New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-12-22
RUSH HAS Il SURPLUS.
Worst of Al, He Can Find No
WQy to Spend 1t.

Thomas f. Rush. Tammany leader of the 29ih
District has created excitement in Tammany nan
by making "a public accounting of the money raised
In the year for campaign purposes and by Saying
that the Tammany district association has NOR"
money than 1t knows what to 40 with thlhs
OF this kind Is gross violation of the tradltonary
amenities of the organization and Mr.. Rush may
be asked to resign his leadership because OF MS
indiscretion
In the presence OF his general committee on Tues
day night Mr. Rush told his associates all about
the receipts and expenditures of the district 1or
the last year and ended his remarks with:
Gentlemen. have balance of &lW IN the
treasury with no particular use for 1t. Our debts
are maid; we have no coal bill. The members dues
are In good shape. assessments to the organlza-
ton are all looked after and there doesn't seem to
be any way TO spend the money to advantage
The old Carroll gusped in establishment when
Mr.. Rush said this.
we might give Christmas dinner Tor the poor
same as Tim Sullivan is doing" suggested a Mr.
Reilly.
But there are no poor in the district" said Mr.
Rush. That is just the trouble. If we should so
ahead and advertise dinner for the poor no one
would to 1t and the newspapers would roast
as. I guess Wen have TO keep the money. There
doesn't to be any other way out of tt
In order to show good will toward any poor
that may possibly live in the district we might give
three cheers for the poor" suggested Mr.. BIumen-
thai.
That won't do either. said Mr.. Rush. "A man
proposed something like that two years ago at the
Metropolitan Club and they haven't heard the last
Of ii Up there yet
Thomas f. Rush. leader of the 29th other
wise known the "Diamondback" district
Mayor McClellan's law partner The 18th is John
F. CARROTS old district but Mr.. Rush
along and took it away from Joseph F. Mulqueen.
CAROLS man. and 1t has been a Murphy possess
sion ever since. The district reaches from Fifty
hfth-st. TO Ninety-Sixth-St, and from the park to
LeXington-ave. George w. PIunkitt says that a
man strayinG into this district without valet or
an automobile feels q of Self-OStraCiSm and
seldom If ever Is guilty OF a second offence
Nearly all the members of the Tammany 18th
District Association are lawyers who have refer
ences from Tammany Supreme Court justices. or
are city officials under Mayor Mcclellan. some of
the better known TammanY living in the dis
trict are Harry Payne Whitney. James W. Gerard,
Francis Burton Harrison. join F. Carroll, John d.
Crimnlns, Thomas Z. Crmmins, Justice Morgan j.
O Brlen End Charles T Yerkes.
Sounds like fairy tale, bur | spose it's true
said e&-Sherif Tom Dunn last night. when told
tAat MT Rush didn't know what to do with his
surplus district money. Rush ought to come over
mere IN my district and get right down with the
81 % a day laborer-the that his living
in the sweat of his face the myself
Here Mr. Dunn paused long enough to light
Havana cigar and continued:
It's a terrible problem were up against In Tam
many Hall Some Of the leaders like Rush, for
instance. don't know what do with their money.
and they won't take the advice OF the older men
VINO know All about the various absorption proc
esses in politics and who never are bothered with
think Rush will get out of his hole in time as he
becomes more used to the leadership. You know
he's been there only a var. Now, if he go and
Plunkitt ne d get some valuable points on how
10 keep down the surplus When things are so
prosperous there is great danger that some one
will get ChadWiCked sooner or later"