The San Francisco call., 1906-10-24
LTON B. PARKER.
FLAYs HEARST.
Former Presidential Nomi-
nee Says Crime Was
Committed at Convention
CAMPAIGN WARNS UP


&c Chairman william J. Corners of the
Democratic State committee appointed
an executive committee to push the
State campaign, ana Charles F. Murphy,
the head of Tammany Hail. called on
the Tammany leaders to support the
party nominees with loyalty and en-
ergy.
The Grand Jury. which >has been in
vestigating Murphy's recent charges
that Independence League representa-
tives were trying to hold up" Demo
cratic candidates, dismissed the subject
as campaign gossip
Charles E. Hughes, the Republican
candidate for Governor, left Kingston
for half-dozen speeches in the coun-
ties of Orange. Delaware and Chemung,
and closed the days work with an
evening meeting at Elmira.
William R. Hearst spent the day in
town, addressing three city meetings
toni ght.
Tile judiciary nominators held a
meeting at Carnegie Hall tonight in the
interests of an independent judiciary.
Among the speakers We're Joseph H.
Choa.te, Former Judge Alton B. Parker
and Former Secretary of the Navy Ben
jamin F. Tracy.
MURPHY WANTS RESULTS.
The executive committee OF Tammany
Hall decided at a meeting today to
support the whole Democratic ticket,
State and local Charles F. Murphy. the
leader of Tammany Hall. delivered
speech to the members in which he said
that he expected all of thean to do their
utmost, so thas on election day the re-
suits, when compared with the best
vote of previous years, would preclude
any possibility of any charge of treach-
cry or knifing.
THE ticket must be Supported said
Mr.. Murphy, 10 the full in every dis
trict We are almost on the eve of
election day and the time remaining
should be devoted to using the best
energies each of you leaders can COM
mand. Now is the time to put your
shoulder to the wheel and aid in rolling
up the biggest Democratic vote in the
history of the organization The ticket,
am CO onfident will win, and the vic
tory will be al the greater with Tam
many working in every district
Alton B. Palker. at a masslmeet ting
of the judiciasy nominations here to-
night after slying that he had left
the bench never to return, paid a ring
ing tribute tt his former associates
and to the present members of the
State courts AID called upon his aud
ience to vote for judges who were
known to be tree of political bias and
political bosses
"a machine he said, lis not the
| proper place from which to select
/ Judges, and the reason of 1t is very
plain. A political machine-otherwise
an organization which receives its sole
control and direction from one man
and the will OF one mans a machine
organized on this principle: that the
men within it give to the machine in
order that they may. receive and the
~, hen in
der that he and the members of the
| machine may receive in return.
There is no difference between a
Republican machine where the Repub-
! lican party is in control and a Demo
cratic machine, but in this particular
canvass our work is directed against
a combination of the Independence
League and Democratic machine. Our
friends indorsed twelve out of the
| thirteen candidates, and I suppose we
ought to be satisfied with that But If
| the gallant leader of the Republican
! machine himself, man of learning
| of character. of great ability, and, as
/ I believe, of lofty patriotic purpose
was unequal to the opportunity to arise
| to that full height which the occasion
offered him, what, / should like tC
know, could you expect of a machine
that was dominated by Murphy or Z
Hearst, or both in continuation
The evidence is unmistakable con-
tinued Judge Parker, that the leade.
of Tammany Hall realized that th'
only opportunity he would have 1o'
patronage this year would be in thi
judicial ticket. Did you suppose ther,
would be any inducement for him t
lplace his hand in the hands of th'
man who had denounced him as a cor
ruptionist and a criminal and had pic
tured him with stripes upon him ant
ball and chain at his feet? And ye
he did it. He did more.
CRIME IS COMMITTED.
Aspiring to be the leader of hi
party in the State, he nevertheless
went to a convention and there, by hi
will and by his force, by his ability t
command this and that man to breal
his promise he turned a minority int,
majority. He made convention
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