It was Senator Hitchcock who nagged at
the House from day to day, until he made
the House take up the Ballinger-Pinchot
row, and it was the airing of this scandal that
first started the Taft administration toward
the junk heap.
Criticism bv liis colleagues will not make
Hitchcock abandon his course against the
Wilson currency bill, for when Hitchcock
believes he is right he pays no attention to
criticism.
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Following the’ recent defeat of Tammany
in the New York mayoralty election comes a
series of investigations that promise to put
an end to the most corrupt and infamous
political machine in America.
District Attorney Whitman is now getting
evidence to show how every contractor who
succeeded in getting a contract for public
work had first to submit to a holdup by some
Tammany lieutenant before the contract was
awarded, and how under the Tammany sys
tem the tax payers of New York have been
forced to pay millions of dollars for work
done by contractors who divided their profits
with the Tammany bosses.
Richard Croker made his millions as Boss
of Tammany, and Murphy has made his mil
lions as boss.
Numerous lieutenants are also in the mil
lionaire class, and every dollar of their money
has been stolen from the people.
If Whitman is able to carry his investiga
tion to the end now promised, Murphy and
his lieutenants will soon be facing prison
terms.
And it is pleasing to note that the different
independent Democratic organizations of
New York are planning the destruction of
Tammany instead of a reorganization with a
new boss.
The only way to rid the Democratic party
of the odium of Tammany is to destroy Tam
many.
Tammany reorganized would still be Tam
many.
