The chronicle=news. (Trinidad, Colo.) 1898-current, 1913-08-27

poliSicn anu Tue injection u lLr FRO
sressivs party into state politics,
And that il where more trouble
bre~ed for suiaer. Murphy had de-
eided upon John \. BenSei. stat. en-
Eineer and Tammany Adjacent. for
ihr EtibernStaeai nomius,lon. II
WAS all settled aud over ssy. the
shouting aud acclaim. when the
Roosevelt followers nsm.d Oscar
Siraus To head their iictci. s,raus
i'-ins = Hebrew. MAS imm,asurabiy
stronger ON the East Side OF TIL, city
lhsn hrns~i. who Was practically I'M
known there, Strauss was Easily
1900" vote, stronger than B.ns.i
and something drastic had to b.
done.
Aud Murphy did the drastic thing
by turning down his friend and nam
ihx Suiser. the best vote s.it.r In
the city. 1" head the ticket, Then
suixrr's real trouble. began. A. =
sort of campaign manager b. employ
r+i his friend Delaney. bushes, man
aver Of daily sporting paper.
t~ian~, knew more about Suis-r's
roiiiirsl affairs than did suis-r. for
the latter MAS away rsnpal sninr,
while Delaney remained In tn. offic.
dir~ciiux affair. aud speaking the
Suis-r cash.
Delaney. though u HrookIyni,-. l,
u close friend of Murphy.
DELANEY ran the Suiscr campaign
and ~ a reward ~ss appointed com.
missioner of efficiency At 81. 90" u
year.
II was DELANEY who turned az. ms,
sui,~r through Tammany Influence.
furnished the clues upon which the
fra~l-y committee" unrsrthsd the
seeming irregularities In the siuscr
campaign fund.
delaney II suffers tscariot. FOR H.
his official capacity he learned ~ha,
suiIcr Intended to 10 In exposing the
hiEh~a, and canal kraftcrs II va.
NJ efficacy comm issioncr that De
lsncy who never before In his life
had earned $4,000 a year. became
coEnisant Of Tammany's danger.
Then he showed himself b, turning
on tho hand that fed him--si 900 al
month.
sulser knew even bcfos. taking
office that the stntc department.,
were honeycombcd with rottcsncss.
Only he knew what the public did
noi-~hcrc the cauker spots existed
and how to cxctsc them from III.
body polite. So he named John 4.
li-nncSscy. formerly managing editor
OF the New York Press. To dig into
highway Affairs. A. th. same time
he appointed George W. Blake Of til.
New York Times staff to expose rot
icnncss In the prison system.
Blake had known .ui,cr Tor many
years and had supported him for the
g,ibcrnatioriaI nomination for
teen years: that is. In eight convcu-
lions. lie had been the owner OF
political weekly In this city Demo
cracy-in which he had fought Tam
many collectively and Murphy indi-
| vtdially for seven or eight years.
Tamn,nny knew what to expect
from licnnesscy and Blake. and their
expectations were not disappointed
Evidence OF graft and crookcdncss
was revealed with astonishing rapid
y. Grown bold. the Tanmauy con-
tractors and politicians had become
reckless. Highways were construct
| ed with a sale view to cconOmy--for
| the contractor. lie had to he saving
In quality and quantity Of material
for he had to pay rake-offs and
ficure-30 and 80 was nearer the
true blackmail.
In March. two months after ASSUME
ing office. Sulzer had enough evil
dence in sight to announce his re-
form plans. Tammany knew what
was coming simultaneously. and with
that knowledge was horn the furious
hatred of the man Murphy had made
governor. The Tammany boss could
have forgiven anything save dis
loyalty" to the hall. And exposing
graft In which the hall participate!
was high terason.
Then SulZer began to act most dis
respectfully toward Murphy and his
sub bosses. He actually dared to call
his soul his own. The governor
what he thought was right. Only
little children and altruists are so
ignorant as to suppose that such
conduct is along the line of least re-