New-York tribune., 1901-02-08
MAYOR LEANS TO MARTIN. |
MAY APPOINT HIM POLICE COMNIIS-
SIONER INSTEAD OF SEXTON.
SEEMS TO BE DESERVING THE CARROLL
CROWD FOR NIXON-WAITING NOW
FOR CROKER'S DECISION.

Ex-Police Commissioner James J. Martin.
Tammany leader in the XXvIIth Assembly Dis
trict. is being backed for the new Police Com
missionership by the Whalen- Nixon AIcLaugh
lin -Shevlin crowd in Manhattan and Brooklyn.
II the predictions Of prominent men in this fac
tion of Tammany Hall are halfway true John T.
Carroll. John b. Sexton. Senator Tim SuUi-
van. Percy +. NaEle and the other Tamnar r.
district leaders whose names frequently are
connected with those Of the gamblers and pool
room proprietors are beaten. and badly beaten.
in their little game make Mr. Sexton Police
Commissioner under the new law. Mayor Van
Wyck, after riding on the Carroll Sullivan band
wagon ever since his famous Ice Trust ex-
cursion 70 the Maine coast last spring has
found rear seat on the regular wagon. where
a front seat is reserved for Richard Croker
whenever he chooses to return 10 town from
Vantage. England.
Carroll Sexton. Devery Sullivan and their
friends have been caught mapping by their ad-
versaries and completely outgeneralled. Corpor-
alton Counsel Whalen has been sick" and con
fined 70 the house" and "indisposed" for tho
last ten days. bat he has not been too sick L.
wage successful battle against Carroll of
whom he is jealous Every Tammanyitt nov
is interested In seeing whether Tim" Sullivan
and Johnny" Carroll VIII "lie down" as m.
phrase goes I'm Tammany or stand uu 10 De.
knocked down. Il IS conceded that sullivan. ~
he cares TO carry the fight the last ditch has
a fighting chance Of putting Sexton in the Com
missioner's chair. If ne fights. however. there
is no telling what viii become Cf him after his
defeat. He knows the fate OF John C. Sheehan
and Henry D. Purroy. and the only school Of
politics he ever attended is the old-fashioned
winning Tammany kind, with the regular tiger
stripes. He will not relish anything different.
That is why II is freely predicted at the Demo
cratic Club that he viii take his medicine and
bide his uInf for an opportunity to punish
Whalen and Nixon in convention
While Sullivan has been in Albany. Whalen
and Nixon have been seeing Sulllvan's enemies
I'm the Bowery. with the result that they know
all about goings on IN Tins" district With
the record in black and white Mr. Nixon has
been TO see District Attorney Philbin. Whether
he has shown Mr.. Phibn all his trumps is Il
question. That he has shown him enough 10
cause Sullivan lot Of worry is certain and
Mr. Nixon still has lot of things in reserve
Every day this week Mr.. Whalen either has seen
Reconnaissance Martin has communicated
with him over the telephone and as early as
Tuesday Mr.. Martin wss informed that il looked
il he could be the next Police Commissioners
All this work carsed without TAX
ing the Mayor into account But Mr.. Van Wyck
sioner Nixon. as a member of the Naval Alumni
Association, sought the Mayors kind offices I'm
behalf Of a 100000 naval arcn, the Mayor
showed a born affection for Mr.. Nixon by
assuring him that he ought to have million
instead of 100000 for the arch Since Wednes-
day the friends OF Nixon and WhaIen have been
winking and smiling at each other. and the
CarrOllites and Sullivanites have been wonder
ing if it isn't about time to get together
Larry" DelmOur, another intimate friend of
Croker has Joined hands with Nixon and
Whaen and the Committee of Five and this
combination has made virtual compact with
the Mclaughlin machine in Kings against Car
roll and DeveTy and Sexton Everything is
waiting now for the action Of Croker Carroll
Sullivan and the more pronounced friends Of
the gamblers put in the attitude of
"kickers'' and outsiders and il will be easy
for Croker TO treat them coIdIy when the time
comes TO do it
The Tammany Executive Committee will be
organized this afternoon at O'clock and ii will
be surprising If a semblance of peace is main
tained through II all. II is expected that d. F.
Mcmahon Will be reelected chairman of the
Executive Committee Mr.. Croker of the FL
nance Committee. and Mr. Whalen OF the Law
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