The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-09-25
The Tammany Primaries.

4hC AhIitlduy EEIIIldTieS.
On Monday night of his week the Tam
many district primaries took place and the
vote polled at them was 10000 less than
that at the Republican primaries last week.
A careful examination of the names of
the delegates elected to the Tammany Hall
convention indicates that the state of
this ancient Democratic organization is not
"all that its friends could wish"
In the first place, no recruits to Tam
many since 1894 appear on the list, but
the same old names, with the sole differ
ence that the official titles borne by them
in 1894 are now prcfixed with an eek" In
the First district, for instance, Col. MUIR
PLY, who then was a Commissioner of
Excise, heads the list, as he did then, but is
nov the humble clerk of a District Court.
In the Second district, PATRICK DIVER, a
Police Judge then and a man of substance
and authority, does not appear as a dele
gate, and his friends are absent from the
roll of a district which then was Tam
many's strongest position. In the Third
district we see the identical names of last
year and of the year before and of the year
before that. In the Fourth district, in
which, as it is well known to every one
familiar with it, at least 60 per cent. of the
voters are observation-disclosures, these are
Tammany's delegates:
EDWARD T. FITZPATRICK, JOHN F. AHEARx. PATRICK
II. ROCHE, JEREMIAH BURSs. ANDREW A. NoosAs. Ed
WARD F. REYNOLDS. MICHAEL. II. wHALEs, JOHN DESE.
HEY, MICHAEL SULLIVAN.
However cosmopolitan the Fourth dis
trict may be, it Is evident that the Tam.
many leader in the district, Judge FITz-
PATRICK, is not disposed to recognize the
fact. Moreover, Mr.. MCkINLEY's vote in
that district last year exceeded $500 and
the Republican vote this year is likely to
be even larger. In the Fifth Assembly dis
trict the identical names of n year ago are
reproduced, except that several of those
most active in ~Tammany's Bryanite fight
last year are conspicuous by their absence.
In the Sixth district two of the Tammany
leaders are relatives, and in the Seventh
district, OF the ten delegates elected, five are
non-resldents. In the Eighth district, which
last year gave Mr.. BLACK for Governor
2.400 votes, against 1000 for the Demo-
cratic and 700 for the Socialist candidate,
we find the names as delegates of Silver
Dollar SMITH, CHARLES KRAMER, ex-Judge
Koch, and PHILIP WIssIG, the last of the
duuitSS having btth "llIluThNu, after his
nomination for the Assembly on the Tam.
many ticket in 1894, at the instance of
HUGH j. GRANT, the Tammany Hall candi.
date for Mayor, in consequence of the storm
OF protest raised against him on account Of
aspeech he had made In the Legislature on
the woman's suffrage question.
Without going through the list more in
detail 1t may be said generally that one of
Its most striking features is the large nun.
Der OF retired statesmen upon it.. At the
head of the Eleventh district is WILLIAM
DALTON, a former official; at the head of
the Thirteenth is =. j. DooLING, formerly
n clerk in the Court of Special Sessions; in
the Fifteenth is ex-senator PLUNKlTr.
from whose committee ex-AssembIyman
McMANUs withdrew since 1894, and
ex'Assemblyman MURRAY in 1896, and
no substitutes are observable on the
list. The second name is that of Mr..
business partner, who was
defeated for Congress last year in this
strong Democratic district. At the head
OF the Tammany district delegation in the
Sixteenth is ex-County Clerk KEENAN,; in
the Seventeenth is ex.Police Magistrate
MCMAHON; in the Eighteenth is ex-Alder.
man MURTHA; in the Nineteenth, ex.SheriR
6ExToNi in the Twentieth, ex.Clerk of the
Special Sessions KEATING; and SO on
; through the list.
Some OF the names are older than Others E.
some have done longer service than Others
oot all OF them are musty. If there be any