New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-10-05
WAR GAME OVER.

ANIl-BOSS WAX GAM6 ONhIh'
The anti-Murphy season is over. The
newspapers which carry on a sham bat
tie against the boss except just before
election are now turning in and helping
to elect the bosss ticket and strengthen
his hold upon the state, Our neighbor
THE World has forgotten all about
! its Declaration Of independence" is
sued on September Z. The World
will not support candidate for Gov
"eTnOr who is not av0wedly anti-Tam-
many it then asserted in double
leads. To-day it is supporting a candi-
date for Governor who not only is not
anti-Tammany but who has been a
Tammany officehOlder all his days and
is an avowed upholder Of the Tammany
system of using public Office to take
care of the organization workers
The devil or the Republicans--it is the
same thing-take good government and
let us Democrats have the good offices,
says "The Worlds" candidate for Gov
ernor.
Murphy must CO." declares 'The
World issuing the standing order or
the sham battle. And it proceeds to
make him go by supporting an out and
| out Tammany man nominated by a
convention of Murphy puppets, who has
not disavowed Murphy and will not dis
avow him, and by helping to elect along
with him a lot Of Murphy officeholders
who have contributed to make the
present administration a stencil in the
nOstrils of decent people.
While the sham battle was raging
there was an acrimonious dispute be-
! tween "The World" and "The Ameri-
can" as to which was the generalissimo
Of the mimic forces-as TO which
roared loudest against Murphy out Of
the campaign season and helped most
valiantly in the election Of his ticket
when the war game was over. The dis
cuSSion was unseemly and ruinOus 30
military discipline, but 1t is happily
over. "The World" and the Hearst
newspapers now lie down together In
the Murphy camp. Neither can twit
the other upon the company they are
both keeping, at least not until the war
game begins anew, say about December
!, when jealousy as to which Is the
greater sham fighter may rend once
more the embattled hosts of the mimic
enemy" THE American" shows more
enthusiasm over its return to camp
than does 1.-THE World" but then THE
American" in its eagerness to be gen
eralissimo Of those playing war did not
20 so far as to say that it would never
support a candidate for Governor who
was not 'avowedly anti-Tammany."
THE Times" too. as in 1910, will
join for the next couple Of months I'm
the fight against Tammany which is
being conducted under the leadership
Of Murphy, the great anti-boss boss,
who, with q self-renunciatiOn that al !
most fills the voices of all the generals
and colonies Of the sham "enemy" with
tears kept his hands Off while the
Democratic convention nominated for
Governor the Tammany Congressman,
'To-the-victors-be lOnC-the-sp oils" Sui
ger. Soon they will all be discovering
virtues in their leader, "The World"
is already starting the process. 1t is
sure that nothing became the boss like
his behavior at Syracuse, having al !
ready forgotten his admirable behavior
at Rochester in 1910. "A boss" It says,
'who knows when to abdicate is not
always an ass" ASS? We should say
not. A boss who has such "enemies"
as ''The World" THE Times" "The
American" and Governor Wilson and
uses them so skilfully is no ass. The |
victory" is always theirs. It's fruits |
are always his