New-York tribune., 1921-08-16
End Of Secret
Murphy Rule
Held Big Issue
Smashing of Tammal,y Grip
Greatest Task Before CITY.
Says Cilroy, as Coalition
Forces Indorse Curran
Assails Vest Pocket Slate
Fusion Candidate Advises
A Against Campaign of
Exaggerated Criticis S m

Overthrow of New York City's in
visible government seated in Tammany
Hall will be the principal issue of the
forthcoming municipal campaign. This
declaration was made yesterday by
Vincent Gilroy, coalition candidate for
President of the Board of Aldermen.
Borough President Henry Curran,
coalition candidate for Mayor, and Mr.
Gilroy both spoke at meeting at the
Pennsylvania Hotel of the Coalition
Committee, sitting as a committee of
the whole to ratify the conference COM
mittee's report on the candidates select
ed to oppose Tammany Hall The rati-
ication was given unanimously and
with an accompaniment of cheers.
"The time has come to break the
sinister power built up by Charles F..
Murphy and his small coterie of lieu
tenants" said Mr.. Gilroy, who is the
son of former Mayor Gilroy. murphy
and his vicious circle of aids, who
masquerade under the name of .democ-
racy, have stranglehold on New York
City.
Cites False Shibboleth
when men endeavor to protest
against this autocracy, they are met
with the shibboleth of party regularity,
put forward by men who never practice
it, When we recall the Democratic
candidates, state and national, who
have been knitted by Tammany, we
realize how hypocritical this cry is.
The local Democratic organization is
not partisan, but purely business. 1t
is headed by chief who has fastened
himself not alone on the party but
upon the greatest municipality in the
world. The powers of government in
an instrumentality for his own pre-
ferment.
"The time has come to sever tns sin
lister connection between Tammany
Hall and City Hail."
Continuing his attack on Boss Muir
ply, Mr.. Gilroy made a reference to
tie rejection of Judge Alfred Talley in
the recent making up of the TammaaJ
ticket. He said:
"The city must rid itself of this ar
rogant boss, who picks out a list of
candidates from his vest pocket and
turns down a respected candidate.
~ lSHt HOW IIc Ndy VI VI NEW L OIh is
not the individual who so recently dem
onstrated his incompetence before the
Meyer Committee. Mayor Hylan only
occupies one office. But Murphy oc-
cupies them all He dictates appoint
ments and in the last analysis decides
the important policies.
"We want Mayor who will be Mayor
of New York City and not Mayor who
is subservient to Tammany Hail. We
arc going to have him, too, in Henry
H. Curran."
Urges Constructive Platform
Mr.. Curran after that expressed the
opinion that the orator of the munici-
pal campaign was going to be Vincent
Gilroy The Borough President de-
clared that the aim of the coalition
ticket must be to offer the City of New
York a constructive program. He said
the issue must be not only how bad
Hylan has been, but how good Curran
was going to be.
Repeating some of his previous crit
icisms of the Hylan administration, he
said:
81 hope that the effect of the present
administration will not be overstated
IN this campaign, and hope that the
endeavor of the next administration
coming into power will not be over
stated. We must ali work for the
ideals and the accomplishment of the
ideals to be set forth in our platform
but there is nothing to be gained by
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