New-York tribune., 1900-12-23

and Sheehan replied that he knew nothing
against him except his arrest at the French ball
some years before. and Mr.. Sheehan said that
| that would not last three days in the campaign
VAN WICK CALLED IN.
Suppose you see Van wyck and get him up
here tonight" Mr. Croker said. do you know
Delos McCurdy? / can't recall him."
81 know him we'll" said Sheehan, "and II we
should nominate him there is doubt that you
would have candidate big as Tracy or Low
That night at III O'Clock Sheehan took Van
Wyck to Croker's room. He had tried to find
McCurdy. but could not do He had no diff
Guilty in finding Van Wyck- Croker talked about
Van Wyck and told him he was considering him
as candidate for Mayor. He said that Sheehan
took no stock In any attacks that might be
made on Van Wyck. Croker said that he was
out. but that every man ought to be true to the
organization. and in his heart he wanted to see
Sheehan successful as the leader OF Tammany
Hail.
At that interview with Van wyck many
promises We're demanded from him, and they
were given cheerfully. One of the men who was
present said: After that evening 1 had less
respect for Bob Van Wyck than I had had
before
sheehan was so tied up with Croker that he
thought nothing Of the insistence of Croker for
the nomination OF Van Wyck-for that is what
IL amounted TO. However. the action Of Van
Wyck after conference made him more than
anxious to nominate another man, and he
spent the next morning looking for McCurdy.
and he finally found him Sheehan and Nc
Curdy had conference in the Union Square
Hotel at noon. an hour before the Tammany
Hall Executive Committee was to meet in the
Fourteenth Street Wigwam to decide on the
names of the candidates 70 be presented in the
evening Sheehan explained the situation and
begged McCurdy to accept the nomination, say
ing that there question of the action Of
the Executive Committee McCurdy refused alb
nation After hfs refusal Croker and Sheehan
talked the telephone. Sheehan told Croker
that McCurdy would not accept the nomination
and Croker told Sheehan that the best thing 10
do was to nominate Van Wyck
When Van Wycks name was presented to
the Executiye Committee il had the effect OF a
wet blanket. No member Of the Executive Com
mittee spoke for some time Finally James Nc
Cartney. then the leader or the north half or
the Thrty-fourth Assembly District, arose in
the rear of the hall and said:
MIR Sheehan, is this nomination you've made
Your own selection. and in your Judgment is IL
the best that could be made?" Sheehans reply
was: "If I didn't think so I wouldn't present
some time afterward sheehan learned that
Croker had gone TO Grant and told him that
Mayor Then Sheehan began to suspect that
Croker was trying to knock him out. Mr..
Croker did not turn urn IN mucn money M 5 70 lam
tions was 81 500 from large corporation, and
$3.50 from a member of the judiciary. The total
amount collected by Sheehan and turned over
to John McQuade. the treasurer of Tammany
Hail. was $260000 and at the end Of the can
vass McQuade had 100000 in the treasury
thing which had never happened before in the
history of the organization
CROKER COMES OUT INTO THE OPEN.
Having secured the nomination of a man alb
soIutely subservient to him for Mayor, Croker
now out into the open. Two weeks after
the city convention, and before the county con-
vention Daniel F. Mcmahon and Timothy ID.
Sullivan waited on Sheehan at Tammany Hall
and announced that they were committee to
urge him to invite Croker to come to Tammany
Hail. Mindful of the promise Croker had
traeted from him to protect him from just this
thing earlier in the year. Sheehan told the COM
mittee that he wouldn't
Then he said that there had been meeting
at the Murray Hill Hotel. and almost all OF the
leaders there and they had decided that
Croker ought tc go to the hall Sheehan hur-
ried down 10 Croker's office and told him what
had happened. Croker said that some of the
leaders had called on him and asked him to go
to the hail. but that he wanted to do Just what
Mr. Sheehan wanted. Sheehan's ewes were be-
ginning to open by this time, but he was abso-
lutely helpless. because the Croker ticket had
been nominated and its success was assured.
wrote letter inviting Croker to the headquar-
ters That same afternoon. he was informed
that Delnour ana Sheeny nad approached every
district leader in New York County and invited
them to q conference Twenty-Five refused to
60 One said, You ought to put bells on
Croker's ears and send him back to England"
when he was invited Croker has never for
given that man.
The thirteen leaders present were Delmour
Featherson, Sullivan Scannell, Dalton Hayes
Plunkitt McMahon, Stillings Lantry, Ryan
Bowling and Sexton Sheehy, who was not
leader was there. Sheeha4i made up his mind
when he heard this that the reports of disloyalty
which he had heard in regard 10 Croker were
true and he did what he could to protect him
self In the county convention the Sheehan forces
defeated the Croker ticket made up of Grady,
for District Attorney; Keenan,, for Sheriff Keat-
ing for County Clerk and Levy. for Register.
The Sheehan ticket made up OF Gardiner,
for District Attorney: Dunn, for Sheriff: Soh-
mer, for County Clerk, and Fromme, for Regis
ter After election Mr. Croker was recognized
as the power I'm Tammany Hall. and took with
him TO Lakewood all of the leaders.
Croker determined to drive John Sheehan out
of politics and out of New York because OF the
circulation of reports that Sheehan had tried To
supplant him and had treated him unfairly and
improperly. AS matter of fact all that
Sheehan did was 10 be faithful and Croker
abused his confidence and used his trust to kill
him.