The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-09-26
NO YIELDING TO M'LAUGHLIN,
ANDIF HE'S OBSTINATE HE CAN'T
CHOOSE THE CONTROLLER.
COler on Murphy Slate Now and VIII stay
on Unless His Mentor Swallows Tam.
many's Uliimatum- Wigwam Commit
tee Meets-Doesn't Shout for Mcclellan.


To the representatives of Hugh McIAugh-
lin Charles +. Murphy said yesterday that
he would hear no further protests against
the nomination Of George B. Mcclellan for
Mayor and that no proposals OF compro-
mise which involved the dropping Of McCIsl-
Ian would be entertained
Mr., Murphy said that he would not bring
the matter up at the meeting Of the city
committee on Tuesday night. and unless
Brooklyn backed down from its position tho
convention would vote on the question
He repeated what he said in the meeting
OF the city Committee Thursday night
that it would be entirely satisfactory to
him to let the man be nominated who got
the largest number of votes in tho con-
vention.
Mr.. McLaughlins lieutenants brought
news that the old gentleman wasn't disposed
to back down bit, and if Mr.. Murphy con-
tinued in his defiant course Brooklyn
would present the names of two or three
candidates to the convention, with no
hope Of winning with any of them. but to
carry out the policy which MIR. Mclaughlin
has pursued thus far. The three men
considered by Brooklyn are Lewis Nixon
Justice Morgan j. O'Brien and Edward
NJ Shepard.
To this threat Mr. Murphy sent answer
that the same majority Of the delegates
who nominated the Mayor would have II
in their power TO nominate the Comptroller
too, and II Mr.. Mclaughlin went on in his
headstrong way he would not be allowed
to name the Comptroller. That does not
mean that MIR. Murphy intends to give
the Office to man outside Of Brooklyn,
but it means that the man chosen will be
one friendly to Murphy and the Tammany
interests rather than to Mclaughlin.
One by one, as the district leaders arrived
at Tammany Hall yesterday afternoon
for the special meeting that had been called,
Mr.. Murphy took them into counsel He
told them that after conference with some
of his advisers he had decided that 1t would
not be best to pass formal resolution in
structing the Tammany delegates in the
city committee to present Mcclellan as
the candidate for Mayor. Inasmuch as all
the other boroughs had heen called on to
name their candidates and none had re-
sponded, Mr.. Murphy thought it would be
just as well to let the city committee drop
the discussion unless Brooklyn saw fit 10
bring it up on Tuesday night.
II between now and Tuesday Mr..
Mclaughlin digests Mr.. Murphy's ulti-
matum and concludes to patch up a peace
and take the COMPREHENSIVE. the city COM
mittee may agree on Mcclellan as the can
didate. Otherwise Mr.. Murphy's pre-
gramme is to wait for the convention, VI q.
with certainty of the nominating ,wer.
he will put Mcclellan in nomination. A
fight in the convention might be a good
thing for the candidate, he thinks That
is always a question on which politicians
are divided
To his intimate friends among the dis
trict leaders Mr.. Murphy said that he did
not propose to be "bossed' by Mr.. McLaugh-
lin. II he permitted the Brooklyn boss to
sidetrack Mcclellan then Mclaughlin and
not Murphy would be the real leader in
Greater New York Moreover, not one of
the Brooklyn leaders pretended that any
candidate would be able to carry Kings
county Therefore, as Tammany must
produce the votes to elect, ii ought to have
the candidate of its choice.
1t came out in these conversat ions thst
Mr.. Murphy has been making a canvass
of Manhattan and The Bronx 10 ascert ain
McClellan's strength. He put this con-
fidential work into the hands Of Senator
Thomas F. Grady and another Tammany
man in whom he rrpoess great trust.
In those Assembly districts whore tho
Tammany leaders are of umque-,ionable
loyalty TO Murphy, the canvass was rnade
q, 4 hot, Il ion, I,g, i.o,
is at all sils pected Cf ee2rrt anti MURPHY
dispos tion, tn" canvass We. mace by men
chosen by Senator Gradv> Ii was nrc~
sarily a rough estimate, not taking Nn the
thoroughness of n practca house 10 house
canvass but the result, IS repor;n1 10 Mr.
Murphy, showed Il conservative estimate
of GoOC0 for Nc, lellan in Manhattan anu
The Rrory
As Cor brooklyn Mr. Murphy would rot
be SURPRISED if the ticket lost by 25.oOo
over there. He is willing to give Low
even AZ large plurality rs he had over
Shepard. confident that the vote in tie
rest OF Greater New York would carry
Mcclellan in.
The Kings county organiHat on, Mr..
Murphy argues. il all right enough, so far
as getting delegates is cCncerrcI and for
making kicks, but ii hasn't GCEr much IN
counting Democratic pluralitles since the
Australian ballot law was PASSED. 1t
occupies, therefore, the same position that
the machine OF minority party must
occupy and il in no position TO dictate to
the other parts that make Democratic
Greater New York.
Mr.. Murphy was ready also TO consider
the good appetite of the Kings county
organization With the coming in Of the
Van Wyck Administered ion it had Bird S
Co.e for Comptroller, and he filled his
Office with Mclaughlin men. Mayor Van
WICK gave Mr.. Mclaughlin a Bridge Com
missioner, Tax Commissioner. Il Commis-
sjoner of Sewers and uncounted deputies.
chief clerks, sacrcta ries and other good
saIaried places, Then Mr.. Mclaughlin
got Mr. Shepard for Mayor and Kings gave
a round 25 900 against him.
Only three dist riot leaders were absent
from the meeting, which in itself was I'M
important The absentees We're Battery
Dan Finn, Francis j Lantry and James j
Frawley Daniel f. Mcmahon presided
Frank j Goodwin Of the Ninth, John +.
Cowau Of the Thir y-fourth (south) and
j j HaRan of the Nineteenth, the newly
elected leaders who will not legally serve
until next January, were invited to be
present
The nventiors in the Nineteenth dis
triCt were taken away from John Is Sexton,
the defeated leader, who had arranged
TO hold them at Ii7 Columbus avenue, and
were set for y aud 20 Columbus avenue,
which l. the Hagsn headuuarters