The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-06-01
Tammany's Change Of Front-The
Farce Of Directory-Captains of In
Winner of Two Great Stakes
Mr. Schwab's Resort for Children. &c
New York
Letter.,

New York, May 29.-Tammany presents
Itself with a new front. John Carroll
John Keller, Van Wyck-the Ice Com
pany Mayor, and their friends, have been
beaten l may also say that peculiar po-
litical nothing Andrew Freedman, friend
of the Squire of Vantage, general busy
body, etc. has been knocked out" That
Is So the District leaders say Now let
us see what we are supposed to believe.
First that no leader being available, a
directorate of three has been appointed;
secondly, the thirty-six chairman of As
sembly District Committees, forming the
Executive Committees, decided to GUST
all persons not leaders, from places of in
huence and therefore discharge the fl
mace committee of which Mr. Andrew
Freedman was a shining member; third
", that Richard Croker is out
When Mr. Lewis Nixon retired In dis
gust, the exhibition of Cookers strength
admitted no denial. 1t was plainly seen
that the Carroll forces amounted to six
leaders Sullivan with his six stood with
Croker Had Sullivan's strength added to
CARROTS been sufficient to upset Croker,
sullivan would have been with Carroll
as it was, he stood with Croker. Mr..
Nixon complained, if he Is correctly re-
ported of leaders taking his orders and
then asking Croker l. he stood for them
Is it not strange that Carroll could show
$40 much strength before Mr. Nixon re-
signed and so little afterward? What
developed the Croker strength after Mr..
Nixon resigned? The leaders saw the eff
feet on the voters so they played poll
tics" They got up demonstration OF
their own. CarroI. put forward a plan
and the Croker men put forward plan.
The Croker plan went through. The war
dens of the dough bag" styled the FL
nance Committee, were dismissed. The
empty bag was handed for keeping to a
directory-McMahon, Haffen and Murphy
One of the three will be the leader, or
one of the three viii keep a chair warm
for Croker. But the public is invited to
believe that Carroll is beaten and Croker
Is renowned.
There never was more foolish bit of
political juggling Mcmahon is Croker's
mariner in Naughton and Company-so
II Is said and Charlie Murphy, a saloon
keeper is his trusty friend. The only in
denendent is Louis F. Haffen who was
elected President of the Borough of the
Bronx, when all the rest of the Tanlmany
ticket fell Mcmahon, backed by Murphy
will be the Boss" 1t will be mild rule.
When Croker returns in 1903, Murphy will
resign and Croker will be elected to take
his place. Croker owns the Tammany
leaders There is but one man to fear
and that man is Senator Tim Sullivan,
with him Croker has made his peace. To
hear men like Sullivan, Plunkitt and Co.
talk, you would suppose all the world,
save themselves, were born foolish. Lew
Is Nixon would not stoop to their level
and he crowned himself with honor by
treating them as Joseph did the harlot.
The purchase OF a large tract of land
on the south side of Staten Island, by
Charles NJ. Schwab, president of the I'm
tied States Steel Corporation, gave rise
to many highly Illuminated reports which