The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-09-27
BARNES AND
 MURPHY HIT
 HARD BY I. R.
He Likens Them To PrOfeS- sionaI Prize Fighters In
 Rochester Address.
rHARGES THEY ARE
 OUT FOR THE COIN
They Are Ready At All Times He Says To Work On Per Centage Basis 60 To
 Winner, 70 To Loser.

Rochester, N. Y, Sept. 27-In an address before the state committee of the National Progressive Party ,Fere today. Col Roosevelt declared that in the election in New York state this fall, 'the dominant concern o1 the people should be to prevent ram many from, obtaining complete con trol of the state,'' and that ito th1s inc 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 leg1s- iIature pledged to the carrying out oI progressive policies In voting against israunany candidates, however, Col. Roosevelt urged the voters to sup mort the Progressive Party candidates to the end that they might defeat fTammany without enthroning the place
 .aThis year." the. Colonel said, there are four matters of supreme political importance for decision be- fore the people of this common wealth The first, the election of an iazEernt,Iv. stands by itself. The other three are: first, the attempted i'm ipeachment 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
 1.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, Col Roosevelt said=
 saThe whole career of MT. Barnes and his little Tammany at Albany warrants us in assuming with certain. ty that he lacks only the opportunity ito do the same kind of thing which iAIr Murphy is now doing at the head of Tammany. MT. Barnes and MT. Murphy each is down at bottom the natural inevitable ally of the other. In the last resort, 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 partially and periodically divided with the other as the next ibest thing to control absolutely in his own hands.
 Murphy and Barnes occupy the position not infrequently taken by a tcoupIe of veteran prizefighters who Hollow their Nprofession purely as a business and travel around the coun- try fighting for the gate receipts, { which they divide on the basis of 60 percent to the winner and 40 per cent to the loser. Sometimes they fight on the level, sometimes they un- tders4and in advance which is to win but they are units in their resolute 1nsistence that the public is to have mo share in the proceedings except to furnish the gate receipts.
 Tn the political arena, Murphy and Barnes are merely fighting for the governmental gate receipts-the gov iernorships. the mayoraIties, the leg iisIat1ve offices, the control of the ca nals, the prisons and the highways icontr1buted by the people of New York They are delighted to manage ltheir business on 50 percent and 40 percent basis, each in turn getting jfhe winners or losers end, just so long as the people submit to their dom- ,fnfon and continue the foolish prac- ,tfce of never punishing either except by putting the other in power"
 Regarding the judiciary, Col 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 tu- dicial question of social and economic reform, who were permitted to make themselves irresponsible lawmakers on the most vital subjects.
 After emphasizing that the Progress give party was waging war against 'tcorrupt machines" Col Roosevelt said:
 "'At this moment that which con- rains the most of menace to all our state Is Tammany Hall In New York City we progressives are doing all that we can to elect a non-partisan ticket headed by a truly progressive Demo- crat Q tried and excellent public ofh- ciaI. John Purroy Mitchell so as to keep the municipal government out of the control Of Tammany Hall and make 1t an instrument not only for securing honesty in municipal affairs but for bettering the living and work ing conditions of the men and women who toll with their hands.
 Tn the same fashion, we battle against Tammany Hall but in the gov ernorship fight because Tammany Hall Is attacking the governor, not for what because since election he has stood for All the matters now produced before the court of impeachment were well known to the leaders of Tammany Hall at the time they were calling Governor Sulzer a second Andrew Jackson They remained silent about them until the governor refused to take his orders from the boss of Tam many Hall The real reason for the governors impeachment may not come before the body now trying him. But these real reasons, these real charges, yuust be passed upon by the people.
 "Our opponents have been fond of [ aying that against the nasty pro- esses.' of pure Democracy which they .s ssert we advocate. they believe in the ..cautious processes of representative rovernment' We'll look at what has
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