New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-07-23
ROOSEVELT WILL
VOTE FOR HINWAN
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TO the honor and the interest OF
the American people.
But in this state the prime duty
is a good citizens movement, a
union movement. to save the state
from The bipartisan control Of
Barnes and Murphy, precisely like
the good citizens movement last
year 'rhcn by union the city was
saved from the domination Of Mr..
Murphy. ! hope with all my heart
that all independent citizens,
whether Progressives, Republicans
or Democrats in their national af-
fiiations, will stand shoulder 10
shoulder for clean. non-partisan
government in the state at large
this fall.
In New York we sec at it, worst
the development Of the system OF
bipartisan boss rule. The outcome
of this sytem is necessarily that
invisible government which the
Progressive party was in large
part founded 10 oppose. 1t Is i'm
possible TO secure the economic,
social and industrial reforms TO
which we arc pledged until this
invisible government Of the party
bosses working through the alli-
ance between crooked business
and crooked politics is rooted out
Of our governmental system.
Hits Barnes and Murphy.
In New York State the two po-
litical machines arc completely
dominated, the one by Mr..
Barnes, the other by Mr.. Murphy.
The state government - rotten
throughout in almost all its depart
ments, and this is directly due 70
the dominance in politics Of Mr..
Murphy and his sUb-bosses, acting
through such entirely subscrvient
agents as Governors Dix ard
Glynn. aided and abetted when
necessary by Mr.. Barnes and the
sub bosses of Mr. Barnes.
Mr.. Murphy and Mr.. Barnes are
of exactly the same moral and pc
litical type. Not one shadow OF
good comes from substituting one
for the other in the control of our
government. Not one shadow OF
good comes from perpctuating
governmental seesaw, with first
one of them and then the other
at the upper end Of the plank,
while the function of the people
Of the state is limited TO serving
as the trestle across which the
plank is laid.
The interests OF Mr.. Barnes and
Mr.. Murphy are fundamentally
identical, and when the issue be
tween popular rights and corrupt
and machine ruled government is
clearly drawn, the two bosses will
always be found fighting on the
same side openly or covertly, Civ
ing one another such support as
can with safety be rendered.
These bosses do not hold public
Office themselves. They act through
the holders of public Office whom
they control. Yet they really
form the all-powerful invisible
government which is responsible
for the maladministration and
corruption in the public Offices OF
the state.
Evil OF Double Dealing.
b. means of elected officers
whose negatively good personal
character offers little surface
ground for attack, and whose fun
damental weakness or insinccrity
and double dealing render them
fit instruments through whom the
machine masters can work. these
machine masters secure the ap-
pointment to Office of the evil men
whose activities so deeply faint
and discredit our whole govern
mental system.
The election Of the man who -
the agent of the boss is equally
detrimental 10 the public intcrc1;,
whether he be Mr.. Dix, Mr.. Glynn
or Mr.. Mccall, on the one side, or
Mr.. Whitman or Mr.. Wadsworth
on the other. ask the plain PEG
ple to take note Of the fact TINT
the newspapers which nomlnallY
oppose the bosses between cleo
tions, but usually support the car
didates Of the bosses at elections,
arc at the moment engaged IN sup
porting MI nlliHdn lH tue lHttl-
est Of Mr.. Barnes, exactly as four
years ago they supported Mr.. Dix
in the interest OF Mr.. Murphy;
these newspapers did the work "
one boss four years ago, and they
arc doing the work Of the other
bosses to-day.
1t il idle for man 10 pretend
that he Us against machine politics
unless he viii. with stralghtfor-
ward good faith, openly and oy
name attack Mr. Barnes and Mr..
Murphy and pledge himself to do
sll he can to eliminate them from
the control Of political affairs. ard
in destroying them 70 destroy the
system which renders possible such
pcrnicious activities rs theirs. And
Mr.. lIlnman. with the courage
which one would expect from his
record and from his high and fin"
character. has come forward and
rendered this service.
Time 10 Overthrow Bosses.
Surely the time o. ripe when al
good citizenl. no matter what their