New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-07-19
TO REJOIN TAMMANY HALL.
KEARNEY AND pURRoY DISSATISFIED.
THEIR FRIENDS DECLARING THAT THE TWO
WILL DESERT THE COUNTY DEMOCRACY
"A LIVELY DISTURBANCE Ex'
PECTED IN THE DEMO
CRATIC STATE CON.
iBr TELEGRAPH TO THE TRIBUNE. ]


Saratoga, July Is.-From what a correspondent OF
Tho Tribune was able TO learn this evening" there
seems to be doubt that there VIII be the lveest
Kind OF row before long in the County Democracy
organization In New-York 1t Is said that Edward
Kearney who is of the most prominent Of the
summer residents OF Saratoga and Fire Commissioner
Henry d. Purroy, both leaders in the County Demo
cracy faction, will bid farewell to Police Justice
Maurice J. Power. Richard A. Cunningham, Police
Justice j. Henry Ford Police Commissioner John II.
Voorhis, and Others, ana at the urgent solicitation OF
Richard Croker John Keys successor, will again be-
come members OF the T'mmany organization.
Evor since Croker took control OF the Fourteenthst.
establishment he has been urging Purroy and Kearney
to step OF the New Amsterdam Club party other
wise known the County Democracy, and take post
lions of prominence under him in tho management, OF
Tammanys affairs. Purroy and Kearney were viz
tually kicked out of Tammany Hall by Kelly, and
they Joined Hubert o. Thompsons forces and fought
Kelly. When Thompson died, Purroy and Kcarney
sent 10 the by his SUCCESSOR Justice Power,
and he treated them In that distant for which
he Is famous. They brooded this kind OF treat
men until they were tired. 1t is said that they
have at last agreed to turn their backs upon Boss
Power and embrace Boss Croker, and their friends
think that they have made mistake In arriving at
this decision.
At the time OF the st. Louis Convention, when
Croker chartered special to take him and few
personal friends from New-Yor to the metropolis OF
Missouri, Croker said TO Kearncy and Purroy:
"Why don't you fellows come with mel have
selected bcrths for you in my car. Leave those
County Democracy people. You know that you ought
not TO have anything to do with them You be-
long in TammaDy HALF
kearney thought the matter over and concluded
that he would attend the Convention and Purroy
came to the same conclusion. Their friends, and they
count them by tho thousands felt that Kearncy and
Purroy would not remain with the County Democracy
organization and have been waiting patiently for
long time for orders from them to join tho Tammany
procession Purroy and Kearney old friends, and
believe In each other They battle axe SCARED
political fighters and were always at the front to-
gcthcr PuTOy is a frequent visitor to Saratoga.
Tic comes here ostcnsibly to fish in unheardoi
stream but In the locality Is known to spend much
of HIS time riding with Kearncy behind pair of fast
trotters from Kearneys private stable. Purroy came
here on saturday and returned to New-York on Mon
day. lie never tells what he intends to do until he
has fully determined what his course should be.
Then he talks with no uncertain sound lie speaks
llSht out from the shoulder, as It were. lie said
while In Saratoga that circumstances might arise
which would in his opinion cause him to resign his
membership In the County Democracy He added
that 1t did not necessarily follow that he would be-
come member Of the Tammany organization.
a Tribune reporter Edward Kearney tonight at
his house, In Carolincst., and asked him whether or
not It was true that he and Purroy intended with
draw from the County Democracy faction and return
to Tammany Hall. kearney not surprised at the
question. He said that while he In New York on
Monday night many reporters asked him the same
question. lie would say, however, that no was not
yet ready TO answer what seemed to be an interesting
conundrum to many politicians He thought It quite
likely that he would have something TO say upon the
subject after he had visited New-iOrk and had con-
errcd with certain persons who should be narneless
for the present. He would not answer for PunOy.
except to say that 1t shameful that man so
emincny fitted for leadership had not been properly
recognized In the faction with which PurrOy and him
self for the present identified.
Politicians here have doubt that Kcarney and
Purroy viii break loose from tho County Democracy
and predict chaos and all sorts Of terrible things for
that absurdly msmanaged organization when Kearney
and PIrroy leave It. They have talked freely with
friends here but not for publication, and there Is no
Tammany and enjoy the society OF rrolnr and his
army.