New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-10-27
SULzER FLAYS MURPHY
TO MUSIC OF Kisses
Church and Stage Join in 40.
pIauding Deposed Governor
at New York Theatre.
STORY OF PRISON GRAFT
Tammany Defined as Criminal
Conspiracy to Loot City
and Stumbling Block
to Progress.

The Church and the stage met yes,.r.
day in an interdenominationa service
conducted by the Rev. Madison c. Peters
at the New York Theatre, and their meet.
ing incidentally gave William Sulzer AN
! opportunity to whip Murphy around the
oratorical stump after the clergyman had
finished his address on health marriages
eugenics and kindred subjects.
Mr.. Peters's address was mainly in
praise of the play 1.-THE Blindness 4,
Virtue" while Sulzer stuck pretty Close
to his text Of why Murphy took his lob
as Governor away from him.
There was considerable more politics
than religion in evidence at the gathering
Mr.. Peters said he would hold similar ser.
vices each Sunday, the first part consist
ing Of church music and his address, while
the second part would be an open peoples
forum.
Next Sunday he said, John Purroy
Mitchell would speak before the religious
service, while Edward z. Mccall would
speak afterward. When this announce.
ment was made there were rounds Of ao-
plause for Mitchell and volleys of Kisses
for Mccall.
Sulzer, when he rose TO speak, was
greeted with his usual need Of cheers
He took up the prison graft discovered At
Great Meadow by his special investigator,
George w. Blake whetting the appetites
or his hearers by saying he was going to
tell something that had not yet been told
"As the result OF Mr. Blakes investiga-
TONS" he said, I'VE obtained enough evil
dence TO indict those who had been graft
ing there. ! tell you We obtained enough
evidence that OF the s1,S0O,O00 the people
paid TO build a prison more than $4,000
was stolen by Tammany politicians and
contractors.
1--WE placed this evidence in the hands
of the Attorney General and told him to
prosecute them. He promised TO do So
but he never did, because Murphy called
him Off"
Sulzer then told how he called to him
the young District Attorney OF Washing
ton County. and. after asking him If he
were honest and could resist temptation,
and being assured that he could, he told
him TO go ahead and get those thieves.
AS Eoon as Murphy found that out" he
continued. "he ordered his wax figures In
the Legislature TO head off Blake. They
appointed the Frawley committee, whose
members were picked by Murphy, to in
vestigate prisons, but they investigated
Blake instead, and they have hidden the
material we gathered showing graft
who is this man Murphy" the de-
posed Governor Numbered, forsaking his
notes and pacing up and Gown the stage
amid the plaudits Of the audience, mingled
with Kisses for Murphy. Upon what
meat does he feed that he is grown so
great? He works in cellars; he sneaks
into Tammany Hall, where the leaders OF
Tammany Hall come and confer with him
in whispers on things that are not al
ways within the law.
"Who is this man who can hurl from
| Office the Chief Magistrate of the greatest
state In the Union? II will take me about
one minute TO tell you Of his Legislature
that took my Office away. Twenty-seyen
members of his Senate voted that Stilwell
| is a good. honest man. That twenty
seven voted against me.
Murphy owns them BODY and soul.
member from Queens Is not even a citizen
Of the United States, one member Of the
Senate is a deserter from the United
States Navy and about one-fourth OF
them. TO my knowledge, ought to be In
prison with Stilwell"