Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-09-27
4STOP BARNES AND
MURPHY SHARING
GATE RECEIPTS
Roosevelt Tells Moose Leaders,
Prevent Tammany Getting
Control of State"


ROCHESTER,, N. Y, Sept. Pin
an address before the State Commit
tee of the National Progressive party
which met here today to name candi-
dates for chief judge and associate
Judge of the Court of Appeals and to
formulate plans for the future of
the party, Colonel Roosevelt declared
that in the election in New York
State this fall 1.-The dominant concern
of the people should be to prevent
Tammany from obtaining complete
control of the State" and that ito
this lesser issues must give way" He
argued that the "predicament in
which the State finds its public affairs
is due to the failure of the people to
elect last fall a governor and legis-
lature pledged to the carrying out of
progressive policies. In voting
against Tammany candidates, how
ever. Colonel Roosevelt urged the
voters to support the Progressive
party candidates, to the end that they
might defeat Tammany without en-
throning the Barnes Republican ma
chine in it's place"
-Four Important Matters.
Ills year, Tie COlOnti Sdluy InSIe
are four matters of supreme political
Importance for decision before the
people of this commonwealth. The
first, the election of an Assembly
stands by itself. The other three are:
First, the attempted impeachment of
the governor of the State; second, the
city election in the great city of New
York, and the third, the election of
two judges of the Court of Appeals.
"As to each of these four issues, the
overthrow of Tammany is the chief
ISSUE
In. urging the voters not. to make
the mistake of putting the Barnes
Republican machine in power as the
alternative of the Murphy Democratic
machine, Colonel Roosevelt said:
"Barnes and His Little Tammany.,
1.-The whole career of Mr.. Barnes
and his littles Tammany at Albany
warrants us in assuming with GER
tainty that he lacks only the oppor-
tunity to do the same kind of thing
which Mr.. Murphy is now doing at
the head of Tammany. Mr.. Barnes
and Mr.. Murphy control each his re-
spective machine in exactly the same
fashion. by the use of the same
methods, by the willing adherence of
men of one type, and by alternatively
bullying and using men of another
type, including among the latter
those college presidents who bow
their knee to the Mammon of busi-
ness wrongdoing and the Belial of
political crookedness. Each is down
at the bottom the natural and newt
able ally of the other. In the last re-
sort each of any two such bosses can
count on the other to help him keep
control of his own machine. Each
accepts the policy of a control par
TALLY and periodically divided with
the other as the next best thing to a
control absolutely in his own hands.
Fighting for Gate Receipts.
Murphy and Barnes occupy the
position not infrequently taken by a
couple of veteran prize-fighters who
follow their profession purely as a
business and travel round the coun-
try fighting for the CRATE receipts,
which they divide ON the basis of so
per cent. to the winner and 40 per
cent. to the loser. Sometimes they
fight on the level: sometimes they
understand in advance which is to
win; but they are a unit in their
resolute insistence that the public is
to have no share in the proceedings,
except to furnish the gate receipts.
Each, of course, would prefer to
get the so per cent. all the time, but
each is not merely willing, but eager,
to divide with the other, now on the
so per cent. basis and now on the 40
per cent. basis, If thereby they can
prevent any outsider from interfering.
"a Unit in Keeping Ont Others.
I'm the political arena Murphy and
Barnes are merely fighting for the
governmental gate receipts = the
hi ha ,r.alf no
legislative offices, the control of the
canals, the prisons and the highways
contributed by the people of New
York. They are a unit in insisting
that the people shall have no more
say as to the handling of the Office
and other governmental gate receipts
than is implied in occasionally de-
Gliding which of them is to have the
major and which the minor portion
of these receipts.
"They are delighted to manage their
business on so per cent. and a 40 per
cent basis, each in turn getting the
winners or the losers end, just SO
long as the people submit to their
dominion and continue the foolish
practise of never Furnishing either, ex-
cept by putting the other in power"
Regarding the judiciary Colonel
Roosevelt declared it to be unfortu-
nate that under the present judicial
and constitutional system there were
many judges of good legal ability,
but of no special fitness to decide any
judicial question of social and eco
nomic reform. who We're permitted
to make themselves irresponsible
lawmakers on the most vital sub
iects.
"Re8ctionaries as TO Toilers' Rights
IF in this State the people now
possessed the power to decide for
themselves whether the courts are
or are not to be followed in their
declarations about the constitution
ality of q given measure of social
Justice, we would not find ourselves
hampered in passing on a mans
fitness to be. a judge by being also
Obliged to consider his tendencies as
an irresponsible lawmaker There are
plenty of upright men on the bench
whose fitness for passing on the or
binary and minor judicial questions
that come before them. is universally
conceded. but who by temper and
training are reactionaries as regards
all laws affecting the Woodworking