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Tammany: 1789-1928 Tammany Hall; The Organization; and the Sway of the Bosses By Allan Frankin
Originally published 1928 |
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the murder of Herman Rosenthal, the gambler- the impeachment of Governor Sulzer - his own indictment.
Murphy seldom talked for publication. He was liberal in his charities. The former appealed to the more powerful of the district leaders and the latter won him many friends in the rank and file of New York Democracy.
He selected George B. McClellan as his first candidate for Mayor in 1903 and elected him over the combined opposition of the Seth Low fusion party and the independent candidacy of "Bill" Devery, Deputy Police Commissioner, who ran on an antiTammany platform.
Devery made things interesting for Murphy by making countless charges against the Tammany chieftain.
"He's goin' through the bluff of being decent but look at his record on the old Dock Board," Devery said of Murphy. "Does that look as if he's dying for his feller man? He's for Murphy, and he ain't satisfied to use his hands. He wants to get in and use a steam shovel."
William Randolph Hearst, sometimes a supporter of Tammany and again a bitter enemy, took the field against Tammany soon after Murphy became the leader and aroused the public by charging that the operations of the New York Contracting
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