Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-10-19
OFFICIAL INVESTIGATION or
cANNoN-TAMMANv DEAL
WILL uNMAkE MEN.
BIG SCANDAL is BREWING
If PROGRAM is CARRIED oun
Several Big New York state Poli.i-
clans Duo to Be Retired TO Private
Life If Facts Prove as Asserted and
investigation is raken up-Houss
May Not Be Concerned.
Especial Correspondence

Especial Correspondence
New York, Oct. la.--A congressional
investigation of the deal whereby Tau,-
reinforce the Cannon organization In
the national house OF representatives,
with votes enough 10 secure readoptiou
OF the old rules is now regarded as so
inevitable that preparations are malS-
ing for the prosecution and defense. on
both sides involved In the Parsons
charges
II Herbert Parsons pu, out his sensa-
tional statement about that deal with
the expectation that Il would help the
republican cause in the mayoraity race,
| then his expectation has been sadly dis
| appointed 1t has caused some mild i'm
| terest in New York, a good deal of sem
sation nationally. and has produced
vastly more political effect IN Kansas
and Minnesota and Wisconsin thaa IN
New York city New York doesn't
| cast its vote in city elections on tho
question OF the organization of the ma
tional house Truth to say the city
hall of New York Is vastly bigger in
stitution In the conception OF the aver
age New Yorker. than the national cap
| itol. Mr.. Parsons is devoting all his
attention to the republican mayoralty
campaign. and letting the Cannpu-
Tammany affair walt He expects that
there Will be plenty of that matter
when he gets to Washington in Decem-
| Der. and will be prepared to stand hy
! his charges with such evidence as ho
| can produce, IL. there is occasion for
| him TO appear before an lnquiring cont
| mittee OF investigation. 1t Is fully ex-
pected that il such an investigation
cannot be staved off. 1t WILL no matter
how dclicately managed. take the lid
off remarkable succession of deals
and intrigues Involving affairs at
Washington and state and city politics
in New York. There is no doubt abous
the nervous anxiety of great many
potent persons In the Empire state
who are Indicated as figures in suci1
| a proceeding.
Big Seanda! Brewing.
4 One thing Is perfectly certain. Tf
there is any sort Of sincere chance to
get at the facts. there will be advanced
some specific charges that will amount
TO scandal of the most gross sort BIZ:
4 men in both political parties. both IN
New York and in Washington, will ba
involved, and some considerable repu-
tations will be dragged in the miro
of discreditable charges.
AS result of very careful lnvestiga-
ton among local and national politi-
clans Of both parties. 1t can be sai{
that there has been considerable mis-.
apprehension about the genesis OF tha
was a deal. needed no assertion OF Mr.,
Parsons to convince everybody at sl
familiar with Washington conditions
last March The Tammany votes in
the house were voted for Cannon s
rules. when Cannon had to have them
to win. Such things don't happen ,y
accident. with Tammany. The best and
closest machine In the nation doesn' d
merely happen Ia turn such tricks The
most devoutely regular organization is
not given to coming out into the open
and giving telling victories to its ene-
mics. unless there is n quid pro quo in
sight.
Big Guns Due TO Retire.
The only question. then is as to tho
nature of the consideration. and as to
the identity OF the men who maj. . the
deal and delivered that consideration.
Mr. Parsons charges that certain re-
publican state leaders made the deliv-
cry to Tammany at Albany. If that ia
made reasonably apparent. without the
demand for legal proof ii will retire
from circulation some gentlemen who
have long been potent in New York
politics. The fate OF a noble old ma
chine in New York and that of most
effective one In Washington depend
alike on the outcome.
Scratching the surface most casually
will bring up some interesting lights on
the transaction between the speakers 8
room and the sanctum of Charley
Murphy at Tamnany Hall, In the first
place. it develops that the deal was
made at the eleventh hour. 1t was not
! contemplated months or weeks in ad-
vance. as has been widely understood.
T, The house organized mt Washington on
.nvI7ii5S,,aayy, vI7ii5S,ay March Is. and VI was NOT til
Friday. March u. that the alliance
! project was launched Not till the
Cannon organization was brought um-
expectedy to realize that it was face
10 face with imminent defeat was the
deal taken up. There is the best author-
ity for saving that Patrick McCarren.
5 state senator and democratic boss Of
S Brooklyn. originated the plan. AS an,
: ARCH enemy of Murphy. he would seem
the last man to frame up deal in
which Murphy was to pay the considers
$ alton but there seems no doubt he did
just that
I History of the Deal.
!. For two weeks before March IL tho
!. house at Washington was in fermen:
over the Cannon and the anti Cannon
fight. Right down to Friday evening,
March IL, the Cannon people were SUI
/, premely confident. The insurgency was
. Just wind" and Vic Murdoclls $ noises
!, Then suddenly they came out of the
= ttrance. The republican caucus turned
!, up the votes for a nomination Of Can-
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