Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-02-28
Murphy Declares He Caused
Senatorial Deadlock. 49,.
LAST RESORT OF LOSER"
Says Candidate Vainly Begged for
Tammany Leaders Support.
CROKER WANTS sHEEHAN OUT
Former Democratic Boss Thinks Muir.
ply Is Wrong in Pushing
Him Further

NEW YORK, February .S.-Charles F.
Murphy. leader of Tammany Hall. broke
precedent last night. and issued nine
page typewriter statement replying to
and bitterly attacking Edward NJ. Shop
ard, who characterized Murphys domi-
nance as a voting trust in his letter
Withdrawing from the United States SEN
atorship fight.
He holds Mr.. Shepard directly IN blame
for the deadlock at Albany. and says he
is inclined to believe that Mr.. shepard
and his friends would not have been
quick to criticise Tammany Hall had it
supported Shepard. To ciinch this asser
ton he says that Shepard's friends beg
ged his tMurphy's) support
Their criticism of Tammany Hall In
beside the point" says Mr. Murphy 1T
is the old resort of the loser. They knew
in their hearts how unfounded are the
charges which they made against the
democratic organization I'm New York
county
Calls Him a Poor Loser.
Murphy recalls i'm his statement that
Immediately preceding the senatorial eau
Gus Sheehan offered to Withdraw If Shep-
ard would do so also. but he was in
formed the latter had refused lie CON
tinues:
i now assert again that if harm has
come to the party as a consequence of
the futile effort to elect IA senator. il
has been directly caused, In the first
place, by Mr.. Shepard and accumulated
since by his friends of the minority in
their work OF preventing the majority
from electing it's candidate.
MI Shepard now talks of Tammany
Hall as voting trust" the statement
continues. His long familiarity with
corporation work has made him "A mas
ter or technical terms. and his great
ability. developed through such work
enables him to use such language as
will be, in his opinion. most effective for
his purposes. But I hesitate greatly
to believe that Mr.. Shepard or any OF
his friends would have found any fault
with the support of Tammany Hall ii
they had succeeded in their efforts to
secure such support for him as sena-
tor. any more than they would have
been put out with it if Mr.. Shepard had
succeeded in being nominated for gov
ernor at Rochester instead of Mr.. Dix"
Names Men Who Sought Aid.
William Church Osborn, John ID. Grim
minis. and Frederick A. Allen are named
by Murphy as among the Shepard sup
porters who called on him to solicit the
suppart OF Tammany Hall In the interests
OF Mr.. Shepard's candidacy for United
States senator.
The Tammany leader says he agrees
with Mr.. Shepard that the integrity or
the party is at stake. but that the threat
ening factor Is an attempt 10 overdue
the majority. He adds:
THE democrats OF New Jersey, Ohio.
Indiana, Missouri Nebraska and other
states have elected their United States
senators. and elected them all by the
h. 1At,,r 20 ~
these states are proceeding in tho Work
Of upbuiding the party preparatory to
the campaign of 1912"
Mr. Shepard and his friends are then
charged with trying to defeat Efforts 70
strengthen the party in this state. ana
Mr.. Murphy concludes that il they sue
coed i'm setting aside democratic usage
and principle and preventing the over
whelming majority of the party from gov
erning, then it is upon their shoulders
that the responsibility for ensuing disas-
ter must rest.
Croker Says Sheehan Should Quit.
A contribution from Richard Croker.
predecessor of Charles +. Murphy as
head Of Tammany Hall. was added to
the controversy in a dispatch to the
World today from Palm Beach. Fla.
Mr.. Croker. who has for years been
practically silent on politics, is quoted
as follows:
The present situation ought to be
relieved at once. for it's going to be
calamity to New York and the country.
What does Murphy keep pushing him
(Sheehan) for. instead of withdrawing
him? He knows he can get eighty
votes but what good are they IL It
won't mean an election?
..Tammany is in the wrong to expect
to wheel all the men into line without
discussing the situation thoroughly.
and I say the welfare of the party, the
state and the nation demands Sheehan's
withdrawal, for Murphy's insistence In
Sheehan's nomination would surely
weaken the New York state democ-
racy.
No Change in Ballot.
ALBANY, y. V, February cS-The
thirty-sixth ballot for United States SEN
ator today resulted:
Democrats-Sheetan, so; Herman, IL:
Littleton, Z; SuIzer. 2; O Brien, .; Hopper.
>: Glynn, /: Parker, /; Carlisle, T. Grout,
/; Dougherty, L.
observation-disclosures. 20.
Total vote cast, 1874; necessary for q
choice, 3d.
RIrRTAI. TN BALTIMORE.