Arizona republican., 1907-09-15
MAGAZINE PLEASED
 BY A LIBEL SUIT
The Broadway Now Promises to Show Up Tammany Methods Fully.

William Grlffltn, managing eultor ol The Broadway Magazine. which Chas. F. Murphy is suing for s5O.0OO for al- legged libel. said yesterday afternoon that the magazine management was "tickled to death" by the suit. that if the suit was pressed to a trial the magazines attorney. who would prob ably be William NJ. Wins. would put eI cry prominent Tammany leader in New York on the stand to testify as to graft: and that now that MT. Murphy seems 10 he interested in the Broadway's story" the magazine would begin to prepare articles concerning Tammany that would be even livelier than that which had occasioned the libel suit.
 The article complained of appeared in the April number of the magazine. MT Griffith says he wonders why MT. Murphy has waited so long to decide that his reputation was damaged. The article was from the pen of Erwin Wardman editor of The Press. In a little foreword to the April story he is dc scribed as "a prominent New York journalist of unquestioned ability and integrity. and without an axe to grind
 The title oc the article. which serves tD show it's general nature, was: Hearst against Mcclellan; the New York Mayoralty Imbroglio." The sub title is still more descriptive. "The three handed fight between Hearst. Mcclellan and Murphy in which of fees contracts. the registered ballots of the people and the money power of Wall street are as pawns."
 The article purports to explain why Murphy at last years state convention threw all his force in favor of the nomination of Hearst, whose papers had flaggslated him for years. why Hearst has fought for recount of the votes in the mayoralty election of 1905. though he has said. probably truthful ly. that he doesn't care for the office; why Murphy and Mcclellan have patched up a sort of working agree ment. and why Wall street insists on Mcclellan holding the office of mayor.
 After telling of Hearst's persistent and vain efforts to have the mayoralty votes recounted uo to time just be- fore the convention of 1906. MT. Ward man asks why it was that Murphy suddenly Topped. He explains it by saying that Murphy feared for his own bcss-ship with all its horde of rich spells" He goes on to describe these alleged "spoils."
 And upon that paragraph James w. Osborne, Mir. Murphy's counsel. bases most of his suit. The paragraph men tions graft from poolrooms, gambling resorts. policy shops. and so on. MT Osborne sa--s in his tenth count that the defendants meant that Murphy was in the habit of conniving at the maintenance of and receiving money from those sconnected with poolrooms, policy shops. gambling resorts. broth els and other dives which iesire to have a private permission to do illegal things"
 MT. Murphy. through his attorney, denies that the above ale gations are true, and declares that they were made with the malicious in- tent of injuring him. He declares that he has been injured in the sum of s5O,- 900.
 A paragraph In MT. Wardman's story purports to explain why the boss of Tammany hall can control the ''spoils" mentioned:
 "The traditional seat of authority over all these 'spoils' is in the boss ship of Tammany hall. It can and does protect from removal a police of- ficial. or any other. who works it's will; it can and does break one who is so foolhardy as to dare to enforce the law. contrary to the orders from those higher up and to conduct his office for the public. This boss-ship of the Democratic party of New York city was the aim of Hearst If he took it away fromMurphy all the pow CTS of the former bartenedr would be transferred to the new leader.
 Tt was because the control of this system was threatened by the new figure and the new force of Hearst in the Democratic politics of New York that this sudden about face of Mur- phy came to be made. And it was through Murphy's flop to Hearst that Jackson became attorney general: and it is through Attorney General Jackson that real quo warranto pro- ceedings for a recount are possible"
 The article as a whole. deals as sharply with Mcclellan and McCarren and John H. O'Brien and w. C. Con- ners as it does with Murphy. Ii says that Wall street is insisting that Me Clellan hold the position of mayor as long as he ca nbecause he is valuable to it; that McCarren is playing up to the mayor to get just as much as he can before the reckoning with Murphy and the Democratic organization of the city and state gets him for "knif- ing" Hearst. the regular nominee, at the last gubernatorial election; and that everybody who pretends to be McClellan's friends are just working" him as an "easy mark
 We only hope that this case will really come to triaI,' said Managing