New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-10-28
Forced to Contribute Portion of
Pay for Two Weeks to
Huge Blackmail Fund,
One of Speakers
Charges
ROAD CONTRACTORS IN NET
Wigwam Foe Also Ridicules Mccall 8
Answer and Gives Warning He
Will Capture Relative of
Murphy's" Before the
Campaign Ends.

HennesSy, the Connie Mack or the
campaign.-the manager, you mean?
oh. no. the master of inside stuff
covered the Harlem districts last night
with the charge that Tammany re-
ceived half million dollars in cam
paign contributions last fall which were
not accounted for.
The fighting Irishman did not pro-
duce his promised Stilwell interview.
although he waved the typewriter
documents in front Of the crowds he
addressed but said he would surely
speak on the subject of the Stilwell
revelations tonight.
He issued public warning to Charles
F. Murphy that he would capture a
relative of his before the campaign
ended" and he added fresh details from
that conversation with Mccall at the
Public Service Commission offices
some of which disclosed the Cher OF
Tammany Hall and Senator James j.
Frawley in an apparently unfriendiy
attitude toward each other.
Promised SuIzer Senatorship.
Mccall told him, Hennessy said. that
Murphy didn't care much what hap
pened TO F'rawley. and he responded tt
Mccall that Frawley didn't care much
what happened to Murphy. Mccall
told him, in addition, said Hennessy
that il Sulzer would line up with the
organization he could have the nex'
United States Senatorship, although nj
couId NOT have denomination for th'
Governorship.
Hennessy gave as his reason for nc
making public his promised Sttlwel
revelations the fact that EcCal hd'
finally issued an answer and that NJ
thought best to answer Mccall immedi
etelv and put the Stilwell matter ovel
| for one night
His chief accusation against Tam
many for the night was framed III
paragraph from a letter which ne ha'
sent to George Foster Peabody on All
gust u. Hen essy had a copy or tua
letter with him last night, from whlci
he read in part as follows;
81 speak conservatlvely when | say
think could prove through prope
agencies the receipt Of more than
half million last fall that was not a"
counted for by Tammany down stat
and the upstate crowd. You will thinl
il hardly credible, but it is established
on secret testimony which have taSei
that every poor devil along the cana
| last wear was robbed OF portion q
his pay every two weeks. Even TN
men who received $40 and $50 montl
were forced to contribute. Indeed
they never had a chance for voluntar'
contribution. The money was deduct
ed from their pay envelopes from tn
beginning and until the end OF the sea
son. and the same conditions prevailc'
higher up.
Retarded Suzer as Honest.
Contractors on the barge canal haV
10 nay as much as 5000, and in on
case $4,000 Probably not less thai
500. 900 wa1 taken by blackmail from
the road contractors. | have sWorl
testimony from several of them, ant
| think know who the bagman was.
"The same conditions exist in IN
Excise Department, the Conservation
Department and the Election Depart
ment. The science of blackmail va
brought to It's highest. Hordes OF me-
have been carried on the payrolls be
cause of their political or criminal in
huence. Many of them never did
days work.
In another part Of the same lette
Hennessy, after speaking with regre
OF the blight that had come on tn
| Governor" said he had regarded hin
as an inherently honest and incorrup
tible man, and that he (Hennessy
knew that If the Governor had "obeye
the gang he could have had anything
including the nomination for Unite,
States Senator, next year."
Mccall told him, among other things
Hennessy said, that Murphy had bee
warned against Sulzer just before tn
Governor was nominated, the sub
stance of the warning being that "Sul
ger couldn't be trusted to stay put
after you put the power into his hands
because he was 'Dutchman.' Hen
messy added that Murphy had like
wise been warned against HERNIA
Ridder. when MIR. Riders name cam
up as a possible alternative in tn
Senatorial fight which resulted in tn
election OF Senator O'Gorman, tn
warning on that occasion bein
phrased in this manner, that "yo
couldn't trust a German TO stick wit
the organization after you gave hir
the power"
Hennessy took up McCalrs answer I