New-York tribune., 1907-10-27
GOSSIP OF THE BOROUGH
Line-Up Of Political Forces AGAINST
Long Pq5"- Concert Plans.

Democrats regard with amusement the ell
forts of the Kings County Democratic party
rlse anti -AdcCarrea organization Of the borousA'
., carry James Shevlin into power on the
orest of a reform wave. The appearance OF "The
BROOKLYN Democrat the partys new organ
at the end of the week concentrated attention
on the Shellin movement. Ever since Senator
p H McCarren wrested the control OF the ma
chine from Boss Hugh Mclaughlin, the fol-
lowers of the old politician have continued TO
oppose the new boss When Mclaughlin died
Shevlin who was his right hand man. continued
.he Old boss's fight The party has lost strong
hold after stronghold The last defeat was in
The p Assembly District, where Municipal
court Justice John J. Walsh recently surren-
cred 10 Edward J. Meany. At present the fol-
-ors of shevlin do not control single dis
..ct in the borough, and they not so power
rll as the organization which supports Sherin
Flaherty's Municipal Ownership League. prac-
ticaIly another Democratic party Probably the
great majority Of the supposed fifty thousand
ar1i-AIcCarren Democrats look upon Shevlin
with greater adherence than they do McCar-
ren.
The weakness Of the party was shown last
autumn. After McCarren had denounced Will
lam R. Hearst for his opposition 10 Democratic
candidates in this borough while he himself
was the Democratic candidate for Governor,
Chairman "Fingy' Connors Of the Democratic
State Committee declared that McCarren and
his followers were no longer regular and that
he would recognize the Kings County Demo-
cratic party regular, and conduct his future
correspondence with its leaders, Patrick Hayes
and John J. Delaney. After election Hayes and
Delaney persuaded Connors to have McCarren
and his leaders expelled from the state commit
tee as political heretics. The courts decided that
only the people who put them on the commit
tee could expel them. They still on the
committee. At the last primaries McCarren
had only two district fights his hands. and in
both his candidates for the executive mem
bership were Overwhelmingly reelected. In
spite Of rumors the contrary McCarren was
never more thoroughly in control in Brooklyn
than he is at present.
Of the 115.00O enrolled Democrats in the bor-
ougb McCarren controls fully 5000. and prob
ably more. without considering the thousands
Of voters who always cast their ballots for his
ticket This would give him probably 1900
votes while the 5000 or $4,000 votes of his
opponents are scattered. The scattering of the
anti -AIcCarren forces has led TO McCarrens
continued failure to achieve much at the pols,l
but it has also prevented the development of a
sufficiently strong faction within the party
ranks TO unseat him.
This autumn, for the first time, the anti-Mc-
Carren voters have concentrated their efforts.
Both the Shevlin and the Flaherty people have
come out strongly for the Republican Icket,
not because they love the Republicans at all,
but because they believe that the only way
they can defeat McCarren IS to help the Re
pUblicans win, plan which they no doubt
rightly think will have the effect in the long
run Of forcing the regulars abandon the
Senator. The only doubt in the whole case is
TO whether the anti-McCarTenites Will con-
tinue TO act with a fair degree Of unanin1ity
long enough to effect the result they wish.
Judging by the past their little great men
VIII never let theIa act in concert long. The
great trouble IN the past has been that the anti
MoCarren leaders have been quarrelling among
themselves as 70 who shall become the county
leader in McCarren's place. and they would
need twenty-five or thirty thousand more votes
than they control 70 make McCarren's place
vacant. Even in the support Of the Repub-
Hcan ticket at present they are not acting to-
eether but have indorsed the Republican can
didates as separate organizations. Their ap-
parent 3oint action is only an accident
The ninety thousand enrolled Republicans are
practically unit to all appearances. With
the unenrOlled Republican votes Il would seem
that the Republican ticket should receive one
hundred thousand votes this autumn without re-
course 10 outside aid. The other one hundred and
tVyenty-seven thousand votes that VIII be cast
VII oe olvlded up between the McCarren
tcket- the Independence League ticket and the
6epnbIc3n ticket. If McCarren gets the
eeNenty-;iFe thousand votes which there is lit
re or no doubt he viii get it will remain 10 be
seer whether the anti-McCarrenites who are in
cluded in the remaining fortv-tyvo thousand
registered citizens Will cast their votes as thev
nave largely been doing. with the Independence
lleaeue. or whether they will ioin in swelling
result in Republican victory unless the Re-
puehcans failed 10 support their own men The
nt-McCarrenites prOphesy that the Repub-
-icans viii get about eighty-six thousand votes
McCarren seventy thousand and the Inda.
nendenoe League ffty-five thousand, or at least
mat the votes VIII be cast about IN that ra+fo
Ihls would leave six thousand floating votes
which could not affect the results in anv wav
ey base their figures on the votes ca 81 IN Ia et
falis judiciary contest.
JOSEF Hofmann. the pianist. VIII appear under
the auspices OF the Brooklyn Institute Of Arts
and Sciences next Tnur2dav evening ~ tho
Baptist Temple Third avenue and schermer-
horn street II viii be his only recital in Brook
iFn this season. His programme will consist
o' the following selections: Sonata opus .
Beethoven; scherzo. p minor Mendelssohn. va
rIations. Ran: fantaise improrptu roazurl,a
= nat minor, and scherzo B fiat minor Cbori,.
harcarole and prelude. 9 minor Rachmani
noH. etude. sharp minor opus 40 ana
Foerne glamour Scriabine: overture aaTappN
lauser- Wagner List. The Boston Sv,,,ybrr,,,
orchestra viii begin its series of five copcer+,
- the Baptist Temple on November g 1rbo
other dates are December 6. January 10 Febr,,
arT y and March 90 The director ~ tbig
ozsnestra Is DR.. Karl Muck The New, yorIy
Nif tnonN Orchestra. Of which Walter Oarn
rosch IS the conductor. win give tho Nret op
IS hNe concerts on November - Al the Tenn
ce The other dates are December IA January
- March and April 4. Captain Road Ar1und
sen VIII sneak on his polar exploratiC ms AZ AS
Aoslanon Han on Wednesday evening