The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-09-29

Max Ihmsen, Mr.. Hearst's political manager.
told Mr.. Murphy, II was ascertained yester-
ay, thai four OF the vacancies ought to
&C TO Independence League mon. To this
proposition Mr.. Murphy had to consent.
and 1t was said yesterday that he expressed
himself as satisfied, because he would still
have a majority Of the nominations. Yes
terday, however, IL was asserted ut Mr..
Hearst's headquarters at the Gilsey House
that Mr.. Hearst would insist on dividing
the ticket evenly. and that in fact that de-
mand had already been sent to Mr.. Murphy.
II will be q hard dose for Mr.. Murphy to
swallow. but representatives Of Mr.. Hearst
declared yesterday that Mr.. Murphy would
be forced to gulp IL down.
At the Gilsey House IL was reported yes
terday that Mr.. Hearst had definitely Sc
lected four OF his Ave candidates for the
Supreme Court bench. These are ex-City
Judge John Palmieri, City Court Judge
Samuel Beabury, John Ford and Thomas
Gilleran. Clarence Shearn, Mr.. Hearst's
personal counsel, was asked to take n OF
the nominations, but he declined. Mr..
Shearn in fighting Mr.. Hearst's legal battles
has q n extremely lucrative practice, and he
refuses to relinquish it.
John Ford is to get one OF the nominations
as a recompense for consentng to give
way to William s. jackson OF Erie, who
was nominated at Buffalo for Attorney
General. Mr.. Ford, 1t 10 understood, threat
ened to make trouble in the campaign II
Mr.. Hearst turned him down after nomi-
mating him on the Independence League
ticket for Attorney General, but Mr. Ford,
was induced to change his mind and the
Supreme Court nomination is to be his
reward.
Charles F. Murphy's candidates for the
Supreme Court, II was learned yesterday
from a source which can be regarded rs
authoritative, are Peter A. Hendrick, 7. 9.
T. Grain, Tax Commissioner John J. Brady
and Magistrates Walsh n Wahle. Mr..
Murphy, it was said yesterday, had given
his positive assurance to these five men that
he would see hat they got places on the
Supreme Court ticket, and it was added that
the promises he made to Messrs. Brady,
Walsh and Wahle were given after they had
consented to desert Mcclellan and back
Murphy at Buffalo.
Such a ticket as this Mayor Mcclellan will
undoubtedly ~denounce, and that denunci-
alton will be the only utterance he will allow
himself to make in the campaign. Tn pos
sibility is that he will denounce a ticket
of the kind proposed by Murphy and
Hearst in a statement so emphatically
worded that It will command the earnest
attention Of all elements in the Democratic
party.
Apart from this. 1t is not likely that Mayor
Mcclellan will be heard from in the cam
paign. 1t is his purpose to wait until the
election ia over before making any move
against the forces which now control Tam
many Hall. Mr.. McClellan's friends said
yesterday that the Mayor had not the least
doubt that Hearst would be badly beaten
on November Q and that the squelching he
would get on that day would mark the be-
ginning Of an organized effort to eliminate
Charles F. Murphy as a factor In the local
Democratic organization.
1t was explained by those who spoke
for Mr.. Mcclellan that'the Mayor. after
election day. would start a movement for
the regeneration OF the Democratic party,
not only in this city but in The State, and
that he had already received promises Of
aid to this end from large number Of in
fuential. conservative Democrats. While
there is no intention on the part OF Mr..
Mcclellan to use any axe methods before
the election, the likelihood is that in starting
the work Of recognizing the Democratic
party in this city he will find 1t necessary
to make some changes in his administration.
James J. Martin, the veteran leader OF the
-Twenty-seventh Assembly district, who
bolted the Tammany caucus in Buffalo
when the resolution for the enforcing Of the
unit rule was put through, resigned yester-
day from the Tammany executive com-
mittee, which meant that he abdicated the
leadership OF his distict.
81 - o,,t - NJ Martfn aatI vaakarIav
because / cannot stand for Hearst. am
a Democrat, have always been and always
will be a Democrat, but l will .ndt support
Hearst. Therefore 1 rave resigned from
the Tammany Hall executive committee.
Although I will not vote for Hearst it is not
my intention to support or work for Mr..
Hughes. As l ave told you, l will always
be a Democrat, and as I cannot support the
head OF the ticket named by the Democratic
convention at Buffalo there was nothing
left for me to do but to give up membership
In the executive committee. l nave not
taken this step on a second day impulse,
because on the way down from Buffalo /
told several OF the members OF the Twenty
seventh district organization that I was
through and would resign. What the
Twenty-seventh district organization will
do I don't know, but I am out. and that is
oil / care to say at this time"
Mr.. Martin has for many years been one
Of the powerful members Of the Tammany
organization. He has always been frank
and outspoken in his opinions and he IL
one OF the few men who ever had the courage
to oppose Richard Croker when he thought
Mr.. Croker was pursuing q wrong policy.
Mr.. Croker was frequently heard to say
that he admired Mr.. Martin for his inde-
pendence.
When Charles F. Murphy made the deal
by which Edward M. Grout and Charles
v. Fornes were nominated by Tammany in
1908, after accepting places on the fusion
ticket, Mr.. Martin, who was then chairman
of the Democratic city committee, fought
strongly against the scheme even to the
extent OF getting up in the city convention
that year and d~enouncing Mr.. Murphy
before the convention. Mr.. Martin was
at one time a police commissioner, when
the department was governed by a bipar-
tisan board. and for several years he was