New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-08-02
RISE AGAINST MURPHY.
REVOLT INSIDE WIGWAM.
Opposition to HIS Attempt to
"Murphyize" Tammany Hall.

Charles r. Murphy is not succeeding in Muir
phyizing' Tammany Hall Those who are on
the inside make little secret Of the fact that
Mr.. Murphy aims to displace those district
leaders who have formerly been known as anti
Croker-now anti-Murphy-men. and install in
their places men who Will be absolutely sub
servient to Murphy's leadership This is the
XVIIIth District idea of making Tammany Hall
a strong organization. Murphy has only one
conception Of successful political generalshp,
and It is the one that grew UP with him in the
gashouse district. Addition. division and ST
lence," with good deal of silence are the long
and short of the Murphy code. and he is trying
to fit this code to an organization in which re-
fractory elements seem to be increasing, rather
thar Diminishing, their potency Murphy has
little use for the better educated young Demo
Gratis who are Just coming of age The old
brand of district politics which includes graft
ing to the limit and keeping the news out of the
papers. appeals strongly to him. because it paid
his friends in the XVIIIth District to things
on that basis. The most successful grating
period in Tammany Hall was under the Van
Wyck administration. 1t was the period in
which Tammany district leaders moved from
brick to brownstone houses and made their
bank accounts reach six figures. That period
has left rosy memory in the minds of the
Murphy machine. and it is wanted again 1t is
a system that is of little use unless all the dis
trict leaders think alike, and Murphy is
trying to work out the plan Of getting set of
district leaders who will shoulder arms or mark
time his word of command.
The indications now are that he will make
lamentable failure of his campaign inside the
breastworl1s. They used to say in Tammany
Hail. Look at Charlie Murphy. You can't
say thing against him" The anti Murphy
men in the organization now are saying: Look
Of rJ;a a. Inv he DCp ard In
vestigation hasn't done a thing 20 him. And
that back action joke is full of bitterness to
Charles F. Murphy because it is true. The in
vestigation OF Mr.. Murphy's record by the Dis
trict Attorneys Office has revealed Murphy In
his true light. Grating in its most scientific
and profitable character was practised for four
years while Charles F. Murphy was treasurer
of the Dock Board, and the record is one that
has put Tammany Hall the defensive for the
fall campaign. The argument by the anti
Murphy men now is: If Murphy did that
while he was in the Dock Board, he will do the
same thing through his dummies when he gets
control OF the city government" Every Tam
many district leader believes in at least a little
grating, but the greater number of them hate
a hypocrite They hold in contempt any one
who travels on a reputation for highmindedness
and at the same time carries grating to the
limit.
grumbling at the mess that Murphy has made
of the leadership. Many Democrats of various
shades OF factionaI belief We're ready to fall into
line and help put the fusionists out Of power
Since Murphy has shown a disposition to dis
place leaders who differ from him with his
followers the better and more independent
thinking Democrats in Tammany Hall have lost
interest in Mr.. Murphy and his personal
schemes They are afraid of seeing another
Croker roll up tremendous wealth and then take
his money to European cities to spend it.
Murphy's plan of controlling everything is be-
ing uncovered IN all the districts where there
are so-called anti-NIurphy leaders. In the
XXIxth District Thomas E. Rush's organiza-
ton has started in afresh to crush Joseph F.
Mulqueen John F. CarroIrs man. who is in
nominal control of the leadership of the district.
The Rush men have obtained a permit to
stretch a banner across Fifty -ninth-st. in front
of the jackson Club. Carrolrs organization Yes
terday Rush's banner, with a picture Of Mr..
Rush was put right where the faithful can see
that Murphy has not abandoned the attempt to
control Carrolls district. In the last tilt with
Carroll Murphy came out second best Twelve
hundred hoaters from the XVIIIth District in
vaded the XxIXth District at the primaries
last year 1t cost Carroll pretty penny TO pre-
vent Murphy's followers from voting. but he
did it.
MANY prominent Democrats" says Mr..
Rush's press representative in a typewriter
statement issued yesterday, have called on Mr..
Rush and have expressed themselves as op-
posed to the attitude of Mr.. Mulqueen toward
the leadership of Charles F. Murphy
Mr.. Mulqueen's and Mr.. Carroll's attitude has
from the beginning been: This is the XXIXth.
Keep out of it and leave US alone. or ven
throw you out