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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-02-22

before the leases expire there is little
doubt. They were picked with shrewd
judgment There was something noble
to paraphrase Macaulay's tribute TO an
other great statesman-in the cynical dis
dam with which the mighty Ccmmis-
sioucr scattered riches and titles right
and left among those who valued them,
while he spurned them out Of his own
way.
Murphy was disclosed in the Van Wyck
scandal of 1901 to have fVc hundred
shares of the stock Of the American Ice
Company. which enioy ed extensive pier
facilities from the Murphy Dock Board
but. Of course. when man can afford To
buy stocks its his business what stocks
he prefers.
H. May. 1902. Murphy was made sole
boss Of Tammdny. and since that time
has lived only for the public. lie has die
tated what nominations should or should
not be made-so the people might not
make plumbers that they would he sure
olrecrct.
He has selected ahead Of time. SO there
need be no undue crowdlng and rush at
the last minute, the peoples candidates
FOR legislators. for congressman, for
Judges. lie has not hcsitatcd 10 counsel
legislators and congressman how they
should discharge their public duties.
He Withdrew Governor the people
placed i'm the chair after discovering his
mistake in deciding TO place him there.
His devotion TO his party has known n
bounds
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-02-22

banded together 10 work for reacuon'
to endeavor TO overthrow and discredll
all who honestly administer the law, and
TO secure return to the days when every
interruptions wrongdoer could do what he
wished unchecked provided he had
enough money. They attack you because
they know your honesty and fcarlessness
and dread them. The enormous sums OF
money these men have at their cohtrV'
enable them to carry on an effective
campaign They find their tools IN a por-
ton of the public press. including espe-
cially certain Of the great New YORK
ncvspapers They find their agents IN
some men in public lfc-now and then DC
cupving or having occupied positions as
high as Senator or GovcrnOr-in some
men in the pulpit, and most melancholy
Of all in a few men on the bench. hH
gifts to colleges and universities they are
occasionally able TO Subsidizc in their own
interest some head Of an educational
body, who save only a Judge should ct
all men he most careful To keep his skirts
clear from the faint Of such corruption
There are ample material rewards for
those who serve with fidelity the mammon
Of unrighteOusness, but they are dearly
paid for by that institution of learning
whose head. by example and precept'
teaches the scholars who sit under him
that there is one law for the rich ana
another for the poor. The amount oi
money the representa- tiVes OF the great
moneyed interests are willing to spend
can be gagged by their recent publication
broadcast throughout the papers of tins
country from the Atlantic 10 the Pacific
Of huge advertisements, attacking with
envenomed bitterness the administration
policy Of warning against successful DIS
honesty advertisements that must have
cost enormous sums of money. This adj
vertisement, as also a pamphlet called
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-02-22
An Avalanche Of Contracts.

In June the new firm got contract
from the Uvaldc Asphalt COMPANY a
favored Tammany concern which enjoyed
"A practical monopoly of all the paving
done by the Murphy Gram Dock Board.
In June and July the splendid versatility
| of the Young firm was demonstrated when
it received contract for building big
tank for the Consolidated Gas Company
at 10th street and First avenue, laying
pipe lines In eth and Goth streets and
then an over the city. This helped the
truckman and former policeman ma
terially.
ut was no use for any other contractor
I iu town 10 try 10 get any work from the
Consolidated said Big Jim we had
everything in sight" 1t was the most
successful set-rich-quick concern operat-
ing within the law that the oldest inhab-
liant had seen mp TO that time.
In July the firm was presented with
lease Tor ten years, with twenty year
renewal privilege. on the pier AT West
10Th street. 5000 year. The pier pays
"a profit of $90l day.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-02-22

, where on equal terms with the best clu-
zens Of the town. The record is set DOWN
here merely 10 show the bad manners and
| peevishness of the fathers
when a common day laborer, in TWEEN
" years devoted exclusively To politics,
becomes not only a boss but also a mill
onaire. it is perfectly safe to conclude
! that he IS a thief as well as a tyrant and
an enemy to society, and. though the
statute of limitations may save him from
the penitentiary il cannot protect him
against the just detestation OF all honor
able men
| II was thus that the old-fasho1ed writ
or Of solid for Mulhooly" expressed him
self before Murphy was known outside
! his bsrroom.
| with the sudden display o. wealth.
Murphy was annoyed by disposition on
| the part of newspapers and magazines to
ascertain its source AS a result OF ex-
posures Murphy sued THE Broadway
Magazine" for libel but the case was
discontinued He also brought circulation
to The katonah ~. " Times by SUING
IL for libel because that paper called him
"A thug That suit also was discontinued.
As a witness before the legislative COM
mittee which investigated the gas com
panics several years ago Murphy denied
any ownership or interest in the New
York Contracting and Trucking Company
No records could be found at that time
that Charles T. Murphy had an interest
i'm those companies, although those who
inquired were convinced that he was Of
aid 10 those companies IN obtaining con-
tracts from The city.
The reform city government. after an
Investigation. deprived Murphy in 1896 Of
the use OF the pier at East list street.
In 1905 the people voted s50.0ooeoo to be
used IN the construction Of compre
hcnsive system Of state roads, totallinS
II $50 miles. Every dollar OF that colossal
fund was expended long ago. and all that
the state has TO show for the vast outlay
il a total of more or less improved high
ways representing only little more than
third OF the promised mileage.
When the Highways Commission. Great
ed by Governor Dix, went into office. In
/ july. 1911 there remained of this high
ways fund s25.ocoOco \ year later there
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-02-22

was left-NOTHfNG. Investigation of
the Murphy-Dx Highways Department
revealed:
That the department had been turned
into huge political machine.
That its payrolls were crowded with the
names OF men whose only business Is po-
litical work for the "Halr' In their re-
spective districts.
That many construction contracts
showed mysterious changes. effected by
supplemental agreements increasing
the profits OF the work
That specifications were so arranged as
10 give great volumes of business to GER
tain favored firms and to destroy compe-
tition
That certain patented materials re-
ceivod strange consideration in form of
big royalties and under conditions of
sinister significance.
That every guard against fraud and
trickery created by the Hughes Highway
Commission had been discarded.
And yet Murphy, with all the smooth
neck and rough neck Tammany army at
his back. with his Room ''2l2.' his suite
at Delmonico's. his shirt studded with
translucent pearls and his noble limbs
drapcd with the best fitting trousers In
the state was unable TO give Dix the re-
nomination that was coming TO him. our
political "Gamalel" nominated MIR Sui
ger. There was something i'm the papers
about Mr.. Suzer last summer which went
to prove that boss who can look yellow
at Baltimore can be AS brave as lion
when his power over corporations and
state and city departments Is threatened
by n bombastic Governor OF TIE oratori-
cal type. Murphy has never attached
much Importance 20 oratory. The stand
ard of ability in this and other lines es-
tablished by him rs the requisite for per
sonsl favor is perhaps lower than IL ever
was in the history OF Tammany Hall.
In the fall of 1871 IL was alleged that
there were more than 90 personal follow
ers Of Murphy who lived In his Assembly
district and had jobs under the city gov
eminent. Their salaries. all told, amount
cd TO more than 10000 "A year. II the
fusion statlsticians were correct.
Whatever the result of District Attor-
ncy Whitman's much heralded investisa-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-02-22
The CoIonel's Own Side of the Case and \
Attitude as Regards "Fligh Flnance" and
Big Bushes" Are Pretty thorough
ly Given in Letter to Attorney
General Bonaparte

majority stockholders They ar. "A !.
titled 10 the slightest pity II they a
erately choose TO resign into the aanS. !
great wronSdoers the control OF TIA III
yorations in which they own the "a.
OF course innocent people have b.ou.,
involved IN these big corporations n.
suffer because Of the misdeeds Of ~.
criminal associates. l.cr these iuno<ur.
people be careful not TO invest in On,
rations where those in control are l.
men of probity. men who reslss b
laws: above all let them avoid the -
who make It their one effort 20 eyzds
defy the laws But II these honest. -
cent people are I'm the majority II =
corporation they can immediately re-
control and throw out Of the drectosn
the men who misrepresent them.
Does any man for a moment su,er
that the majority stockholders q q
Standard oil are others than Nr. Roo
Teller and his associates themselves q
the benehciaries OF their wroagisz
When the stock is watered 50 that q
innocent investors suffer. grave vrz@
is indeed done 10 these innocent hs1|
ors as well as TO the public; but The -
lie men. lawyers and editors. TO vton(
refer. do not under these clrcunszx1
express sympathy for the innoceri 4
the contrary they are the first to 81
test with frantic vehemence aga!nR 4
efforts by law 20 put a stop to n
Capitalization and stock-waterins
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-02-22
THE MEN WHO CLOG THE
WHEELS OF JUSTICE.

These lawyers and their employers are
the men mainly responsible for this
state of things, and their responsibility
is shared with the legislators VINO inge-
niously oppose the passing of Just and
effective laws, and with those judges
whose one aim seems 10 be to construe
such laws 50 that they cannot be exc
cuted. Nothing is sillier than this out
cry on behalf of the innocent stock
holders in the corporations. We are be-
sought TO pity the Standard Oil Company
for a fine relatively far less ereat than
the fines every day inflicted i'm the police
courts upon multtudes OF pushcart ped
lcrs and other petty offenders whose
woes never eXtort one word from the
men whose withers are wrung by the
woes of the mighty. The stockholders
have the control of the corporation in
their own hands. The corporation officials
are elected by those holding the majority
of the stock and can keep office only by
having behind them the good will OF these
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-02-22
Continued from third page.

.,,r,,o No asl Avenue A. house 40.
,.s. Ml Ees' i',n IF liquors. No Sec
md avenue. 80. 81 Avenue a. house,
No. ~ Eas, @lsi su i,l.,,-s M 3t5 Sec
ond avenue 30 3Si Avenue A. house
,,oo No. ~ ~, IA iouors No a45 sec
ond avenue 40. Ss1 Avenue A. house,
No " E ,., -lS3 lt1'ors No 245 sec
i''' cr4 sycnuc' g. 3>1 Avenue A: house.
No 32e East DIST street .,.s
Nv ca5 a[cnnc 40 asl Avenue A: house.
40 ~ East 2ist street ...-
1895 Murphy. ,h"f,ss Ni t,eS.,,c 6ogse.
<. gaa East 2lst street
1894 Murphy charles r. LIQUORS, No, 80 So Scg
%o soa F,s, siet street,
1895 Murphy Charles liquors, 40 90 So Se,
"" .e, East eis, street
1895 Murphy Charles +. hoicl No 'i2 -,
ono S soS ,,., Sis, e,rce,
1897 Mummy. Charles H. liquors, No 3ia Sec
ono avenue, N,. o. -. ~
zoos ST;r ,iPIi CHARLES H.. Commissioner.
house No 3n East lIih street ,.,..-
lN's NIL KFi ~, ~, ta., i'm street.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-02-22
Hon CHARLES J.
BONARARTE
ArTORNET GENERAL
OF THE us. UNDER
THEODORE ROOSEVELT

The Roosevelt Panic" and one or two
similar books and pamphlets are written
especially in the interest OF the STANDARD
oil and Hartman combinations, but also
defend all the individuals and corpora
tions Of great wealth that have been
guilty Of wrOngdoiug.
From the railroad rate law to the pure
food Law. every measure for honesty IN
business that has been pressed during the
last six years has been opposed by these
men. ON its passage and in its admins
tration. with every resource that bitter
and INSCRIPTIONS craft could suggest and
the command of almost unlimited money
secure These men do not themselves
speak or write: they hire others to DO
their bidding. Their spirit and purpose
are made clear alike by the editorials oil
the papers owned in or whose policy is
dictated by Wall STREET. and by the
speeches Of public men who, as Senators,
Governors or Mayors, have served these
their masters to the cost Of the PLAN
people
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-02-22
ILLEoALlTY OR MORAL TURPl
tube.

Among the big corporations Themselves
even where they do wrong. there was &
wide difference in the moral obiquiiy I'M
dictated hy tho Wrougdoer. There was a
wide distinction between the offences
committed in tho case of the Northern
Securities Company and the offences be-
cause Of which the Sugar Trust. the To-
hacco Trust and the Standard oil Trust
were successfully prosecuted under m,
administration II was vital to destroy
tho Northern Securities COMPANY but
the men creating it had done so IN oren
and aboyeboard fashion. acting under
what they and most Of the members Of
the bar thought 10 be the law cstao-
Nshed by the supreme Court in The
Knight sugar case But the Supreme
Court in its decree dissolWng the Stand
ard oil and Tobacco trusts. condemned
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-02-22

ton Of Murphy's bankbook ~
OF Murphy as modern pohuos'
shown itself in the last year.
seemed that everything ana e'v
had united to destroy him al on
elected a Governor whom his a.
had to impeach. lie picked . 49,
for Mayor who could not enes
blight OF his nominstor's repus
the exilcd bosss opinion Is
lost the Assembly for his party -
s,ill remains i'm control OF DeIno1
fairs in the state next fall nc ~
the state election. But "TaninA" -
things 10 many men. II IS a e
association. distributing SHOES -
and stimulants on the eve Of ~
pa, ing the rent and filling the 49,
poor widows with SONS OF the W.
1T is a military Establishment
on a war footing. with its cap'' 49,
and captains of nifty. ana w
never relaXes.
But most Of all Tsmmsny y =,
educational institution whe'." ~
cret OF popular government n' - !
mystery of government oil '"' ,,,r
the people. is unfolded TO inc
Through long and arduos ~, n
years Murphy has been inc -
of this seat of learning
learned much, with the Prsside" y
IN of,,ce by his nod. with the
elected in his strongest province
of him and the exiled posi- -
~ . ya;nst him in the public prin's .,,
struction seemed at hand 80
DAYS Of hours only. a eonno'a no
S adsn NJ nublic awaited the crash -
Tn. great leaders Of the -
party solemnly pronounced wv -
The way to uplir the
party is county autonomy
~ shall be very glad to sid ~, =
fort to uplift the party ~
word" replied the culpr' T"
County autonomy" :.
Tina, suits murphy and hi. - J
because the good old r LA.
Sufiiceth them. the si"p ~
That they should take W"
power. 40
And they should keep "n'
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-02-22
No Vulgar Display Of the Sugar"

And Murphy was modest lie made NJ
display of his wealth and lived in small
house at No. 305 East 18th street. but he
acquired "A large and valuable estate at
Good Ground. Long Island and purchased
the house AT No 500 East 18th street.
He assembled kennel of bulldogs and an
armed guard. bought diamonds and auto
mobiles. erected the highest windmill on
Long Island and began To put ON flesh.
lie speculated freely i'm the market, with
q private office in the Mutual Life lnsur-
ance Building. in Nassau street. as the
scene Of his operations.
Twenty-Five years ago they used coarser
language than they do now when refer
ring ito successful bosses. Everybody
knows II cannot apply TO our present
breed of bosses They are accepted every
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-02-22
Bio Contracts for Brother Jack.

For instance, contracts began 10 come
TO the new Grm--thc New York Contract
ing and Trucking Company-rapidly II
got more business from the CVal1c As
phslt Company. more from the Barber
Asphalt Company. contracts from tho L.
high Valley Railroad Company. Murphy
devoted some attention 10 tho public 5
welfare by elcctins a full Tanmany
Board of Aldermen and 4 Tammany
Mayor in 1895. And Brother Jacks con
tracing firm continued To jump 10 the
front rank leaving the Crimminsos. the
Naughton Contracting Company and all
the veterans nowhere I'm fact. after
Murphy was I'm charge of every branch
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-02-22
BY Theodore Roosevelt.

II HAVE coupled the cases OF the hi-
banker and tho Sugar Trust official
n and the case Of the man convicted
,r n criminal assault ON woman. All
of the criminals were released from pcn-
Tertiary sentences ON grounds oil DID
health. Tie offences were typical of the
worst crimes committed al Tho two crds
eff Tho social scale ono offence was
crime of brutal violence. the other Of
fences were crimes of astutc corruption
All Of them We're offences which i'm my
Judgment were of such character thH
,lcmoncy toward the offender worked
grave Injustice to the community as a
whole injustice SO grave that its effects
might bo farreachins I'm their damage
Every time that rape cor criminal as
sauit ON a woman is pardoucd. and any
thing less than the full penalty ar the
law cXacted. q premium is put ON the
practice OF lyuchirg such offenders.
Every time big money offender VINO
naturally cxcites interest and sympathy
and who has many friends. is excused
from serving sentence which man OF
less prominence and fewer friends would
have 10 serve. justice is discreditod in the
ewes of plain people and to undermine
faith I'm Justice is TO strike at the founda-
lion of the Republic As for il health. II
must he remembered that few people are
as healthy IN prison as they would be
outside. and there should he no dis
elimination among criminals on this
score. either all criminals who grow IN
healthy should be let out. or none Par
dou- must sometimes be given in order
that tho cause of justice may be served :
but n cases such as these J am consid-
cliuc. while J know that many amiabio
people differ from me. ] am obliged 10
say that i'm my judgment The pWdons
work farrcachine harm TO the cause of
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-02-22

former policeman. known as Big jim"
was running "A small trucking business in
East 18th street
ON May 1. 1901, Big Jim and Brother
Jack suddenly branchcd out in a way
that surprised every one acquainted with
their modest professions. With Richard
.C Croker they became incorporators Of
the New York Contracting and Trucking
For1pany
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-02-22

every honest railroad. and has hurt only
the railroads that regarded themselves
a. above the law. At another time, one
Of them assails the administration Tor
not imprsoning people under the Sher-
man antitrust law: for declining TO
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-02-22
TIE LETTER TO ATTORNEY GEN
ERAL BONAPARTE.

However. all the trusts and big cor
porations against which We proceedcu-
which included i'm their directories pldc-
ucauv all the biggest hnancicrs M the
country Joined i'm making the bitterest
assaults on me and on my administla-
ton. OF their actions ] wrote as follows
Ia Attorney General Bonaparte, who had
been "A peculiarly close friend and ADVISER
through the period covered by my puhnc
life in high Office. and who together with
Attorney General Moody, possessed Inc
same understanding sympathy with my
social and industrial programme that was
possessed boy such officials as Straus,
Garfield. H. Is. Smith and Pinchot- Tine
letter runs in part:
January ,, 1908.
My dear Bonaparte
must congratulate YOU on Your ad-
mirable speech At Chicago. You SAID the
very things it was good to say at TINS
time What YOU said bore especial weight
because il represented what YOU had
done. You have shown by what you have
actually accomplished that the law IL
enforced against the wealthiest corpora
ton and the richest and most powerlu'
manager or manipulation OF that corpora
ton lust as resolutely and fearlessly as
against the humbest citizen. Tho De
partmont Of Justice is now in very fact
the Department Of Justice. and justice is
melted out with an even hand to great
and small rich and poor. weak ana
strong. Those who have denounced YOU
and the action of the Department of Jus
ticc arc either misled or else they are
tho very wrougdocrs and the agents OF
the very wrongdoers who have for 80
many years gone scOt-free and fiouted the
! laws with impunity. Above all, you are
/ 10 be congratulated upon the bitterness
, felt and expressed toward YOU by the rep
rescntatives and agents of the great law
dcfvinc corporations Of immense wealth,
who. until within the last half-dozen
years. have treated themselves and have
expected others to treat them as being
beyond and above all possible check from
/ law.
IT was time TO say something. for the
representatives OF predatory wealth, OF
wealth accumulated on giant scale by
! iniquity 10y wrongdoing in many FORMS
By plain swipdinG, by depressing wage
workers. by manipulating securities by
unfair and unwholesome competition ana
bv stock jobbng. i'm short 10y conduct
abhorrcnt to every man Of ordinarily de-
G. Mt conscience, have during the last few
months made II evident that they are
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-02-22
MOUTHPIECES OF THE BIG COR
PORATIONS.

At one time one OF their writer's or
Sneakers attacks ;he rate law as the
cause of the panic he is whether i'm
public life or not. usually clever cor
poration lawyer. and he is not so tooilsh
a being as to believe in the truth or
what he says: he has too closely repre-
scented the railroads not To know well
that the Hepburn rate bill has helped
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-02-22

make " hat he well know :. in view OF the
actual attitude OF juries (as shown in
tho tobacco trust cases and in san Fran
cisco in one 90 two of the cases brought
against corrupt business mem. wouid
have been the futile endeavor TO I'M
d. ison defendants whom we are actually
allie to fine He raises the usual clamor'
raised by all who object To the enforce
ment Of the law. that We are timing cor
uorations instead OF putting the heads
of the corporations in jail; and he states
that this does not really harm the chieI
offenders We're this statement true he
himself would not be found attacking Us.
The extraordinary violence Of the as
sault upon our policy contained III
speeches like these. in the articles in the
subsidized press. in such huge adver-
tisements and pamphlets as those above
referred TO. and the enormous sums OF
money spent in these various ways, give
a fairly accurate measure Of the anger
and terror which our actions have caused
the corrupt men of vast wealth TO feel
| i'm the very marrow Of their being.
The man thus attacking US is usually
like so many OF his fellows. either a
great lawyer or paid editor who takes
his commands from the tnanciers ana
his arguments from their attorneys II
the former. he has defended many male
| factors and he knows well that. thanks
| TO the advice of lawyers like himself,
certain kind of modern corporation has
been turned into an admirable ipstru-
ment by which TO render it wellnig
impossible to get at the really guilty
| man. so that in most cases the only way
of Furnishing the wrong is by inning the
corporation or by proceeding personally
! against some of the minor agents.