The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-12-30
81 SULLIVAN HEADS COME OFF.
OPENING Or THE MAYORS FIGHT
on CHARLES r. MURPHY.

Appointment OF DoOllnk Instead Or vOorhIs
TO he Commissions OF Elections LIKELY
10 ne the Next Thing Manifesto From
Mayor Expected When He Comes Back.
Mayor Mcclellan was at Princeton yester-
day and will not return to town until
Wednesday. With thu beginning Of the
new year the Mayor is to take some steps
to make it clear to Tammany that while
he will do everything in reason for the
organization he will not recognize the
leadership Of Charles +. Murphy. He will
Issue some sort OF a manifesto giving his
views on this matter, and. his first action
will be to refuse to recognize Mr.. Murphy's
be r~eappointed as the Tammany member
OF the Bureau of Elections. Instead the
Mayor will appoint a Tammany district
leader, and by such appointment give plain
evidence Of fealty to the organization.
A number Of names OF candidates for Mr..
| voorhis's place were heard, the f~avorite
being Peter j.. Dooling. 1t was said,
though, that the Mayor has not definitely
selected the man.
Mayor Mcclellan has had talks with a
number Of important city and State Demo-
Gratis who have advanced the opinion
that warfare should be made upon Mr..
Murphy az leader OF Tammany. The
fight from the beginning of the new year
will, it was announced, be conducted for the
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September primaries. The Mayor, it was
said, has no candidate for leader to succeed
Mr.. Murphy, but the effort to displace
Mr.. Murphy will be made in the belief that
as the fight progresses a leader will be
evolved who will work in conjunction with
the city administration
The Sullivans, Big Tim and Little Tim,
who nave joined hands with Mr.. Murphy
in the latter's warfare on Mayor Mcclellan.
are to be opposed, it was asserted yester-
day, not by feather buster methods, butsby
the methods with which the Sullivans are
most familiar-patronage. There are other
Tammany leaders close to Mr.. Murphy
who are described as knowing no political
formula ave patronage, and it is stated
TO be- the Mayors purpose il he cannot
have peace in any other way to get peace
NIL All dA6s 1uS NdIldIo COAuOCNcd ny
Mr.. Murphy on Mayor Mcclellan because
the Mayor refused to appoint John 7.
Oakley Gas Commissioner has become
more vigorous since the ~Sullivans, after
affiliating with Mayor Mcclellan, returned
20 Mr.. Murphy. IL was said yesterday
that the methods which Mr.. Murphy and
the Sullivans have employed to bring about
the Mayors discontinue will with the be-
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as possible in a war Of reprisal to be CON-
Quoted against Mr.. Murphy and his chief
allies in the organization.
Most of the recent trouble has come
It was declared, because of Mr.. Murphy's
refusal TO recognize the election as execu-
tive committeemen at the September pri-
maries Of Ahearn in the Seventeenth, Will
iams in tho Nineteenth and Maggie in the
Thirtieth. Mr.. Murphy has refused to seat
the men declared elected at the primaries
and il now keeping them suspended in
midair, awaiting some overt act on the part
Of Mayor Mcclellan in the matter of the
reappointment of Voorhis. Mayor Nc
CleIlan, it was positively stated last night,
will not reappoint Mr.. Voorhis, and it is his
present intention TO appoint Mr.. Dooling.
Mr.. Murphy, j. Sergeant Cram, John 4.
SuhACy VIZ WIG II bhb LII ulld
Little Tim, were convinced that a war is on
when it became known last night that
twenty-one Sullivan heads had fallen into
the basket yesterday. There was a great
stir over the removal Of these twenty-one
adherents OF Big Tim and Little Tim and
their friends in the organization. The
places were exempt under the civil service
law and are considered very valuable
frnpn nm prnapi1afipp ufanArOfpk Thau
pay from 500 TO sI25 a month. The men
removed were corporation tax inspectors
attached TO the office Of Commissioner John
II. O'Brien.
The removal of these twenty-one cor
poration tax inspectors was the talk OF the
town last night. 1t was all the more in
teresting for the reason that Mr.. Murphy's
friends in the organization were quite on
fldent early in the afternoon that Mayor
Mcclellan would hesitate at beginning the
promised warfare on Mr.. Murphy. When
the removals became known tho Murphy
men and the Su llivan men in Tammany
said that they would get square by APP
| pealing to Acknowledgement Jackson and
demanding that he begin quo warranto
proceedings for William r. Hearst to open
the ballot boxes and determine the re-
suit OF the Mayoralty election OF 1905. The
Mayors friends, replying to this. said that
they had had enough OF such talk and
that they were not TO be scared by n
such bugaboo. As a matter OF fact, there
was a howl all along the line last night in
Tammany circles from the M~urphy-Sulli-
van contingent, and there we're grins among
the anti-Murphy and anti-Sullivan men.