The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-06-02
MURPHY PLAYS
TO THE GALLERY
Tammany Leaders, Defeat Might
Send Him Back to Tend
ing Bar.
From The Journal Bureau, Colorado Build.
ing, Washington.

From The Journal Bureau, Colorado Build
ing, Washington.
Washington, June 2.-Leader Muir
phys movement for Mayor Mcclellan
is intended for effect on the demo-
cratic party outside of New York
state. He has thrown out a McClel-
Ian "feeler," and if it should take
well, Mcclellan will be seriously
pushed. This seems to be Murphy's
last stand against Parker. If it should
fail, and Parker be nominated, Muir
ply would be in danger. Hill and
McCarren, he fears, might undertake
to reorganize, or reofficer, Tammany
Hall, and this might mean that Muir
ply would have to go back to his for
mer calling of bartender.
At present the Mcclellan boom is
weakling. While the majority of the
delegates to st. Louis thus far select
ed are uninstructed, they are at heart
for Parker, and will support him if
the way is clear. The one thing that
has prevented instruction is the Muir
phy-Hill feud in New York. That
feud has not found favor with demo-
cratic leaders in other states. Parker
| is still their choice, and they are maxi
ing patient efforts to bring about an
understanding between the New York
belligerents.. They may not succeed,
| and If they do not, Parker may not be
nominated. If they succeed, Parker
will be selected, perhaps on the first
! ballot.
In New York state the Parker men
| hold their organization intact. Muir
ply, on the other hand, has not quite
held his own in the state. Well-in-
formed politicians say there is a
strong Parker feeling in the rank and
| file of Tammany, and that the up
state democracy is for him to a man.
On this ground it Is claimed that I'LL
timately Murphy will be compelled to
succumb. Certainly his movements
appear to put him on the defensive.
First he was against Parker, but with
no candidate Of his own. Then he
said he was for Cleveland, but that
name not taking well, he again was
without candidate. Now he says
! he is for Mcclellan. There is nothing
in this attitude suggestive of victory,
or even of confidence.
| At the same time the strength OF
the Tammany organization Is so great
and its hearty support Of the demo
cratic nominee is so essential thai
the party at large may well hesitate
To nominate man whom TammanJ
will not support would be to capitu'
late in the nominating convention
Tammany must be brought into line
for the nominee, and it is to this
work that the democratic leaders are
| now DenulnS LHe1r energies.
There is a whisper that nationa
leaders, in return for Murphy's sup
port of Parker, will offer to see tina
his control Of Tammany is not inter
| fered with hy Hill.
There is another element Of weak
ness for Mlrphy in the lukewarm at
titude of the big financial interests o
4 New York. These, SO far as the de
mocracy Is concerned, have expressed
u preference for Parker, because the.
think he will be the strongest candi
date against Roosevelt. That part o
the financial world which is opposing
Roosevelt will expect to help financ
the democratic campaign, and there
fore it expects to have something t
say about the selection of candidates
! Murphy's position is not popular i
= New York state, and it is only. tn
l splendid Tammany discipline that en-
1 ables him to maintain it.
!. From the beginning, the logic Of tn
: situation has demanded the nomina
D ton of Parker. New York, New Je1
, sey, Connecticut and Indiana, so-calle
9 doubtful states, must all be carried
l the democrats are to win. They Wer
9 carried both times Cleveland we
elected. Now New York, Connecticl
t and Indiana have instructed fc
/, Parker and applied the unit rul
New Jersey has not instructed, bl