seeking to determine whom the people want placed in nomination. We shall have candidates and public officers in whose choice 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"
 District Attorney Jerome after read ing over the statement to the newspa- per men said: T think that will hold you boys for while"
 William Randolph Hearst gave out a statement In which he said:
 T repeat that am unalterably op- posed to the Murphys and the McCar- rens, and also to the Sullivans and the McClellans, and the kind of politics that they represent.
 T am opposed to boss rule in poli- tics.
 VI am opposed to corporation control of parties through machines, and the fact that boss or a machine declares for me does not alter my attitude in any particular. I am also opposed to the Ryans and Belnonts, and their Jeromes in politics; to the corrupt use of wealth to debauch the ballot, and to the purchase of puppets in offices.
 T am opposed to those paid puppets in office who serve their corporatS tSon masters slavishly and shamelessly through their whole term of office, and only develop a semi-sense of de- cercy and pretended regard for the people when an election is pending"