New-York tribune., 1906-10-12
THE SORROWS OF J. B. MORAN.

The Hon ]. B. Moran is hard TO please. He
is not satisfied with halfway successes, and
seems disinclined TO accept the Persian poets
businesslike suggestion about taking the cash
and letting the credit go. He wants both the
cash and the credit. and the kingdom the
power and the glory thrown in for good meas
ure. One would think that he had had pre-
ferments enough IN politics TO glut the most
vOracious appetite. Starting as & self-nOmi-
mated candidate for the District Attoneyship
of Suffolk County. and opposing a nominee sup
ported by both the Republican and Democratic
parties, nc was railroaded into office a year
ago without reason or warning. His election
was huge practical joke, played by the people
on the politicians. According to Mr.. MOran's
view, joke so successful was well worth re-
peatnS. and he began TO lay plans at once for
temperance in his role Of machine Wrecker
and boss killer This time, instead Of standing
singly against all parties. he conceived the idea
Of standing in triplicate or quadrupncate against
one party. He would organize a nomination
trust and relieve the managers Of at least half
the political organizations IN Massachusetts Of
the responsibility and worry Of running candi-
dates against him.
Mr.. Moran has now received three nomina-
tons. He Is the choice for Governor of the
Prohibition party, the Independence League and
Josiah Quincy. and the Hon. Josiah is his. The
Democratic field marshas who sneered at him
as an interlOper and derided him as an anna
teur are tramping dejectedly in the wake Of
his band wagon. Yet Mr.. Moran is not happy
He is walking the floor IN mental misery, un-
able 10 make up his mind whether to accept
the honors piled upon him or TO quit politics
as an ignoble game worth no great thinkers
or reformer's candle. What is the fy In the
Moran ointmenti A thousand guesses have
been made by perturbed Boston chroniclers,
who noted the candidates failure to appear be-
fore the Democratic convention and accept its
nomination. his hurried fight to New York and
his return in gloom and anger But at last
the mystery is out Mr.. Moran is more than
aggrieved by the insertion In the Democratic
platform OF a resolution extolling the virtues
or an eminent Nebraska Democrat twice the
residential candidate Of his party, and COM
mendng him for a third nomination This dec
laraton, the indignant District Attorney holds
was hideous blunder, In that IL diverted AZ
tention from the real issues and the real figure
IN the Massachusetts canvass. II was irreIe-
want unnecessary and ultra Vtres, and could
| have had no other motive than Ito tniure the
candidacy OF the Democratic candidate for
Governor"
Wrath can dwell even In celestial minds and
Ar Moran Is exceedingly wrathful at what
ne caIls the ueaehery Of the Hon. George Fred
"ilhams In rushing through the Bryan indorse-
ment resolution 1t seems that the candidate
to-be wrote letter TO be read to the delegates
10 the Democratic convention, in which he nrac.
dca4ly forbade the expression of any opinion
concerning Presidential candidates for 1aos
mo friend OF mine." he said. will atteppt To
force such an Endorsement and the man Who
makes the attempt will thereby brand himself
las my enemy" But the letter was somehow
suppressed. and the Bryan resolution was rushed
through as an addendum to the platform iust
before adjournment Mr. Moran may be right
in thinking that there Is not room enough in
or On any Massachusetts platform for himself