The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-10-10
N'CARREN GAINS RECRUITS.
kENNA, ENNIS, BRENNAN. WHEEL
DISTRICTS INTO LINE.

indications Arc That Others VIII Cut
Mclaughlin and Work for Regular
Ticket-Cold Shoulder for tho North
Side Leader In tho Auction Room.
Developments in the Democratic camp
In Brooklyn last night clearly showed that
several other powerful district leaders
there are in hearty sympathy with Senator
Patrick Henry McCarren and his associates
in their stand against Hugh Mclaughlin
as the central authority in Kings and that
the ostracized list in the auction room 10
likely to expand.
Thomas j. Kenna, who received high
honor from the Kings County Democracy
by his election "a Police Justice and Regis
ter, and who also served for several years
al chairman OF the county committee.
came out in antagonism to Mclaughlin,
thus swinging the Sixth Assembly district
into the McCarren column.
Fire Commissioner John Ennis is another
old friend of M Mclaughlin who refuses.
like ex-Justice Kenna, to take his orders
from the auction room. Mr.. Ennis. who has
been one OF the most influential Demo-
cratic leaders in the Eastern District for
thirty years, announced that he will stand
by the regular Democratic ticket and give
to Senator McCarren all the cooperation
in his power in rolling up as big vote as
possible for every candidate on it.
At a mass meeting Of the John Ennis
Democratic Club. held last night at 1870
DeKalb avenue. Mr.. Ennis advocated this
policy and declared that in his opinion Mr..
Mclaughlin. their long revered leader,
had gone back on the doctrine he had been
instiiling into the minds of his followers
for the last forty years by his present course
of antagonism to the ticket Other
speakers gave expression to the same views
and the entire city and local ticket was
indorsed. A banner bearing its candidates
names was unfurled in front of the club
house.
The Thirteenth Assembly district, in
which William Brennan is the leader. is
also out for the whole ticket. This is also
a Democratic stronghold, having given
a plurality of nearly 1000 for the State
ticket last year
Besides the Thirteenth ard the Sixth.
The Tenth Assembly district, Leader Henry
F. Haggerty, and the Twentieth district,
Leader Dennis Winter, Endorsed last night
Mcclellan, Grout and Fornes and sus-
tanned Senator McCarren's position.
Senator McCarren was at the Holman
House last night. There he was asked
about report that Mr.. Mclaughlin had
turned his back upon him at the auction
room in Willoughby street yesterday morn
ing Senator McCarren replied:
Perhaps l am persona non grata, as
they say in diplomatic circles; but have
nothing whatever to say unkind Of Mr..
crat. | have lived in my district nearly
fifty years, and ! cannot change. The
Democratic party, local State and national,
has from time lmmemorial insisted upon
regularity and the support Of all candidates
nominated by the majority. The Demo-
cratic party, to my mind, has been more
insistent upon this regularity than any
party whatever within my memory.
mo matter about candidates. ante
cedents, Dcmocratically speaking. con-
tinued the Senator, If he has received the
ma iority vote in the convention no has
been and always should be entitled to the
loyal support Of the party. Many Eastern
Democrats did not view with complacency
Mr. Bryan's financial views in 1895 and 1900,
but we, as Democrats, part Of great house,
hold, supported him.
Under the present primary law, the dis
trict leader is the potent factor in his Assem-.
bly dist riot To maintain his status as such
he must, by his example. teach his followers
to submit to the decision of primary elee.
ton and the verdict OF a convention: II
he undertakes even to wink at disre-
gard of tho result Of primary or conven-
ton he il, so to speak, engaged IN the act
of pulling down his own house on his own
head"
Mr.. Mclaughlin disposed yesterday OF
r,lmors of a reconciliation between the
Kings county organization and Tammany
on a basis satisfactory to the veteran leader
1t was authortatively announced in Will
loughby Street that not only was no peace
in sight, but an aggressive warfare would
be carried on until election day and even
after that against Leader Murphy's alleged
attempt to "Tammanyize' Brooklyn.
Senator P. H. McCarren had an icy re-
ception when he appeared at the auction
room He was coldly greeted by the or
binary attaches ard allowed to take his
leave without being summo 9T to the inner
talking with Shevlin, Shea, York, Littleton
and two or three others who still enjoy
his confidence. Senator McCarren re-
marked az he turned his back upon the
auction room:
AN that am trying to do is to elect the
Democratic ticket ard thus avoid two years
more of Lows rule
Congressman George H. Lindsay, the
leader Of the Fifteenth Assembly district
Democracy, who has enlisted under the
MoCarren standard, also had the courage
to drop in at Willoughby rect saE ctum.
During the call, not longer than few
minutes, he did not pass uider tho wither-
ing glance of the odd man." but received
a brief but singing rebuke from Shevlin
for his alleged disloyalty to the organiza-
ton.
Col. Michael j. Dady called on Mayor
Low Yesterday to consult with him about
the advisability OF third ticket in Brook
iyn to bear the names of Low, Hinrichs
and Mcclure and the Democratic borough,
county and district nominees. Col. Dady
is believed to have favored this ticket
and Timothy l.. Woodruff does not.
Those who favor the third ticket say
the fusion local candidates in Kings
viii be elected anyway ard that some
thousands of votes might be gained for
Low by running the ticket