The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-06-06
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lori, h,I lrcn talk of a lineup at last
r.n.'. meeting on %pme question which
60. IL, r, hrough, up for tho express pur-
toes. of bringing out jus; ho " strong was
Mr. Murphy'a following Ia the orEaniLa-
ton Tbi. gossip however, was all on the
r,r' Of MIR Murphy's friends. The Tam
many leaders who are not classed a. Murphy
mon had made no pre- parattona for a show
down. In fact they have consistently stated
thot they did not desire to have any friction
In the orpa ~ni2ation unless developments
cumrelled them to act,
lncer the reapportionment several OF
Mr. Muphy's friends lost their districts
teca,s these districts were 20 carved up
A. to become part Of adjoining territories.
Little Tim Sullivan was permitted by the
RepIblcan Aldermen to divide the districts
To suit his interests. and 1t was readily adj
mitted by the Sullivan followers, when the
man was made public, that Little Tim had
tried to put out Of business as many "a pos
.ihle Of the Murphy leaders.
Mr.. Murphy succeeded in multiplying. for
the time being, the effect Of the change OF
the district boundaries when no had this
resolution PASSED last night by the executive
committee;
When, by reason of the geographical con-
ditions Of any Assembly district created by a
new apportionment of Senatorial districts.
two present members Of the executive COM
mittee now represent part of any such As
sembly district, such members shall be con-
tipued with voice and vote in the executive
committee; where an Assembly district Is
divided by the Harlem River there shall be
added TO the present membership OF the
executive committee a member to represent
the north side thereof. entitled with his coll
lea gne from such district to one half vote
each.
The result Of it is that new districts
where there are two old leaders will have
two representatives on the executive COM
mittee. In the new Third district there
will be Little Tim Sullivan and John T. Oak
lev and In the new Fourth John F. Ahearn
and P. J. Scully. In the new Fifth there
will be Patrick H. Keahon and p. j. Ryder;
in the Ninth, William Dalton and Peter j.
Dooling; in the Eighteenth, John v. Coggey
and Bart Dunn; in the Twenty-ifth. Joseph
F. Prendergast and George F. apannell;
in the Thirteenth, John F. Cowan and
another leader to be selected, and in tho
Thirty-second. Eugene j. Mcclure and
Thomas H. O'Neill. As a result Mr., Murphy
can count on eight votes at least in the
executive committee which might have
been lost to him had the condition con-
tinued of having but one leader from each
district.
Further, Mr.. Murphy put through a
resolution providing that in the five new
districts which have been created the
executive committee shall provide a tenn
porary organization. which means that the
executive COUliuitUco VIA gill WIG fONeoAo'
With Mr.. Murphy in control OF the execu-
tive committee as it is now constituted
he will have the opportunity to pick leaders
who will be loyal to him; but the September
primaries will settle it.
Last nights meeting Of the committee
was held behind closed doors. Thomas F.
McAvoy presided, and nearly all the mem
bers were present. Charles F. Murphy
and Little Tim Sullivan were both there.
That the anti-Murphy men knew nothing
Of what was coming was shown by the fact
that there. was practically no discussion
on the resolutions. The Sullivan men
werr in the dark as to how many votes they
could count on il a show Of hands was
taken. Rather than face a defeat they
decided on the spur Of the moment not to
oppose the resolutions. There were only
two negatives. These were cast by Joseph
F. Prendergast of the old Fifth and William
Dalton Of the old Eleventh. They frankly
admitted that they were against the adop-
ton Of the motions because the effect OF
them would be probably to prevent them
fighting at the primaries for the district
leaderships. Mr.. Murphy is anxious that
there should be no primary contests because
he fears that some OF these fights would
turn on his leadership.
1t had been expected that the committee
last night would follow the example OF the
Republican county committee and decide
to reorganize the Tammany executive and
general committees in September imme-
diately after the primaries. The rules OF the
Committees provide that there shall be no
meetings in July and August, and as special
meetings can be called only by the chair
man, who is allied with Murphy, there
will, it is supposed, be no meetings until
September after the primaries: 1t is pos
sible, of course, that the September meeting
will rescind the action taken last night and
reorganize before election, but benefits
which they might a v obtained at the
Primaries will be lost to the anti-Murphy
men.
After the meeting gossip was heard to the
effect that Mr.. Murphy in the step he took
was actuated not only by a desire to hold on
to the leadership Of Tammany Hall as long
aspossible but wanted also to be in a posi-
lion to nave a voice in the naming OF the
Democratic candidate for Governor. The