The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1920-08-19
new YORK is UNIFIED
IN FIGHT ON TAMMANY
Colonel Hayward Flags Control Of City
and State by Murphy, PrOphe.
sizes Overthrow.

WaShihSton, aug. 10. - new fOrK
state is safely Republican, as the re-
suit of developments during and since
the Saratoga convention, according to
reports received in congressional cir
cles.
1t is believed that the Republican
convention placed a strong ticket in
the field, that antipathy to further con-
troy of the state by Tammany will pre-
vent the reelection of Governor Smith,
that the extreme unpopularity of the
Wilson administration will gain many
Democratic votes, and that the entire
State will be swept in by a majority of
upwards of 100000, with the result, as
Job Hedges has said, that the Repub-
licans next March will inaugurate and
not annoint a President.
Colonel William Hayward, who led
negro regiment to France during the
war, has this to say of New York
politics:
Much the same lack of vision on
the part Of our Democratic opponents,
much of the same opportunism and
| quack doctrine is in evidence in their
leadership in New York state as in
the nation. The Democratic party is so
| divided on national Issues it was ne
cessary for President Wilson and the
new nominee, Governor Cox, to resort
to that secret diplomacy Mr.. Wilson
so abhors, and to have closed-door
conference, followed by cryptic state
ments that they are in perfect accord.
This in lieu of the open covenants
openly arrived at Mr.. Wilson has SO
long prated about.
I'm the state the disagreements have
gone even further. Every Tammany
official damns every other Tammany
official. The great Democratic editor
damns the Tammany Governor. The
Tammany Mayor damns the Tammany
Public Service Commissioner, the ap-
pointee of the Tammany Governor,
who damns the Mayor in return. The
Tammany District Attorney and the
Tammany Police Department accuse
each other of all the crimes in the
category, The Tammany Comptroller
damns the Tammany Mayor and the
Tammany Chamberlain, and is by
themned in return. And each gives
competent and material facts to prove
the truth of his assertions.
"The Importance of all this to the
people of the state lies nthe fact that
in these accusations those officials are
nearer right than they have ever been
in their public lives before because OF
the peculiarly intimate knowledge they
have Of each other. It is expert testi-
mony, the truth of which we admit. 1t
is one league, League of Damna-
tions,' that the Republican party rati-
fies without reservations.
"But because they are washing their
| indescribably dirty linen in public now
, does not mean the will not present a
t solid front when the time comes to
open another grab-bag,
"The people of the state know Tam
many Hall. 1t was never greater
: power than 1t Is today. So low has the
Democratic party fallen in state and
t nation that not only has Tammany
placed Alfred B. Smith in the Execu.
e tive Mansion, not only will it try to dc
: so again, but 1t loudly proelaims that
1t nominated Cox as the Democratic
t candidate for the presidency.
"That is only one side of the Tam.
many menace. Beyond that is the in.
tegrity of our electoral franchise
Never before today have we faced
such disturbing condition.
"This year for the first time in the
history of the City of New York, Tam
many Is in control of all the election
machinery. There is Tammany Gov
!. ernor, Tammany superintendent O
elections, a Tammany District Atttor
ney, Tammany Mayor, and Tam
many Police Commissioner,
at is warning and portent o
what we may expect. 1t is an add
tional reason to girl on our armor an,
flpht for the nartv of nrincinla0