Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-10-04
ALLEGED TAMMANY DEAL
Two Reasons Advanced for Charges
by the Politicians.
GETTING EVEN WITH SPEAKER
Another Is That he Is Attempting
to Shift Blame for Prospective
Defeat at Polls.

general query in republican circles around
town today as to his disclosure" pub
lished in yesterdays Star of an alleged
deal between Speaker Cannon's friends
In the House and Tammany. Considerable
surprise was expressed that he should see
fit to make an outbreak of that kind at
this time. and there was some speculation
as to it's effect upon the republican or
ganiZation at the coming session of Con-
gress.
Two suppositions were advanced by the
politicians familiar with congressional
affairs. One was that Mr.. Parsons. who
is a representative from New York as
we'll as president of the republican county
committee of New York county, is get
ting even'' with Speaker Cannon for the
Speakers failure to put him on the COM
mittee on interstate and foreign COM
merce. The other was that Mr.. Parsons
fears defeat of the republican ticket In
New York city and is trying to unload
the prospective blame.
AS to the effect upon the republican
organization of his attack, the opinion
was expressed that 1t will probably serve
to encourage the House insurgents at
the coming session to further pester the
Organization. While the House is organized
and the rules are adopted for the whole
Congress- it will always be in order for the
and make the leaders dance.
Voted With the Regulars.
Mr.. Parsons voted with the regulars
on the organization Of the House and the
adoption of the rules. SO that if there
was any deal he voted with those who
prof1ted by 1t. He was an insurgent
on the adoption of the special rule for
the first passage of the tariff bill. in
April last, and voted against his party.
His colleague, Mr.. Bennett. who is In
charge of the mayoralty campaign, was
one OF the few republicans who stood
out against the House and for President
Roosevelt in the controversy over the
secret service message. Mr.. Parsons was
always with President Roosevelt in every
issue raised by him.
No information is 0btainable here as
to the deal alleged by Mr.. Parsons. He
gives another phase of 1t, the story here
made by the New York organization
promising to prevent fusion on the may
orally ticket. to Tammany's advantage.
In that event Mr.. Parsons friends would
have been the negotiators, but he now
turns 1t of on others.
The man who has most prominently
represented New York state politics down
here was Representative Sherman. now
Vice President. Mr.. Parsons took care
to expressly except him from knowledge
York politician is Representative George
Malby, former state senator.
Malby Not Informed.
Mr.. Malby was interviewed in New
York yesterday as follows:
81 never heard Of any deal such as Par
SONS talks about, and 1 believe 1 would
II there had been any said Mr.. Malby.
This is a peculiar move by Mr.. Parsons.
and it is very peculiar politics for man
to try to get out from under SO soon after
nominating ticket. He ought at least
to give his ticket a chance to win before
doing such a thing. Parsons doesn't like
Speaker Cannon and the Speaker is not
fond Of him, and that explains the mat
ter.
II talked with good many members
Of the legislature about these bills. and
from all can learn Parsons never spoke
to a single member of the legislature
about them. l hear from these men that
the bills went further than they thought
the legislature had a right to go. The
signature feature in the bill would have
prolonged the voting and probably pre-
vented many voters from casting t.ieir
ballots, while the election inspectors would
have had to qualify as handwriting ex-
perts.
Supported the Cannon Rules.
81 am one of the men who voted for the
Cannon rules in Congress. and ! am glad
did, for without the rules we would not
have passed the recent tariff bill and
President Taft would have been embar-
rassed. Parsons voted against the old
rules and gave no explanation
State Senator John Raines, republican
leader of the Senate, was just as emphatic
in declaring that Mr.. Parsons had made a
mistake. He said that the bills were not
passed because the members Of the legis-
lature thought they were unjust to .-.e
voters.
Some of us thought it would have
taken two days to hold an election under
those bills" said Mr.. Raines. Eve want
pure elections, but the voters have some
rights. Parsons never spoke to me in be-
half Of the bills at all. and did not know