New-York tribune., 1908-08-25
CALLS MURPHY A LIAR
MCARKEN,S HOT REPLY.
Says Tammany Chief as Morahst
Would Make "a Horse Laugh.

"1, p.+,, Nccarren the outlawed leader of
BROOKLYN Democrats, issued a statement yesterday
in reply to the made by Charles r. Murphy III
the morning papers Murphy charged McCarren
and his friends with trying to establish a red
light" district in Broollyn-a condition OF ahaifs
which he said he instrumental IN prevent
Ing-and he also charged McCarren with oenVerlrs
the votes of his followers to the Republicans In
renI, McCarren declared that the spectacle of Muir
phy posing as a ruorast was enough to make d
horse laugh" He also characterized him as TAT
witted' and Contemplate liar ana unworthy oi
belief" His statement follows:
Regarding the statement issued by Mr.. Murphy
this morning in which he says that the real rea.
for his antagonism to me personally is due 10
Of exoJudge Haggerty while Deputy. Police Com
Of wsh r tho e Sas ' four or FIVE
years, during all the contests that MI Murphy my
in each instance the Democrats Of Brooklyn nave
uett@'t6 At the time that MI Murphy named eS-Fire
Commissioner Doyle. as the Tammany leader ,Sa o,
Judge Haggerty was not afminsteTinIag mir saIa
the Police Department in the way that ne sn6niu; 6I
houses and the growth of red light institutions o. l
name Single Instance in which it could be shown
that Judge Haggerty had in any way countenancemd %
more than four Years ago and Since that time Mr,
Murphy has failed to specify single instance. 1Sf
lar M'ag and 70 unworthy n7S5 !'oT of beef i
I have been elected TO the Senate twice since Mr.
Murphy attempted to Tammanyze BROOKLYN and md
in that respect the people have passed upon ms
The spectacle of Mr. Murphy posing as a moraliss s
is enough to make horse laugh & 1 &c nI,ttnH
Everybody in New York who knows Mr. Murphy, II
they do not laugh publicly they will shut them
The charge that / have been outlawed by the
Murphy could outlaw me and all the other dele
gates from Brooklyn who were honestly elected 10 10
the last Democratic State Convention put since nee
that time the Appellate Division of our district mas
decided that ME- Mph has no to oqsT Ind
say Congressman Fitzgerald. Isaac NJ kapper'
James S. Regain. John NJ. Gray and William ssp. F.
Delaney-of course. these men are nor MT TO asSo
shoes of any one of the above named men, morally
otherwise. and h. has the ehronteTy 10 say thas NAV
@ .e knss M ItI cbaracter Of Mr. Murphy's state
ent further than TO cali the attention of the peo-
pe of Brooklyn to the characterization OF the rep
isd thaF m MrGh1 has come out in the
open He is so fat-witted that he did not nave
he IL The reai leader Of the anti-organzation move
7 do not know who prepared ms ms t S
70 have kept Mr.. Murphy out of the leadership. :.
Mr. Murphy conservator or i tIe ioa taIs a,s 1
Does he for n moment think that the peop..e. PIE 81
Brooklyn will ne deceived by any such declaTa'ion
It was pointed out in political circles that fiag-
rertv and the others mentioned as dismissed
through Murphy's influence for the welfare OF
Rrooklyn were dismissed time when Murphy
was making a fight against McCarren to get con-
troll Of the Brooklyn organization with the ooject
OF making II ADJUNCT OF l@Huidi'S man ''t0
men who were dismissed at that tfme-Haggerty
Gottrried Westernacher. Conrad Hasenfius. Thomas
F Byrres and others-were McCarren's followers
and their dismissal intended to weaken him
politically and to cause his followers 10 realize
the power Of Tammany.
Murphy ought know that he can't fool
Rrooklvn Democrats with any such stuff as that.
said McCarren while he preparing his reply
.'rhe dismissal OF the Brooklyn men at the time
he mentioned is too well understood to need an
explana ton. Tammany's methods were clear. Tho
whole business besides IS five years old. It looks
as II Murphy had to go pretty far back into his
tory to find something 10 say. II seems II no
had about reached the bottom OF the ragbag. II
he can't do any better than to bring those old.
disproved stories up In his fight. he can't have
much TO say