The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1904-09-07
REBEL Quiz FOR M'CARREN.
SENATOR DEFENDS HIMSELF AT
KINGS COMMITTEE MEETING.
Nalcontrnts Likely to Avoid Enforcement
OF init Rule on GrOut for Governor
Long Confab with Farrell without
Eesult-COnyCntiOn Dates selected.

WIN
Eesult-Con,cntion Dates selected.
special meeting of the Democratic
executive committee in Brooklyn was held
last night at the Thomas Jefferson head
quarters, the object. as previously ex-
planned by Senator p. II. McCarren the
chairman, being to fix the dates and places
for the Assembly district conventions
for the election of delegates to the State
convention and for the Congress, Senate
and Assembly convent ions
Messrs Doyle, Farrell, Dooley, kehoe,
Walsh and proxy for Dreamer, six of the
seven anti McCarren district leaders in
the present COMMITTEES, were on hand,
Shea being the absentee. and they threw
considerable animation into the otherwise
routine proceedings
Deputy Water Commissioner Thomas
r.. Farrell who has held the Eleventh
| assembly district in the anti-McCarren
column ever since the factiona strife
started, and who also won cut at the re-
cent primary, hustled into the committee
room full of fight and a. the first oppor-
| tunitv jumped up and oefiantly faced the
/ chairman. lie accused Senator Met arren
Of having persistently assailed the autonomy
of his district, first by refusing to recognize
/ the chosen officers of its regular organiza
/ ton and utterly ignoring their standing,
I and finally by removing the regular cleo
! ton Inspectors and appointing brand
! new set who had not tn" Endorsement
Of the district organization.
! Deputy Fire Commissioner William A.
| Doyle. the victorious anti-McCarren leader
in the Seventh district, also vigorously
attach ed ScnGtor Nc arren, substantially
on the same grounds upon which Farrell
based his argument Judge Walsh of the
Second district added his voice to the
opposition.
Senator NcCarren, in defending himself,
| commended that Farrell, Doyle and their
associates had virtually placed themselves
outside the brt aetworks and thus had fairly
subjected themselves to the discipline in
hictcd. Inc Senator maintained that lie
was AMPLY justified in each and every step
he had taken in regard to his factiona
enemies all through tie controversy and
by way OF illustration recited some instances
in the history of ramniany Hall in wSich
the severest disciplinary measures were
employed in TIE case of district leaders
WHO lad rcbelied
Senator .,cCarren concluded by making
an eloquent plea for the establishment Of
corr ietc harm ony all along the line so as
to roll up an old time Der ocratic plurality
Tor the nation9l state and local ticket.
Farrell anG Doyle ASKED about their pr -
cEt and future standing in the can paiSns
atd as to whe thor they or sore irrespou-
s!hl' persons We're to be rec Gri2ed in the
d a EaFc'' ent of the canvass ii their resp ct
i've uaiiwichs I his, they said. was an -
po;ta latter to them and their con-
st.u nts.
senator McCarr, said that every regu-
larlv hoseD execrti e comm itteenan would
rec,i"e p"opNr r""o~nitioo. but eth. II en-
and 'l,"i follow r - also w" o rr".iv"
considerable Senator MoCarrn as d
MIR. Lo,i- it l.,.a-..... iS:.!L.,..... wlu
were acting wiz, hi irtend"d to at, on
pany the regular Kings equity delegation
Mr.. DOYLE said that he did not know
whether thCv would or nct, and that the
matter would not lr determined until
they had consulted VITA their people and
Others.
II was inferred from the remark Of Mr.
Ecylr that he and lis associates would
ajs"H; themselves from any caucus Senator
NcCarrcn might call. and nus be il Il posi-
Comptroller Edward NJ. Grout. under Tie
urn rule. In the entire session there was
Only one vote taken upon which there wa a
roll call. lhiS WIS in regard 10 fixing
the place for holding the Senate conyen-
tion IN the lifth district. Doyle and kehoe.
having control OF the Seventh and Ninth
Assembly districts, respectively, are also
il control If the Fifth Congress dist riot,
"ohn M,rrisny ray only holding the Eighth
Assembly district against them.
Ldrr these rlrC ulIStantpS, Boyle NAN
tanned ihGt, according To tine invariaha
custom OF the o:E 1aiGatica, ne and kehoe
s'!oI!u have the privilege Of fXng The
place for holding the convention. and he
named 3l5 fIfl v hind street on his own
stamping ground, Gray moved that hi;
cor"o a'lon ne held at his own clubhouse. I
III Bcrgrn a;reet, in the heart ot c'inrry-
town, and the committee by Il vote of e 10 ,
So determined.
when the mcetinE nrok" up. senator
Mc''arrcn and Mr., Farrell had long ard I
nvidcn " confidential conial, and all the ,
statesmen who are eager for peace. or AT
least truce, JUMPED TO the opinion that ,
probably somc' hing o: ,ha kind was about
ever. subsequently announced iha, the Z,
breach was still open and TINT there was
absolutely 10 cf.nrn in tn si'ns'ion"
DOYLE, ke!ioe, Dooley and Walsh made .
cpgear that the merry warfare between
the Democratic rheftains in Brooklyn IL .
to 80 on Indefinitely.
These are the dates for Tie various CON
ventions
Assembly convention for the election Of
delegates to the State convention, Sept. q;
Congress convention Oct :, SerGtoril n con-
vention, Oct. 4, Assembly convention, Oct. 5.
Queens Elects TammGny Delegates.
The Democrats of the First and Second
Assembly districts OF Queens borough
last night elect,I delegates TO the State
Ia both districts there was
no opposition TO the machine slate and in
each three men who will stand by Tam
manN were elected. The men elected in
the First district are Borough President
Joseph Cassidy, State Chairman Cord
Meyer and Athelstan Vaughn. The dele
gates from the Second district, which
includes Flushing and vicinity, are Patrick
j. Mara, George A. Creed and John F..
Ebert.