New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-08-11
"The Tammany Tain" "A Dis
covery of "The Worlds"

Our neighbor THE World" declared yesterday
that Sulzer was Tammany Governor the FIRST
Tammany Governor in forty years" and 1t SAID
that Murphy nominated him. When did it find this
out?
During the campaign it asserted that Mr.. Sulzer
was an antTammany man and it announced that
the boss had abdicated Before Suffers nomina-
ton it had pledged itself to support no one TOT
Governor who was not "ayowedy antTammany,
and it supported Suzer. declaring that 1t was there
by fulfilling its pledge. Didn't it know then just
as well as it does now that Suzer had been nomi-
mated by Murphy and that he was Tammany
man?
1.-The World" went through the same course with
regard to Dix When he was running for Office it
pretended that 1t was unable to Murphy any
where on the horizon. Yet a few months later.
with no additional light upon the circumstances OF
the Democratic State Convention it came out and
declared that Murphy had nominated Dix
If we could be sure that 1.-THE World would al
ways be anti-Tammany at election times, as it
seems likely to be this year, would gladly over
look the blindness which it exhibited right after
the Democratic state conventions in 1910 and 1912;
but who can be sure that it will not be saying
again in 1914 that Murphy has kept his hands
off" and that the candidate is the candidate Of an
Embossed convention" and that though he may al
ways have been an active and regular member or
Tammany Hall it regards" him as anti-Tammany!
It's scorn for the blindness and cowardce OF its
own party makes delicious reading now.
Thanks to their own stupidity and indifference
and folly the Democrats of New York have al
lowed Murphy to nominate two Governors for
them" stupidity Indifference and folly! Where
was "The World" when Democrats were exhibiting
these qualities? Why doing its utmost to persuade
them that Murphy hadn't nominated the two Gov
errors and that it patriotic duty to elect
them.
Together. the records of these two Murphy-made
Governors form one Of the most CHASTITY chapters
in the history of New York." observes 1.-The World"
And the record of the support of them in the face
Of the knowledge that Murphy had nominated them
forms one of the most CHASTITY chapters in the his
tory of independent Democratic journalism in New
York
Murphy is harmless without aid from Demo
cratic newspapers like 1.-The World" and promi-
nent Democrats of its stripe. If men and news
papers of good reputation did not at election time
assure the voters that the boss had turned saint
and that his ticket was above reproach no could
be defeated and destroyed
When 1.-The World" is antiMurphy it performs
snch useful services that it seems worth while to
point out to it its responsibility for what it calls
one OF the most CHASTITY chapters in the history OF
the state 1t is performing a good service now
when it puts the responsibility for Suffers political
morals upon Tammany. He learned them in the
Fourteenth Street school. He was product OF
Croker and Murphy bosssm, with the reputation
as THE World" says, of being one of its cleanest
and best products. And it must be remembered
that all the dereictions Tammany has exposed, the
gambling with campaign funds in Wall Street and
the rest took place before the break with the boss
while Sulzer was in good and regular standing IN
the organization.