Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 58, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 October 1912 — Page 1 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Progressive Party News. [Advertisment]

It is better to be a half block ahead of the parade than two miles in the rear. Collier's Weekly gets its fill of Dr. Wilson and Tammany and <is now .with the Progressive party. Don M. Dickinson, former member of Cleveland's cabinet,, is out for the Progressive cause and Roosevelt. Wherever bosses repudiate or override a primary majority, the need for primaries is emphasized anew. • vThe Wall street conception of a perfectly good President is one who will never make a move for fear of upsetting a stack of chips. They say the colonel wants to be King. Nonsense! Wmy should he .want to be King when his followers already regard 'him as ace? Colonel Fred A. Phillips, Progressive candidate for county Recorder, and his sheep-skin band will attend all progressive meetings from now to election.

TAMMANY MURPHY. By James J. Fitzgerald. As boss of that powerful organization for public plunder, Charles F. Murphy, of Tammany Hall, represents more than a pillar in the temple of the Associated Political Democrat-ic-Republican Bosses of the United States of America. Besides bqing one of the pillars, Murphy is also the keystone in the main arch as well as the cornerstone of the boss system. By extending his dictatorship beyond the limits of New York City add seizing control of hte state of New York, he has attained a point which no other ruler of the Fourteenth Street Wigwam ever accomplished. John Kelly tried It and failed. Richard Corker undertook the same contract and lost. Murphy, more cunning and more astute, has obtained complete control of the state. Murphy now dictates to the 8,000,000 residents of the Empire state without regard to their own wishes in the matter. He forced the notorious Levy Election law upon them, designed only to tighten his grip upon the state for an indefinite period. He was a member of the Dock Board during the Van Wyck administration and helped Croker ‘‘work for his pocket all the time.” When Croker retired to Ireland in exile eleven years ago and left a vacancy as boss of Tammany, Murphy quickly and neatly appropriated the job to himself.

Besides bossing the city and the state, he takes a keen interest ini bossing contracts. As boss of the state he has made certain that all contracts awarded on the $50,000,000 appropriation for State roads and the $101,000,000 barge canal are in the hands of trusted lieutenants. As boss of New York City he takes the same interest in the contracts for the new $161,000,000 Catskill water improvement, and the $200,000,000 which the city is spending in the construction of new rapid transit lines Besides these there are hundreds of other contracts to be looked after annually opt of the $275,000,000 which the City of New York spends annually for maintenance and permanent improvements. Murphy seldoin talks. It Isn’t necessary; his dictatorship is so complete that a nod of the head is generally sufficient. “It’s a nice day, chief,” one of his friends said recently in greeting him. “Is it?” was the only reply. His rule is not disputed. He is bossing the biggest, city in the country and the, most important state in the Union. <He is also making careful plans toward the bossing of the United States in case Governor Wilson is elected. Murphy is the boss! all others are countr felts.

Trusts in New Jersey. Woodrow Wilson is governor of the, state of New’ Jersey. Section 4 of the corporation laws of New Jersey, enacted in 1890, is as follows: “The character of every corporation, or any supplement thereto, or amendment thereof, shall be'subject to alteration, suspension, and repeal, In the discretion of the legislature,