The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-01-21
CLAWS OF THE TIGER
CONCEALED FOR THE TIME BY
 TAMMANY TACTICS.
Silence of Leader Murphy Believed by Some to Be Due to Scheme to Capture Democratic
 Convention.
Advertiser Bureau,
 Colorado Building,

Washington, Jan. %. There IS considerable discussion in Washington over t6e reports freely pub lished in New York papers that Tam many, through Charles F. Murphy, has a plan of campaign for itself which it is intended to push through at the National Democratic Convention. The common in- ference is that Tammany. not content with controlling Greater New York and New York State, mea. to go in for con- trolling the national convention.
 That is what 1t means" said a South | ern Democrat today, touching the report that Charles F. Murphy was just now Inon-committal as to candidates because he was waiting to hear from certain emis- saries he would send South to see how the candidacy of George B. Mcclellan would take among prospective Southern dele gates.
 q think" said the Congressman. MT. Murphy would better let Colonel McClel- Ian test his untried executive ability as Mayor New York before seeking to make him President of the United States. Be- sides, we had been led to believe that Tammany. like the rest of us, was going to the national convention imbued with the spirit of harmony and self-sacrifice. It does not look propitious for unity and good feeling for Tammany to permit 1t
 
 ing that she is going to the convention wanting everything in sight. There are others besides Tammany in the Demo- cratic party. Tammany ought to remem- Der that 1t has never paid it to try to boss national Democratic conventions"
 The speaker. who preferred that his name should not be used, excusing his wish to that effect by saying that Tam many men had been saying things in the aNF iy, manner and declared that if Mir. Murphy meant simply to serve MT. Mcclellan with view to his future advancement, he was adopting the surest way to postpone it.
 "If." said he, "as is also reported, MT. Murphy is merely masking a movement to revive Grover Cleveland. that will not work either. Mir. Cleveland needs not to be brought before any national Demo- cratic convention as a dark horse. The whole country Is familiar with his record and his character. Take him with the great body of conservative people in the country, who care more for peace and progress and the assured stability of so- ciety and business than they do for par tisan politics, no man is stronger than ex- President Cleveland. He has himself in- sisted that he be left out of calculations upon candidates. Certainly I do not be- lieve he would lend himself to any covert hielHou OT CdEu-up-tHc-SlecNe SlSIBuL Ol hand practices by Tammany or anybody else"
 The expression quoted nearly voices the sentiment of many Southern members of Congress, some of whom have openly ex- pressed preferences for presidential can didates. Members who have inclined to the nomination of Judge Parker of New York. are especially censorious of the al- legged Tammany tactics. They say that their understanding is that no Democrat in the State stands higher among the masses of the voters fin the Empire State than the Judge; that the coupling by Tammany of his name with that of David B. Hill with the design of eliminating Parker with those who are distrustful of the former Senator can have no real harmful effect 10 Parker except with the Tammanyites themselves; that the party