New-York tribune., 1904-09-16
PUSHED KNIFE.
He Has Determined to Get Rid of
Thomas Taggart.

Ex-Judge Parker. Senator German, Henry q.
Davis, William F. Sheehan and Thomas F.
Ryan. of The Metropolitan Street Railway Com
pary. at a three-hour conference yesterday In
Mr.. Parkers suite at the Hotel Astor decided
practically TO supersede Thomas Taggart. chair
man OF the national committee, with Senator
Arthur P. German. OF Maryland
The action was taken without the kuowIedEs
Of Chairman Taggart. who LETT town on Wedues-
day night 10 consult the managers OF the state
campaigns in Indiana and Illinois
It is the intention OF the Parker-Sheshan-
Ryan men TO keep Teggart in the West IL pos
sthle. His three personal friends-ex-Senator
James X Jones. OF Arkansas; Charles A Walsh,
of Iowa. former secretary OF the national CONF
mittee. and j. c. Johnson. OF Kansas. a Bryan
Hearst man-wiu be asked 70 keep away from
the national committee headquarters They are
suspected Of CoOlness toward the Parker can
vass.
Is is not known that ex-senator Hin took a
hand in the revolution yesterday. Mr.. Hiu did
not visit national headquarters and he al not
call on Mr.. Parker. 1t is taken for granted that
he knew OF the plans OF Mr.. Parker and his
friends. as he spent a day at EsOpus the early
part OF the week
one of the remarkable features OF this most re-
markabe development at national headQuarter4
was that IL was not until IL became certain that
Chairman Taggart would go TO Indianapolis that
Mr. Parker consented TO come to New-Yorz.
When the newspapers on Wednesday said that
Mr.. Parker would come to New-york to consult
the leaders and possibly afterward make sew
eral campaign speeches some Of the Parker men
got frightened and denied that Mr. Parker was
coming. Urey Woodson. secretary OF ten na-
tional committee. called up Mr. Parker on ths
telephone and learned that the visit was con-
templated. and that il would be yesterday. 10
so announced it.
To make sure that his personal interests would
be protected. Chairman Taggart recently with
out consulting William +. Sheehan. chairman Os
the executive committee. appointed Messrs.
Jones. Walsh and Johnson to the star at head
quarters. With these men on guard he felt as u
he could risk trip to Indiana which he has
promised to carry for Parker and Davis. Ths
stories OF friction between Mr.. Sheehan and Mr.
Taggart reached Indiana. and the papers Their,
wanted TO know about IL. Mr.. Sheehan unhesf-
tatingly declared that all was harmonious BE-
tween himself and Mr.. Taggart II Is a fact
known to every empIOye at headquarters that
the relations between the chairman and the ex-
ecutive chairman are strained to the breaking
point and that Mr. Sheehan has been after the
scalp Of the HoOsier hotel keeper for the last
two weeks Now he's got It.
II was announced at the Hotel Astor last night
bv one Of the conferees at the meeting where
Mr. Taggart was done to death" that after
the state convention had named the State ticket
next week. the campaign in this State would
be opened with great energy. and that thereafter
there would be no apathy
There is little doubt that the Parker managers
regard the fight as lost All the Indications ar.
that all the funds that the national COMMITTEES
can raise from his time forward will be spent
10 carry this State against Roosevelt and Fair
hanks, and Higgins and Bruce. II the Parker
men can save New-yOrN out OF the wreck thew
figure that they can prevent the Bryan and
Hearst men from getting control OF the national
committee and frcm controlling the next ua-
tiOnaI convention.
Il is generally understood that the step taken
yesterday was the last resort OF those IN chArgs