Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1911-04-12

year by doing away with the speak
er's automobile. If can not legally
get rid of il. will run 1t into the
Potomac. The Republicans will say
it is cleese-paring and peanut poll
tics, but the people have some sense;
and they will know that If we begin
by giving up our own little gratis
tha' we will then be morally fortified
to go after the bigger ones. And
don't care what the republicans say.
will cooperate with any man in
this House who can find place for
sensible economy. don't care wheth-
er it is a little economy or big
economy that is proposed, l will
work with any member to bring it
about If it is sensible one"
United States Senator James A.
O'Gorman of New York, recently
elected to take the place of Chaun-
cey NJ. Depew, is said to be pro-
gressive. Senator OGorman himself
says it. is not necessary for anyone
to prove it; he admits It,
It is true that Charles f. Murphy
lef Tammany Hall was responsible
for the bringing out" of Senator
O'Gorman, who was formerly New
York Supreme court justice. But not
withstanding this O'Gorman is not
under the obligations to Murphy that
he might have been had the circum-
stances been different.
Murphy went to O'Gorman. O'Gor-
man did not go to Murphy. Murphy
had tried to bring about the election
of SheehaI. The New York legisla-
lature rebelled. 1--WE want Demo
cratic representative in the United
States senate as badly as you do"
WI the uliimatum Of the democrat
ic members Of the legislature who
opposed Sheeban, "but we shall in
sist that the man who goes there is
a progressive. Bring out a candidate
whose record gives assurance that
he would be credit to the Demo-
cratic party, and we will elect hin"
Murphy locked the field over. He
saw that it would have to be pretty
high type of man that the democrat
ic insurgents Of the New York leg
islature would be willing to support.
He decided Oil OGorman.
Senator O'Gorman favors Canadian
reciprocity, immediate downward revi
sion Of the tariff, parcels post, pop
ular election of senators, rigid econ
cmy Of expenditure. O'Gorman ap
pears to have made a very good rec
ord as Judge, ind really seems to be
a progressive at heart. The greatest
obstacle in Senator O'Gorman's way
to successful career is his Tamman
affiliations. Cons c:entious work fol
the people. however, will soon drive
all suspicious from the public mind
and O'Gorman's not handicapped t.
such an extent that it will be i'm
possible for him to make good. AL
over the nation the people are de
handing square deal; they do mo-
! care particularly from what politica
party or faction of political party thu
square deal comes; they simply wan
LIT and are deter mlDeG to have it.
II OGorman was not elected on {
campaign fund contributed by Wal
street financiers. He was not Sc
leeted as the moss fitting represent
alive Of the alliance between bis
, business and bad politics. He wa:
taken because Murphy found by bit
ter experience no other kind of {
man could lie elected. He is tn
master Of his own political destiny
1t is up TO him.
In New York state O'Gorman Il
, known as a Tammany man, but il
: |also reputed as an upright, able law
yer and just judge. He is 81 years
old, the son of well-to-do parents
who educated him in the College o
. the City of New York. He studied
law in New York university. He mar
ried in 1884. He was elected Crane
Sachem of Tammany with Croker
support in 1903 He was a justice o
the District court from 1892 to 190'
and then elected Supreme cour
Justice.
!, Senator O'Gorman is five feet eigh
inches tall, somewhat stout, with I
large head, high forehead, witt
red beard and mustache He has a
attractive manner, and is popula
with these with whom he comes in
, to contact.
That the heavily taxed little
brown brothers" of the Philippine
, are beginning to look upon the eve
, increasing army of high-salar.et
American officeho!ders in the island
with about as much favor as thu
American colonists viewed represent
atives of the British crown in thu
! days before independence was secur
/ ed, is indicated in a memorial pre-
pared for the benefit Of the Secretary
of War, President raf. and thu
, American Congress, and published il
the Congressional record. The me
mortal is signed by the officers of tn
Nacionalista Party, which represents
approximately 81 per cent of the ma
tives of the islands, having 66 of the
81 members Of the Philippine as