New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-10-22
SuIzer Aid Declares Tammany
Nominee Acted as Murphy's
MouthpieCe and Describes
interviews.
SCENE IN P. S. C. OFFICES
Deposed Governor Threatened
with Ruin by Wigwam Head
in Final Conference at
Boss's Home, Ex- Judge
Being Present.

John A. HenneSsy, suffers star
sleuth." turned his attention last night
from Murphy and Tammany to Edward
r Mccall. He spoke at Niblo's Gar
den in The Bronx. where the hall was
tanned with 1900 persons, and at
schuetzen Park. Queens. AS on the
previous night at Cooper Union, Hen
nessy's address, meaty with facts and
unembellished with trimmings, held his
audiences spellbound.
He first took up McCalrs statement
made yesterday. in which he said he
had never talked to Hennessy except
on two occasions, and on one Of them.
the interview in the office Of the chair
man Of the Public Service Commits
sion. could not remember what matter
had been discussed, except that It was
not in connection with Sulzer.
When he had disposed Of McCalls
statement. Hennessy went to work TO
pile up a few challenges for Mccall to
tackle to-day. and each Of Hennessy's
fat. defiant statements, retorts or chal-
lenges brought a howl of glee from his
hearers. Summarized. Hennessy's work
for the evening comprised roughly these
demands upon the Tammany Mayoralty
candidate:
Demands Upon MCall.
ITO tell the people whether he did
not summon Hennessy to the Public
Service Commission Office for the pur-
pose Of delivering to him Murphy's
last offer TO Sulzer.
ITO tell the people whether on that
occasion he acted as 'Murphy's mouth
piece;
ITO tell the people where he got the
money for his nomination as a Su-
preme Court justice, and whether he
did not later have a dispute with an
Inspector of Police from whom he got
II concerning the repayment Of IT;
TO tell the people whether he at
tended what Hennessy called Muir
phys private court Of Impeachment
at Delmonico's in May and what he
said about the prospective impeach-
ment on that occasion;
ITO tell the people what he said and
listened to when the Murphy nomi-
nators' met in the same room at Del
monicos and decided to turn down
Mayor Gaynor;
And TO tell the people what he said
at the meeting of Sulzer, Murphy and
Mccall on the early morning Of April
IA, at Murphy's house in East 18th
street.
Hennessy declared that McCalls de-
nunciation issued yesterday, combined
with this statement that he had talked
TO Hennessy only twice and that there
were no condolences between them, re-
leased him finally, and he felt free to
tell the substance of his interviews
with Mccall.
Chief among his recollections Of the
final talk in McCalis office, as chair
man Of the Public Service Commission,
was that il was at that meeting I at
Mccall proposed an arbitration scheme.
the basis Of which was that former
Judge Augustus Van Wyck should act
as a referee on the appointments that
formed the bone Of contention between
Murphy and Sulzer. Even this arbitra-
ton, which Sulzer rejected, was to be
predicated on the appointment OF
George NJ Palmer, Murphy's choice, as
Public Service chairman for the I'd
District
Mccall talked to him on that occa-
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