The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-09-24
TAMMANY Is IN TROUBLE.
sHEEHAN ExPERIME NTINa WITH
BRYANITES AND BROOKLYN.

Lhtnkn He Can Bium brooklyn Pretty Much
on the City Ticket. bat the Gold Bugs with
the doodle and the silver Hugs with the
Votes Are the Devil and the Deep Sea.
Tammany Hall is not without its own trou-
bles Just now. Its biggest one is. Of course, the
revolt OF the Bryan men. Then there is the
detection Of County Clerk Purroy and his fol-
lowers, which practically assures the Borough
Of the Bronx and the two Assembly districts
IN 1t to the Republicans. Patrick Jerome
Gleason's independents canvass for the Mayoralty
Is another thing which Is looked on IS q danger
spot. On top of all these comes a serious protest
from the Brooklyn regulars led by Hugh Nc
Laughlin against Tammany's demand OF not
only the MnyoraltJ but the COMPATIBILITY for
the New York county organization.
Mr.. Mclaughlin and Bernard J. York have
assured John C. Sheehan that ho cannot expect
the support for his ticket in Brooklyn which he
has hoped for unless he gives the Brooklyn
Democrats something more than a candidate
for President Of the Council on the city ticket.
Mr.. Mclaughlin Is DESTROYS of electing his coun-
ty ticket. The places to be dlled In Kings county
at this election, with their fees. which mount
Into the hundred thousands, are very desirable
acquisitions for q political party organization.
Mr.. Mclaughlin wants them. and he has urged
upon Mr.. Sheehan the necessity that tho City
Convention should help him get them by giving
Brooklyn Democrats one Of the two big places
at the head Of the city ticket. He has demanded
further that the candidates named by Tammany
Hail shall be the best possible. Tammany has q
majority Of votes in the City Convention. how
ever. and it proposes doing what it likes. and
what it likes in this case does not suit the taste
of Mr.. Mclaughlin and his friends.
John C.. SheehRn declared yesterday most
positively that, no matter what the Brooklyn
Democrats want, they cannot name the candi-
date for Comptroller. He limited, too, that 1t
had been practically agreed by the Tammany
leaders that Comptroller Fitch shall be renom.
mated.
This Is the way Mr.. Sheehan has disposed of
this little Brooklyn trouble. Tho big difficulty
which he Is wrestling with now is the Chicago
platform issue. 1t bothers him greatly. He has
not yet decided Just what he win do with 1t. lie
issued orders yesterday to the on
But no orders, have yet been given to reafdrm
the Chicago platform or to declare for municipal
c cSiaes H. and gSss operation, hmas of Of d mSGaic iiPssi fran n
has a tentative plan, for doing this. He has
about made up his mind TO name q good organ,
bidding of the leaders, but who voted for Bryan.
Such a nomination he thinks. it Is said. will
with such a candidate In the field no will
authorize the publication OF MIR. Bryan's letter
to Col William L Brown and set Up that Tam,
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her 10. atty to Democratic principles as sug,
gested in that letter. II n Bryan man is not
nominated or agreed on. for nomination. 1t is
said. the BRYAN letter will be suppressed.
The only difficulty with this plan is that Mr..
Croker and the gold men who arc to furnish the
campaign Doodle are said TO oppose II. and in.
sist on the nomination OF a sound.money man.
Mr.. Sheehan had the district leaders in con-
ference yesterday at Tammany Hall. He took
them, one at q time, into his little sanctum and
pumped them on this question OF a Mayoralty
candidate md the feeling OF the rank and file In
their districts on the free silver and other issues
of the Chicago platform. He hopes in this way
to ascertain just how far he can go In one direc.
ton or the other and which course will DO the
least disastrous to Tammany's interests.
Mr.. Sheehan IL troubled. too, by the growth OF
the Sohmer boom. He thinks It has grown gu,
OF all reason and Is getting too much advertis
ing. He was waited on yesterday by a delega
ton OF business men. who appeared at the
Astor House later as members OF different Ger
man societies, and who asked for Mr.. Sohmer':
nomination for Mayor. The spokesman OF the
party was Franz Mayer. who said rather point
eddy that tho Germans are an independent set OF
voters. and II hey cant get the candidates. they
want nominated by q political organization theJ
will vote az they please.
Other delegations which called on Mr.. Shee
han asked for the nomination OF District Leader
Peter ]. Dooling Of the Thirteenth for Sheriff
and OF John f.. Mcintyre for District Attorney.