The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1913-10-16
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structive on both sides of the line. !
Never before has legislative as
sem blage been prostituted to such /
base purposes as that to which the
New York assembly has been con-
demned by the political necessities of
Murphy and Tammany Hall
No sooner was il in session than
il began to defy public opinion. Par
tisanship ran riot. The leaders were
drunk with power. Murphy had
failed only by a small margin in
dominating a Tammany ticket for
president of the United States. He
had named a second time a Tam
1uany governor of New York. He
controlled directly, through his hire
iIgs. and through the retainers of
his ally. Barnes. both houses of the
Legislature. The power secured
ST frightened his influence over the
bench and he began to exercise that
power as soon as the assembly met.
One Judge was impeached because
OF crimes directly affecting his fit
ness for the bench He was a Tam
many judge and was promptly ac-
quilted.
a Tammany senator was arraigned
for bribery. The senate voted that
bribery did not disqualify a member
OF that body. The courts could not
pass upon that proposition, but the
impeached senator was indicted.
tried convicted and sent 10 the pen
itentiary
Then the governor refused TO di
vide the spOils in in accordance with
the necessities Of Tammany Hall.
He had necessities of his own.
Voluntarily he had assumed person
al obligations in exchange for cam
paign contributions and personal tri-
butes- He was preparing to take
care of his own household. so he
broke with Tammany.
Tammany was enraged when il
saw slipping from its control the
spoils OF victory, the offices for
which it had innumerable unfit can
didates, the contracts which it pro-
posed to distribute to its own re-
tainers. regardless of the public in
Ierests Road building is a mania in
New York. and fifty millions of dol
lars are TO be spent under the direc-
-tion Of the appointees of the COVER
nor. and tie governor refused to APP
point men satisfactory to Tammany.
The record is the most humiliat-
ing that has ever been revealed to
the public. 1t shows to what Tam
many Hall will reduce any province
over which the people extend its
power. 1t shows the character of
men that can get Tammany nomi-
nations 1t shows how little regard
Tammany Hall has for law, what
great contempt fammany assembly
has for free speech and free press.
a minister of the gospel from the
pulpit reviews the proceedings step
by step and sees i'll the record evil
dences of political conspiracy to
destroy an officer that is an obstacle
10 Tammany progress. He was sub
Donaed and required to appear be-
fore the high and mighty assembly
10 justify his belief in the existence
of corrupt conspiracy; a belief all
but universal throughout the cOun-
try.
4 witness is summoned TO testify.
He declines to answer questions
prOpounded. and every court TO
which he appeals is closed TO him.
The people of New York are told
that the authority of the assembly is
plenary and that it is delusion to
say arbitrary power exists nowhere
IN a republic.
And so the Empire state-the
greatest state in the American
Union-is shown to be the conquer
ed province of a reckless oligarchy
N which personal property is to be
seized and distributed among the re-
tanners of Tammany Hall in the face
Of popular protest. In New York
taere is an absolute failure Of rep
Eeentatiye government, the COM
yssaIe downfall of free institutions.
the notification of the Bill of Rights
Il condition of affairs as utterly ire
GeEnciable with an Americans con-
caption of good government as is the
condition OF affairs in Turkey.-St-
Petersburg Independent.
The Independent has sized Tam
naany up correctly. 1t is an organ
1zzJlon that is correctly represented
b. The emblem Of the tiger-a beast
1Esat has strength and craft but not
q single redeeming trait.
Tammany has always been for it