The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-08-13
SHEEHAN BACK IN TAMMANY?
A MEETING WITH MURPHY AT
SARATOGA EXPECTED.
Borough Presidency Seems to Tim Sul-
Ivan Too big a Consideration for
the G.. y. y. ID. vOte-EIlll Has Finger

I'm the Pie-Cant0 or to he at the Talk.
John c. Sheehan, who has been at Sara
toga for some days, came down to New
/ York yesterday used his telephone dill
gently and went back to the Spa last night
Jacob A. Cantor, Borough President, who,
with Mr.. Sheehan, is supposed to control
the policies of the Greater New York De-
mocracy, is at Saratoga. Charles F. Muir
ply, leader of Tammany Hall, will go UP
on an early train Monday morning. David
b. Hill will be there
1t got out last night that Murphy, Shee-
han and Cantor are to have talk some
time Monday which may determine the
| course of the Greater New York Democracy
in the coming municipal campaign. Bor-
ough President Cantor's anxiety to get back
into Tammany Hall has been evident for
long time. For six months the Sullivans
have been able to get anything they wanted
from the Borough Presidents office--and
much that other people wanted as we'll.
Big Tim and Little Tim have had the entree
| to Mr. Cantor's Office at all hours
When on the eve of his vacation Mr..
Cantor announced that on his return he
would make a formal statement that he
did not intend to stand for the fusion nomi-
nation for Borough President, it was con-
strued by his friends as a sign that if he
went over to Tammany he did not intend to
leave ground for the charge that personal
disappointment had instigated him.
II has long ranked in Mr. Cantor's breast
that the fusion forces have not held him
in the same sanctity as Mayor Low and
| other figures of the administration. and
he has more than once limited that this
! distinction came of his politics. Whenever
| Mayor Low was assailed. say Mr.. Cantor's
friends, the whole fusion outfit sprang to
his defence, but when i'll things were said
| of Mr. Cantor's administration the fusion
leaders sat back and remembered that he
was Democrat. Then it came as fuse
to Mr. Cantor's accumulated store of pas
sion that the chairman Of the July Grand
| Jury, who, Mr. Cantor says, had been an
| applicant for an appointment from him,
with the support of fusion elements, brought
in presentment against him because of the
condition Of the asphalt pavements.
MIR. Sheehap lis i'll at ease out OF Tammany
and sees in the situation in the Ninth an
opportunity to drive bargain. He isn't
| tied up to the Low administration, and the
possibility Of Lows reelection holds out no
promise to him. So, while he was not so
early prepared for conversion as Mr. Cam
| tor was, 1t is known to the big men in the
Wigwam that he will go back among the
braves II the terms are right. Not only has
| Mr.. Sheehan his share in the control Of the
Greater New York Democracy as o basis
of exchange. but he is an element in the
! ght in the Ninth.
The combined vote polled In the last
primaries by Sheehan and Goodwin would
have beaten Devery out of sight. The
| followers OF Devery are now asserting
that the Sheehan following il with tfsri
but in joining with Devery against Murphy's
man Goodwin. sheehsn can gain nothing
but a sentimental victory. A more SUBJ
stantial arrangement may be made II Mr..
| Murphy is willing.
A few months ago it did not look as if
Mr.. Murphy and Mr. Sheehan could be
brought together or that Mr.. Sheehan
could offer anything which would induce
many. Just what appraisal Mr.. Sheehan
puts on what he can deliver to Mr. Murphy
he may make known to the leader of Tam
many next Monday. 1t is understood
that Mr.. Murphy is more anxious to take
the Greater New York Democracy out
OF the coming campaign than he is to quiet
Herman Ridder and his German American
Reform Union. With the G. n. Y u. MAX
ing no nominations or endorsing the Tam
many ticket, Mr., Murphy believes he can
make the issue a straight-out one between
Democrats and Republicans and that such
a campaign can have but one result, the
election OF the Tammany ticket.
Mr. Sheehan and Mr. Cantor have been
informed that Mr.. Murphy will put no
false value on their goods. believing that
the Tammany ticket can prevail against
the same organizations that shared in the
fusion campaign of two years ago. but
disposed TO barter if it's worth while. For
their compensation, Mr.. Sheehan and Mr..
| Cantor would like TO name the candidate
for Borough President and to reSnter
Tammany, their past sins forgiven.
Mr.. Sheehan wants 70 be recognized in
| the Ninth II he joins with Goodwin against
Devery. Mr.. Murphy is quite anxious that
Devery. shall not have the prestige of an
| other victory at the primaries, but does not
intend 10 let 40 able a politician as Mr.
Sheehan get into the Executive Committee,
where he might stay some ambitions and
| make trouble Big Tim Sullivan ia I'M
willing that the Borough Presidency should
be put in hands that might turn hostile.
! More than 500 900 900 of patronage will pass
through the office next year.
Messrs Sheehan and Cantor are pro-
ceeding on the suPpositon that Low will
be the fusion candidate. David b. Hill,
who used to be so close to William F.
Sheehan that theBlue- Eyed once complained
Of stone bruises therefrom, has interested
! himself in the conversion OF Williams
| brother john Mr.. Hill contends that by
! giving his support to a Republican candi-
date for Mayor, Mr.. Sheehan will be adj
| vancng the Republican cause in State and
nation in 1904, This, or some weightier
argument influenced Mr. Sheehan to give
| up his handsome summer home at Long
Branch and take himself TO Saratoga.
| Mr. Cantor is coming down to New York
| on Tuesday to attend special meet ing
| OF he b ard of Estimate and Appc ritz n
men which is to deal with his street sign
c. ntract. Mr.. Sheehan is expected back
| on that day, too, and if the negotiations
with Mr., Murphy have pre- crossed pleas
| antly CO Inference of the Executive Com
mttee of the Greater New York Demo cracy
may he called.
If Sheehan and Cantor should carry the
| G.. y. Y. %. over t. Tammany where would
! William Hepburn Russell be? That's what
| the Tammany lights were asking last
night as they curled up n their cushiC MS.
Marco ned was the answer they gave
| Themselves.
Mr. Russell is one of the Mayors Com
missioners of Accounts and reported to
| the Mayor vast lot of things about the
Murphy Dock Board, some Of which have
| been printed and the rest the Mayor has
| in his pgoonholes. When Mr.. Russell
was elected chairman OF the Executive
| Committee for this year Mr.. Cantor de-
! manded to know where he would stand
| in a division between the organization
| and the other fusion bodies of 1901. Mr..
, Russell said he didn't care for his job and
he'd stand with the organization.
| The Executive Committee Of the Citizens
Union will meet to-day to call the conven