Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1916-01-03
MURPHY
CELEBRATES HIS
10TH BIRTHDAY
Employees of Murphy Varnish
Co. TO Be His Guests at Res
idenoe Tonight.

Former Governor Franklin Murphy
celebrated his seventieth birthday to-
day by remaining at home with his
family and receiving scores of mes
sages OF congratulation which came
by messenger, mail and telephone
from friends near and far,
When asked whether any Com
mittee of One Hundred news was to
be had he replied Il have not been
thinking much about the Committee
of One Hundred today, except that !
have not forgotten last Friday and
won't forget it very soon. | am not
working today because j am seventy
years old and am enjoying myself
thoroughly with my family. Tonight
all the employees from the factory of
the Murphy Varnish Company will
be here in honor of the birthday, and
tomorrow I'll start work again.
Mr.. Murphy has consented to re-
main as a member of the Committee
of One Hundred. He was waited
upon last Friday afternoon by COM
mittee consisting of Uzal II. McCar-
ter, Mayor Thomas l.. Raymond,
Rabbi Solomon Foster, Supreme
Court Justice Irancis J, fswayze
and Augustus V. Hamburg
The call was subsequent to
the special meeting of the Com
mittee of One Hundred and which
went on record as opposed to Mr..
Murphy withdrawing from the com
mittee. Mr.. Murphy had rendered
his resignation in reply to criticism
by the Newark Evening News.
In presenting the request of the
Committee of One Hundred to the
former State executive, Mr.. Raymond
said MIR. Murphy's duty was to re-
main at the head of the committee.
Without Mr.. Murphy at the head of
the affairs the mayor predicted that
the coming celebration would not be
success. 1t was frankly said by
Justice Swayze that if Governor
Murphy pressed the acceptance of his
resignation the committee would be
dlsorganized. He pointed TO the fact
that Forest f. Dryden had resigned,
presumably in view of recent occur
rences and criticism.
The fact that the committee placed
the question squarely up to the gov
ernor as civic duty impressed Mr..
Murphy. He said II have thorough
ly enjoyed the work, and since you
have placed it up TO me as a duty
feel that l should not shirk."
Mayor Raymond received the fol-
lowing letter from Mr.. Murphy:
My Dear Mr.. Mayor:
Since the call Of yourself and your
associates this afternoon, | have had
opportunity to read In the papers the
reports of the remarks made this morn
ing at the meeting of the Committee of
One Hundred which was called to ex-
mr. a in inF nm nv n q a
member of that committee.
! feel that | am quite unworthy Of
many of the compliments that were paid
me, but ] should be ungrateful indeed If
/ did not respond to request made with
such unusual expressions of confidence
and good will. Nor should ! fail to say
that these expressions, impulsiye as they
doubtless were, and exaggerated as / feel
many Of them to be, we're so full of
genuine belief in me that they come as
a full reward for the service already
rendered and beget an inspiration to
greater devotion In the days that are
AS / told you this afternoon, will
withdraw my resignation and so far as
the committee is concerned will continue
to act as If it had not been written.
! shall ask your permission to give
this letter to the press In order that /
may say. through its publication, to all
my associates on the Committee of One
of the wound of Tuesday shall have
entirely disappeared, the memory of
today's meeting of the committee will
remain as one of the treasured experiences
of my life.
Perhaps / should say no more. am
tempted to speak of the ignoble uses of
great power, but | refrain. ! prefer
rather to try to forget and to think
that man / had considered my friend
had in an untoward hour been beset by
an hallucination that led him to make a
mistake-a mistake that the public In its
sense of fairness resents and that he,
hope, already regrets. Sincerely yours.
FRANKLIN MURPHY.
Hon. Thomas T.. Raymond,
Mayor of Newark.
Newark, N. j., Dec. 81, 1915.