The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-12-29
HURPHYNOTANXIOU FOR WAR
HAS TURNED PRIMARY FIGHTS
TO SPECIAL COMMITTEE
And Tammany Men Explain That He Fears
to Fire Out Ahearn. Williams and
Maggie. Lest Their Friends start .
war-MOre Talk OF New Combine.

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war-MOre Talk OF New Combine.
The action OF Charles +. Murphy in turn
ing over TO a special committee Of Tam
many the fate Of Ahearn in the Seventeenth,
Williams in the Nineteenth and Maggie in
the T~hirtieth, who contend that they were
elected overwhelmingly executive COM
mitteemen for their districts at the Sep
TENDER primaries, led to all sorts Of state
ments in Tammany yesterday.
IL was explained by we'll informed Tam
manyites that Mr.. Murphy decided on this
course because many OF his friends in the
organization believed that the firing out Of
these three executive committeeman would
start a war of reprissl which in the end
would not only be disastrous to Mr.. Murphy
but to many district leaders.
IL was added by these Tammanyites that
the district leaders had counselled Mr..
Murphy to 20 slow on these three men, for
the reaon that Mayor Mcclellan, having
looked carefully over the figures, believes
firmly that the three men were electe d
beyond all dispute, n that the Mayor
would not permit them to be ousted by
Mr.. Murphy's order and say amen" to It..
Some of the Tammany district leaders
VINO ATS pcfsOndlly AEleuuly W NhI' NiuIphy
said that the time had come for them 10
make it clear that neither they nor the
off -eholders in their districts under the
Mcclellan administration should be further
called upon TO take the consequences OF
Mr.. Murphy's bitter warfare on Mayor
Mcclellan and the Mayors friends.
Several OF the district leaders said, in
quainted with the real reasons for the
differences between Mayor Mcclellan and
Mr.. Murphy, and for that matter that they
did not care what they were, but that Mr..
Murphy should take no step toward un-
seating Ahean, Williams and Maggie for
the reason that in many districts there
were Tammanyites eager to seize the reins
Of leadership, and they were only awaiting
an opportunity to do 50; that this oppor-
tUnity would come II Mr.. Murphy fired out
elected, because then Mr.. Murphy could
not fairly expect anything but a var OF
reSTElsaIM urnbv,s action in .DDoiotins .
committee to keep Ahearn, Williams and
Maggie on tenterhooks was explained by
Mr.. Murphy's friends when they said that
the three men were thus held as hostages.
The Tammanyites who said that they did
moi believe in such methods, said that Mr..
Murphy in the first place should not have
questioned the election OF the three men
to be he executive members Of their dis
tricts and that he would not have done 30
except that they were known as Mcclellan
men, or rather as .anti-Murphy men.
The Tammany leaders n spOk Ike this
way said that Mayor Mcclellan was justified
at any moment in starting n war Of reprisal
on Mr. Murphy and Mr.. Murphy's friends.
The talk Of a new Democratic combina-
ton to be headed by David B.. Hill
Senator McCarren and Patrick l.. McCabe
continued to be heard yesterday. 1t be-
came known that ex-Mayor Thomas o.
borne Of Auburn, who ia practically in
charge OF Democratic State headquarters
in Albany and who has in his custody the
names OF 800. 900 Democrats in the State,
was also in the combination, and il was sale
that Mr.. Hill and Mr.. Osborne have had siRcs
election day frequent talks with important
Democrats all over the State.
That the new Democratic combinati or
has any formative plans at the momen'
was denied. No rocks have been thrown
at anybody yet. Several who spoke OF thu
alleged new combination said it had an
arsenal of rocks handy. In a word. the
Democrats are as bitterly torn up as tn
Republicans and for the next two yean
there will be plenty Of rapid fire polite
all around.