The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1913-08-18
MONDAY, AUGUST IS, 1918
TAMMANY AND PROGRESS.

When Tammany meets Tammany,
then comes the tug of that sort of war
in which the short and ugly word is
almost the only verbal ammunition
used Governor Sulzer of New York,
Tammany governor. charged by a
Tammany committee, appointed by
Tammany legislature with many acts
uniting him for public trust and hon
or, answers only with a sweeping de-
NAL of all the charges made. Il de-
ny that | used any campaign con-
in public statement 81 deny that
| speculated in Wall street, or used
money contributed for campaign pur-
poses to buy stock. either in my own
name or otherwise. l never had an
account with Fuller & Gray or Boyer
& Briswold. | never heard OF these
firms, do not know the members, and
knew nothing about the transactions
with these firms testified to before the
Frawley committee, until recently
threatened with exposure and the al
legged transactions were brought to my
attention by the Frawley committee"
The only meaning it is possible to
attach to this statement by the gov
ernor, is that before the committee
A.
charges it now makes against the
governor, he was informed by some
Tammany politician of the case made
out against him. This could only
have been done in making a threat /
of exposure" as a means of forcing |
him to "be good" as Tammany ex-
pected him to be in nominating him
when republican division made his |
election sure. What an Illuminating
view of progressive politics it is
which shows us politics progressed
to that point where Tammany hav-
ing elected a Tammany governor of
New York, over a divided opposition,
and finding him ungrateful, threat .
ems him with exposure of his I'M
worthiness if he remains obdurate,
and promises to keep still if he will
give it everything it wants..
1t weighs against Sulzer that he f
had trained with -Tammany for so
many years that the boss of that or
ganization must have been sure OF
his want of political morals before |
putting him where Tammany had for d
years been vainly trying to put what l.
rammany calls a man of the right ,
sort" 1t weighs for him that, after
.aking office he appears to have made
IN effort to show himself to Tam
many as being a cleaner man than it
had thought him to be. Giving the
nan against whom hue and cry is
low being raised the benefit of the
,nly possible doubt, let us assume,
or a moment, that Sulzer made an '
lonest effort to rise above Tammany n
Methods and to make himself more f;
worthy of the exalted place where
atuous division of the antiTammany ;,
orces had placed him. If he hoped h
O raise Tammany with him his folly h
vas. shown when Tammany set about 9.
igging up the evidence of his low =,
deals while he was a Tammany. man W
ure and simple. The public would r,
e unable to decide as between these 4,
'ammany politicians, but the pre- a,
umption must be that the committee r.
as the evidence of republican wit M
esses with which to fortify its case. q,
republican division in New York last
ear has led to this, but the worst so
lay be yet to come. Talk of inn N,
eachments, a barricaded executive he
Iansion and armed troops may yet m
e found leading to questions of rec 10
,nition'' and intervention" for Mr.. w
vilson in his own country and his
xn party. 90
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