The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1913-10-05
QUEER MORALS.

From the BOSTON Advertiser.
The people Of New York have no illu-
sions in politics evidently. They are
fully aware that Thomas Fortune Ryan
controlled the New York delegation at
baltimore. exactly as Bryan said at the
time They know that Murphy picked
Sulzer out for Governor. and they know
that Dix was unavailable Tor renOmina-
ton for exactly the same reason that
Murphy picked out Sulzer-that he was
Democrat who might be trusted to do
what the Organization" told him to do.
Dix obeyed orders-and became useless
for any further purposes Of Tammany.
Sulzer was expected to do the same thing
and TO be thrown aside when he had
sufficiently been used. Probably Dix
did not understand, when he was chosen.
what was expected of him. Certainly
SuIzer did not. But the bosses did. in
both cases.
Sulzer was just as much Of an or
ganization man. as Dix had been, when
Murphy decided to have SulZer replace
Dix. But Sulzer at Washington, while
he was = good deal Of a bumCOmbe states
man. did not really appreciate what
Tammany was doing at Albany. Prob
ably neither did Dix when he was nOmi-
mated. But Dix either shut his eyes to
what was going on, or else he did not
have enough determination to enable him
to find out At all events. when Sulzer
started in at Albany he was plant enough
toward Murphy. He announced that he
was ready to follow Murphy's sugEes-
tions about New York County offices,
while he retained for himself the right,
as Governor, to make his own decisions
as to State policies. He soon found,
however. that Murphy intended to run
the State government, just as he had
done in Dix's day, and at that Sulzer,
who has no mean opinion of his own inn
portance, baked.
About everybody in New York seems to
believe that Murphy put Sulzer in office
expecting to have and to hold over him
just such threats of exposure as actually
were made. True, SulZer had not begun
to collect campaign funds then for pur-
poses of Wall Street speculation. But he
had dabblcd in speculation enough, and
was SO Strengthened in his finances that
Murphy undoubtedly felt sure that Tam
many could t''get him with the goods"
whenever it wanted to do so. And for
that very reason the people of New
York are now disposed to treat Suffers
offense, somewhat cynically, as hardly
worth consideration, while they do insist
that he should be upheld, now that he
has broken with Tammany.
So it has come about that the belief is
general and widespread that, If the i'm
parchment proceedings fall, Sulzer will
be renOminated by some political method
and tTiumphantly reelected; and that If
the Impeachment proceedings are
successful and SuIZer should be in
eligible for political office. every
State Senator who voted against him
will stand in danger of permanent po-
litical retirement. as a consequence, 1t
seems beyond denial that public senti-
ment in New York is strongly behind
Sulzer. however hard the fact may be
for outsiders to understand under the pc
culiar circumstances. There may be
some instructive and highly ethical moral
IN this remarkable display of popular
pessismism and 'cynicism. If 50, it is
deeply hidden from the political moral
list.