The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1892-12-28
OWE OF rAMMANY,s WISE METHoDS
II Dfssr.s Oppo.itios BY Dra wing to Itself
the Attest OYpoaenss.

Il Dtssras Opposition by ORA wing to Itself
the Attest Opposesss.
One OF the surest ways to become district
leader in Tammany Hall Is to get up district
organization that can beat the regular Tam
many organization That Tammany can
adapt itself to conditions as rapidly as they
develop is shown BY the fact that number OF
the Tammany district leaders to-day are men
who have carried their respective districts
against Tammany Hall on the district and city
tickets both When a man In Republican dis
trict gets up an organization that can beat the
regular Republican organization. he may be
let in or he may not. II has usually been that
the regular Republican organization would
keep on kicking against the pricks until the
Republicans. through dissension. became q
minority in the district.
II would have taken venturesome prophets
to predict a few years ago that Col Michael
c. Murphy and the Hon. Timothy Dry Dollar
Sullivan would be district leaders in good
standing u Tammany Hall. Col Murphy was
leader OF one OF the strongest County Democ-
rary districts in the city. He used to wallop
regularly the Hon. Patrick Gavan Duffy. the
Tammany leader. Frank T. Fitzgerald. then
young lawyer got up an organization Of
labor men and personal friends Of his which
carried the district over both Col. Murphy and
that the way to carry the district was to make
Fitzgerald leader So /: paid him for the
%alloping he gave Tamnany by making him
district leader and electing him Additional
Surrogate. Now it rewards Col Murphy for
having .hrnshed Taumany in the district
before by making him leader when Fitzgerald
TSs old 'a seq nd was asots WI @ dis
fSS SeSa n. F was carrie. 81 ,hs
INIT Il.vr -a.py 81 = ~
Hon. Thomas Ponderous WASH and the
County Denocrary Assembyman. Timothy
that they 60 Id AIRY the district withou, the
aid Of Tammaoy. that astu,e organ iLas.on
ami now makes Mr. sullivan district lsa!er.
rhs old rhir. district was another. district
ssvtn S Was the Tammany d!stric. lsaiss AMI
Police Justice u,,Reilly was, the County De-
moeracy ti>tvic. leader. o'Retlly, usually car.
many district leader. and the district became
strong Tammany district.
square. Patrick Keenan, was SO strong that the
neishe9rhooI was known as keenan.ltis: Re
man both. and he had the tanner County De-
rnocracr district Il New York He was snncH.
sssa a nh se5 IS
Assem- blyman. his old Alderman IS a Tan
many, Alderman. and one Of his closest friends
uset. to be opp.osei to the regular I an many
before Gen. spino!hs death. ami i now one Of
the aeiess and uo.t sGTssesstui Of ne lam,
Is steadily increasing
The santt:ass aStiast MAJOR Grant in rh.a
Andrew J. White. Judge White ran on the
County democracy iicsss and psllet 100, good
He showed tina: be had some strength in that
n-izhbornQod. He was invited z ,o!n Tam
menc as Police Justice BY Mayor Grant. who
defeated him Tor Sheriff. udss White is now
Ia the annexed district Henry D; Purr9y
was the County Dem occacy leader. and ran the
district as County DenocraGy stEooghoil.
district for ANYBODY, Commissioner, purroy
was welcomed 6aek Into Tan! many Hall az!
the upper part OF the annexed DISTRICT. and his
lieutenant. JACOB Seaoolt; Is !.ades OF the
have become reversed in the annexed district
for q section OF the old TanmarY committee
furroy was the county Dem ocracy lsader re-.
yo;et against his !sadsrship a1s 49,, CEN StanE
bers .: the old Tam many col c, ttsee have not
Was 'a arfa1cea ass a a y the
fsmnany men TOOK one. AssenblymaH, and
A.semblyu An and one Alderman.
In sevsra. cases where the success stul County
Macy .sl.r hs o ri Tam ana mt
get along well with tn cir nesT eade and broke
away To make local organization Of their
OWL. William T. iirots organized an orp3>l.
| ton IN keenanvtIle: James J. >lev!n hsaiel
Wissig. the deposet Tsmmany leader in the
old Eighth. wenc into opposition. and. II add
ton 70 the HeiRtz peop!e; the-e were nam.
from the change OF leadership.
These examples show the great seNihtleT os
the Tamnany organization II ali cases
where these changes were mads the new man
had a Larger personal following than the old.
and he had proved that he hal such a follow
ing By the test % the polls. 4 great weakness
Of Tammany Hall. under the leadership OF Nr;
Kelly. was his resistance TO this feXtoGity and
adaptability o. the district organizations
which Mr.. Croker encourages. Mayor Grant
made MS ENTRANCE into politics IN oppos;tion
to the regular TamIauy Organization OF his
district. and il was several years before he got
recognition as the TImmanY district leader.
Any man who could now 90 in q district what
Mayor Grant did then would be the recognized