Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-11-03
McCalPs Weaknesses.

The New York Globe attacks Mccall
as man without ideas and suffering
from .dulIness of moral perceptions.
1t denounces him for his hypocrisy III
talking economy while captaining Muir
phys gang of tax eaters@tand prints a
summary of his record as a lawyer and
as a judge:
During the campaign good deal has
been said concerning the dizziness of Mr..
McCalrs moral perceptions, as shown
by his record when on the bench ana ms
Willingness to be Murphy's handy man.
A strong case can be made concerning
the paucity of his intellectual equipment.
None but stupid man would dare TO
presume that the real estate brokers dld-
not know what body spreads the assess
mentS
New York. in it's political struggles.
has had many exhibitions OF demaeogy,
but nothing more disgusting than the
display of this former Judge as he has
talked economy in general terms while
he captained Murphy's gang of tax eat
ers. Taxes are high because Iammany
ideas still prevail The money for Tam
many contractors and grafters comes
ont of the people. Tammany, as has so
often been said. represents merely an or
ton that feeds on the workers. It rs
necessarily opposed to efficiency and
Edward f. Mccall knows all these
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than have ever been mentioned in the
newspapers. for he has been on intimate
terms with the inner group of iooters.
He knows how Croker and Murphy
gained their millions. Yet he is impudent
enough in his demagogy to talk econo-
my and to decry extravaganza. II rs as
If Captain Kidd, on his way to seize
prize mad preached to his crew concern
ing the sin of stealing.
When he was lawyer he was an as
s s9sats Of ooo Anay Wha Charles ns
Hughes thought of Mccall as a lawyer
clearly appears in the text of the in
surance report. Then Murphy. put him
on the bench. Whether he paid for the
place, and. if so, how much, is not yet
established. But no one denies that ne
was a Murphy made judge 1t is pos
brother, who was most generous in CIV
ing other peoples money to polltlcai
committees.
After nearly a weeks rumination and
careful searching of mis- memory. Mr.
Mccall denies that he ever paid any
thing for his Supreme Court nomination,
or authorized any one to pay for MIN.
and that he has any knowledge of any
money having been paid. But ne ad-
mits that when a candidate for judge. in
| 1902 he contributed to the campaign
| fund fthe exact sum he does not recalD,
| and that he was the attorney of lnspec-
tor Mclaughlin, one of the inner circle
| of the Police Department; that ne re-
ceived money from him, and that he ap-
| AS Murphymade Judge Mccall did
| what such Judges are expected to do.
| He distributed his judicial patronage
among hangers-on Of Tammany Hall
| When Murphys friend Donohue, one OF
| the Mccall nominators at the Delmonico
conference. was assailed touching the
| riGhtfulness Of his possession of "a dock
privilege. for which he was paying $3.50
| Il. year when IL was worth many times
| that month, he held up a decision for
four years and FIVE months. 1t is not
| strange Donohue agreed with Murphy
| that ii would not do to renominate
Mayor Gayner and that Mccall was the
man for him.
To other searching questions put to
| him the mueh-worried former judge
makes no reply. He does not explain
the Donohue business-of how II hap
| pened that he held up for nearly five
years. in the interest of Tammany $
treasurer, a decision in the city''s favor
IN the bathhouse matter. Het doAx not
show that the singing rebuke of him by
the Appellate Division was unjust,fied
Nor does he show that the excoriating
survey of his activities when he was the
associate of Andy" Hamilton. from the
pen of Charles e. Hughes, was unfair
and unwarranted.