The sun., 1903-11-11
CUNNEEN FOR GOVERNOR, 1904?
MURPHY LIKES HIM BEST OF CP-
b STATE CANDIDATES.
Tammany Leader Said to Have Doubts OF
the Policy of Running New York city
Man for Governor Against HepuD'
lican From Western county

lican From Western County.
A day or two before he went away Charles
i. Murphy was asked by friend II ne
really thought that either Col. Mcclellan
or Comptroller Grout might be the Demo-
cratic candidate for Governor next year.
Mr.. Murphy did not answer the question
directly, but he did say that 1t was quite
possible that the nomination would nave 10
20 up State as 1t seemed certain that the
Republican candidate would be from west
ern New York and the Democrats might
wish to avoid the issue of an upstate man
against New York city man. The CITY,
Mr. Murphy said, would cast big plurality
for the, Democratic candidate anyway.
1t looked to him, he said, as If Odells big
vote in some of the counties last year might
properly be credited to a sentiment there
against New York city man.
!, or the upstate men whose names are
likely to be taken up as Democratic candi-
dates for Governor Mr.. Murphy knows
John Cunneen best and likes him best. As
Attorney General Mr. Cunneen has treated
the Tammany chieftain with great con-
ederation He allowed him to name three
deputies and did not question the fitness
of the men Mr. Murphy picked out. Sew
eral times during the session of the LeRls-
lature Mr.. Cunneen came down from Albany
and advised with Mr. Murphy.
Mr., Cunneen favored the barge canal,
and when it became apparent that the re-
publicans could not pass the bill MIR. cum
neen hurried down to New York and got
Mr. Murphy to write a letter to Senator
Grady, the Democratic floor leader. to In
struct all Tammany men to vote lor IT,
1t was really Mr.. Cunneen who put the
Davis &C. through, and it was the ram
many vote that passed it on Nov. 3. accord
ing to George II, Raymond, secretary OF
the Canal Improvement State committee.
and other pro-canal men who have since
written to Mr. Murphy. telling him that he
had delivered the goods
"a, After the bill had been put through the
Legislature Mr.. Cunneen came to New
York again and saw Mr. Murphy. Its
a good thing in two ways said MIR. Cum
neen. "One thing it means is that the
Republican party is thereby entombed for
twenty years"
In the early part Of his term as Attorney
General a cloud hung over Mr.. Cunneen's
political career. He had been secretary
of the Democratic State committee at one
time and was counted as a follower OF
David B. Hill He did take counsel with
Senator Hill at Albany before he made his
appointments and again when questions
OF policy arose But he had the good
fortune, his friends call it, to quarrel with
Hill.
The opportunity arose when a receiver
was to he appointed for the New York
Building Loan Banking company Senator
Hill told Mr.. Cunneen lie ought to suggest
to the court the appointment of Charles P.
McClelland. then a Senator from Vest
chester. Senator McClelland was ponder
ing on the offer of President Roosevelt
to make him a member Of the Board OF
General Appraisers. Senator Hill wanted
McClelland to stay in the Senate so that the
deadlock established by the three Re-
publican insurgents might be continued.
Mr.. Cunneen said he wasn't going to buy
Senator McClelland to stand by the party
that had elected him and would not con-
slider his name A split with Hill then oc-
CURED, although the receiver eventually
appointed was a man who owed some dis
tjnction to Senator Hill.
As Hill man Mr.. Cunneen could hope
for no support from this end Of the State,
as Leader Murphy has put Hill out OF his
calculations and Senator Patrick Henry
McCarren over in Brooklyn is, not without
cause, bitter foe to Hill. In Rrfalo.
where the control of the Democratic organi-
zation has changed hands recently, Mr..
Cunneon has mana cod to keep right side
UP, and he was the one Democrat elected on