Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-10-29
HE ATTACKS TAMMANY.
Hugh Mclaughlin After Murphy and
ORGANIZATION in Earnest.

New York, Oct. 2S.-A statement was
, issued, Tuesday. by Hugh Mclaughlin
of Brooklyn, in which he attacked
Charles F.. Murphy and Tammany Hall
Mr.. Mclaughlin says in part:
IF there were no other reason Tor
! opposing the Murphy conspiracy there
would be reason enough for the 1act
that it aimed a deadly blow at true
Democracy. He and his confederates
resolved from the beginning to ignore
| Brooklyn and when Murphy told me
that he would at my suggestion take
| into consideration such names as those
of Judge OBrien and Judge Geigeirich
as we'll as when he said that he was
uncommitted to Mcclellan he strayed
far from the truth. After he had been
twice at my home he not only denied
to the reporters that he had been there
but had the audacity to call me up
through the telephone and ask me to
| join in the same untruth.'
Mr.. Mclaughlin said that had his ad-
vice been taken the Kings county
Democrats would not have entered the
city convention. On this point ne SAID:
But the younger men about me
thought it would be more in accordance
with the precedent to enter the conven-
ton and file their protest there as they
did and 1 acquiesced. They did the
more readily because despite the pub
lie impression to the contrary fairly
surrendered the leadership of the party
into the hands of the younger men sew
eral years ago, and had considered my
L. 10 hnv 1o,
that of an adviser which is really my
position. Had I felt that the duties of
leadership We're on my shoulders as
they used to be, I never would have
countenanceG in any way the insolent
attitude of the Tammany leader in re-
fusing to even discuss his proposed
ticket with the representatives of
Brooklyn.
MIR. Murphy would have learned
from me that the Tammany leader who
undertook to get along without the CO.
operation of Kings county in the make
up of a ticket would be under the ne
cessity of getting along without the reg
ular Brooklyn vote on election day."
Linn Bruce, president of the county
Republican committee, said that the
opposition has been colonzing in this
city. At Citizens Union headquarters
1t was said a reward would be paid for
the arrest and conviction of repeaters.
When the report that colonizing was
being DONE was shown to Charles F.
Murphy, leader of Tammany hall, he
said it was untrue so far as Tammany
was concerned and that if anything of
the kind was going on it must be by the
Fusionists.
In support of the charges made by
Edwin M. Grout, Democratic candidate
for controller that the Citizens Union.
has been collecting funds to support the
campaign of VIM. S. Devery, Independ-
Ient candidate for mayor and former
chief of police, George A. Hunter, said
that the Citizens Union had paid 1920
toward a series of dinners, last spring
at which he said Devery campaign was
launched hese dinners were he said
given at the restaurant owned by his
(Hunter's) son, and A. c. McNulty, and
McNulty had further told him that the
Citizens Union had agreed to contrib
ute SIS. 900 toward the Devery campaign,
$1,000 to be paid. last spring, $4,000 last
month, and $4,000 next Monday. Mr.
Hunter when asked if this $4,000 had
actually been paid said:
II don't know. You will have to ask
Mr.. McNulty about that
\ .I am informed by McNulty. who
was secretary of the Bryan Democratic
league" said Mr. Hunter, 'ithat in 1900
the Citizens Union contributed $4,000 to
the Bryan Democratic League for cam
-paign purposes"
+ Mr.. circuit had named Mr.. Hunters
son as the intermediary through whom
the Citizens Union had been paying
money to Devery.