The sun., 1902-03-14
SAYS ANDY FREEDMAN TO finn
YOU'LL GET MURPHY'S SHOES
SAYS FINN, WHO ARE your

first District Full OF Talk About THIS
Aucred Appearance OF Freedman as a
Man Who Can Make and Cnnake IN
Tammany- Finn won't Talk About IL.
The friends OF Battery Dan Finn. who
h.d a falling out with Col Michael c. Muir
nhv. the Tammany leader OF the First
Assembly district, over tho NOMINATION
81 Perry Belmont for Congress last Jan
uary, said yesterday that Andrew freeo-
man. the business partner OF Richard Gro
ker, who was put on the Iammahy rinshoe
Comm,tee at Mr. Croker's order, had been
trying to patch up the differences between
Justice Finn and Col. Murphy.
They said also that Mr. Freedman was
acting as the direct personal representa-
tive of Mr. Croker, who in this case went
over the head OF Lewis Nixon.
Immediately after the defeat OF Belmont ~
Was announced that Justice Finn at the pri-
maries this fall would try 20 take the ieau-
ership of the district away from .oi'
MI freedman, according TO the friends
of Justice Finn, went TO him with propo-
sition that he should call OF his fight against
Col. Murphy this year and allow the oolonei
10 be reelected to the leadership, Accord
;no 10 the friends Of Justice Finn, Mr.. Freed
man told him that II he would do this he
could have anything that he wanted from
the organization next year; that harmony
Was the card this year, and that next year
Col Murphy would withdraw and leave
the field clear to Justice FINN LOT the iead-
ership. ,,,.
According 10 the story that Is told OF this
srair in the First Assembly district, Justice
Finn asked for time to consider the propo-
sition, and at the same time assured Mr.
freedman that he was as anxious Tor mar
mony as any other man,
The friends Of the Justice said yesterday
that he had written a letter, which Mr..
freedman will receive to-day, IN which
he said that he doubted whether Mr.. Freed
man was authorized to speak for the Tam
many Executive Committee and that II he
was not so authorized there was no use
In talking about the matter at all. The
letter. IL is said, asked Mr.. Freedman II
he had not better have the whole matter
laid before Mr.. Nixon, so that there should
be no question about the authority OF the
offer.
Col. Murphy said last evening that he
had not authorized any one 10 speak for
him in regard to the leadership.
"Mr. Freedman is not authorized TO
make any promises for me. said Col.
Murphy, NOR is any one else. IL there
have been any negotiations they have
been conducted without my hearing any
thing about them
Justice Finn was at his clubhouse IN
Hudson street in the evening. When he
was asked whether the story was true he
said that he had not authorized any one
10 saw that he was going TO make fight
against Col. Murphy this fall. and that II
he was going TO make one he would not tell
about IL at this time.
Il have had nothing TO do for the last
two DAYS and so / went up TO Albany.
said Justice Finn. Il had a good time
up there, and we are trying TO have good
time here now. We usually succeed In
having a good time here in this district.
Now | have not told any one that 1
know that there is going to be fight in
this district this fall, and no one knows
ANYTHING about such a fight. IL isn't
the time to say whether there is to be a
fight or not.
so YOU can see that il is not the time
TO make any efforts TO prevent fight.
Now don't know anything about this at all.
You see. Ihave been In Albany for couple
of days and l don't know about these
things So far as ] know, though. there
ism anything like this going on.
In spite OF the fact that Justice Finn
would not affirm the story there were a
great many persons in the First Assembly
district last evening who believed IT,,
Throughout the district where the mat
ter was talked about yesterday IL was
taken to mean that Mr.. Croker was not
putting his full trust in Lewis Nixon, but
was keeping tabs on him carefully all the
time through Mr.. Freedman.