The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-05-27
FEUD ENDANGERs PARKER.
-McCarren Fight Very Threat eniHE.


 The Murphy -McCarren feud has de-
 veloped a degree of bitterness which
 has alarmed the Parker managers ana
 6sslns Issdeps qs of ptRhe pemo cratic party, who fear that, whatever
 may be the outcome of the local fight.
 the feud may cause the loss of the State to their presidential ticket. It
 was learned today that at least two members of the Democratic National
 Committee had spoken to both Murphy
 and Mccarren on the subject, and urged
 them to stop fighting until after the
 election anyhow. Murphy told one of these committeeman, m more or less
 polite terms, to mind his own business. He showed no disposition whatever to come to terms. and made 1t plain that Tammany would take no active part in the campaign. if Senator MeCarren re- mains at the head of the state Exeeu- tive Committee. MeCarren was more pacific. He made the usual boys ex- euse that he had not "started the fight" and said that if Murphy would let him
 alone. he would let Murphy alone. The National Committeeman is increased bitterness between the factions.
 There is good reason for the appre-
 tensions of the national leaders: The feud has excited the disgust of thou sands of independent Democrats, who supported the Tammany ticket last fall in the hope that the election Of Nc idential campaign These Democrats now see the Tammany and brooklyn factions fighting in way that i1 has | The weapons used on both sides are
 nity offices and no pretence of decency | Is made in carrying on the warfare, daily by Tammany heads of depart ments solely because they will not de-
 sert McCarren and submit to Murphy \ The TanImany department chlefs DO falr frn1fhla C- | titious charges. After Dock Commits
 stoner Featherson had removed Deputy
 Commissioner Hasenfug, he was asked
 why he had made the removal. His re-
 ply was: 'T fired Hasenaug. See? Isn't l that plain enough?" Comptroller
 Grout, on the other hand. Is using the
 finance department to help McCarren in 1 the fight, He has provided for" men removed by Tammany, and he is pre-
 pared to dismiss a Tammany man from | his department for every McCarren
 can thus give more than one hundred good berths to the McCarrenites In case the war is continued.
 Of course this sort of warfare must | work serious injury to the city de- | partments. Ofhceholders see that their continuance in office depends. not on | the proper performance of their work. l but on the chances of factional war.
 and they are by no means inclined to
 work overtime. It is true that Mayor
 Mcclellan has not yet openly taken q
 hand in the fight, but 1t Is we'll under
 stood that he is with Murphy and will go Just as far as Murphy does. The
 result must be a decentralization of the
 civil service of the city if the present
 situation continues much longer;
 The effect of all this on the Parker
 boom is likely to be serious. Parker s trouble. Murphy and McCarren were
 Parker boom was launched. Then Me Carren came out for Parker and Mur-
 phy opposed him. The bitter fights at
 the Democratic Committee meeting and
 in the State conventions followed and Murphy lost his chance to become the
 State leader. The Tammany feeling against Parker has grown. in conse | uuence as the Murphy -McCarren feud has developed and, as Comptroller Grout pointed out in his statement of | Wednesday, Tammany's fight is now as
 much against Parker as McCarren. un- | less there is an unexpected change in | the situation soon, Tammany will go
 to St. Louis prepared to defeat Parker | by any means short of bolting the ed, Tammany will give him about the same kind of support as 1t gave to Grover Cleveland in 1884. ETen If an other candidate is named. 1t does not
 seem possible that the Democrats of l Greater New York can be brought to- gether to work harmony during the campaign
 feud has inspired new hope in the Re publican managers. The Republican outlook in this state. befGre Murphy
 and McCarren went to war was none
 too hopeful The odell-Platt factional | trouble had weakened tSe organization
 in many parts of the Skate and there was general criticism of Governor Odell for taking the craftsmanship of the state Committee while he was Gov | ernor. Moreover, the Governors plans
 for increasing the efficiency of the To- | cal Republican organizations had not been notably successful in operation. | Now. however the Republican faction al fight is at an end and the. criticism
 of the Governor has been almost for gotten in the contemplation of the
 disgraceful juggling with city ofhces