The Detroit times., 1911-01-24
Tammany Leader Sits in Hotel -Four
Blocks From Assembly and Leg
islators Vote For VIM. T.
Sheehan As He Demands.
One Man Had Courage To Tell Him
He Would Follow Nobody, But
Cast His Ballot As He Saw Fit.
ALBANY, N. ", Jan. 24.-The
sixth Joint ballot today for United
States Senator resulted In no
choice, William r. sheehan SIN
holding the lead.
av W. q. SHEPHERD.

/ ALBANY, n. Y, Jan. z4.-t WAS
disgusting spectacle. this herding OF
/ American citizens, which | saw when
II came TO Albany 10 watch the taking
OF n ballot In the senatorial deadlock.
| The people OF New York voted Sen
ator Chauncey NJ. Depew' out or the
senate because he did not stand with
the majority Of the people. They put
1.-THE Democratic party into power. hop
| Ing for a squarer deal than they re-
ceived from the Republicans. But, 10
and behold, when the Democrats be-
gan to attempt the selection OF a SEN
ator to take the place OF Depew, the
same interests that Depew served were
discovered to have as strong hold on
the Democratic party as they had no
Republican party.
These interests desire the election
OF William F. Sheehan. He is smart
lawyer, a partner of Alton ID. Parker.
| They have q Wall-st. law ONCE. He
has always served the interests faith
fully He will continue to be faithful
to special privilege II he gets into the
United States senate.
I'll tell simply what l saw and heard
as the daily noon ballot was taken.
The pages brought out 81 camp
stools and placed them In front of the
speakers stand, In the lower house.
These were for the senators. As tho
latter filed solemnly into the cham
Der, the members OF the lower house
arose In the camp chairs the sena-
tors seated themselves and the roll
call was begun.
The seat in which l sat on the floor
OF the house was under the speakers
stand, and facing the legislators. They
made a splendid gathering. / didn't
see any fat, red-faced, gruff, vulgar
men, OF the politician type, but q
collection OF representative Ameri-
cans. above the average OF intelli-
gence.
They were nothing more nor less
than plain Americans, chosen by their
fellow citizens to represent them In
|, the state government You or / WOULD
have been proud to be among them.
You wouldn't think that collection
OF Americans like that could be herd
ed, delivered by the head like cattle,
| by a gang boss like Charles Murphy,
OF Tammany hall. And yet we all
knew that in a hotel four blocks away
sat Charles Murphy, there holding the
strings that ended In rings In the
noses of some scores of them, and re.
member that Murphy Is not an official
of any sort, only gang boss, forcing
most of these representative Ameri-
can citizens to do as he told. them.
They sat solemn-fsced as the roll
was called. Then the voting began.
There was something sickening about
Il. The clerk called name. One OF
the Americans arose and said will
liam F. Sheehan." Another name was
called. A fine-looking, gray-haired old
lawyer arose and said William i.
Sheehan." And so It went on: "Wil-
liam +. Sheehan, William F. Sheehan,
William +, Sheehan." 1t was like a
schoolboy's piece. There was not a
man who spoke II who did not know
| that Sheehan was a corporation man.
| Most of the men / saw were bound
by so-called honor. I fancied that the
faces OF many of them were sad rs
they pronounced the Sheehan name,
and felt themselves delivered like so
many dumb animals. Now and then
different Ave syllables came from n
man, forming the name Chauncey M
Depew. This was Republican vet.
| ing. He, too, was bound by that same
honor TO vote as he did.
! And when 1t was all over, Chauncey
M. Depew, betrayer of the people, and
William +. Sheehan, led all the rest.
though there were not enough votes
to elect either.
They were different men, belonging
to different parties, yet the power that
supports them and holds the legisla-
ture in a thrall Is the same. II has
such tremendous grip on the Amer
lean citizens In the New York legisla
ture, this power that would rob tho
people, that II can say: You take
Depew or Sheehan: II you don't you
can't take anybody else. We will not
allow you to elect a man who will take
care of the interests of the people In
. Washington"
The senators filed out The legis.
, lature adjourned for the day. hur-
, ried down from my seat TO Senator
. Loren White, a Schenectady under
taker, who had voted against Sheehan
why do all these American citizens
, repeat the name OF Sheehan? asked
him. why do they allow themselves
: to he herfed like cattle?"
THE oaucus--they feel in honor
bound to stand by that" he said.
But did you bolt the caucus?"
asked. why didn't you follow the
. herd?"
Il took my political life in my hands
when refused to 90 1t. When Murphy
called me to his room in the hotel
and asked me II DIDN'T want to fol.
low the Democratic organization.
told him to go to hell. I wouldn't fol.
low anybody but my own self.
''They told me that II the organic.
lation wasn't behind me | couldn't get
anything for my district. and ! tod
them didn't care; I'd be myself any.
how. even IL my people didn't send me
back. N... .,
But these other men you see who
ere herdcd like cattle felt that they
must be true TO their party. They
went TO the caucus, and Murphy had
enough votes there to pledge the eau
Gus TO Sheehan Now all these gen.
tlemen have to stand by Sheehan or
bolt the caucus, which means dishon
or
That's why you see them get up, in