New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-08-23
Murphy Couldn't Have Done Fusion
Better Turn Than He Did in
Nominating MIR. Mccall.

Nominating MIR. McCall.
The choice of Edward L. Mccall as the IammalS
candidate for Mayor is welcome because it will
greatly simplify the issue in the municipal cam
.paign Murphy is either deuded enough or reckless
enough TO think that he can dispense this year with
stalking horses of the Gaynor Shepard or McOlelldn
tyne and 90 into the fight against fusion with the
naked proposition that un-sugar-coated 1annan'
rule is good enough for New York City.
Not since consolidation has Tammany offered
candidate for Mayor so near Its own hear' OF 81
kosely associated with its traditions and fortunes
kMr. Mccall stands for the old order in East -FOUR
lteenth Street, under which Tammany chieftalns
n.ra conducted the business of working for their
,o,,n nocrets all the time" Big Tom" Foley the
,ex.Sberif, is reported as having urged Mr. Mccall
nomination In this telling language I'VE want a
man of our own kind Murphy deferring to sucn
arguments and thereby departing from the prece-
dsnts Of his own leadership, has given Tam
anv the sort of candidate that Croker used to give
1t. Mr. McCalPs nomination is, in fact, reversion
10 the ideas of who's who and what's what which
were prevalent in Tammany in the days OF Grant
+Gilroy and Van Wyck
Despite the nominees personal repute, there is
nothing in his record to persuade any one that II
elected, he will not put Tammanys interests con
sistently above the interests of the community lie
would be a Tammany man first and philosophical
administrator afterward, since with politicians of
@rofpa J no prin1
political virtue is loyalty to the insiders who make
and mar careers and who pursue ''welcher" or a
traitor with the vengeful hatred with which the
gambling fraternity pursued the informer Herman
RosenthaL With Mr. Mccall as Mayor, Murphy
would never have to set the scenery for another
Sulzer Impeachment"
1t is fortunate for the cause of good government
that the boss permitted himself the luxury of turn
ing down Mayor Gaynor. AS the Tammany nominee
the Mayor would have been much more formidable
antagonist than Mr.. Mccall Notwithstanding his
many bunders and failures Mr.. Gaynor still retains
a warm spot in the hearts of multitude of New
Workers. His mistakes have been all his own, the
outcroppings Of an exubeant and irascible tempera
ment There Is streak or contrarlneSS IN MS CHAR
acter which keeps him continually in hot water but
which endears him to many who love natural
lighting man and born controversalist At least he
twas his own master and nobody else's Man Friday.
He Possesses moreover cosmopolitan spirit which
mas made powerful appeal in this cosmopolitan
city.
Turning down a candidate who might have at
ltracted thousands OF non.Tammany votes on the
pstrength of his own picturesque personality and
record for nominee who can count only on the
strength Of Tammany and the predatory interests
which serve it and which 1t argues an obscu-
traton of the shrewdness which Murphy has hitherto
.ehown as local leader. Have the Impeachment
Aof sulzer and dreams of a statewide dictatorship
added his brain? In year when Tammany meth
DDS have been uncovered In all their odiousness he
challenges public opinion to do its worst by naming
city ticket which has written all over it: Render
unto Murphy the things which are Murphys."
Only boss troubled with Thaw-like obsessions
could thus deliberately make preparations for walk
ing through slaughterhouse into an open grave