The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-09-27
WILL OF QUEENS 7HVARTED.
BER1EL MEN Thrown OUT AND
CASSIDY MEN Put IN.
Contest Cooked Up by Murphy's Order
-HcrmeI Had 800 Plurality Dele
gates Put Out Because Fe Ran ON Fusion
Ticket Last Fall - Murphy's Game.

gates Put Out Because Hc Ran on Fusion
Ticket Last Fall Murphy's Game.
BUFFALO, Sept. 2e.-One Of the most
striking episodes Of the committee on con-
tested seats at the convention concerned
the twelve delegates from Queens county.
Several months ago Joseph Cassidy, State
Committeeman for the district, came out
strong for Hearst He did this because Of
the arrangement between Charles +. Murphy
OF Tammany and Hearst. Mr.. Cassidy being
a strong Murphy man. Another reason
why Mr.. Cassidy doomed Hearst for the
nomination for Governor was because OF
Hearst's vote in the borough Of Queens for
Mayor last fall, Cassidy argued from that
vote that the Hearst sentiment was very
strong in Queens. Cassidy believed that
this Hearst sentiment would help him to
retain the boss-ship Of Queens.
President Bermel Of the borough came
out strong against Hearst and at the pri-
maries he won control OF the borough by
$500 majority and sent twelve anti-Hearst
delegates to this convention. Cassidy had
lost his boss-ship. There was not a single
charge made that the twelve delegates
were not rightfully elected.
Cassidy coming to Buffalo on Saturday
night made II known that Murphy had
directed him to contest the seats OF the
entire twelve delegates, that is, to cook up
a contest no matter on what grounds.
Murphy was compelled to adopt this method
Of obtaining a majority for Hearst in this
convention, not only in the four Assembly
district Of Quesns but in sixteen additional
| Assembly districts in the State.
Mr.. Cassidy vent before the committee
on contested seats when it reconvened to-
day and put up a specious argument which
nearly brought down the house with laugh
ter. He did not make a single charge that
Bermel's twelve delegates had not been
elected rightfuliy. He merely commended
that Mr.. Bermel was irregular" for the
reason that Bermel had run for President
OF the Borough last fall on a fusion ticket.
Murphy and Hearst having control of the
committee on contested seats promptly
decided, through their henchmen, that
Bermel's dele gates should be turned out OF
the convention and in their places Cassidy's
twelve delegates, whose names he wrote on
a bit Of paper after his arrival. we're seated
in the convention.
Here was Cassidy, not ~contending that
Bermel's delegates were not rightfully
elected, but that Bermel was irregular
and Cassidy throws his twelve delegates
to Hearst, the candidate OF a guerrilla or
irregular" convention. This is only a
sample Of what has been going on for the
last twenty-four hours in the meeting OF
the committee on contested seats.
The seating of Cassidy's delegates by
direction OF the Murphy-Hearst forces
reflects Cassidy State committeeman for
the Second Senate district.
Another bit of work in the committee on
contested seats by the Murphy-Hearst
people was the turning out Of the three
delegates each from the Seventeenth, Nine
teenth and Thirtieth New York county
districts. The anti-Murphy people, led by
Roswell d. Williams, won in the Seventeenth
on primary day. The Nineteenth district
people, led by James Ahearn, won at the
primaries by 400 majority. and in the
Thirtieth district Percy +. Maggie won by
$500 majority, and yet Murphy had the
nine delegates from these three districts
turned out Of the convention. Murphy
did this, il was declared, in order to e.
tablish a precedent by which Williams,
Ahearn and Maggie shall not be recognized
as the executive members for their dis
tricts in Tammany.
Murphy, it is said here, il TO point out to
his legal committee of Tammany that the
highest party tribunal, the State convention,
turned the delegates from these three dis
tricts out Of the convention and that will
be sufficient for his purposes to keep Will
liams, Ahearn and Nagle out of the execu-
tive committee Of Tammany Hall.
The c~ontantion of Williams, Ahearn and
Nagle that they won legally on primary
day is to be taken to the courts. 1t was
not believed here, though, that anything
like a quick decision will be reached in the
matter. It was recalled that Big Bill
Devery, after being put out Of the ex-
ecutive committee Of Tammany, took his
case to the courts, but that the decision
was delayed until after the succeeding
primary day, when it was legally determined
that Murphy had no right TO turn Devery
out Of his place as the executive member Of
his district.