The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-05-27
MURPHY HITS DEVERY A Dig.
GOODWIN MAN TO LEAD 9TH AND
NAME ELECTION OFFICERS.
.Iohn Nooran's His Name-Deyery Had
Put Him on General Committee List
10 FIJI Up-SO He's Eligible for Leader
--Deyery Not At Pump to Get the News


"A temporary appointment of an execu-
i've member from the Ninth district was
made last night in the meeting Of the Ex-
ecutive Committee Of Tammany Hall On
motion Of Leader Charles F. Murphy. John
Noonan, Goodwin man, was appointed
10 the place which Devery claims and to
which majority Of the PA members Of the
General Committee Of the Ninth elected
him so far as they could.
Noonan is member of Devery' General
Committee The new rules passed at Mr..
Murphy's direction at the last previous
meeting of the General Committee give
the Executive Committee the right to make
such an appointment. but provide that the
appointee must be member Of the General
Committee OF the district. That Mr.. Muir
ply has an opportunity to appoint an anti
Deverv man is due to the circumstance
that Devery overlooked the Importance
Of small details last fall
When Devery was making out his pri-
mary ticket he set down the names Of
about two hundred of his own men. The
thing was done in haste, and. at the last
hour before the printing Of the tickets.
some Of the men in the district were on
The fence. To All out his list Devery put in
the names of eight or ten fellows from the
other side the Goodwin, not the Sheehan.
faction, The Big Fellow thought ma
lority would settle the thing, and he didn't
care il Goodwin had ten or twelve men out
of PA. Noonan was one OF those added
to the ticket in this way.
Devery never supposed that Noonan
was his man: for Noonan has been treas
years and participated with Goodwin in
his fights against Sheehan and Devery.
He was one Of the Croker following that
quit Sheehan and his Pequod Club when
Sheehan turned against Croker, and he
has stood with the Goodwin forces ever
since.
Mr.. Noonan is about so years old and lives
AT 252 West Twenty fifth street. His occu-
patton is given as real estate dealer. At
one time some years ago he was in the liquor
business. His son Thom ns F: N Noonan'
When the roll was called at the meeting
Of the Executive Committee no one an
swered for the Ninth. Devery had not
appeared for he would not have been re-.
ceived and the question al issue is on appeal
in the courts.
His general committeeman had been in
vited to the meeting Of the General Com
mittee. but none of them appeared. at
least none OF the conspicuous ones Mr..
Noonan was sitting in the meeting OF the
Executive Committee and his \presence
members by Mr. Murphy,
As soon as the roll call was over Mr.,
Al move that Mr.. John Noonan be ap-
pointed to act as executive member Tor
Chairman Daniel F. Mcmahon put the
motion The vote was unanimous 1t
was said afterward that this was sufficien
recognition Of Mr.. Noonan until the courts
decided the Devery case.
~lyt tho, 10 oh trY1, r, nj
committee on election officers, delivered
to Mr.. Noonan the official blanks which are
to be filled out with the names OF inspectors
poll and ballot clerks designated, for the
Ninth for the coming election. These are
to be filed with the Board of Elections
With the papers goes the election patronage
Of the Ninth which will help some in the
fight against Devery;
The Democratic election officers will he
anti-Devery men and they with the he
puhlicans, will pass on the registration.
The fact that the Executive Committee
meeting lasted longer than usual aroused
conisctpre among the waitsrs' as 20 what
was going on. IT was all due to the giving
the leaders got them. No other business
The action of the Executive Committee
in appointing Noonan was not reported
to the General COMMITTEES, which met imme
diately afterward in the larger hall up
rules which requires the ratification Of such
an act by the General Committee.
Devery had disappeared from the Bus
Club and the Pump when the news OF thu
Noonan appointment got to those places
Earlier in the evening he had said a few
words about what Hugh Mclaughlin hao
said OF him.
Mclaughlin told the truth when h:
said he had sent word to Croker that
must resign" said Devery He SEN
Shepard and Shevlin and McCarren and 6
few others over to the Hofi man House
TO yet my scalp. As soon as J. heard abou
It I made it plain that Croker couldn't
make me resign. All the trouble In the
Police Department and in Tammany came
from the interference Of the leaders in the
affairs of the department. l was in the
Police Department twenty-four years: Thu
prafters never got anything on me: IL theJ
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