The New York herald., 1922-10-18
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me that way What have you got to
say?
Then said Murphy: What have you
got to say about it?'
II replied I'm the Surrogate and I'll
spend the next ten years showing you
what I've got 90 say about it,
Hold on said Murphy. I'm going to
pass your salary increase bill
u answered i don't give a damn
about the salary bill. You can go TO
hell"
The Surrogate said OF Murphy and Of
his control of Tammany
For twenty years Murphy has main
tained his Czarlike sway until his name
has become a byword throughout the
country. Party principles have been
abandoned and the party name dragged
In the m!re
In spite of his persistent opposition
the election law of the State OF New
! York has been changed so that the name
of every candidate is voted for sepa-
rately with the result that the nde-
pendent candidate stands an equal show
in this respect with the boss dictated
nominees
do the people wish to control their
courts or do they want the bosses TO
control them? II is for them to say. Do
mony in court and have the decisions
rendered by the bosses? Do. they want
the courts kept freh from outside inter-
ference and control--as they largely
are? These are the questions for the
voters TO decide. The issue in this cam
paign is whether an upright judge shall
be deprived Of his office because the
boss has decreed Il.
"Murphy's sole objection to me is that
he cannot control me. as he has dis
covered. 1t is because of that and that
alone that Boss Murphy and his shadoW
boss. Sam Koenig. have formed their
unholy alliance against me- Murphy
tried to control my acts, as a Judge. He
could not do so.
Murphy has sent his whispering
squad through the town saying that he
made me politically and iudicially.
Therefore. according to Murphy and
his whispering squad. Murphy has the
right to unmake me lie did not make
me. The fact is that | was, nominated
for Surrogate not hy Murphy but in
spite of Murphy. / was nominated for
Surrogate by the people of The Bronx
before The RronX became a separate
county.
I'm 1907 the people Of The Bronx
elected me to the Assembly az their
representative from the Thirty-fifth AS
! sembly district This was without
| Murphy's support or approval. Shortly
after took my oath of office Murphy
sent word through his spokesman IN the
Assembly how | was 10 vote On the
recount bill. informed MuTphys s
spokesman that ! would take no orders
from Murphy And against all the in
fluence Murphy brought to bear on me
/ voted for the recount bill, being one
of three Democrats who dared 10 vio-
late his orders.
THE next year / went back 20 Albany
as a Senator from the Twenty-second
Senatorial district in The Bronx. going
there again without the support or ap-
prova of Murphy. | continued my
fight in the Senate for the passage of
the recount bill which was beaten the
year before"
Jerome recalled some Of the cam
paigns he and Justice Gcff fought to-
gether thirty years ago.
1--WE were fighting a then corrupt.
since corrupt and now corrupt political
organization" Jerome said. "Tammany
Hall has always been defeated in this
city when she did not have the corrupt
and venal aid Of corrupt and degraded
Republican County Committee.
Sam koenig at the head Of the Re-
publican committee is selling his soul
and his party-because ] hold that a
man is corrupt who for personal reasons
sells his political integrity and betrays
trust. as corrupt as the man who sells
his vote One sells his soul for dollars,
the other for political preferment and
the preferment of his family.
"Tammany always has been corrupt
institution. and always the handmade OF
Tammany has been the Republican
leader. You remember. John. the proto-
type of Sam Koenig in the old days,
Silver Dollar Smith and Dowdy OBrien.
They punched their votes according 10
the way the long green came across.