Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1913-08-19
GOVERNOR SULZER.

GOVERNOR SULZER.
1t is a matter of general regret
that Gov. Sulzer of New York did
not come to his Office with clean
hands and keep them clean. There
| is no doubt of the governors abil-
| ity and of his fighting qualities. He
is also a believer in the rights of
the general public and he did yeo-
man service in cleaning out the
grafters and sending a Tammany
briber to the pen. But in an evil
hour he yielded to temptation and
appropriated to his personal use
money contributed for his campaign
expenses. That act cannot be con-
doned and the governor must suffer
public execration, as he deserves,
for it. His experience demonstrates
anew that men who enter the pub
lie service promising to improve it
must keep their own door yard
cleaned. Had Sulzer winked at the
outrages Of Tammany, as most New
York democratic politicians do, his
indiscretions would not have found
him out. But when Tammany dis
covered that he was a foe to the
questionable methods practiced by
that organization the chiefs started
out to undo him and succeeded be-
cause his escutcheon was not invul-
nerable. Had the governor been
clean himself, Tammany could not
have succeeded in the plot to hu-
initiate him and he would have be-
come one of the strongest reform
personalities in the great Empire
state, but his usefulness for public
service is now a thing of the past
and he is headed, and going at fast
er than the speed limit, to the
depths of oblivion. When men un-
dertake the things Sulzer undertook
they must know that the princes OF
crookedness and the knights OF
chicanery will camp upon their trail
and if one hayward or ill-adyised
step is taken it will be pounced up
on, enlarged, magnified, paraded
and made to look as awful as posi-
BILE by the men who have been made
to feel the effects of public misappro-
briation because of various expos
ures. Tammany is perhaps the most
rotten political organization in the
country, as we'll as the most power
full. The democrat who dares antag-
onize it takes his political life in
his hands and If he is to retain his
name unsuIlied he must have no
flaws upon his record. Sulzer is not
such a man and it is really marve-
| lous that he should fight Tammany
instead of being one OF its trusted
braves. Samuel j. Tilden was big
enough and strong enough in char
acter to give battle to the tiger. He
broke up the Tweed gang Of thieves
and sent many of them to the peni-
Tertiary. But Tilden's character
was above reproach and although
Tammany tried to weaken his hold
upon the people Of the country II
could not do it and the name Of
Samnel J. Tilden is one Of the mos,
honored among the galaxy of great
men produced by New York
i TAKES CARE OF NEW JERSEY.
! Assuming that the tariff is tai
upon domestic productions as we'll as
upon importations, as claimed By
President Wilson and the demo
cratic party, Senator Cummins dem.
onstrated in his address before the
senate the other day that Presiden,
Wilson, who really framed the bill
and is responsible for its provisions
took mighty good care of New Jer.
sey and the east at the expense Of
Iowa and the west. The senator
brought new point into his argu.
ment, something that is unusual, a.