The evening world., 1894-10-13
Wouldn't Let Him Name Nick
Brown as Dunphy's Success
sor in Congress.
WILL WRITE A RESIGNATION.
Net a Victim Of the Publication
Process, but Of Personal AMI
mostly Between Leaders.

Police Justice Diver has really been
turned down as Tammany leader In the
Second Assembly District. His resigna-
ton as leader will soon be in the hands
Of ]. ]. Martin. Of TGmmany's Executive
Committee.
All the little sub-leaders and heelers
in the Second have received their orders
to ignore Diver. and for the present
only to take their advice from Alder
man Nick Brown. associate leader. As
Brown and Diver have been as thick
as two peas in a pod. It Is only a ques-
ton Of time when he will be turned
down, too.
DIVERS downfall is due to the as
cendancy OF County Clerk Henry D.
Purroy, who has already made Gilroy,
Cochran and Tim Campbell feel the
lash. OLIVER has been made to feel II
too. and In this way.
He supposed. until the morning OF the
day upon which the Congressional CON
ventions were held, that he was stf1l
the power in the Second, and that he
could control Timothy Dry Dollar Sui
Ivan. one of his proteges. who is leader
in the Third.
TIN, however has turned upon Div
YER Tim had declared that Gilroy's ap-
pointment of Republicans on the Police
Board was bad policy. and he had other
and personal grievances against the
Mayor, the Mayors shadow, Corporation
Counsel Clark. and Jimmy Martin, Pres
ident of the Police Board. When he
found that Purroy also cordially hated
these men. with Diver thrown in for
man with a view to aiding in the over
throw of their joint enemies.
Diver supposed that he was to name
Dunphy's successor in Congress, and he
had planned to give the nomination to
his friend Nick Brown. This was Tins
chance to show his loyalty to Purroy. as
his Assembly district is In Dunphy's
Congressional district. the Eighth. So
Tim sought out Diver and proceeded to
nip the Nick Brown Congressional bios
som with the frost Of his presence. He
saw Diver and said something to this
effect:
"You seem anxious to go 1t alone on
the Congressional nomination. Now. :
Listen to me. I happen to run thiso thing;
not you. I will give you the names OF
two men in your district to select from.
Take or leave them, as you like"
who are they?" gasped Diver.
you can have either Walsh or Dun
ply. Take your choice"
Dunphy, as is we'll known. is Divers
personal eremy. Therefore bis accept
ance OF the latter's name was out or the ,
question. Diver had never even
dreamed OF Walsh. although the latter
bal eyiu ltta hla sQiata In dRfpnd-
ing the men indicted for election frauds
last year. Walsh, however, who is a
nephew of the ex-Warden OF the Tombs.
is a closer friend to Sullivan than he II
to Diver
"Dunphy or Walsh?' repeated Sulli-
van. which shall II be?"
walsh" repeated Diver slowly. II
cannot take Dunphy All right. Let It
be Walsh"
And Walsh 1t was.
Diver brooded over this rebuff and
sought advice OF his friends. Then his
eyes were opened to the extent OF the
changes that are coming over Tammany
and to the extent OF the power that Pur-
roy, backed up by the Grant faction.
was welding. He came to the conclu-
sion that If he didn't resign he would be
kicked out of the leadership, and so he
Informed some of his friends that he ex-
pected to send in his resignation at once.
There has been some suspicion that
DIVERS retirement Is only to be tenn
porary. and that 1t Is forced for effect
that. in fact, II will give the outsiders
the opinion that a process of purihca-
ton is under way. But a process OF
publication that also turns down such
men as Bourke Cochran, e. ]. Dunphy
and Tim Campbell is not OF the sort
to inspire confidence.
Three members of the Tammany Gen
eral Committee of the Second Assembly
District declared positively to an Even
ng World" reporter to-day that Justice
Diver would resign as a member of the
rammany Executive Committee and as
eader OF the district. They said that
MS resignation had not been written
yet, but that 1t would be in the hands
" James J. Martin, Chairman of tho
Executive Committee, early next week.
Justice Diver was at his country
iome Cedarhurst. L. l.. this morning.
One other thing seems certain. No