Show TAMMANY IN DANGER VEil NOil SULZER'S S 'S and his Ins narrow escape es cs- s- s C from charge of perjury cape man many years ears ago ajro a ti have nothing to do 10 with his o ad advocacy ac of direct primaries manes maries for tho the state of X New ew York The Tho direct primary idea in itself is so vulnerable it its fallacies so ensil easily e exposed ex cx- posed t Tammany's reliance upon it its effort to blacken character rather than intelligent opposition opposition opposition op op- op- op position to his ideas on logical log grounds ground argues Tarn Tam man 5 and its panic T It Tt t is evident either that Boss Murphy l is consumed b by a rage that prevents connected thought or tile the brains of hi his organization has luts proven pro in this test to be largely largel of tile the consistency of buttermilk The d direct primary prim idea is peculiarly inapplicable to a state and cit city so thoroughly cosmopolitan as New York Our admirable naturalization laws Jaws permit the conferring conferring- of citizenship upon applicants whose knowledge knowledge knowledge knowl knowl- edge of things American is confined to answers to a afew afew afew few lea leading ing questions carefully learned by rote lote The result is the incorporation into the body politic of millions of incompetents armed with nothing but a vote oto and a misunderstanding misunderstanding- of the issues under discussion discussion dis and easily controlled The direct primary idea depends wholly for its efficiency upon an intelligent discriminating electorate And that I New ew York certainly eel 1 has not Tammany has ample weapons for its battle with the governor it made and cannot control it can fight light him openly hon honestly and effectively with the armament of logic The desperate efforts it is iR making to blacken his character form a n confession of its straits own and the skill and vigor TigOr with which the go governor has carried the war into Tammany Hall |