The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-09-25
MCCLELLAN, BY MAIN STRENGTH
MURPHY INTRODUCES 4 NEW
STYLE ~ TAMMANY.

STYLE ~ TtMMANi.
Tie Name Of Justice Gieserlch Still Heard
--Ncl.aughlin DiscOunting Defeat In
kings:-Tsmmany ReckOns on strike
suffering to Make Votes for Her.
For some time it has been heard in odd
corners Of Tammany Hall and elsewhere
that possibly at the last moment some other
candidate than George B. Mcclellan would
be sprung on the Democratic City Con-
vention. Every time those reports popped
upthey were declared to be without founda-
ton. But they have kept on popping up.
Even yesterday there was suspicion that
( at the last minute Leader Charles F. Murphy
might name some other candidate; and
! Supreme Court Justice Leonard A. Gle
gerich was again mentioned good deal
Then 1t became known that Herman
Ridder, the leader Of the German American
Reform Union, had talked good deal about
! the possibility Of the nomination OF his old
friend, Supreme Court Justice Charles +.
MacLean The term OF Justice Giegerich
does not expire until Dec. 81, 1905, and the
term Of Justice MacLean until Dec 81, 1909.
| II was said to be quite positive that il Mr..
Murphy would accept the nomination OF
Justice MacLean the German American
Reform Union would be plaCated and would
come out, swift and tremendous, for the
Tammany candidate for Mayor.
But Tammanyites aware Of what Ia go
ing on said last night that Mr.. Murphy
will not accept any man but George b.
Mcclellan and that he proposes to fight it
out with the McLaughlinites right up to
, finish.
There are certain TamInany men who
say that Leader Murphy has not conducted
the campaign for Mr.. McClellan's nomina-
ton in the good old Tammany fashion.
| Richard Croker and other leaders Of Tam
many have always had a string Of candi-
dates whose names they could give out for
| publication never for one moment, how
ever, permitting the real candidate to be
known until the proper time. Leader
| Murphy, on the contrary has made 1t plain
| from the hour that he became supreme
in Tammany Hal. after the primaries of a
year ago, that he intended to nominate
| Mcclellan, and he has gone so far. his Tam
many friends said yesterday. that he cannot
now retrace his steps without loss OF pres
| ge as leader.
| 30 for that reason, if for no other.
Mr.. Murphy, according TO his friends, will
! fight the Hugh Mclaughlin opposition 10
the last ditch. As matter OF fact, Mr..
! Murphy does not understand exactly why
Mr.. Mclaughlin has taken this stand UNI
less it is that Mr. Mclaughlin is convinced
that no Democratic candidate for Mayor
can carry Kings county against Low. Two
wears ago Edward NJ. Shepard the most rabid
kind of independent Democrat, was noIni-
mated for no other reason than to catch
the independent Democratic vote in Kings
county. and failed utterly Now for year
Mr.. Murphy's friends have insisted that
Tammany Hall should furnish the candidate
for Mayor this time. Mr. Murphys friends
suspect that Mr.. Mclaughlin. knowing
that no Democratic candidate for Mayor
can be named who will be strong enough
to pull through his Dor ough and county
tickets in Brooklyn. is putting up the
sturdiest kind Of bluff 80 that after election
, day lie may 90 before the Brooklyn Demo
Gratis and insist that if another man than
Mr.. Mcclellan had been named everything
would have been lovely for the Democratic
ticket in Kings county.
This trouble between Tammany Hall
and the McLaughlinites has been brewing
| for a number Of years. Tammany men
say that the McLaughlinites are great as
wind TANNERS, but utter failures IA pro-
! ciucers of Democratic votes for MayoraIly
| tickets They said, further, yesterday
that Julian ID. Fairchild Of Brooklyn would
be nominated for Comptroller. and there
was a story to the effect that the Mci.augh,
linites, knowing we'll thot MIR. Murphy Will
| not recede from his position as to Mr..
Mcclellan, are prepared to sulk and not even
to insist upon the nomination OF their fair
haired chap Bird S. Coler. Besides, the
Guardian Trust Company episode would
not be good campaign material.
An eminent Tammany man said last
night while think that MIR. Murphy
has made a mistake in preciptating MI
| Mcclellan on the situation, ! cannot hut
believe that the Democratic candidate
for Mayor will win in any event, There
is a situat ion in New York city and Brook.
Ign which very few have studied and
which can be found among the butch and
grocers and those who sell the necessaries
OF life. Everything is at top notch prices
and the poor people on the East and West
sides OF New York city, 1t Is no exaggera-
ton to say, do not eat meat very often
nowadays, and somehow those voters have
come to the conclusion that the Republican
party Is responsible.
lam telling you not only of my own in
vestigations, but ! am telling you at the Same
time what Republicans have told me. The
situation among the poor people is indeed
very serious. The coal strike of year
ago has not been forgotten and there are
more recent troubles. Then the liquor
dealers will never again have anything
more to do with Mayor Low, believing that