The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1893-09-18
Senator MCClelland's Lively TuSSle
with the State Machine.
FOUR SEATS IN THE LEGISLATURE
ARE THE PRIZES.
Even More Important than Thee.
However, IL the Question of SUI
prsmacy In the Democratic Organ
ixation-Tammsny Hail Drawn Into
tho strurale-The Machine Backing
A. II. Morris for the state SENATE.

Up in Westchcster the Democratic
State machine men and the ants are
watching one another these days as cats
do mice. Each Is careful to note tho
slightest play made by the other, and
make countcrmovc, if possible, to cir
cumvent it. A state Scnatorship and
prizes in the game.
More than all else. however Is the
question, Who shall rule the organization?
For years there has been n feud between
the faction headed by Senator Charles T..
McClelland and that In which sheriff
Duffy. Congressman Ryan and state
committeeman Hickey are the leaders. Al
ternately these factions have been up
and down. For the last two years Me
Clelland has been up and the other fcl-
lows down.
This fail Hickey, Ryan, Duffy ct al
have sworn to reverse things. They have
besought Senators Hill and Murphy,
Lieut.. Gov. Sheehan and, last, but by
no means least, Richard Croker, to unite
with them in dcpriying Mctlelland, not
only of the privilege of returning to the
Senate. but of the Craftsmanship of the
County Committee, which he won sew
eral months ago after one of the tough
est political battles in the history of the
district. The tug-of-war will come when
the primaries are held to elect delegates
to the Assembly district conventions
these to choose delegates to the Saratoga
convention. The calls have not yet been
issued. but will be about one week from
next Thursday.
The district conventions are likely to
be held Sept. 80. At these will be chosen
decide whether McClelland or a. IL. Nor
ris, son of John y. Morris, the rich turf
man. shall be the Democratic candidate
for Senator.
since he entered politics when he has not
been in Il rough -andtumblc fight with
REPUBLICANS or Democrats as adverse
He had e to seems sh to wh prs sr beeams sh
candidate for Assembly. He had to fight
to get elected, and he had to fight even
harder to be nominated and elected to
| the Senate. When he reached there he
continued fighting. He does not like Da-
vid b. Hill. he does like Grover
| Cleveland. and has been his loyal bench
man almost from the day Cleveland made
his phenomenal run for Governor. He
served under him AZ Deputy Collector of
the Port of New York, and in the State
Senate acted AS he thought the President
desired him to act. He was active in the
lanti-snapper movement
When MI. Cleveland declared he did
not think Edward Murphy, jr., just
| the right sort of a man TO represent
New York in the United States Senate,
| McClelland led a forlorn. hope for w:
| Bourke Cochran. From that hour until
| the expiration of his term in the Senate,
he has never f..iled to do just what the
| State machine did not want him to do.
| The machine leaders can never forgive
| him for blocking legislation at Albany
| In which they We're vitality Interested.
They can never forgive him for casting
his vote against Edward Murphy IT,,
for United States Senator They can
never forgive him for securing control
of the county organization in West
| chester. and bowling out men who
| were in sympathy with the policy Of
| And so the decree has been issued that
he shall be crushed, and the machinery
of the big Four" engine has been in
motion since the day of adjournment
at Albany, with view to pounding
him SO deep that he shall never rise
politically again.
McCleliand knows just, what he must
to him not only the entire State ma
chine. but Tammany Hall as well.
Several hundred men owe their employ
ment on the Croton aqueduct to Rich
ard Croker. Their bread and butter
depends upon his favor. These men, II
advantage in putting M0Clelland in a
hole.
Then. too, A. II. Morris, who has
been selected by the State machine to
step into McClellands shoes, does not
lack for money. His father Is very
rich. and owns a yacht upon which he
and Richard Croker sometimes make
excursions. The father and the Tam
many chief had one Of those excursions
the other day.