Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-04-30
MAYOR MAKES UP
TO KILL RECOUNT
Peace Terms Are Arranged With
Tammany Through the Agency of
~"Big TIM Sullivan, It Is Said.

AS the politicians size up the NC
Clellan-Tammany peace, so sudden
ly concluded, the Bingham police bill
brought it about. Murphy and his
men at Albany did all they could to
defeat the bill, but when it went
through the Tammany leaders sent
orders to the Tammany men at Al
bany to help Gov. Hughes to pass
the bill for recount of the mayoral-
ty vote of 1905 in New York city.
The bill has been adopted in the
assembly and the senators who are
with Gov. Hughes would, with the
assistance of the Tammany men,
bers Of the senate, easily have a
ma ority to pass the bill.
NEW YORK, April 3O.-Mayor McClel
Ian and Charles f. Murphy have made up.
At the end of a conference yesterday be-
tween Corporation Counsel Ellison, repre-
senting Mcclellan, and Big Tim" Sullivan,
representing Murphy, Mr.. Ellison made
public a statement in which he declared
the end of the Mcclellan Murphy fight
which threatened to wreck the organiza-
ton.
NJ. Ellison's statement is general In its
terms. but among the friends of the rival
politicians it is said that these are the con-
ditons upon which the peace has been ar
ranged.
Murphy agrees to throw the support of
TIE organization at Albany against the re-
count bill
on his Fart Mcclellan abandons his pro-
posed fight against Murphy at the Septem-
Der primaries.
He agrees to put an end to his campaign
against Borough President Ahearn.
He agrees TO give 'rammany a voice in all
future appointments.
And finally, and more particularly,
through Big Tim Sullivan, he practically
hands over the control of the police force
to Tammany Hall. The interest of the Sui
livans are to be respected and generally
there is to be a return to the conditions
that prevailed during the first Mcclellan
administration, all in consideration of the
passed the assembly and as recently as
Sunday night was Reimbursed by Gov.
Hughes.
The Smile is on Murphy's Face.
Sullivan corroborated the terms of the
peace in advance of Mr.. Elisons state
ment by saying that he would stand for
anything that Ellison said. Murphy con-
firned the signing of the peace by smiling
broadly in Tammany Hall and announcing
that he was now with the administration
Mcclellan himself, in a statement following
that issued by Ellison, half-heartedly adj
mitted that an agreement had been reached.
The joy on the faces of the Tammanyites
and the gloom in the countenances of the
men who have stood by Mcclellan in his
fight alike bore out the truth that the bit
ter war was over with the white flag at
half-mast over the city hall and the dove of
peace, striped like a tiger, perched above
McClelan's chamber door.
The sole consolation that the Mcclellan
ties had was that by reason of their leaders
surrender of all his remaining power his
job, and consequently theirs, secure for
the full term. For the republicans there
was the chagrin of having been beguiled
into passing the new police BILL which now
gives Tammany complete control of the
police department.
Following Is the statement Issued by the
corporation counsel, who seems under the
new entente, to become the premier of the
Mcclellan administration, and political
agent for the mayor at 14th street:
Il have just concluded long and very
sa isfactory conference with eX-Representa-
tive Sullivan regarding the relations exist
ing and to exist between the administration
ct
city. said Mr.. Sullivan.
1.-The representative and I are very old
friends. l believe that l have his condolences
and l know that he has mine. Under such
circumstances there ought to be no diff
Guilty whatever in agreeing upon some kind
of action that may be found to be of inter-
est to all He is broad and fair-minded,
and l have no personal prejudices. This
condition should make an agreement an ex-
tremely easy one to make and keep.
Il started in with the fundamental ,propo-
sition upon which the mayors admins
tration rests, and that is that he be left en-
highest class men that he may be able to
find. l mean by this that l shall advise
the appointment of men of the highest
caliber. At the same time l shall advise
be inimical to the organization of it's lead
ers l have always been OF the opinion
that the administration will best serve the
purposes of the organizationoby giving to
along those lines l hope to proceed.
My understanding is that this will leave
the mayor entirely free to work out the
| problems now confronting him, and which
we all know are among the most stu
pendous ever presented to municipal gov
eminent. He will be free from all disturb
ances at the hands of men who are simply
seeking their own selfish ends, and who
have no real interest at heart In the admin
istration or the democratic organization.
Explains What the Mayor Wants.
Il understand now, as l have understood
| for some time, that the mayor has no
candidate for the leadership of Tammany
Hall, and will have none. All that he
asks, If 1 understand him correctly, Is that
| he be permitted to give his time and at
tention to the duties of his office.
The representative and l are entirely
harmonious upon the proposition that eff
| cient men should surely be retained in Of
| fee, and that appointments of men here
| after and the retention of men in exempt