The sun., 1902-04-21
WIGWAMRENT WITHRIVALRIES
FIGHTS AT THE PRIMARIES IN
AT LEAST 22 DISTRICTS.
Election OF Nixon for Leader scarcely
Looked For as the Outcome Made
Trouble without Meaning To and the
Result Is More Music Than Harmony.

Looked For as the OutcOme-Made
Trouble without Meaning To and the
Result Is More Music Than Harmony.
Outside Of the muss that the Democratic
party as a whole is in in this county, that
select portion Of it know as Tammany Hall
has troubles that are taking up all the time
OF it's leaders. Men who have watched
the political changes in New York for years
say that they have never seen the time when
Tammany was so rent with discords from
one end Of the island to the other.
The rank and file have refused to believe
that Lewis Nixon is anything more than
a stop gap, and they laugh at the idea that
| he is really doing any leading. Mr.. Nixon
himself has done all that he could, without
! meaning to, to aid and abet strife and
trouble in the district organizations by
| speaking before clubs of men opposed TO
1 the leaders.
| Every kicker who had heard of his doing
\ this has made up his mind that there is a
free license 10 make trouble, and every
district leader and his followers think that
Mr.. Nixon has gone out OF his way TO help
| make the trouble.
There are twenty-five or more districts
In which men have already announced that
| they are going to fight for the leadership
| this fall, within the ranks OF Tammany.
| These men say that they are loyal to the
Fourteenth street organization, but op-
posed to the leaders who happen to be In
| power.
The fights begin with the First district.
| where Battery Dan Finn is out for the scalp
Of Col. Michael G. Murphy. He is going
| after the Colonel at the primaries, and he
has been helped along by Mr.. Nixon, who
went down and addressed his club the
other evening Notwithstanding the fact that
Col. Murphy was one of Mr.. Nixons as
sociates on the Tammany Purity Five.
| In the Third district Dominick Mullany
has announced that he is going to get the
scalp Of ex-Councilman p. J. Ryder, and
that his fight is entirely within the lines
Of Tammany Hall.
In the Fourth district it is said that there
will be a fight against ex-Coroner Fitz-
patrick.
In the Fifth Ernest Harvier has announced
that he wants TO succeed Senator Bernard
+. Martin, who had been the leader Of
the district for many years. In the Seventh
an opponent to ex-Aderman Patrick II.
keahon has appeared in the person of
John Fitzpatrick.
| In the Ninth all the opposition 70 Frank
j. Goodwin is centred in the Sheehan fol-
| lowers, who expect TO carry this district
anyway, no matter what happens 70 the
| others.
In the Tenth julius Hamburger will have
fight on his hands AT the primaries. and
the forces opposed to him are preparing
. now to announce themselves. In the
Thirteenth there will be a fight against
the leadership OF Peter j Dooling, led bv
the O'Briens, who have been opposed to
him for years.
In the Seventeenth several candidates
are in the field to give battle 20 ex-Judge
, Daniel +. Mcmahon. the chairman of the
Tammany Executive Committee.
In the Nineteenth John Spnmt Hill has
! taken the field against John b, Sexton,
and the word has been passed along the
line that Mr.. Hill has the support Of Mr.
| = vS
| that he is taking no part in the struggle
He went up and addres sed Mr.. Hills crowd,
, though, and they decided TO name the hall
in which they met Nixon Hall Mr. Sex
|. tons friends are very sore about this.
James p keating the leader of the Twen-
tieth, has all sorts Of trouble on his hands
, and il has been said that he would retire
gracefully, as Maurice +. Holahar, the
leader Of the Twenty-fourth, did. There
are half dozen movements against Mr..
, | keating on foot.
Matthew T. Donohue OF tho Twenty-first
=, | has been informed by several of his friends
, that they have been approached and asked
to take part in movement against him
and that there was no doubt that a fight
! | would be made.
: In the Twenty-third there will be a fight
= | against the Whaen- McAvoy combination
, | There has been some talk Of a fight against
| the Scannells in the Iwentytifth. Nc
| one seems to know what this amounts to.
In the Twent y-seventh James j. Martin
| l. the leader. II was said that AT one time
julius Harburger, and some Of the Others
whose judgmen,s are not a. good a. the.
nigh be- thought i would be a good thin < I,
20 into Mr. Martin di-tri and see il the,
: could not make trouble for him. They
< have probably repcnted and II is not cX
n pected that there will be any trouble In thi
A district
Drlmour has announced that he il out fo
4 John +. CAROLS political shoes. Two o
q three other eminent DEMOCRATS are ais
n in the field against Mr.. Carroll. and, whethc
, some Of them drop out of the fight or not Mr.
= Carroll will have TO fight II he re tains th,
y leadership " the district
Whispering Larry controls the IhiTtieth
o through Harry { Hart, tho nominal leader
| and for this reason thO-s wh q think thH
d TanIuany could exist without he Whispere
"a much betIer than he could exist thou
!, the Hall, Are going 10 Try TO put him out o
y business ther" 10y cleCting successor I,
" Mr Hart.
y II il expected that John J. Ryan IA
| Auueduct Commissioner, will attempt u
unhor-e James frawlcy, who kn0ck'-
o him out of the leadership of the Thirty
l. second laHt year. either ~ taking the n,l
himself, ur els" 10y helping some othp
young man in th" fight
Assemblyman Egan har announce,
that he IL CdudldHt" to ruo'evd Dclut
~ civ Clerk llaycr Ia the Ihiuy-thrd !, NJ
j. toWan has h"gIu q campaign aRaIu-
=, PcrciNal t. Magic tu the south hHlt ~ ~
:, IhTty-tOuuh, while Anthony MCOwru
y" after the political Job 81 August Mucpu
N IN the north hall "a senator Mitch,
N has announced himself a. oaudidat
n against President hafrn Of Tho Bruus
in Nj Hancu runs tllugr aH d" p'oarrs l
HE district, and a-ks llttl" cdds II the Tee
II Of the organization
"a llrre afr twenty-five hghts, all ~ who
~ are d,ylar'd tu b. entirely within thr lau
m many urgunllatiuu The primaries az
IN srill fuu months pn ald Wrrr arr ~
\, month, Iu which tlu 'Hulrtdlug rtaurr
y mru can have tuUlr lulunvrs enrolled
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