New-York tribune., 1902-06-18
TIGERS OLIVE BRANCHES.
ASKS COCHRAN, PURROY, CANTOR AND
OTHERS TO COME BACK.

THE. FIRST ACCEPTS INVITATION TO MAKE
! A FOURTH OF JULY GRAFTON
IN wIGwAM.
rAMMANY's PROMISING AND PENITENT
To " BoURKE CoCKRAN-Come back. and veil let let
you speak en- 1tc95 RGgTh of 5Hg 6sfre and you
To HENRY D PURRoY-Come back and maybe you'll
! To JACOB A CANTOR-Come back. and year from next
fall Ven perhaps nominate you for Mayor
To Messrs. WHITNEY. CRIMMINs. and many others
Come back good
To JOHN C. sHEEHAN-We don't want you
To prove that Richard Croker is not now the
dictator of the Tammany Society, Justice
O'Gorman and his associates on the Fourth of
July committee have invited W. Bourke Cock
to speak al the Wigwam celebration on the
Fourth. Mr. Cochran is to receive an offer of
Congress nomination if he wants to re-enter
public life, or possibly, to succeed Senator
Platt, if the Democrats should control the Leg
islature.
Borough President Haffen of The Bronx. cru
ely referred to by a large man named Bill
Devery az a Joke" has invited Ex-County
Clerk Henry D. Purroy back into the ranks. 1t
is expected that Mr. Purroy will accept. He
worked against Tammany at the last election.
Borough President Jacob A Cantor has been
informally invited by Senator Sullivan, Senator
Featherson, Lewis Nixon and others to come
back into Tammany and accept nomination
for Mayor that his friends in Tammany will
try to get for him year from next fall. Mr..
Cantor is busy taking of the arduous du-
ties of his office and says: Wait till we smash
Tammany Hall and then We'll talk"
CANTOR RAN TAMMANY MEN
A few days before Lewis Nixon retired from
the leadership of Tammany a constituent of
Senator Sullivan went to the Senator and said
that Mr. Cantor was running the Board of
Aldermen, Tammany Democrats and all
We'll, what more do you want?' was Tins"
answer. The kicker took his grievance to Lewis
Nixon and Mr.. Nixon asked him about the same
thing Since then there has been a steady
string of Tammany district leaders who have
found 1T convenient to drop in on Mr.. Cantor
and tell him that he was making awful mis-
take in staying out of Tammany.
The movement for absolutely knifeless po-
liticsl period in Tammany began a few days
after Justice OGorman became grand sachem
of the Tammany Society Mr.. OGorman and
Mr.. Cochran have been friends for many years.
and the judge thought II would be good idea
TO get Mr.. Cochran back into the Tammany fold.
and the same time accentuate the alleged
fact that Richard Croker no longer the
boss. Whether Mr.. Croker is this not, the
( suggestion that Mr.. Cochran ought to be taken
back was ndorsed by all the members of the
J Fourth of July committee with the exception Of
John F. Carroll. who has not yet been heard
from Mr. O'Gornlan talked it over with Colonel
Asa Bird Gardiner. Randolph Guggenheimer.
Patrick Keenan,. Charles F. Murphy and Daniel
F. Mcmahon and they one and all said that 1t
would he a good plan for Mr.. Cochran 10 make
one Of the long talks on the Fourth and 10
have Senator Bailey. of Texas, make the other
extended discourse. provided Mr.. Cochran
finishes in time Justice Morgan J. O'Brien and
Surrogate Fitzgerald. it is said. We're brought
into the conference. and then note was sent to
Mr.. Cochran asking him to speak He ac-
cepted.
Soon Il was suggested that Henry n. Purroy,
William c. Whitney John n Crromns and Mr..
Cantor. he sounded their attitude toward
Tammany. on the supposition that Richard
Croker was only political memory.
NO BRANCH FOR sHEEHAN
With Mr- Cochran a starter. it Is expected
that there will be nothing but harmony talk in
the Wigwam for the next six months The olive
branch is likely to he extended to almost every
one calling himself a Democrat with the excep-
tion Of John G. Shechan. MI Sheehan is looked
upon as a bad man." and he IS left out MT.
Sheehan has adopted platform with one planh
that reads. Smash Tammdny Han lhS
CRATES on the feelings OF the braves.
Mr. Cochran has been out with Nchard
Croker for ten years or more The last time
n natternpt was made to reconcile them was
one dav when Mayor Gilroy offered his services
as peacemaker He saw Mr.. Croker and told
him -bat MIR Cochran waiting for him
(GilrovD to return and tell him that Croker
would him.
Tell Cochran if he comes up here III kick
him all the way downstairs" was Mr. Crokers
repIy It was elegant as one OF MI
Cockran's perorations. Mr. Cochran did not
come Soon afterward Croker drove him out
of the organization.
Henry u. Purroy and John c. Sheehan have
hean noIiticaI enemies for years, and the fact
J that Purroy may go back 10 the wigWam Is
likely to keep Mr.. Sheehan away from It,
Mr. Cochran supported Mckinley IN lo9o'
! Tracy for Mayor in 1897, Van Wyck for Gov
ernor in 1888. Bryan for President in l'oo
and Shepard for Mayor in 1901 His support
/ of = candidate now is regarded somewhat
valua bic political asset for the other fellow
Mr. Cochran will be at the Tiden Gun open
Ing on THURSDAY night and may he called on
for a speech. He will select his own sunJect
for the Fourth of July.