The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-04-21
7IMNANY SOCIETY MURPHYED
rrATBERSON, CLAUSEN AND
EEILER DROPPED As SACHEMS.

ce,sor TO Croker-Hc's Content"
Charles F. Murphy's domination Of Tam
,,.nv was substantially shown again last
,,,ht at the election OF sachems OF the
s'oje,v NJ Tammany. or Columbian Order.
v.h;ls the society rs distinct from the politi-
osi organization. It plays Its part in Tam
,,anv politics and il was Richard Cookers
r,,,e. as il was John Kelly's. to control the
hoard Of sachems.
John F. Carroll. having anticipated trouble
he resieninR, one vacancy In tho board OF
,h;rteen was created. Mr. Murphy dropped
three others, men hostile, uncertain or OF
doubtful usefulness to him. and installed
in their places men now active andpowerfui
in the Wigwam.
A printed ticket was handed to each mem
her Of the society when he came to vote.
II was labelled Regular Ticket and there
VAS no other In the field, and no facility
was offered to any one who might wishto-
vote. That ticket was cast by every one
~ the ees members who voted. 1t read;
FOR sAcBEMs.
Iean 4h Dunn. f fsS.: k sssn
,ohp. ToT ,ra,,., 9s snrs. W M PiSaeise.
Randolph Gusge nheimer. John J. scannen.
Tor r
Foy Trsasurer-Peter + Meyer.
For Wiskinkie-John Boyle
I, will be observed that the sachems
IS The first time that the Tammany Society
has followed that order, II was 20 ar.
ranged in order that the ballot might not
,.sclose lust who took the place OF the dis
S Ss,ns de ere when he named his General
committee in the Eighteenth Assembly
district. In order that there might Pc no
iealousiee he put the general committee
men in alphabetical order under MS own
The sachems OF last year who were dropped
were John r Carroll, John W. Keller.
George c. Clausen and Maurice Featherson
The new men are Congressman IlmS0,ny
Borough President HafIen and John r.
Mr. Carroll resigned his leadership Of
the Twenty-ninth district some Tune age
and then resigned as a sachem. John w.
Keller. who was Commissioner Of Charities
newly formed jackson Club. the Carroll
organization Of the Twenty ninth district.
His name falls from the list as sign that
Leader Murphy favors the Thomas Z:
Rnsh faction in the Twenty ninth as against
the Carroll faction. which Mr.. Murphy
tried to defeat last year.
Maurice Featherson was much talked OF
faction INST little while before Mr.. Murphy
overshadowed the situation. He was not
renominated for the Senate. His place. as
sscbem is taken by Victor j. Bowling.
who sucoeeded him as Senator. Senator
Bowling is a Murphy man
George c. Ciauaen, a former Park Com
missioner, went into the bonding business
n year ago taking the general agency OF the
Empire State Surety Company and opening
nm 5ff,ce on lower Broadway. His company
went into the excb.e bonding business
here and up the State. He came into S CON 2.
known an Croker's bonding, company.
Whatever NAV have Influenced Mr.. Murphy
in leaving MI. Clausen of the board, Il 10
evident that in Mr.. Murphy's estimation
Ne The fss s sssse OF NJ: Mwphy's move in
putrink Big Tim Sullivan and Borough
President Raffen on the board 10 apparent
nsS <, Tns sessstg s ws' than
month ago and Is made a sachem at the
He - the backbone Of Mr.: Murphy;
rensh !. the ssd 81 ss s1S s.n
from Fourteenth street to the Battery
He elected Mr. Murphy to the leadership
ard without him Mr.. Murphy can neither
control the wigwam nor the next City Con-
Viii President HaHen Mr.. Murphy ha.
he time they and Daniel !: Mcmahon
were made the three Tuiere OF lhuinhAny
/, nlac~ Of Lewis Nixon. Mr.. HafYen al
he bossNof The Bronx. Y useful a% and more more.
votes In the next City Convention than
any other district in Greater New YORK; r.,
John F. Ahearn was turned down FOR the
denomination for Senator which he sought
last fall and Daniel Riordan was named
But Ahearn stuck 70 Tsmmany ioyaiiy
was rewarded with the Office OF Sachem
The nights work Murphyized the Tammany
society beyond peradventure.
The other officers, including the most
useful and reliable Thomas F. Smith are
reelected
The Sachems will be installed on May
H. They are charged with the election
OF a Grand Sachem. but as II is the desire
that Justice james A. O'Gorman shall b
retained and as the Grand Sachem " In,
eligible for re lection he will be permitted
10 hold over for another year.
John w. Keller was the only one OF tht
sacheus who was dropped who attended
the election. It was stated unofhcially
that Maurice Featherson was content te
retire. Content IL one Of the producti
manufactured within Tammany.