The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1912-10-29
GRAND JURY NOW
PROBING WAR IN
FOLEY'S DISTRICT
.Seventy-Five HousewivesSum.
moned to Tell of Al
legged Reporters.
''BlG TOM" IN BATTLE.
Hearst Is Backing Driscoll
Brothers, Who Started Breach
in Tammany Ranks.
''BlG TOM" IN BATTLE.

a civil war in the Tammany oreani
sation of the Second Assembly District
reached the Grand Jury stage to-day
when about seventy-nve housewives Of
the district appeared at the Criminal
Courts Building IN answer to forthwith
Oummonses commanding them to appear
at the District-Attorney's ONCE and give
testimony rs to certain dodgers on their
premises who are registered as voters.
Through Assistant Dfstrict-Attorney
De Ford. whose speciality is election
cases, District-Attorney Whitman has
begun q Grand Jury investigation into
the registration OF the Second District.
With the appearance OF, the agitatcd
and chattering women Mt the criminai
Courts Building was solved the mystery
of the recent, almost continual. presence
IN and around the Distrtct-Attorney's
ONCE Of l. J. O'Rellly. private secretary
"a William Randolph Hearst. In the
company OF Clement J. Driscoll. former
Deputy Police Commissioner Mr..
yRe,Ily, II appears. Is representing the
Hearst organization In q fght that 10
beans waged on Tom Foley. the Tam
many leader OF the District. by Glenn
snt Driscoll, Gene Driscoll. Clements
brother and Mike Rofrano, lawyer
who lives An Oliver street
The Driscolls bolted the organization
some time ago. after having been for
years closely associated in n political
ana social way with Foley. An anony-
nous letter written to the Mayor. the
Police Commissioner and certain news
In, IN n
second District with reference to gamb-
ling. Tom Foley made no secret OF his
impressiou that the Driscolls wrote this
letter.
Than the Dr,scolis 3oinod hands viii,
Mike Rofrano and went on the warpath
asulnst Foley. They nomlns1ed by Pc
tItion, on the Bull Moose ticket. man
named Joshua Sprayager % run for the
Assembly against Al smith. the ASSEM-
bly, minority leader In the last session.
In passing Il may be remarked that the
twp Driscoil boys and Mike Rofrano
knov q whole lot about politics In the
Second Assembly District. having been
Sof years among Foley's closest conn.,
Dental Meutenants.
n IL charged by tho Driscoll-Rofrano
x80llOu JUut NhCIc uo8 bNNh N 49, eN>~'
of coloniDation by the Foley men. Foley
ana his captains have Indignantly de-
niSd thst they have planted single
''rSpsater'' but the Driscoli crowd have
rot the District attorney busy.
TAsy promise thai to-day's investiga-
ton marks the start of a big expose OF
conditions calling for reform. Folty
eays his former friends and partners IN
politics are using a hostile administra-
tioa for the purpose Of making political
capital.
Down In my district" ne said to-
Gay. the pressure Of business has
Wi1ed out several tenement sections,
Many Of the old residents of the Second
have moved away. But there are num-
Gous men born down there or LIVING
there ali their lives who have never
voted anywhere else. and don't want to
vote anywhere else.
"These men maintain a voting resi-
Aencs IN the distriU within the require
ments Of the law. This Grand Jury
succeeding 10 brought for the purpose
Of annoying them and OF annoying the
women Of the district who refuse "a
bind thsir aid TO the men who have
turned on me-"