The Carbon County news. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1924-1931, 1928-09-27

quently he opened still another sa-
loon at Twentieth street and Second
avenue, which became the head
quarters of the Anawanda Club,
the Tammany district termination.
He then sold the original saloon in
which he started business and
bought another-at First avenue
and Twenty-second street. By 1890
he was the owner of four prosper
Gus saloons and was making large
profits"
Although Tammany was highly
respectable in its pretentions dur
ing the Murphy regime, the "boss"
| had difficulties of his own. There
were inquiries into the official con-
duct of several borough Presidents,
Herman Rosenthal, the gambler,
was murdered, and Murphy himself
was indicted. The indictment fol-
lowed Murphy's quarrel with Louis
N. Hartog, within whom he had en-
tered into business partnership to
sell malt dextrine to the British gov
eminent during the war; When the
profits became alarlningly large,
Murphy wanted to withdraw from
the partnership and recover his or
iginal investment of $125,O00. In
the investigation which followed
Murphy was indicted, but the in
dictment was dismissed.
Murphy attempted to weave ia
fabric of righteousness around
Tammany, but Mr.. Werner calls
attention to incidents Nending to
show a "reversion to type" in the
Hall:
1T was not above, for instance,
using repeaters at the polls when
occasion urgently demanded it,"
Mr.. Werner writes. "Police Com
missioner Bingham estimated in
1909 that there then from 10000
to $4,000 illegal votes cast by
Tammany. As late as 1921
Joseph Shalleck, campaign manager
for James ]. Hines, a Tammany
district leader who was then fight
ing Murphy for control of Muir
phys own Tammany district, was
| blackjacked, beaten, and shot in the
chest in a polling booth at Seven
teenth street, within two hundred
feet Of Charles T, Murphy's city
! residence. Shalleck had gone to the
polling place to investigate rumors
of fraud, and when he saw the poll
I list he noticed improper erasur-
es." (p. 558
/ In 1924 Murphy died and left an
state of $2,OO0,OOO The New York
Times took occasion next day to
reflect on the iniquities Of Tam
many:
''Tammany Hall has a long list
Of political crimes on its record. 1t
processes to cherish the people, but
at heart it always intends to ex-
plot and dcbauch them. Richard
Croker with his brazen cynicism,
said that, as leader of Tammany,
he was working for his own pocket
all the time. His successor (Mur-
phy) was less indiscrteet, not $50
boldly defiant; but the motive of
the organization has not changed.
1t has greatly refined it's methods /;
there are no longer crude Tweed
stealSngs. But by sutGler means,
usually within the forms of the law
Tammany is still able to enrich its
masters and managers.
"For New York it is just as much
DISGRACE as it was fifty years ago
that it so often ruled by this Sc
cret and selfapointed obligarchy
Mr.. Murphy's rule was com
parative1v lid But moth
/ ing in all this should make US for
get that he was the exemplar and
beneficiary of system which,
without official responsibility, de-
, grades orr public life"
In y same edition The Times
Z publishoa statement by Governor
, Smith --so characterized Mr.. Muir
ply as "friend lof many years
, andi-,-" and friend in need"
: The T. 3. N dispatch from the
| capitpl # Albany, reported:
l "Covernor Smith issued the fol-
: lowino statement on the death of