The sun., 1902-02-01
WILL REVOLT AGAINST NIXON.
,ryT PRIMARIES WILL REVEAL
REAL LEADER OF TAMMANf.
Croker Can Have the Place u He wants 10
come Home, but lie Can't Delesatc
Ills Power -Dclnnour 10 Fight Carro'i
for Leadership In the Twenty-ninth.


.wo ike Brother Nixon personally
.,id the spokesman OF group oil lammany
,a.dars last night. "but We don't believe II
iii do him any good 70 chase around among
,ho districts in an effort TO make friends
~ the leaders. While we are personally
friendly 10 Mr. Croker, we don't DeheVe
,.ct Mr. Croker can point his finger at any
man ard say, Here, you fellows, take
this man TO be leader
"A Taumany leader Is not selected IN
,his fashion. Nixon il bully good fellow,
ln,, we will not accept him as leaoer DC
cause Mr.. Croker tells us to do SO. Mr.
Crokcr himself was not selected 10 be leader
IN this fashion The idea that Mr.
cocker can tell us to make Nixon
,aoJer and obey him, and then depart
s.r his home in Vantage and at
49,, s,,oo ,irnc force Andrew Freedman anil
n,,r,he- OF other personal friends to be
so,oc,ed by Judge Van Hoesen. In the FL
r,nco Committee Is q very peculiar sltua-
,io, We will not tolerate IL. II Mr.
CroLor wants 10 come back 10 this country
zoo vim accept him MS leader OF Tammany
Hall and will be very glad to do so. But
Hugh Mclaughlin OF Brooklyn, the leader
Of the Democratic party of that place for
for.v wears. cannot make James Shevlin
or any other Democrat district leader the
leader Of tho Brooklyn Democracy by the
nero rule Of say 90. just so with Mr'
Croker in New York county
I'VE will beat Mr.. Nixon at every primary
in New York city in September next, and
We will do this, not because we dislike Mr..
Nixon. but because Mr. Croker cannot
leeyo for lis. home in Vantage and direct
Ms. tho district leaders Of Tammany Hall,
10 ACCEPT a man, who, no matter how Kindly
and how fine a man hc is. has never been
a district leader: who never won HE spurs
as a Tammany leader; who was born in
Virginia, and who is simply thrust upon
us by Mr. Croker. Mind you, there Is
nothing unfriendly in these comments
against Mr.. Nixon except politically, that
the thirty-fve district leaders who have
surrounded Mr., Croker for many years
will not permit him to delegate his authority
to Mr. Nixon, or Mr.. Smith, or Mr.. Jones,
or Mr. Brown, or to anybody else In his
absence. Mr.. Nixon may have a pleasant
time in visiting tho various Tammany
organizations Ia all of tho districts, but
the fact remains rs We tell you--we will,
at tho proper time, the September prims-
ries, elect our own delegates who will Sc
ect our leader"
The Hon. Larry Delmour, whispering
Larry" lives in the Twenty-ninth dis
trict. and so does John +. Carroll. "Whis-
pering Larry" has posed as the leader Of
the Thir;ieth district, although Harry
c. Hart is the real leader. Now, Whisper
ing Larry" proposes to make fight against
Carroll for the leadership in the Twenty
ninth This trouble promises TO be one OF
the most interesting contests in Tammany
Hall at the approaching primaries. six
months away.
In the estimation of Tammany leaders
las; night, It was about inc that Whisper
ing Larry" was fred out OF an eleven STORY
building. just what Mr.. Delmour has
done for the Democratic party in advancing
be- interests in the city. and State. and
nation, nobody could answer last night.
In a word, he was spoken Of as a mere
sCroker lobster" Yet for all that the
fight between MIR. Delmour and Mr.. Carroll
for leadership ia the Twen; y-ninth dis
trict viii 70 on, and will be settled at the
primaries: and yet tie friends Of Harry
G. Hart Of the Thirtie,h district have be-
come a little bit annoyed over the carpet
bag leadership Of Delmour in the Ihirtieth
di,triuf