The evening world., 1911-05-29
Tammany Revolt Against the
Boss" Is Likely to Spread
to Manhattan.
FIGHT AT PRIMARIES.
Eugene McG uire and Arthur
Murphy send In Their
designations.

The resignation OF four Tam.
many Bronx district leaders from
the Executive Committee Of Tam
many Hall, which action was orig.
inally based upon the refusal OF
Charles r. Murphy to indorse the
Bronx County bill In the Lceisla-
ture has brought about a revolt
against Murphy's leadership.
Organization arrangements are
already under way for q big fight
at the forthcoming primaries. and
the light viii certainly spread into
Manhattan before many days.
Eugene MCGUIRE. leader OF the
Thlrty-second Assembly District.
ana Arthur Murphy. leader Of the
~Thirtyfourth, have already ten.
dered their designations TO the Gen.
eral Committees OF their district
organizations. Neither resignation
has been accepted as yet. Charles
F. Murphy Is not anxious that &C.
ceptances be forthcoming. but Nc
CURE and Murphy are out and their
friends say they are going TO stay
out and fight Independently for on.
troll OF the Bronx.
Morris With insurgents.
william f. Morris OF the Thirty
nfth, District will stand with Arthur
Murphy and Mcclure. lie Is an officer
In the ~Six,y-ninth Regiment and Is at
present in Texas attending the army
manoeuvres. As soon as he gets back
he will follow the example OF his col
leagues and send his resignation to
the General Committee of his organl-
cation.
Garvln. although he accompanied
Murphy. Mcclure and Morris to Tam
many Hall a mont ago and formally
resigned from the Executive Committee.
has been more hating than the others
Ia his progress toward complete sever
ance with the organization.
Mcguire has cut himself completely
away from Tammany Hall. having not
only resigned his leadership but Ills
membership on the state Committee.
lie Is regarded as the leader OF the
Bronx revolt. His district Is one of the
largest In the city and has been arbl-
trarily divided by Murphy. who forced
i. IL. ONeill In as an additional leader.
Mcclure. however. has handled the dis
,rict.
The Bronx. rs a matter OF fact, has
been q source OF anxiety to Charles +.
Murphy for some considerable time.
louis II. Hanen long ago lost his pop
ularity with the Murphy Mcclure com
hlnation. Charles +. Murphy. however.
In the face OF opposition. continued to
recognize Hahen until the latter was
forced into retirement by his own peo-
pls
Lean Days for Democrats.
Since the last election the Bronx has
had practically no patronage from Four.
teenth street. With a Republican Bor-
ouSh President and an unresponslye
Mayor. the Democrats of the Bronx who
have fought the battles OF the organlza.
tion and make politics a business have
experienced lean days.
However. the family and friends NJ
Daniel +. cohalan have not been over
looked. 1t Is charged by the famishlns
rank and file of the Bronx that Charl,,
v. Murphy has handed everything he
sud get hold OF TO the Cohalans. ON,
OF this condition OF heiplessness tho
district leaders naturally turned to the
ent!cins prospect o; forming a county
government and grabbing off The patron.
age OF that form OF administration for
themselves.
Charles +. Murphy did no. look with
favor upon the project 10 make a sop
arate county OF the Bronx :,r many
reasons. The chief reason was that
such a division OF New YORK. County
would build up beyond the Harlem
River. In a district growing by leaps
and bounds. an independent political o.
sanitation such as Was maintained in
Brooklyn by Patrick IL. McCar.eu. All
the power Of Tammany was exerted to
Kill the Bronx County bill ana the oil
wa expedltlously put to death,
Insurgents Lost Fight.
In the mean time Eugene Mcclure and
Arthur Murphy and Garv.n and Morris.
in an effort 10 swing Murphy into l,Ee,
had cut away from HIN by hdndlns ,heir
designations into his keeping. They evil
IDENTIFY thought this action would cause
Murphy TO pause IN his opposition to
the Bronx County BIZ. Murphy did not
pause a second. Mcclure and his assoc
clates. having insurged. We're compelled
by the exigeneies OF politics TO keep
on insurging.
With Big Tim" Sullivan all ready 20
break away from Murphy on the cas-,
side and swing some leaders in other
parts Of Manhattan. and with the al
ways smoulderlng Tammany opposition
IN Brooklyn liable to break out at any
moment, Charles +. Murphy is facing a
not political time.
In addition there is the upstate in
dependent movement which Is being
systematically organized for the purpose
Of Wrestling control OF the State or,an!z-
alton from Tammany hands.
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