The sun., 1904-06-03
JAMES SBEYLIN DROPS OUT.
M'CARREN MEN ELATED-FIGHT
GOES on. SAYS DOYLE.
Conference n Anti.McCasren Leader
--Themas n. Farrell and joseph 4. Biii
said 10 Be Slated far the Places u
Thos. r. Byrnes ana conrad Hasenf1ug

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Thomas n. Farrell and joseph 4. Mn
said 10 De Sisted Tar the Places u
Thos. p. Byrnes ana Conrad Hasennug
James shevlin, who has for long period
been tho most trusted lieutenant of Hugh
Mclaughlin. has dropped out Of the COM
bination which was formed TO depose
Senator p. II. MoCarren from the Demo
cratic leadership In Kings county. Deputy
Fire Commissioner William A. Doyle, Bird
s.. Coler, ex-senator Michael j. Coffey.
Thomas R. Farrell. Register NJ. Z. Dooley,
ex-SheriK Frank d. Creamer and the other
statesmen who have been after McCar-
ren's political scalp say that the ex-
wardens detection will have no effect
on the faotional hostilities.
The renewal OF the old political and
personal feud between Shevlin and Coler,
and the recent prominence OF the latter
on the anti-McCarren patronage COM
mittee. was the cause of the abandonment
Of the factional fight by Shevlin. That
Shevlin was also ratified by the action Of
MIR. Mclaughlin, his political Nestor. in
still regarding the ex-Comptroller in the
light Of his protege is suspected. Yester-
day morning, soon after his arrival at
the Willoughby street auction room. Shev-
lin had this statement prepared for dis
tribution among the reporters:
1t Is not true that the cause of my retire
ment from politics is the action OF Charles
Justice Parker. The statement that have
t1 m de
void Of truth. | have not asked any OF my
friends among the district leaders to aban
don their opposition to Senator McCarrens
of any 6ss hat @r Murphy IS
alleged to have, intended TO make Senator
Coffey the real leader Of Kings county and and
TO distribute all patronage through him.
that Bird 8. Coler shall have an unrestricted
anon among % the district lis ie" leaders OF the county
and to make good bis claim that he can lead
TO successful termination
Deputy Fire Commissioner Doyle. who
was chosen by Leader Charles F. Murphy of
Tammany to manage the fight against
McCarren. had this to say in reference
to Shevlin's action:
"The retirement OF Mr.. Shevlin from
active participation in the fight on McCar-
rem will have no effect whatsoever on the
contest. We have no notion of quitting
the fight at all. Conditions are just as
Mr.. Coler said: Everything is going
along very nicely with the oppoeition to
senator MCS8TTen. mere ID absolute mar
mony in the committee"
Coffey, Creamer, Farrell and Dooley
all professed to take similar view Of the
situation.
At the regular Democrat ic headquarters,
in the Thomas Jefferson Building, however,
all the prominent McCarren men were in a
jubilant mood and predicted that Shevlin's
retirement foreshadowed an early collapse
of the movement against the Senator
Messrs. Doyle, Coffey, Coler and Farrell
held an anti-McCarren confab last night
at the Temple Bar headquarters, apparently
unruffled and unaffected by the Shevlin
incident. The committee had no announce
ment to make other than that u affairs
were going along smoothly and 'satisfac-
torily. 1t was learned from another source
that the successors to former Deputy Com
missioner Of Water. Gas and Electricity
Thomas F. Byrnes Of the Eleventh Assem-
bly, district and former Deputy Commis-
sioner Of Docks Conrad Hasen1ug Of the
and that their names might be announced
either to-day or tomorrow. 1t is under
stood that former Highway Commissioner
Thomas R. Farrell, the leader Of the Eleventh
district. is slated for Byrnes's job, and ex-
Alderman Joseph A. Bill for the Deputy
Dock Commssionership. 1t is said also
that the latter is going to compete with
Hasenf1ug for the control Of the Nineteenth
district.
'Rumors are still rife of the proposed early
removal of several more Brooklyn officials
who have steadfastly declined to desert
McCarren. There are already half a dozen
candidates or more for each such pros
pective vacancy.