New-York tribune., 1902-09-16
that Murphy would be the next leader OF Tam
many Hall.


many Hall.
AGREEMENT TO DEFEAT DEvERY.s
At this council of war; it was said. there was
an agreement to throw over Frank Goodwin,
Deveryas adversary, and direct the organization
in the IXth District to vote for John c Sheehan-
Goodwin, who was late arrival at the confer
~nce. fatiy denied this report and pronounced
it as '.tommyrot7 Still, there is considerable
eredence given to che report that the steady
progress of Devery toward victory has terrified
the Hall and that. yielding to the pressure
from upstate Democrats, the Tammany leaders
have decided TO beat Devery at any cost
we know Sheehan. and. having turned him
dow, once can do il again if necessary is the
comment to be heard all sides. For one thing
is certain whether Sheehan as temporarily read
n1itted to the Hall not. he is to-day as un-
popular with the rank and file of Tanmany Hall
The place that the Greater New-Ycrk Demec-
racy plays in this contest is Interesting. As
usual this organization carries at the front the
anti-Croker legend II claims made by the lead
ers are substantiated. at least twenty Assembly
districts will fall TO the lot Of the anti-Croker
combination, which is the designation for the
Sheehan- Carroll combination. When by
reporters yesterday, Mr.. Sheehan expressed eN-
tremely roseate views of the fight from the
point Of view Of his organization
DISTRICTS FOR TAMMANY DEFEATS.
The districts that Mr. Sheehan IS confident his
organization viii carry the Hid. IXth.
XyIIth, xxIst. XXIId. XXVth and XXXIIId.
where the Greater New-York Democracy has
candidates in the field. Mr. Sheehan declared
that there was no significance in the fact that
the Greater New-York Democracy had Endorsed
Julius Hamburger, the Tammany leader in the
:xth Assembly District. He remarked that he
disapproved of John B. Doris running against
James J. Martin in the XATTIth District as he
understood from all sides that Martin is opposed
TO Crokerism
fuIl statement of the district fights was
published in The Tribune of Sunday The dis
tricts in which there seems TO be likelihood Of
a change are the LIST and IXth, with possibility
of new leader in the XIkth. In the Ist there
appears 10 be little question but that Battery
Dam Finn Will succeed in ousting ex-Police
Commissioner Michael c. Murphy, in spite of
the fact that TIE latter has the support of the
Tamnany Hall organization In the IXth the
fight lies between Sheehan and DeVery, Good
win. the present leader being entirely out of the
running whichever way the fight turns out
there Carroll is certain of the support of the
leader in the XIXth the campaign Of Joseph
H. Kehoe against John b. Sexton has grown
hot and predictions made yesterday that
Sexton would be beaten.
FIGHT AGAINST EN-sHERIFF DUNN.
other districts in which there are hot fights
are the Hid where P. J. Ryder is opposed by
w H Walker and the XXVIth. where ex-
Sheriff ''Tonmie" Dunn has attracted consider
sble attention in the courts by his charges of
fraudulent colonizing on grand scale His
opponent is James j. Walsh. who has the sup
pert of Devery. The XNIAth is the scene of
a three cornered fight between John F. Car
roll. Thomas E. Rush and Myer J. Stein but 1t
is generally believed that Carroll Will win out
The only other districts where there is posi-
bilitz of a change is the XXXIIId where James
- Q. Collins is making things uncomfortable Tor
a Nick" Hayes, the present leader = :
~ Other fights Of less magnitude are gong on IN
. the XXIId. where Frank J. Dantry is resisting
the attack of J. T. Cronir; in the &A&INth,
where ex-Commissioner Percy Nagle has a
bitter fight on his hands and in the AhAFth,
where Eaffen is fighting for his place Ihese
are the most important skirrnishes but to be
exact one would have to say that from the Bat
terry TO The Bronx Tammany Hall is in the
s7v district leader has some sort of fight on his
hands There the district fights. the fght
for the control Of the whole Of Tamnany Han
and the fight of the Greater NaN-fork Deinoc-
racy to break in
DIcKERs MAY FeLEow FIGHT -.
II is not impossible that when the smoke OF
the prinary fight has cleared away and the re-
suit shows as it probably viii that between
Them Murphy and Carroll control majority OF
L executive committee. some satisfactory
compromise viii be arranged. Now that the
sullivan faction seems definitely committed 10
the support of Murphy, he may have a ma
iority of district leaders On the other nand, II
is equally certain that Carroll will controi MS
own district and viii have with him a COM
pact organization OF leaders from seven or elght
districts r..
An estimate Of the money spent in the Ialn-
many fights u.s. Of course. largely a matter OF
guesswork- Probably more money has peeh
--exercised' in DeVery's fight Than anywhere
else bat 1t is within the mark TO say that at
lest S2oafsle has been expended Of this Dew
cry alone is credited with spending at least
$4,000.