The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-09-22
WIGWAI AND KINGS ARE out.
TALK OVER HERE or SHELVING
COLER ALTOGETHER.


Hitter words Arc Crossing the East River
-McLAughlin Men 6till Threaten to
Take Trouble Into the City Conveu.
tssn-Murphy Sticks to Mcclellan.
The Tammany Hall people said last night
that they would 60 right on to nominate
their ticket In the Democratic City Con-
vention on Oct. 1 without further bother
about the Kings county Democrats. One
of the leading Tammany men said:
'.We are becoming a little tired Of our
Kings county brethren's pleading. begging
and threatening, and We do not Pelieve
that they are In position to say unkind
things just because We will not again nonli-
nate what they call an independent Demo-
cratic candidate for Mayor in order to help
them along with their borough and county
tickets. We did this in 1901, and Edward
M. Shepard, their prize independent. was
beaten out Of sight in Kings county. Neither
will We, from the present outlook, accept
Bird s. Coler of Kings on the ticket as
Comptroller. II Mr.. Mclaughlin and his
friends desire the nomination Of Julian d.
Fairchild for Comptroller. all we'll and
good
"A good deal Of criticism has been heaped
on Richard Croker" continued this Tam
many leader Of rank, 'and more or less ad-
verse comment has been fred of at Charles
F. Murphy. the present leader OF Tammany,
and It strikes us that Mr.. Mclaughlin and
his friends should not have INDUCED in this
sort of criticism. Mr.. Mclaughlin has
been the leader OF the Kings county Demo-
Gratis for forty years, is WORTH We under
stand, nearly s., 900 900, and James Shevln.
his chief lieutenant. is worth 81 900 600.
As a matter of fact, the Kings county
Democratic machine is almost shell, and
we are getting a little tired OF bluff. Mr..
Mclaughlin, we are convinced, takes him
self altogether too seriously in tacitly per-
hitting the savage criticisms OF Tammany
and the New York Democrats by his organ,
the Brooklyn Citizen We haven't doubt
that Mr. Mclaughlin and Mr. Shevlin de-
sire Democratic success in the city OF New
York. but we do not believe that it is
necessary for them to jump on George b.
Mcclellan and say he is weak candidate
and all that sort of business, and to let slide
differences that he is Cookers candidate
and Murphy's candidate. when Mr.,
Mclaughlin and Mr.. Shevlin and those peo-
pie have had no visible means Of support
for many years except the Democratic
politics of Kings county.
AS for George B. Mcclellan" continued
the speaker, who was quite in earnest,
athere isn't stain on his character of any
fashion, and if we nominate him for Mayor
he is to make speeches in German. French
and Italian, as we'll as in his own tongue.
Young Mcclellan deserves great credit
for his hard work to fit himself for public
life within the last six or seven years. In
this matter Mr.. Mcclellan is far ahead Of
Mayor Low, who was president of Columbia
Colleue and who has been interested in
educational matters for many years. If
Mr.. Mcclellan is nominated for Mayor
and elected, ne will be able to speak to the
delegati ions that call upon him at the City
Hall in their mother tongues, and OF, as
Mayor Low was a short time ago, AT the
Rochambcau ceremonies, be compelled
to call in Interpreters
Bird s. Coler came to town Yesterday and
was at the Fifth Avenue Hotel last night
for a few moments, but he had nothing
to saw for publication. II was understood
that he is to have another chat with Mr..
Mclaughlin to-day.
The Kings county Democrats threaten
all sorts OF things. 1t was even declared
last night that they would go into the city
convention and refuse to vote for George
b. Mcclellan and that they may go fur.
Their, but talk of this kind was considered
bluff, for the reason that MIR. Mclaughlin
has always been known as an organza-
ton man and has always bowed TO the
will of the majority in local, state and
national conventions. That there is bad
feeling between Tammeny and the Kings
county Democrats there isn't the slightest
shadow of doubt but II is the same old
game, it was declared by conservative
politicians, that is:
@Hugh Mclaughlin is boss Of the Kings
county machine, and Murphy is boss Of the
New York county machine, and the Tam
many county machine will have the most
delegates in the city convention, and If
Mr.. Murphy persists in his present attitude
TO nominate George b. Mcclellan Tor Mayor
there isn't combination OF Kings Rich
mond and Queens that would defeat his
nomination, or any combination except
that which has been limited at in The Sun
occasionally of late-that the Democrats
who oppose Mr. McClellan's nomination
may have strength in some OF the lammany
districts which will not be developed until
the CITY convention meets. But this is
merely quarrel Of the bosses, Murphy for
Tammany and Mclaughlin for Kings, and
many in Tammany Hall believe that Mr..
Mclaughlin in refusing to support
Mcclellan, when Tammany supported
McLaughlins candidate Shepard in 1901, Is
a little queer. Another thing, the Demo-
cratic machine in Kings county has been
going to rack and ruin for number OF
wears There has been no boss OF the or
ganization for forty years save Mr.,
Mclaughlin, and our dear brethren over the
river have got into rut Uncle Mclaugh-
lin Is becoming tiresome and Mr. Shevln
is beginning to look altogether too wise.
just whether Mr., Murphy will care TO in
sst upon the nomination of Mr., Mcclellan
In view Of the host lity Of the Kings county
Democrats is problem which may not be
solved until the Democratic City Conven-
ton meets
Some of the Tammany men at the Demo-
cratic Club last night went very much
further than is printed in this article in their
criticisms of Mr. Mclaughlin. They re-
spected him as a Democrat, they said, but
il wasn't good sense for him to talk about
boss insisting upon the nomination OF any
candidate, when he has been utterly rigor-
ous In his bossism Of Kings county Demo-
Gratis for forty years.
II the fight continues to be as fierce M It
was yesterday, Mr.. Murphy may YIELD it
is said. Still it must not be forgotten
that Mr.. Murphy insists on Mcclellan.
The Tammany men who talked with
Justice Gicgerich came away with plea sant
words for the Judge. but then they didn't
zee how Judge Giegerich fitted Hugh