New-York tribune., 1909-10-19
THE STATUE OF PURITY is ANGRY.

The Statue of Purity on the Tammany ticket
-'Tammany, you know, is the local organiza
ton in Manhattan"-is losing his temper be-
cause, despite his frantic orders to revilers,
slanderers and knockers TO 'shut uL," they
continue in their evil ways. Not being Mayor
yet, he cannot take them into police COURT
though why he does not hale Mr. WINS into a
police court for the racetrack gambling charges
as an earnest Of what he will do to the other
''defamers' is more than the public under
stand Accordingly he intensifes his epithets.
Mr. Ivins, he told his Broadway auditors yes
terday-'ye merchants of Broadway" as he
called them-Mr. WINS was public liar" He
has already accused Mr.. WINS OF being bought
by Hearst. OF MIR. Hearst he remarked that he
was a "scatterbrained demagogue" Hitherto
Mr.. Hearst's gravest crime seemed TO consist
in wearing a 'straw hat with a blue ribbon"
but now, "it is more than likely when the e1-
plotting [of the street railwaysI was going
ION that among his other Wall Street operations
''he in on the ground floor Last spring it
was Tammany-"the local organization in Man
haitian, you know"-"the miserable bosses and
their harlotlike TOOLS" that were in on the
ground floor in the iooting. or, as the express
sion then was "up TO their armpits" in it. Now
il is Hearst. Yet, only twelve days ago-On
October Z, in "The Brooklyn Eagle"-he was
saying of this same Hearst: II value Mr..
'Hearst's support more highly than I can eX-
'tpress. He knows me and does not doubt me-
He has done great good in this community, and
''it never will be lost" Now Hearst knows him
better and does doubt him. So it is bad Hearst
Tsmmany knows him now and doesn't doubt
him. So it is good Tammany. Could the Chris
tan jurist desire the support of one who was
lin on the ground floor" in the traction loOting?
Apparently. for he sought the support of Hearst
and obtained that of Tammany, and he says
both of them profited in that operation.
Nor did the Statue of Purity stop with scarify-
ing WINS and Hearst. There are others who
know him and doubt him. General Bingham,
1.-The head butler" was another corrupt person.
besides the purchased Ivins and the purchasable
Hearst. In his own words the Statue of Purity
hits of this "defamer" thus:
Bingham at the opening of the Coney Island
season last year gave notice that he going
| 10 close up everything tight The usual thing
happened. During the next three weeks fund
was raised. When the opening comes around
/ there is q little flutter, and then everything is
open all summer.
The press OF New York also knows M-. Gay
nor and doubts him. Well, the press, too, Is
bought, like WINS and Hearst and Bingham
bought with the "Sugar Trusts money. OF
the trial of that trust for defraudng the gov
ernment with false scales the Statue of Purity
said:
tell you that Mr. Hearst's newspapers sup
| pressed the whole trial. 1 tell you furthermore
that every paper in this town that is against me
suppressed the trial But money can't buy the
votes OF the people Only two papers printed
| accounts of that trial.
With the press all corrupt except the two
newspapers supporting Gaynor, there is moth
| ing pure in the town except Tammany-
many. you know. is the local organization in
AIanhattan"-and its two Statues of Purity. the
one up in Long Acre and the one on the ticket
especially the one on the ticket. And the peo-
pie of this town. reading such a press and lis
tening TO such leaders Hearst, WINS and
Bingham, head buffers, public liars and wearers
of straw hats with blue ribbons. are reduced to
such pass that the Statue of Purity is forced
TO exclam:
oh, you people! 1 might say unto you
people. you scatterbrein people who would
rather read such papers than a closely written
magazine article.
He cannot pay any tributes to their "splen-
did intelligence and integrity" when the memory
rankles in his bosom of how few copies they
bought of his closely written magazine article
on the traction situation.