The sun., 1900-10-06
NAGLE PUNCHES HAFFEN.
FURIOUS FI6HTING AT TAMMANY
SENATORIAL CONVENTION.
street Cleaning Commissioner and President
Of The Bronx and Their Cohorts Clash

Police Reserves called Ont to Prevent
hurder-Row SAN On at 40 This Morn
! Ing Nominations In Other Districts.
All the Tammany Hall Senatorial con yentions
were held last night, and In the Twenty-hrst
/ district, where tho factions met which are led
respectively by Street Cleaning Commissioner
. PerciVal NaRle. leader Of the south half Of the
! lhirty-iourth Assembly district and President
| Louis hatren OF the borough of The Bronx
there was fierce fight In which heads we're
broken. clothes torn and several men we're
seriously injured. The row began before the
convention was called TO order Commissioner
Nagle met President Haffen In a small room OF
I the main hall, which was we'll filed with dele
gates
| Look here. Haren" said Nagle you might
Just as well give up and the two Of us had better
| stop fighting each other. / have i76 votes
| In this convention, and II doesn't matter what
| you do. I'm going to nominate Henry Schrader
for the Senate, and we might just as well get
together and have no row In the convention"
| Nagle. said President Haffen, III you had
| l75 delegates in this convention you wouldn't
be coming around hero trying TO make up 20
\ me. don't care what you say you've got.
know that POI Of those delegates are for me,
! and I'm going to have them nominate Joe
| Hennessey"
| the two statesmen, each Of whom INDUCED in
| considerable high-colored language, and nt
| last blows we're exchanged. Commissioner
NaRle is great, big man. and he bested Presi-
| dent Haien without any trouble This pre-
| liminary settled, the statesmen started out for
the hail. each Of them shovi ing the effects Of the
encounter NaRle's clothing was considerably
| disarranged. as was Haffens
Tho delegates had learned OF the fight be-
tween tho two leaders and they were all ready
TO take hand. MIR Nagle's delegates from
the Twenty-fourth surrounded the platform,
which was about rs feet square and very
low. Nagle and Tlanen reached the platform
about the same time and clambered up on ~.
The delegates began to yoll at the
top Of their lungs A few hi-sed
at the beginning but In order TO make more
noise they decided to shout their opinions OF
each other across the room. President Hafren
got on the platform little ahead of Commits
sioner Naele and he had time TO pick up the
bungstarter. which was TO be used az a gavel
before Mr. NaSe reached It. This enraued
Mr. Nagle's followers and they yelled Put the
Dutchman out
Mr. Hafen's friends responded 10 this by
shreking. Kill the Irish bully
Mr. HafIen welded the bun9startar and |
hammered on the table for order. He kept |
this up until both his arms were tired, but |
made no impression upon the delegates Fl |
nally. when a number OF them paused to take
breath. he yelled at the top OF his voice that
he nominated Michael McDermott for tenn
porary chairman and he put the motion In
the howl that arose from the floor OF the oon-
vention 1t was impossible 10 tell whether the !
aye, or noes had IT, but MIR. Hafrcn declared
MCDeunott elected
McDennott is a man about 90 years old In
response to Mr.. Harcn'5 beckouing finger he
a,gd sa6ar m0uPs ran nr acr EJa''9Im I'm Iomm,s
grabbed Mr.. McDormott where his trousers
fitted the least tightly and threw him into the
their chairs md We're waving their hands and
shouting az the top Of their lungs. A big delegate
Is friendly To Nlr llalen,rl5hed across the room
shaking his fist At the Commissioner of street
Cleaning and shouting You're a damned cow
ard J il lick you for punching that old man"
This Na- It slgnal for every partisan in the
G0nvrniou 10 enter -and-liInble Fight
each Other. h" table on which Mr. HaNcn |
had rounded in his igcnectu1l attempt ~ bring /
me CON- vcn,ion 10 order Wa smashed. It's legs
the south half OF tho Thirty-fourth district.
They formed In doubI" rank about the rlat-
Ing to get 10 IT and attack Magic Whenever a
Nasle man got an .pporluuity he cracked a
deirnde IN 'mselves agrees vely.
The twenty policemen who were in the room
made an luchcctNe attempt To stop the fight
ing. They found that they could do nothing
and one Of them ran out and telrphOned to the
MOrrl-auia police station that naflen and
NaSe were In a riot aud Nat the reserve.
were needed Capt Wosard, Scripts. 0'Toole ,
and Hamilton, four rouud-men and fifty co.'s
started or a Tin for the Coiyeution HAL. when ,
Haffen man from a NaEle man. they we're
80 mixed up. capt W"cand and his mon
platform. clearing a pain by main strength q
apt Weigand mounted the platform and drew I
his revolver from his 10 l;el, :
IF YOU don't sit down IN kill every one Of !
This threa, and the revolv.r in the captains /
hand .quieted the delegate long enough 70 givo :
Mr EagiIe an opportunity TO nomnate I
IT9seph TS vogaT!o. HaTt Tor tenn Lornry Chairman
NOV, Ess''es and Sav'ed !SSr !Syre Leaders lips
pTiHcpc. % ' HarT" elected" Yelled ssnsJs Sass
In ,hc, meant'mo Capt WeiVand's police '
1ueStmg the delegates 10 keep order, and ]
for few minutes there was n semhlance of b
70 carry tho convention by calling for nominal
iiCns for temporary secretary, there was an
iesred, hooted, and whooped Then they
iel to curSing each other
\ good many Of them had lost neckties,
and collar had been torn OF John Nagie bis
brother, keeper OF the city. Prisons was badly I
rut about tho face. President HafTen created .
a side disturbance by demanding the arrest
u Thomas Kennedy. whom he accused of being 2
he londCr Of The rtotins among the Nasle dele. 7
tal''> NdE" ,HH" I" N'nn"HN rescue and n
he result was that no arrest was made Il
Every time Mr., Hart tried 10 call the meet h
ng To- order the disturbance was renewed and I
n half past 1 o'clock the convention Was I 4
not organized. Mr., NaGlc and Mr. iiafen 4
both declared that they would stay there for y
week until the matter was settled Mir V
Nage said thrt ne had little argument with Il
Nr IlaNcn previous 10 the convention. Mr. =
lafTen refused to discuss the little Argument" n
At o'clock. one Of The delegates ran TO a tele- L
,honc in the noighborhood and called up judge :
T'n Hoe.en ~ the Democratic Club
For Gods sake, h" said, go and wake IN
'ir Croker. Judge. or murder will be done
lere.'
The other conventions passed OF without
,Cdent. Here is n list Of the nominees
DI Nominee DN Norrtns.
q. John Ah-Arn' 10. y. J. TraInor |
/. Timo'hy ID. : lvan' :. &. W. Plunku.
?. Samuel !. Foley rs. Victor ! Bowling |
:. Bernard r. Martini 10. Charles I. Ciuv
{. ThOs L. Grady 20. Thomas I. Donn,lIy |
5. II. Lindsey ~, Fighting |
Indicates reuominaton.