The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-06-13
SIX TAMMhNY Contests.
Assembly Districts In which There Arc TO
he Campaigns to Displaco Leaders.

| districts into Whlcn, since June, 1870 tno
county of New York has been divided there Is
no present indication Of any summer campaign
to dsplacc or dethrone the present Tammany
Hall leader. The six Assembly districts In
which fights are on are the Seventh. Eighth.
| Ninth. Twentieth. Twenty third and Thirty
| Hrst.
| fractional contests within tho Tammany
| Hall organization are the rule rather than the
exception In New York politics. In 1895. the
| frat year Of tho present apportionment, there
| were two such contests in the Eleventh As
| semby district OF which Com ssioner Dalton
was then. as now the leader. In 1898 there
| was such contest in the Second district, in
! which Alderman n. T. Brown was and in
| which eS-Judge Diver expected to be again
| the leader. In 1897 factiona contests within
| the Tammany Hall organization were In As
| sembly districts Thirty-throe, Thirty-f four and
Thirty-flve. In tho Thrty-thrd district the
fight resulted favorably to the contestants.
whose leader was Nicholas j. Hayes, now
Deputy City Clerk. In the Thirty fourth and
| Thrty-flfth districts tho fight was against the
| continued leadership Of County Clerk Henry
| ID. Purroy. 1t was successful. and James Nc
Cartney now Commissioner otStreet Cleaning.
defeated him at the primary contest.
In 1898 there were factona divisions In two
districts. the Eighth and Twenty third. In tho
former the regular or EnEel ticket polled 1880
votes. and the contrasting or Rourke ticket
poed Si5 In the Twenty-thrd district the
Stillings or regular ticket pollcd ], 800 votes
and tho contesting or McAvoy ticket 500. In
both Of these districts the fight is to be re-
newed on the same lines and with the name
leaders this summer. though under conditions
more favorable in both cases to the contestants
than those which existed and which deter
mined the result year ago.
or the four new contests" already begun
and scheduled to continue until the September
election. the most important in Its influence
upon other districts is the one begun in the
Ninth Assembly for the overthrow Of John @.
Sheehan. the present Tammany leader there.
Nobody needs to be told OF the causes which
have led to the fight against Mr.. Sheehan. OF
the determination at headquarters to depose
him Of his political authority. and Of the pro-
jccted resistance OF the former recognized
Tammany Hall leader and his friends
In the Ninth district to resist the carry
ing out Of such programme. The
Ninth Assembly district since the in
auguration of Mayor Van Wyck has Jared
rather poorly in the matter Of patronage from
Tammany Hall The leader. Mr. sheehan Is
one OF tho few district lenders who have not
been recognized by appointment to an execu-
previous Tammany Hall administration. that
OF Police Commissioners. The discrimination
be o of hft It's s
account the chances of q successful fight by Mr..
Sheehan are anpreciably improved.
present Tammany Hall ie ader is Com missioner
MS oSG %sde has
the leader OF Tammany Hall in this district for
IS @ the onS
ments Of Importance he has, secured for the
hES W SGeG for 5y eom Of his naSn
The Whole OF Harlem Tie eI~JpdSe. as he Is
year. Another IN EN- Der of The family q son. is an
examiner il The tar-iamed Compassion OF Ac-
sSrk ia Tho Hsaf 9cs at 81
place in the Federal Post Once and iiiith Is on
as Commissioner OF Street Openings. 1t is
further urged by those who orpose the reten
to the oflceholdng propensities Of his rea-
es he sRs Ss of the
himself ocular opa in nf Harlem. RneSS TO make
7 and 20 Is. to considerable extent. personal
il Isadgfrs6ia Il Eat S EivsF Bridge s commis
sShes Is Edward Brennan
superintendent, OF Post ONCE, station G and
He has charge and has had charge for a nun
Res of S Of WHIT OS th.
aa in tns dIas tSs ps as Leaders ss
troll when Mr Boy ssts to the leader SST
shin number, oil, Fitzpatrick, old guard"
against and one @ to S the
leadership OF Mr.. Boyle is that some Of those
who have attained the most lucrative and re-
Republicans whose Identification with Tam am
many, Hall is OF very recent date.
to James p, Heating. the Commissioner OF
Highways, that since his access OF political
for a district in which the poverty OF its resi-
dents is, almost proverbial: 1t is said OF him
that he has cQachman; that he is to be found
and that his solicitude for the appointment OF
his son. stephen II Heating, to a post OF promi-
his consideration for the voters OF the district
to whom he owes. or Is supposed to owe.i his
In the Eighth district Mr. Enge. the Tam
many Hall leader made strenuous efforts in
Noyem a last to defeat the return OF Charles
ity 10 defeat Adler was made the test Of his re-
teption as leader. but despite such help as the
public departments, Adler was reelected aud
the Tsmmany candidate for Assem- BY was de-
ton. is veteran Tenth ward politician.
:. In ihe Twepty1third district Mr.. stllings.
anl n to ha
is one Of the Commissioners OF Grade Damage
in the annexed district. place without patron
age and no local importance in the Twenty
third. He has been able TO get only small
in When newcomers are many and former r T no.
lticaI connections, such as Mr.. Stllings does
not possess. Of great Importance. :, The. leader
was former Police Inspector and was
active in the affairs Of this district
when the Nineteenth Assembly included tho
whole of the western section OF town north
Of Fifty second street and not as now merely
tho territory north Of 10th street aud
south of tho Harlem River lie has many
friends in the district and is supposed to have
the tacit. II not direct. did OF the downtown
leaders in the fight he is making for control
Corporation Counsel John Whalen is n resident
Of this district. the total vote of which In 1885
the first year OF the present npportionment
WAS 1929, Last year it was 1880. 1t is a
| growing district.