New-York tribune., 1910-01-04
CRAM AS DIR. COOK
TAMMANY WANTS HIS
PROOFS."
Gro7cing Belief That Report of
Flatbush Voyage Vas
"DOctOred." ."

Is ]. Sergeant Cram the DR.. Cook of
Tammany Hall? He is we'll known as
the Yankee Doodle of Tammany Hall.
but is he also the DR.. Cook?
That is what the district leaders We're
asking last night as the members Of
the Tammany Society, with very sober
faces, met for a business session. Mr..
Cram is the gentleman who at the re-
organization meeting of Tammany last
Wednesday night reported the "discov-
ery' of organization patronage in the
following stirring language:
Judge Gaynor assured me that he
would put only Democrats on guard"
And later Charles F. Murphy, when
asked about his talk with Judge GaynOr.
said: We'll, do 1 look solemn over it?''
or words TO that effect.
The rank and file certainly took those
utterances to mean that Mayor Gaynor
was going to do the right thing"-the
right thing in the eyes of a good Tam
many man meaning the appointment of
district leaders to the paying jobs.
DID CRAM SEE GAYNOR?"
experienced by Tammany in the ap-
pointments thus far made, the district
leaders last night asked
did Cram even as much as see Gay
nor?"
Unto date Mayor Gaynor has not ap-
pointed even one out-and-out Tammany
organization man. Some of the appointees.
it is true belong to the Democratic Or
ganization, but they are not in touch
with the leaders in their various dis
tricts, and some of them are mug
wumpish that they would fail to register
if the captains didn't go after them on
primary days.
One of the callers at the City Hall
yesterday was Thomas F. Smith, secre-
tary of Tammany Hall. 1t takes a lot
to "fabbergast' Tom, but he certainly
looked worried yesterday. The Mayor
didn't ask him in. He wanted to know
about the remaining appointments hop
ing to hear of something that would give
comfort at Tammany Hall. Charles T.
Murphy returned on Sunday night from
Atlantic City and yesterday he read the
nice things said of him by Mayor
Gaynor
Il fear there are a good many people
in this town who do not know Charles F.
Murphy" said the Mayor in his type
written statement in yesterdays papers
1t looked even more so" to Secretary
Smith, while he was waiting for good
news yesterday at the City Hall 1t
looked as if the Mayor himself didn't
know Murphy.
Rhinelander Waldo, the new Fire
Commissioner. ran for Congress on the
Tammany ticket in 1908, but the rank
and file are suspicious of him and do
not regard him as a real Tammany
man.
Thomas j. Higgins of The Bronx, is
another member of the regular organiza-
ton, but the Tammany men wanted
Arthur Murphy recognized if anything
was going to The Bronx.
MMANUS SEES ADAMSON.
THE" McManus. leader of the 18th
District. called three times at the
Mayors office yesterday. He had some
valuable suggestions for the Mayor He
succeeded in seeing Secretary Adamson
once, nut tnaI was ABOUT all Tor "Ihe.
Another wheelhorse who waited long
was Assemblyman James oliver. but
Jimmie" had the satisfaction of wish
ing the Mayor a Happy New Year. which
was more than the others got.
we thought Mcclellan was the limit"
said district leader last night but
Gaynor has gone him 4everal better. He
isn't giving us so much as one or two
deputy commissioners. Cram said Gay
: nor was going TO put only Democrats on
guard II he had said he was going
Ia put Tammany 'on the blink ii would
have been nearer the truth. What use
is II for him 10 say nice things about
Murphy unless he is going TO give us
what we want? Why doesn't he save the
soft words for the independents and give
us the jobs?"
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