New-York tribune., 1910-01-03
MAYORS KIND WORD
BUT THAT IS ABOUT
ALL MURPHY GETS.
Gaynor Says Tammany Boss
Demanded Nothing and Is
Much Maligned.
CHARLES H HYDE.
City Chamberlain.


last night of the appointments made by
Mayor Gaynor they threw up their hands
in despair Charles F. Murphy was said
to have returned to town from Atlantic
City, but he was in retirement. Not a
Tammany man could be found who had
the temerity to hunt him up and break
the news.
In the list of men selected by Mayor
Gaynor for office there appeared not
single one of that inside society of Tam
many Hall known as the independent
Order of Office Seekers and Office Hold
ers." Although it is probable that Mr..
Murphy to-day will claim most of the
men as members of Tammany Hall, not
one of them has been prominent in that
organization except Rhinelander Waldo,
and he only for a few years He was
the only one of the list who was recog-
nized as member of the Hall by one of
its prominent members last night.
1T certainly Is the blow that will al
most kill father" said another member
how many district leaders get good
jobs?''
When Henry S. Thompson was az
pointed Commissioner of Public, Works
by President Ahearn year or so ago
Mr.. Murphy claimed him as Tammanv
Hall man. but he has never appeared
actively in politics. Indeed, he liked it
so little that he did not stay with Presi-
dent Ahearn long.
Mayor Gaynor was busily eneag ged
reading The Wisdom of BENJAMIN
Franklin" when asked about his appoint
ments last night. He said that Charles
F. Murphy had made few suggestions to
him and urged nothing. He intimated
that Mr.. Murphy was the victim Of SLAM
der. and that if ministers who were
talking about the white slave traffic
would say a kind word to Mr Murphy
they might be surprised.
MAYOR GAYNoR'S STATEMENT.
There was not an iptimation from the
Mayor that the leader of Tammany Hall
might need a few kind Words after
hearing the list of appointments Mayor
Gaynor said:
/ feel that there is one great act of
justice which should do. 1 was nomi-
mated without even a suggestion being
made as to what / should do as Mayor.
Since election Charles F. Murphy has
called on me three times. each time ask
ing me to appoint the best men 20 be
found. His suggestions were few; he
urged nothing, and kept saying to me
that the responsibility was solely with
me. I cannot say the same of every
one else.
1 fear there are good many people in
this town who do not know Charles F.
Murphy. Some of them seem to think
ha IA I
of him what l have seem He fully
realizes that political organization cam
not survive and grow broader on patron
age alone without political ideas and
virtue, but must shrlVel up and die from
worse than dry rot.
l would advise some good women and
clergymen who are writing to me about
Charles F. Murphy and what they call
the white slave" traffic to go up and
see him and say a kind word to him.
They may be surprised. Thou shalt not
bear false witness is also one of the
Commandments. There are more vicesy
than one.
DEMOCRACY VS.. TAMMANY.
It may be that ]. Sergeant Cram was
right when he brought word to Tam
many Hall last week that Judge Gaynor
would put only Democrats on guard
after January /, but certainly the Tam
many braves got an entirely different
idea from the words of Mr.. Cram.
Mayor Gaynor has shown conclusiyely
that he does not understand Tammany
Hall to be a synonyme for the Demo-
cratic party in New York County,
In his Brooklyn appointments Mayor
Gaynor has shown the same independ-
ence Of John H. McCooey, the successor
of Senator McCarren as leader of Kings
County.
AS a matter of fact. none of the per-
sons appointed by the Mayor are en-
rolled Republicans. but probably many
people would have been unable to tell
off-hand that they were Democrats.
Calvin Tomkins has been a persistent
enemy of Tammany Hall for years
The appointments OF Charles II. HYDE
as City Chamberlain and Archibald r.
Watson as Corporation Counsel are more
CT less personal. Mr.. Hyde has been the
counsel and adviser OF Mayor Gaynor
for some years. He grew up as a young
man In the Mayors law once years AGO
Mr.. Watson has been associated with !
Mayor Gaynor in editing a legal ency-
ciopsedia and has come TO know him in
timately. He was one of the COMMITTEES
of Nine. which started the Independent |
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