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1994.KEEP THE TIGER OUT!!
Boss Murphy and Tammany Hall Are
Reaching Out For State Control,
Which Means to Them the
Rich Loot of the Canal
and Good Roads Funds
Boss Murphy, of Tammany Hall, nominated the Democratic
ticket at Rochester. His absolute domination of that conven-
tion is told by the Democratic organ in New York City, "The
Times,” in these words, written in Rochester while the con-
vention was still in session:
"All day and to-night the Democratic leaders have been
going hat in hand to Mr. Murphy and asking, him humbly to
favor this or that candidate. Never before has Tammany Hall
been in such unquestioned control of a State convention.
Never before has any Tammany boss been enthroned as the
State leader in the unlimited way in which Murphy is recog-
nized to-day. The convention is in the hollow of his hand. Back
of Murphy’s control are strange and sinister influences. You
cannot throw a brick in any direction in Rochester without hit-
ting a lobbyist of railroad attorney. The woods have been fullof them from the start. They got here before the delegates
did/’
That is the evidence of a paper now working for the elec-
tion of Boss Murphy’s candidates. And it is unimpeachable
evidence.
Tammany is working for the election of Dix and the entire
ticket nominated by Boss Murphy as it never worked before.
Why?
Because Boss Murphy and Tammany want to control the
$101,000,000 canal fund.
Because Boss Murphy and Tammany want to control the
contracts for $100,000,000 worth of road improvements.
Because Boss Murphy and Tammany want to control the
Public Service Commissions.
SINCE MR. MURPHY BECAME THE BOSS OF TAM-
MANY HALL HE HAS INTERESTED HIMSELF IN CON-
TRACTING ENTERPRISES AND HAS BECOME A MIL-
LIONAIRE.
The huge canal and highway improvement appropriations,
made by authority of the direct vote of the people, is the stake
for which Tammany and Boss Murphy are playing.
IF MURPHY CAN ELECT HIS CANDIDATE FOR
GOVERNOR AND THE OTHER STATE OFFICIALS,
MURPHY WILL EXTEND THE SYSTEM WHICH HAS
FATTENED HIS WALLET IN NEW YORK CITY INTO
EVERY COUNTY IN THE STATE.
To clinch things and make sure that nothing will get away
from him in the event bf victory, Boss Murphy placed ex-Tam-
many Hall Dock Commissioner John A. Bensel on his ticket as
State Engineer and the Treasurer of Tammany Hall, William
Sohmer, as State Comptroller. Following the example of thelast Democratic State officials, the Engineer will make the bills
and the Comptroller will audit and pass them.
With such a frame-up, where do the taxpayers get off?
The Public Service Commissions have control over all steam
and electric railroads, all gas and electric lighting and power
companies, all telephone and telegraph companies.
These Public Service Commissioners may be removed by
the Governor, at will, without the approval of the Senate.
If the present Commissioners are replaced by those who
will act under Murphy’s advice and be under his domination,
the Tammany system of give and take between bosses and cor-
porations will be established.
Four years ago the Democratic State ticket, except the
Governor, was elected. Frederick E. Skene, the recognized per-
sonal candidate of Boss Murphy, became State Engineer. The
present Republican Attorney General, Edward R. O’Malley, se-
cured several indictments against the former State Engineer and
Surveyor upon the discovery of grafting to the amount of up-
wards of $1,000,000 in Skene’s office.
Skene, on his trial, denied that he had received any of the
graft.
But his attorney, William Travers Jerome, an eminent Dem-
ocrat, declared on behalf of his client, Mr. Skene, that fully fifty
per cent, of the contracts that passed through his office repre-
sented graft AND THAT THIS GRAFT WAS COLLECTED
FOR TAMMANY HALL.
In addressing the court Mr. Jerome said: “WE DON’T
DENY THAT THERE WAS A WORLD OF CROOKED
BUSINESS.” The attorney declared that a clerk had been
put in virtual charge of the Engineer’s office at the command of
Tammany Hall. “WE SHALL CONTEND,” the attorney con-
tinued, “THAT THE POWER OF TAMMANY HALL PUTHIM THERE, AND PUT HIM THERE TO PUT THE
SCREWS ON THE CONTRACTORS.”
Mr. Jerome told the court that he would show that the
clerk was put in charge of the Engineer’s office “AS THE COL-
LECTOR OF TAMMANY HALL BY CHARLIE MURPHY
TO SQUEEZE MONEY OUT OF THE CONTRACTORS
AND THAT HE DID. SO, AND HOW MUCH HE
SQUEEZED OUT OF THEM YOU CAN JUDGE WHEN,
OUT OF HIS OWN LIPS, HE SAID THAT ABOUT FIFTY
PER CENT. OF THE BIDS HAD BEEN CHANGED.”
Mr. Jerome, in his speech to the court, refers to Tammany
as a “quasi-criminal conspiracy, called a part of the Democratic
party, affiliated throughout the State with crooks of the same
character of their own making.” And the former District At-
torney of New York is in a position to know whereof he.speaks.
TAMMANY HALL IS THE “QUASI-CRIMINAL CON-
SPIRACY” THAT SEEKS TO FASTEN ITS HOLD ON
EVERY COUNTY AND MUNICIPALITY THROUGH-
OUT THE STATE THROUGH ITS CONTROL OF THE
$201,000,000 FOR CANAL AND GOOD ROADS IMPROVE-
MENTS.
THE ELECTION OF THE TAMMANY-DEMOCRATIC
TICKET IN NOVEMBER WILL EXTEND TAMMANY-
MURPHY CONTROL TO EVERY CITY, TOWN AND
HAMLET IN THE STATE.
TAMMANY METHODS WILL PREVAIL.
TAMMANY LEADERS WILL GROW RICH.
TAMMANY POLITICS WILL INFEST EVERY MU-
NICIPALITY.
TAMMANY AGENTS WILL COLLECT AND SPEND
THE FARMER’S MONEY.
WILL THESE THINGS BE PERMITTED?
IT IS UP TO THE VOTER.