The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-04-16
DEMOCRATS GETTING CLOSER.
INDICATIONS, OPEN AND OCCULT.
~ BROOKLYN SHOW 1T.

McCarren WILING 20 Make Concessions
TO Elements That Have Been Hostile
TO Him, and Murphy said Not 20 Hold
Baok-McCarren Calls On the Mayer.
since the announcement in THE Sun on
Thursday that there was probably going 10
be an early truce In the hostilities In the
Democratic organizations In Brooklyn and
a consequent change In the personal rela-
tions Of Charles F. Murphy and Senator
McCarren two incidents have occurred In
supposed confirmation Of the story. On
Friday, for the first time since his break
with the leader Of TAmmany, Senator
McCarren called on Mayor Mcclellan at his
Office in the City Hall and had a pleasant,
II not a political ,Iconfab Of nearly half an
hour with him. The second incident In the
harmony drama was enacted yesterday
afternoon, when former Assistant Corpora
ton Counsel Isaac NJ. Kapper, who was
also one Of the trainers Of the original char
ter for the Greater New York, paid a visit
10 Senator McCarren in his sanotum in the
Thomas jefferson Building and remained
closeted with the Brooklyn leader for an
hour.
The significance OF the conference il due
10 the fact that not only is Mr.. Kapper an
eminent Democrat himself but Is a close
personal and political friend Of former
senator Michael J. Cofey. He acted as the
legal adviser Of the latter In his long and
bitter controversy. with the Willoughby
street regime. Although neither McCarren
nor Kapper would admit that the confer
ence had anything to do with the harmony
negotiations II was generally regarded as
indicative OF disposition on the part Of
Cofey, who has so far been one Of the lead
ing opponents Of Senator McCarren, 20 ad-
Just his differences with the latter. Incl
dentaly Mr.. Kapper has a burning
ambition TO occupy a seat on the Supreme
Court bench, which will be competed for at
the polls at the coming election, and eX-
Senator Cofey would make great sacrifices
TO secure for him the Democratic nomi-
Ia addition to these open harmony
straws, there have been several political
dongs within two OF three weeks in the
neighboring boroughs which foreshadow
complete union Of the Democratic forces
in the impending municipal campaign.
Thoughtful political observers are predict
ing that Senator McCarren will head a
solid Mcclellan delegation from the borough
OF Brooklyn to the city convention and that
Tammany will accept as the candidate for
Comptroller the Brooklyn man 70 be named
by McCarTen and his associates. The man
most talked o. at present in that connection
is Herman A. Metz, the president Of the
Kings County Democratic Club. II is
understood that at the dinner Of the Brook
Ign Democratic Club, scheduled for May 4,
there are likely to be some important de-
velopments in the harmony programme.
There was much harmony talk last night
at a dinner at the Kings County Demo
cratic Club. The gist Of 1t all was that
Mayor Mcclellan had interposed TO restore
peace between Tammany and the Brooklyn
organization, insisting that II he was to be
renominated It must be by united party
II was the opinion Of the leading Demo
cratic statesmen at the club that the Mayor
would be successful in his efforts. One OF
Senator McCarren's chief lieutenRnts said:
The fight Is being settled and settled
very rapidly. Senat r McCarren has made
concessions to all the elements in the pa ty
that have been opposed to him. The VIII
loughby street men, the Cotfeyites and all
the others who have been antagonisuc
10 his leadership will receive recognition,
and II any contests take place at the Sep
TENDER primaries they will be between
rival leaders in the Assembly districts
Senator McCarren is TO be recognized and
accepted as the leader Of the Kings county
Democracy
II was also said that Mr.. Murphy had
not yet assented 70 this situation, but that
there was no doubt he would do 80 in very
abort TINA