The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-09-29
MAYOR TO VOTE FOR HUGHES
AND FOR THE DEMOCRATIC
TICKET, EXCEPT HEARST.

Nnalterably Opposed 20 Murphy -Pians
No Revenge ON sullivan or Murphy
Men-Hearst want HEIf the Justices.
Shortly before Mayor Mcclellan left Buff
falo for home on Thursday he made a state
ment TO the effect that as a Democrat he
would accept the action Of the Democratic
State convention. The inference a gen.
orally drawn that in accepting the situation,
as he termed it, he meant to vote also for
William r. Hearst.
When Mr.. Mcclellan read his morning
papers yesterday and learned that from
the few words he had said at Buffalo the
impression prevailed that he would cast his
vote for Hearst he decided to make his
position unequivocally clear by issuing q
formal statement declaring that not only
would he not vote for Hearst, but that he
was opposed to Charles +. Murphy as well
and all that Murphyism implies. This IL
the statement
AS l said yesterday, 1 am a Democrat,
and accept the action Of the Democratic
convention. / will be a Democrat while
my party has a name. But as a Democrat,
and as Mayor Of this town, / am unalterably
opposed to Charles +. Murphy and to every
thing that he stands for.
1 ToCOxnlXe Jne Illumination JnhJ L Hurt
endure in common with other Democrats.
Nevertheless, l will vote the ticket Of my
party in this State, but never for William
R. Hearst. Him I will not vote for
Mayor Mcclellan, it can be asserted
positively, W i'll vote for Charles f. Hughes
for Governor. He will, however, except
for Governor, vote for the ticket nominated
at Buffalo, including Lewis Stuyvesant
Chanler, the candidate for Lieutenant
Governor, and whom the Mayor regards as a
regular Democrat, even II Mr.. Chanler did
consent to go on the Independence League
ticket with Mr.. Hearst. Mr.. Mcclellan
does not look upon Mr.. Hearst as a Demo-
crat and for that reason he feels that he will
be perfectly justified in voting for the
Republican nominee for Governor.
Mr.. Mcclellan has told his friends hat
not only does he not regard Mr.. Hearst az a
Democrat, but that his estimate Of the
|. Murphy nominee is that he has worked and
will continue to work for the killing of the
Democratic party in this State; and that
therefore he (the Mayor feels hat he il
, only doing what every other right minded
Democrat should do-bolt Hearst and vot
for Mr.. Hughes.
Since the nomination Of Mr.. Hearst, which
was made possible by the action OF the
Sullivans in going over TO Charles F. Murphy,
there has beer a great deal written concern
ing the purpose ofthe Mayor to revenge him
self on the Sullivans by ordering the closing
Of all the ~poolrooms in the city and by re-
moving from Office every employee who got
his Job on the recommendation Of Big or
Little Tim.
Some semblance OF standardization was
given to these reports by the fact that on
Thursday a raid was made on a Harlem
~poolroom, in which. according to common
rumor, the Big Fellow is interested. Fur
Their, as IL to clinch the truth of the report
that the Mayor intended to do all the harm
he could to the Sullivans, the Mayor sum-
moned Police Commissions Bingham to the
City Hall yesterday and had a long talk with
him.
1t can be asserted that the Mayor sent
no orders from Buffalo to raid the pool
room in which the Sullivans are supposed
to be interested. On the contrary. one
Of the high officials Of this city said yester-
day that he had good reason TO believe
that the raid, which was carried out by
police officers who are known to be friendly
to the Sullivans, was made at the direct
instigation of Big Tim Sullivan himself,
and that the motive Of ii was to show that
the Mayor knew OF the existence Of the
poolrooms, that he had hitherto winked
at the violation Of the laws allowed by
the police and hat he had personally
directed the aid on the Sullivan room
in order to begin the starting Of the squar-
ing OF accounts with the S~ullivans. This
information, which came yesterday from
a source hat can be relied upon, was that
the raid was part of a plot put UP by Big
Tim Sullivan in an attempt to discredit
the Mayor
Mayor Mcclellan will make no removals
Of Sullivan and Murphy oficeholders just
because those of1ceholders happen to be
Sullivan or Murphy men. Friends Of Mr..
Mcclellan said yesterday that he did not
intend to make individuals suffer for the
mere fact that they had been, or still we're,
followers Of the Sullivans and Charles r.
Murphy.
THE Mayor is not going TO deprive men
OF their jobs" one Of the-heads of the
city government who are close to Mayor
Mcclellan said yesterday, "out OF personal
animosity to Murphy and the district
leaders who fought him at Buffalo. The
Mayor will make no removals for purely
political reasons. The only way a city
official will put his read in danger, no mat
ter how rabid a Murphy or Sullivan man
he may be, will be by using the innuene Of
his Official position to embarrass the adj
ministration -, Of Mayor Mcclellan. Any
o~ficeholder caught at that kind OF a game
will have a short shrift. l can assure you"
The statement issued yesterday by Mayor
Mcclellan will be the only utterance he will
make on the situation between now and
election day unless his desire to see the
Democratic judiciary convention name
candidates for the Supreme Court bench
who will reflect credit on the party may in
duce him TO condemn the present avowed
purpose Of Murphy and Hearst to divide
between them the ten places in the Supreme
Court to be voted for next November.
Concerning this matter Of the judiciary
ticket it can be asserted that some Of the
political chickens Mr.. Murphy has Matched
are already coming home to roost. When
Mr.. Murphy first made his deal with Hearst
one of he agreements was that Hearst
should support Murphy's candidates for
the Supreme Court. IL was agreed that
Murphy should lave the naming of eight
out Of the ten places and that two OF the
places should be allotted TO Mr.. Hearst.
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