The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-07-09
ELLISON AND CRAVEN ARE OUT
TAELEY TOO, AND JAMES y. MAR
TIN rs CHAMBERLAIN.


X. pendicton 10 Corporation Counsei
and Dr. BepscI street s,raner -Rlusop
DIDN'T Resign and ms Mead FeaI.
Tbs storm which has boen Questioning In
tho City Hall for Some wesks past broke
Yesterday when Mayor Mcclellan removed
! Co,nor.t,ou cour..I El,,.or d.vn,oSsd the
S~,S..- CO. $50. c---,-.--
=" w" $500 s
laley ana accepted tho rosagnsuon OF
Street Cleaning Commissioners Craven. Boon
after the Mayor reached his Office yesterday
morning Il besan 10 In whispered around
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ana 'n0ro "as " ou"en '" Po'0~" 7"
the corrioors before noon. ~ uas not
until nearly thros hours later that ehs
Mayor put an end to speculation by an
no,no;n~ ,h,, n. had mads thsse chsn.s
a. ~. .am,u,.~..,..
Francis "A fena,e,on, sppointsd Oofpofa,
uon Sounss., t,es "iussln ?. Eanson, .snosso'
liz s.oc..d;a. $500 Wssn.n S.o.sssa
w.Issr Rsnssi spnc,rted ccmmi.sioner
of stree, clespins. vice Macdonoush Craven.
resigned.
Frank L. Polk, appointed . membe OF
the CiVii Service Comm'ssion' vice Aured D.
ianey' res'sheo'
The removal OF MIR. Ellison had no sur
prise in II. That the Mayor and Mr., Ellison
were not on friendly terms hes been q matter
Of common knowledge. The breach be-
tween them came after the so-called peace
conferences between Mr.. Ellison and Big
Tim sullivan. which were supposed so
have been engineered by Morgan J. 0'Brien
with hi consent Of the Mayor and Charles
+. Murphy for the p~rpose Of bringing
about peace between the City Hall and
Fourteenth street. After Mr.. Ellison and
Big Tim had met about half a dozen times
Mr.. Ellison gave out .. statement in which
he asserted that an understanding had been
arrived at between the administration
and the leader OF Tammany Hall. In that
statement MIR. Ellison said that tho Mayor
had no candidate for the leadership Of
Tammany Hall. indicating thereby that
the Mayor had dropped his fight against
Murphy, and adding that there would be
no appointments of men to ofios who
may be ininical to che organization or ito
leaders.
The whole wording of the statement
seemed to gi~e the idea that the Mayor
was anxious TO mako up with Murphy md
hat he wanted to drop his fight against
the Tammany Hall leader.
Mr. Ellison gave this statement out with
out first submitting IL to the Mayor. The.
Mayor the next day disowned MIR. Eilison's
declaration and dsnisd that he had ever
been a party TO any arrangement which
would leave Murphy at thu head OF the
organization. He said that he would neysr
agree TO any proposal which would not
provide for the ousting OF Mr.. Murphy.
At a stormy meeting between the Mayor
and Mr.. Ellison aocusstions OF bad faith
were exchanged Mr.. Ellison was eager
to hand In his resignation, but he was dis
suaded by the SuHiyans. Since then the
Mayor. without actually asking for the
resignation. has occasionally had the kncwl-
edge conveyed to Mr.. Ellison that ii would
be welcome. Acting under advice Of the
Sullivans, 1t was generally supposed Mr..
Ellison REFUSED TO . the him and even
went so far ~ to tell the Mayor that he
would never resign n that II TIE Mayor
wanted him out he would have to remove
him.
About ten days ago Mr.. Ellison issued
a public statement that he had NJ intention
OF resigning M that MIR. Mcclellan had
never minated to him that he was to be
removed. II il understood that the Mayor
regarded this a. . personal afront and as a
sort Of ~gratuitous threat that the Mayor,
because OF the Sullivan support. dare not
remove him.
The Sullivans nave always evaded
making known their position as between
| Mcclellan and Murphy and the removal OF
Mr.. Ellison was generally regarded as