The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-07-16
A SUDDEN CALL TO TAMMANY
GENERAL AND EXECUTIVE COM
MITTEES MEET TONIGHT.
II an Attem ~ IL Made to Expel Fire Com
missioner Iantry He VIII Resort to the
Courts-In Ahcarn N Magic tsses
Contestants Are Likely 90 NE seated.

missioner Lantry He viii Resort to the
Courts-In Ahearn and Maggie Eases
Contestants Are Likely 20 he Seated.
Charles +. Murphy has ordered the ex-
ecutive and general committees Of Tam
many Hall TO meet this evening. Tele-
phoning yesterday from his country place
at Good Ground, l.. l.. to Secretary Tom
Smith he directed that the calls be sent
out last night. Mr.. Smith sent out the
I. : notices, but he was unable TO state the nature
Of the business 10 he done AT the meetings
for Mr.. Murphy did not tell him.
1t is supposed that Mr.. Murphy's pur-
pose is to begin some policy of reprisal
against Mayor Mcclellan. When he was
in town last week he said that he looked
upon the removal OF Corporation Counsel
Ellison as a declaration Of war. He has
announced that he will be at Tammany
Hall throughout the summer except on
Saturdays. Sundays and Mondays. and TO his
friends he has said that he will probably
nave 10 cope with from a dozen TO fifteen
! primary contests Although Mr.. Murphy pro-
| fessed last week to be confident that the
Mcclellan men would not win one of these
fights he does not intend 10 take any
chances.
There is no routine business pending
before the committees. 90 that the matters
20 he discussed tonight will be Of a special
nature. The belief was general last night
among Tammapy committeem that Mr..
Murphy would respond 20 the remova
OF Ellison by having Tammany's COM
mittee on contested seats report in favor
Of unseating from the executive committee
Fire Commissioner Lantry of the Sixteenth
district and seating the contestants against
ia mes Ahearn Of the Nineteenth and Percy
Maggie Of the Thirtieth. These three dis
trict leaders are aligned with the Mayor.
The two latter have not been allowed to
take their places On HI executive COM
mittee. Lantry has been accused OF
treachery in that he refused 10 support
! Hearst for Governor. and in the case OF
Ahearn and Magic il has heen charged
that they won az the last years primary
elections by fraud and intimidation. Ross
Williams Of the Seventeenth district, who
was elected as a Mcclellan candidate last
year, has made his peace with Murphy
and will be allowed to sit as the leader OF
his district.
Commissioner Lantry said last night
that he would fight in the courts any effort
10 drop him from the executive commit
tee. He said hat when the Republican
county committee two months ago voted
10 expel from the executive committee OF
that body Jacob A. Newsstand. the Repub-
lican Leader elected at the last primaries
in the Fourth Assembly district. on the
ground that his election was a fraudu-
lent one the Supreme Court ordered his
reinstatement and the county COMMITTEES
had been advised that it had no alterna-
tive but to obey.
1T is true" Mr.. Lantry said, that when
the executive committee of Tammany
Hall refused TO recognize Chief Devery az
the leader OF the old Fifth district that
action was upheld by the courts. but that
precedent does not apply in my case. Mr..
Devery did not present himself as a men,
Der Of the committee. but sent a repre-
sentative of his own choosing 10 take his
place on the COMMITTEES. The committee
had a right TO reject this representative.
but il cannot expel me because have been
properly elected a member of that com
mittee under the provisions Of the primary
law"
Mayor Mcclellan refused to talk poll
tics Yesterday. This 10 the silly season in
politics, and IL is a good time TO keep sill
emit" was all he would say. One Of the call
ers on the Mayor yesterday was Senator
McCarren.