New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-10-08
M'CALL TOOK CARE OF
TAMMANY HENCHMEN
"Voters' Weekly" Publishes His
Record of Appointments
to RefereeShipS.
FED ON TIGER PATRONAGE
Before Going on Bench Muir
phys Nominee Was Favored
with Many "Plums,"
Article Says.

How would Judge Mccall. the Tam
many candidate for Mayor handle the
vast amount of patronage placed in his
hands IL he were elected head Of the
municipal government? The Citizens
Municipal Committee believes IL fair TO
judge the candidate on his past record.
In the official organ OF the committee.
THE Voters Weekly" which comes out
to-day. long list OF the appointments
to refereeships made by Mccall during
his ten years on the Supreme Court
bench is given.
II shows that he took good care OF
Tammany henchmen. The Weekly
says the appointees were in most in
stances men on lists o. KID by Charles
F. Murphy and the late Timothy d. Sui
Ivan.
Going back into the record OF judicial .
patronage prior to the time when Mccall .
became a dispenser Of IT," the article |
states, his name appears frequently as /
beneficiary He was himself upon the
Tammany list OF men to be favored with
refereeships and condemnation commits 1
! sionerships, and through such favor he
received fat fees. for which he was
placed under obligation TO Tammany
Hall. II is stated that between 1886 and
1902 he received no less than lib appoint
ments as referee.
THUS he fed upon the Tammany
patronage system while in private prac-
tice as a lawyer. It was quite natural
that in his gratitude he should support
this system by turning over to IL practi-
( ii,, ba within
his control as Supreme Court justice. It
would be quite as natural, OF course, for
Mccall after having been elevated into
the Mayors Office by Murphy. Foley,
| McCooey and the other Tammany lead
ers, to turn over to them the patronage
OF the Mayors Office and the depart
ments under his control"
The case OF John j. Mackin is cited. He
was personal attendant to Justice Mccall
when he was Supreme Court justice.
/ His salary. however. did not seem TO be
enough, so Justice Mccall handed him no
| less than sixty-fve receiverships. Charles
A. Hickey, his private secretary when on
the bench. served as receiver in twenty
| two cases.
Among the referees appointed by Nc
| Call was George F. Roesch, who was de-
clared by the Bar Association 10 be an
unfit candidate for the City Court bench.
for which he was a candidate, and Will
lam A. Sweetser, whose appointment as
a city magistrate by Mayor Mcclellan
raised a storm OF disapproval.
Others appointed by Justice Mccall, ac-
cording TO the Weekly" were John V.
Coggey, Tammany district leader; Daniel
F. CohaIan, now a Supreme Court JUS
tee: Dennis O'Leary Cohalan, Thomas F.
Donnelly (forty times. who for some
years was the lieutenant Of Richard
Croker in the 1st Assembly District;
George ". Engel. a Sullivan follower;
Michael F. Conroy. a Tammany Con-
gressman Vincent T. Coughlin, Tam
many Assemblyman; Emmanuel Blumen-
stlel. one OF Big Tins" legal advisers;
Leopold W hamburger, relative Of the
renowned Julius: Max S. Levine, Tam
many alderman; Wallace s. Fraser.
Tammany district leader; Thomas E.
Rush. another district leader; John
Quinn. one Of the personal advisers OF
Charles F Murphy. and Richard D.
Heating son OF a former Tammany
leader.