The sun., 1900-12-16
POLITICS OF TIE SHAKE-UP
HteH n'IAU0RIss sArs EfNOt
COUNTY vow sTA>D ~.

Doirs somsthins b. the Wep"b"t"ns'
me action Of Chief Dsvsrv In making tho
| ransfers 10 very distAstefIl to es-Resister
Hugh mclaughlin. who II In control on the
King, county Democracy While n Il said
that he was extremely angry when he heard
. of the transfers yet he declined 10 be inter
viewed by the reporters He spent several
q hours In playing dominoes IN the basement
4 ~ tha Borough IInll. Brooklyn, last night.
/ In discussing tho matter yestsrdsy he said
, to n friend
! Whom the sods destroy they first make
mad II my advice 10 asked I shall advise
the cutting loose of the Kings county Demo-
cratic organization from any organization
or individual that sustsins or upholds Mr.
| Dovery
4 do not know that this act OF Devsry's
! is sustained by Tammany Hall II may be
| n personal matter with Dev~ry - get In a
! parting slap at Presiden, York. who recently
demanded his resignation ne Chief Of POLICE 3"
Go where you would last night and the
| politicians. Republicans. Democrats and mug
| wumps. talked about the great police shake
| up Many politicians were at tho Fifth Ave-
nue. Hotel and others were az Delmonico's.
and still more were at the Waldorf Astoria.
senator Patrick Henry McCarren Mr. Me-
| IauGhin's Lieutenant, was at Delmonicos.
| and he was very angry because a Republican
! poll 80 official had been put In chsrc. In Brook
| lvn. He did not ca re 70 be specifically quoted.
| but he was not in a pleasant frame ~ mind.
Senator Platt. National Committeeman
Frederick \. Gibbs for the state Of New York.
and william II. Ten Eyck. chairman 81 ths
Executive Committee OF the Repuhl can
County Committee. had a long talk at the
Fifth Avenue Hotel
After the confab there was report 10
ths effect that senator Plaet and Mr.. Gibbs
and those associated with them had fright
ened Tammany into making this shake-gp
for the purpose Of getting rid OF Police Gem
missioner Jacob Hess and naming In his
place either the Hon. Charles = Wilbur, lust
retired - United States SuperNi,or Of tAe
Census for this district or ex-senator Charles
b. Page. who Is now one OF the Inheritance
Tax Coll lsctors under the new law. great
m any Republicans Of rsnown have desired
the appointment Of Mr.. wilbur on the ground
that he VA Q most efflcient executive Of
ficer and . highly respect citizen.
Tho objection made to Mr.. Wilbur. 1t was
understood last night, 10 that Mr.. Wilbur
10 q resident Of the Nineteenth Assembly
district from which Collector George l..
Bidweu comes. The objection was that
two great appointments could not be made
from the same Assembly district,
It was very apparent from the CONVERSE
ton last night with Mr.. platt tnat Mayor
Van Wyck would not resppoint ex-Pollos
Commissioner Thomas L. Hamilton. and
Mr. G.bbs is quite ready 20 admit this to be
q fact
Mr. Gibbs and the Hon. John +. carroll.
Mr.. Croker's representative. have had u
long con. erence within 'he last few days
and it wa, apparent at the end ol this talk
o., "a, 81,
Mr.. Hamilton Mr.. Cibhs has pinned his
entire iaith TO MIR. Hamilton, lie has he-
neyed that Mayor Van NIX should rein
state MIR. Hamilton on tie ground tHat Mr..
Hamilton 0ds urIustly removed.
Other Republican politicians believe that
Mr.. Ten Eyok should succeed Mr.. Hess. A
great many other Republicans have insisted
that MIR. Wilbur should be the man. The
latest turn Is TO the effect that ex-senator
Page is to succeed Mr.. Hess.
A large-sized grin was over the face OF all
the politicians. The universal opinion was
to the effect that Tammany had been biutfed
into making the shske-up fearing that Sena-
tor Platt and. his friends would pass some
sort OF a police Dill at Albany.
Tnere was quiet comment to the eh ect that
Tamm ny IL the lost iufIe org nj ton on
to- of lrth, that III TIE mo { tinii ans fear
Iul, tnl bik boAoio VIC GU ". % siih"
played TIE Republic n VII have all taey Ge-
sire in Gre ter NeS York. md I. ere will be no
police bill pissed II Alb ny
That Senator MoCarren was really back
Ing Devery In the transfers was one OF the
theories In Brooklyn. but this was dlsored-
tied Said tine friend Of Hugh Mol ughln.
who has been quoted MIR. Mel .ughlln
said this 70 me and 1t tells lot There are
three things We can be absolutely certain
of-death, Judgment and Deverys retire.
ment.'"
Another thing that attracted attention
was the fact that the Croker purifiers had
nothing to do with the shakc-up. The part
Ing injunction Of Mr.. Croker TO his purifiers
was to roduoe results. out yesterdays
results came about without their knowledge
and through no influence exerted by them.
Two members of the Purifying Committee
admitted last night that they had had nothing
TO do with the changes. They were Presi-
dent Michael &. Murphy Of the Board OF
Health and NJ. Marley Platzek. The puri-
fers got their first news about these police
changes in the afternoon newspapers
All the Tammany district leaders who we're
seen last night said that they were very much
surprised at the changes and they declared
that they had not been consulted one of
the leaders who said this was Police Com
missioner John B. sexton OF the Nineteenth
Assembly DISTRICT
4 did not know anything about the
changes, said Mr. Sexton They are en-
tlfey within the jurisdio ton Of the Chief
OF Police and are soniething which the Com
missioncrs have nothing 10 do with"
One of the most carefully enforced rules
which MIR. croker made for the guidance
OF Tammany Hall upon its return to power
In itW was that the Commissioners and city
officials should not discuss city Affairs. Tam
mary men in the absence Of Mr.. Croker had
nothing TO say FIR publ cation last night in
regard to It Irivaely. they said that hey
We're very much amazed and good many
OF them went up to he Democratic Club 10
see II ,hev couldn't find out what II all meant
A leader of Il strong Iamm6ny district told
q reporter for THf SIN that one Of the men
transferred had been made a captain through
his influence. but that lie had received no hint
II tie proposed sniff This leader appeared |
10 lie very sore. and he said that the whole !
business had beer arranged In star cha'ub"r
proceedings several leaders declared that ,
they were convinced no such general shakc-GI
in tho department would have been made |
without consultation With Mr.. croker, hut
VIII 7 messages, II any, had been received from .
the Tamuany cAlnfta!n nobody would say.
The RrUOktNu EdG'c said
They tire chan .-es have but. one sig |
niGCanCe II is that the yambltr-, pool |
sellers and manipulItuIS Of the houses II I
Yilcncss over here have secured IA" scatter !
INK Il the officers W q tried to break up trcir 1
business and VINO did keep It IN bounds ard /