The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-12-31


sell. While he was camoring Tor ,'r
protest to be read Senator Plunkitt ro@"
and said: Il move that Mr.. Oakley be mac e
the permanent chairman Of this meeting
This was carried and the meeting went
on with its routine business. the chairman
refusing to recognize Devery, and some
one always shutting him out with some
motion foreign to his claims.
senator Thomas +. Grady moved that q
committee OF five he appointed to draw
up rules FOR the government of the Cen
eIaI committee. senator Grady, President
iiafen of The Bronx, Alderman Timothy
=. Suiiivan. Senator Thomas G. O'Sullivan
and Senator Victor j Bowling, were APP
pointed on that committee.
CRAM MADE PRESIDENT.
John F. Ahearn moved that the G ,neral
committee elect the following officers for
the coming year: President, j. Sergeant
'ram first vice-president. John I. Oakley.
second vice-president, John b. Hasslocher,
recording secretary. Patrick A Whitney;
reading secretary. Thomas F. Smith, CORE
spending secretary. Gus A. Rodgers; treas
urer John McQuade, sergeant AT -arms.
John Is. NJ 'Closkey. This ticket was elected
without opposition.
VACANCY FOR THE NINTH.
. Senator Bowling moved that tho new
Executive { ,mmi,tre b, made up of n mem.
ber from each dist rlCt named by the dele
t1'S ,heieiIoHl Nhch lne Nhitn WIZ
called Devery gave his own name II Vas
not put on the roll pending the report of the
Cpmini tee on C.rdrntial-
The Ninth Is therefore left without repre-
sehtation on the Executive Committee.
Inc committee, II was said last night
would 'ah" its own good time about investi-
gazing the contest. Ii might not be able to
make 4 report before the next primaries,
when Devery will have TO fight again for
the leadership of the Ninth.
TN motion of Julius Hamburger, each
dis,rlct named an honorary vice-presdent
OF 'h@ General Committee and an honorary
secretary. The Ninth was left blank again.
II was then announced that the Ex-
%htlve Committee would hold it, first
meeting next Monday night.
he protest Secretary Whitney handed to
Chairman Van HoeSen was put in =, aled
envelope Leader Murphy refused 10 have
II opened after the meeting. He decline d
to talk abou, it, Neither he nor any Of
those through whose hands the protest
passed would say by whom IL WAS made.
EXTRA POLICE PROVIDED IN ADVANCE.
The meeting was over at $50 o'clock
That Leader Murphy had planned this
surprise and had feared that Devery and
his men might undertake To Use force was
evident from the fact that in the afternoon
Tammany made an application to the East
Twenty-second street police station for
/,
Roundsman Smith and eight police n
were sent 10 the hall at 7 O'Clock TO preserve
order.
While the crowd was dispensing, Devery's
men and the galleries kept cheering for Big
Bill. But the ex-Chief Was mad and woT-
iied and he didn't hear it.
BIG FOUR THEE Me OUT"
The people ara ben' highwayed by
this gang, said he, as he vent down the
ia
big four. There's Grand Central Plunkitt,
the truth about him would poison the air
Pennsylvania Charley (Murphy) who held
up the tunnel nago Ian with his waxed
mustaches McMahonl and Big Tim, who
tries 10 skin the New York Central and the
Pennsylvania at the same time. Do they
think they can put up such a job on me?
I'm no railroad to he held up and no farmer
to take the big mitt and slide home. Be
fore I'm done with them l II make them
dance n Liverpool hornpipe.'
THEY CAN'T KEEP NE OUT"
WIN you 20 TO the courts, Chief1' he was
asked.
I'm 60 every which way" shouted Big
Bill. And I'll win. They can't keep me
out Thes" jumping jacks are not grating
n franchise when they take hold Of me.
They've got a live one 10 deal with. I've
got the law with me and I'll fight, fight.
fight. feel disguised enough with the
gang W htaTt an lnueEsnuent LefnOcratlc
labor party over our way. But I'm going
to fight. ! want TO fight. III fight every
minute
The leaders Of Tammany said very sol-
EMMY that a protest had been made and had
been referred to a committee. That, they
said, was all they knew about il. Privately,
they said IL was the plan at present to leave
the contest in the committee.
IL the County Committee rules be held
to be supreme Tammany may expel Devery
under Article VIII, which says:
Expulsions.,The County Committee may
for ca use expel any member or declare vacant
vote of two-thirds Of the members present
and voting. provided that the persons voting
FER such actor shall constitute majority
OF all the members elected,
Regarding the composition Of the Execu.
tive Committee the Tammany rules say:
The member from each Assembly district
and from the annexed district shall he CT osen
by the members Of the County Committee
district and their names reported at the first
meeting OF the County Con mittee In the
.vept Of the members Of any ,i.t1ict being
Committee the president shall appoint one
OF the members OF the County Committee
from such district to act as a member OF the
Executive Committee.
The article does not say that majority
vote shall be an agreement. One delegate
might by a negative vote constitute a dis
agreement which would enable the presi-
dent Of the County Committee. now
Sergeant Cram, to appoint the Executive
member.
JUST HINT TO BE GooD2
A close friend OF Devery said Last night
that the contest could not he held up in
committee for any long period or the courts
could he appealed to and decision forced
II was possible, he said, that IL any of
Devery's delegates could be- won away
from him a disagreement might be ar
ranged and the appointment lett to Presi-
dent Cram He believed, he said, that last
nights movement was taken merely to
compel Devery to keep out OF tho contest
In the Sixteenth Senatorial dist riot where
Peter j. Dooling is on the slate, and to
make him be good"
In the afternoon Tanmany Leader
Murphy had long conference with Sena-
tor Grady, Congressman Mcclellan and
Secretary Smith.