New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-11-02


was the willing tool Of Tammany at the
time Cleveland was nominated, In 1892,
when General Bragg, pointing to the
Iammany delegation In presenting the
statement: we love him for the enc
mics he has made"
In 1892 Cleveland carried New York
by large majority; his popularity swept
into ONCE Democratic state officers and
Democratic Legislature. Sheehan be-
came Lieutenant Governor and presided
over the Senate and Sulzer became
Speaker Of the Assembly. This was the
islature the State Of New York had seen
since the days OF the Tweed ring Here's
what The New York World" said of IL
In It's issue OF Auril q, 1893:
The Legislature which ended its SEES.
sion yesterday has done the will of the
bosses with a shameful. but by no means
unprecedented servility"
The Tribunes comment was as fol~
lows:
Never in all It's history has the state
been so Inundated and disgraced as inj
the session just closed by the bullying
manners, the arrogant assumption. the
clustering blackguardism and bunco-
steering trickery of the two scheming
politicians (Sheehan and Sulzer) who
held the gavel In either branch"
The Commercial Advertiser" said,
When concluding its review Of the session:
And, finally. remember that govern
ment by the people has practically ceased
in this state"
! The newspapers OF 1Ss3 without regard
unanimous as to the character OF ths
Sheehan-Sulzer government. At the next
election the party that they had wrecked
was disastrously defeated. Sheehan be-
was sent by Tammany Hall to WASH !
ington.
Mr.. Sulzer has never informed the pub
lie when he ceased being a Tammany
tool and began being a Democrat. He
had not changed when he made his speech
wherein he said: "Tammany's relation
to the Democracy has been close In the
past, is such to-day and will be more
so In the future. Tammany is Democ- J
racy"
1t may Justly be said of the Tammany
bosses and the Sulzer nomination:
They may, break; they may shatter their slate
But the grip OF the bosses will cling to It still.
Mr.. Sulzer says that il elected he will,
emulate Tilden. Let me remind him that
the first thing Tilden did in his campaign
was to slaughter Tammany Hall and the
Tilden by holding UP 10 justified reproach
and contempt the same Tammany Hall
and Tweed's logical successor, Charlie
Murphy? This ig the real test whether
Sulzer is or is not the subservient tool !
of Charlie Murphy and Tammany Hall.
Mr.. SulZer claims that ne Is an advo-
cate Of civil service reform. Let me tell
you what kind OF an advocate he Is. In
1910 after the election Of Governor DIX. 4
at a dinner OF the Tammany Speakers
Bureau Association, Mr.. SulZer said:
I'VE are the workers.; we have won the /
victory, and l am firm believer In the |.
doctrine to the yictors belong the spoils t.
When our party wins after strenuous
battle, there are men In our ranks VINO !
can fill the Offices. II had my way, |
when the Democrats win, | would give
the Republicans the good government ana |
the Democrats the good offices.
Think what this would mean II Sulzer
should be elected! Two months after
January there will be the appointment
means that, If elected, he would throw
the Public Service Commission into the!
nav OF Tammany Hall. The scannaS
that has arisen In the expenditure or
100000 for good roads under the Diri
administration, which administration fsl
enthusiastically Endorsed in the Dero-
cratic platform, would be oagateuel
compared to the 100000 or more that
is expended under the supervision OF the'
Public Service Commission.
Mr.. straus then took up the social JUS
tice planks of the platform, especially
workmans compensation and it's meaning
and the minimum wage for women and
young persons and its significance. and
said that Governor Wilson's argument
that the establishment Of minimum
wage would have the tendency TO reduce
all wages to a minimum was absurd. He
challenged Governor Wilson to show a
single instance where the establishment
of a minimum wage had reduced the scale
OF wages.
Davenport. the nominee for second
place in the state ticket, began with
, hrase that caught the attention OF the
crowd instantly.
"Beckerism in the metropolis" he
said, us the byproduct Of the govern
ment of Mr.. Murphy in New York, as
socialism in Schenectady is the by
product of the government Of Mr..
Barnes in Albany"
The former Republican State Senator
proceeded to give a sarcastic descgip-
ton of the part of a delegate at the
old style political convention, and was
Just getting from that vein toward MS
heavy political arguments when the
entrance Of Colonel Roosevelt cut him /
short.
AS on Wednesday night, the cheers
of the Gardens welcome 10 the colonei |,
were at least half in the shriller tones
of the women who comprised that I
much Of the audience, and who a few
moments before the coloners entrance /!
had seemed to be enjoying Davenports
sarcastic description of the oldtime,
boss-driven delegate far more than the
male norton of the crowd.