New-York tribune., 1901-02-20
RAID SPLITS TAMMANY.
REVOLT AGAINST CROKER AMONG THE
GAMBLING SYMPATHIZERS.
NIXON COMES IN FOR ANATHEMAs. AND
scANNELL. HIS POLITICAL SPONSOR.
HAS DESERTED HIM -POOLROOM-
RACETRACK FIGHT MAY
OPEN AGAIN.

Tammany Hall has been split into two almost
equal divisions by the sudden explosion sprung
bv District Attorney Philbin. supposedly acting
on information supplied by Lewis Nixon. chair
man Of the Tammany Vice Committee of Five.
The air around the wigwam in Fourteenth-st..
As we'll as around Ffftieth-st and Fifth-a ave.
where many Tammany moguls gather at night
10 count and spend money raised in the gambling
houses during the day, is Iadened with hot I'M
precatfons against Nixon and Richard Croker.
The order observed in fixing the blame is first
Nixon for being SO foolish, from Tammany
point nf view. as 10 'put the organization in a
hole" and then Croker for backing. Nixon up IN
conducting any sort of vice crusade
nixon ia the Mrs Nation of New York;
nixon IS a dead duck politically"
aTammany will never stand for IT,
These and similar expressions were heard last
night at the Democratic club and the Hoff-
man House Mr. Nixon as chairman Of the
Vice Committee. is regarded by the Tammany
people as the wicked young man with an axe.
although a full investigation Of the facts indi-
cates that he really had little to do with pre-
critating the raid.
Fir Commissioner John J. SCanneI. the po-
HtcaI godfather Of Mr. Nixon. has given the
latter 20 understand that hereafter they will not
pun together politically, and Mr.. Nixon has in
dicated To Mr. Scannel1 that he is old enough
TO think for himself
A SINGULAR feature Of the situation is the de-
veIopment Of an ugly revolt IN Tammany against
Richard Croker His continued absence from
New York has made bolder the natural kick
ers' I'm the organization. and now that the in
comes Of so many are threatened the revolt Is
spreading Were it not for the intense salts
faction derived by many Of the district leaders
Wyck- -Suutvan-Devery crowd, Croker might be
overthrowu before NJ could return from Europe.
As matter of fact the Tammany Commits
sioners drawing from 5000 To $1,000 a year
and spending S2O00 10 run their districts rejofce
IN the war on the gamblers. because they are
not in with the gang that is coming money.
They dozen more men in Tdmmany
rolling up large fortunes and they are getting
none Of IT, Gambling and disorderIy houses in
their Assembly districts. patronized by their
own sons. pay tribute. not 10 the district leader
but 10 the combine This has made some of
the district leaders bitter. and these men gloat
over the exposures being made
1T won't do for Nixon say that he had
nothing TO do with it, said a gambling house
proprietor at the Hoffman House last night
What did he dip into this business at all for?
ScannelI told him to stay off that COMMITTEES.
and ScanneI got off it himself Croker has been
writing Nixon to go on with the fight. not know
ing what he was going 10 do or how he was
going 10 do IT, Croker thinks he can punish
Carroll and Van Wyck for giving him the small
end Of the Ice Trust deal and for doing a lot
Of things he has not been consulted about. He
and Nixon and the rest will get all the fight
they want before they get through with this
The break between Scannell and Nixon is
more serious than would appear on the surface.
SCannell urged Mr.. Nixon TO come 10 New York
and 90 into politics. and in 1897 got him the
nomination in the XXVth District for Alderman
He introduced Nixon 10 Croker who was greatly
taken with the young man. In the summer at
Saratoga MIR Nixon stays at SCannells cottage.
and the two men nave been intimate social
friends for years. Scannell let his friends know
yesterday that he was going 70 be against Nixon
from this time on. and it is believed that Mr..
Croker will get such highly cooTed story of
Nixon's alleged blundertng that he viii conclude
to call off the Committee of Five.
Another feature OF the new situation Is the
prospect OF early renewal Of the fight be-
tween the poolrOOm men and the raCetrack peo-
pie. The pooroom men allege that they will
fight thev did in the early ninetes when they
invoked the aid OF the courts against gambling
Hoffman House last night and talked freely and
bitterly against Mr.. Nixon and his committee.
he would not discuss the raid and it's effects for
publication, however
The friends of Police Commissioner Sexton
said last night that his chances for being ap-
pointed Commissioner under the new law were
greatly improved, as Van Wyck now would have
the support OF almost every district leader in
appointing Sexton, who is known TO be on
terms OF close political and social friendship
with the Carrol-Van Wyck-SulIivan Tammany
men.
PERFECT PULLMAN SERVICE To PINE
HURST. N. c.
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