New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-10-01
THE "LEADER."


extinct. we begin to suspect that their
good points have never been sufficiently
recognized There is Murphy, for eX-
ample. who has often been called a
brutal boss-could anything equal the
consideration which Murphy has shown
at Rochester? He was delicacy and self
suppression itself He treated the con-
vention almost as if it were really eX-
nected to do is own work and not have
lis work done for il. We quote from
some of our Democratic contemporaries
TO show how absolute was his mastery
of the situation at Rochester. The
CORRESPONDENT # The New York Times"
writes:
Never before has Tammany Hall been
in such unqueStioned control of state
convention. Never before has any Tam
many boss been enthroned as the state
leader in the unlimited way in which
Murphy is recognized to-day. The con-
vention is in the hollow Of his hand.
The Bro3kIyn Eagles" representative
at Rochester reports as follows:
When the Democratic convention met
this afternoon Charles +. Murphy had
not made ND his mind who should be
nominated for Governor and he ordered
the convention TO adjourn until tonight
Says Rochester dispatch in "The
New York Evening Sun:
The situation lay absolutely in Muir
phys hands.
And The Evening Post which is
quicker to appreciate Murphy's delicacy
than any of its contemporaries, says N
its dispatch:
All the uncertainty and indeCision
about a candidate that make the hold
ing of an evening session necessary
grows out of Mr.. Murphy's determine
ton not to select a ticket and notify
the candidates who the nominee viii be.
ANY man he named would be nominated.
But. while the Tammany leader IS ab-
solute boss here, he has declined to use
his power He has deprecated, mini
mixed and made as inconspicuous as
possible the position of absolute au-
thority which is his.
That was the reason for the delay and
the night session. Murphy was deter
mined that the nomination should result
from a spontaneous movement among
the delegates. while the delegates, from
long disuse. had lost the knack Of spon-
taneity. While the delegates waited
wonderingly for their orders the embodi-
ment of political ideals and virtues
waited for the nomination to get itself
made without orders sitting in his roOm
reports the correspondent Of THE New
York Evening Journal" looking very
helpless" After you, my dear AL
phonse," he kept saying to the conven-
ton in his best ]. Sergeant Cram man
ner. and the convention kept replying
in bewilderment, After you, my dear
CASTOR; surely a situation that would
make the most well meaning boss look
very helpless" Would the fools never
see the embarrassment of the boss in
his power and come to his relief by ap-
rearing to act q little as if they were
not puppets:
We like the picture Of the considera+e
boss trying to galvanize a convention
of prpDets into activity, while he was
declaring for a new method Of making
nominations. We like the splendid
silence with which he listened to the
arguments in favor of the various booms,
declining TO say a word which might IN
fiuence the action Of the delegates. we
like the way he "deprecated,' as The
Post says, "minimized and made as III
conspicuous as possible his absolute au-
thority in the party. No vulgar parade
Of power before the people of the state
was he guilty of. We like especially
the report that he called in a distin-
guished mugwump editor to help him
boss the party. We hope the story is
true. 1t shows the boss's consciousness
Of the defects in his political ideals and
virtues and reveals a determination to
roIMir them at the source Of all ''po-
litical ideals and virtues We do not
wonder that the mugwump contingent
is beginning to point its admiring finger
at Mr." Murphy as a notable example
of the real leader" in politics.