New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-11-10

TALKING OF EXPULSION.
wILLOUGHBY STREET CALLS FOR THE
PUNISHMENT OF TRAITORS"
KINGS coUNTYs DEMOCRATIC LEADERS
FACE A PROBLEM WHICH MAY BRING
OUT NEW "BOSS"-GRAY'S
DEFEAT A BITTER PILL
TO SWALLOW.

TO SWALLOW.
"Expel the traitors" is the battle cry which
the ghost dancers in the wiIloughby-st. wigwam
are uttering these days against Senator Michael
Joseph Coffey, Assemblyman Cain Alderman
Hennessey and the coterie Of leaders who smote
the regular ticket In the solar plexus this year.
and left John Morrissey Gray outside the breast
works.
and quite another thing to expel them. Corey
mockingly sneers and replies: Certainly! Go
right ahead and expel them!'
Senator Coffey is not hiding in dark alleyways
or skulking In out Of the way places. He Is a
more powerful fighter and greater Democratic
leader as a result Of the fight on Tuesday last
than ever before.
These are troubous times for the Kings Coun-
ty Democracy There probably will be more
strife inside the organization during the next
twelve months than at any time since the days
of "Bill" Marshall and the Jeffersonian Democ-
racy. Hugh McLaughlns political shoes have
been worn by the old chief so long that they
are misft for any one else. but nevertheless
James Shevlin and Senator Patrick Henry Nc
Carren on the one hand and Controller BIRD D.
Coer and the more independent Democrats on
the other hand, are aching" to put them on. Mt
or no ft. Controller Coler's friends say he Is
the coming Democrat Of New-York City and
that he should be admitted to the inner Nc
Laughlin circles.
The Controller had the hardwood to criticse
the leaders for nominating Gray. This is not
the first time he has asserted his independence.
and 1t Is commonly believed that he has had
and will continue to have, the support of Bridge
Commissioner John l.. Shea
Now comes the danger to the Mclaughlin
leaders that new and formidable attempt will
be made to depose Mclaughlin as leader. or at
least to give him such a shaking up with Coler
as the leader of the opposition. that Mr.. Coer
will have a certain status in machine politics
that he does not possess at the present time.
Coffey and all his lieutenants are anxious for
the fight. and what Shevlin. McCarren ana
Dreamer afraid of now is that Corey, CoIer
and Shea. assisted on the quiet by Tammahy
Hall, will show Willoughby Street that 1t Is not
supreme.
Mclaughlin no longer likes to fight. He says
he Is getting too old for 1t. He likes TO pose as
the arbiter Of disputes between his lieutenants
Sheyin and McCarren are the men who give
and take the blows in behalf Of the old man.
Coffey knows this as well as any one, ana ne
does not fear bout with Shevlin and McCarreh.
The next meeting of the Democratic county
Committee will take place on the first TUESDAY
of December. BY that time, no doubt facuonai
lines will be drawn more tightly than they are
at present, PROVIDED tneie Is W NC SCI -,
inside the organization. The hotheads VIII De III
favor of the expulsion of Corey CAIN ana Hell
nessey McGarry took himself out Of the execu-
tive counsels Of the machine over year ago.
Coler and Shea no doubt will speak and work
for Cancellation. Gray and Sheriff Dreamer are
likely TO insist on drastic punishment
Under the laws Of the organization the County
General Committee has power to dsband any
Assembly district committee which shall act IN
hostility to the General Committee. The feellng
among the leaders Is that Senator Coffey and
his lieutenants in openly antagonzing the can
didate for Register conspired TO defeat the en-
tire county ticket. and laid themselves open 70
the charge of treachery.