New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-11-09
Glvnn's Rout Is Laid to
McCormick'S Sponsor,
Many Say.
MURPHY TO QUIT
FRIEND, is REPORT
WeStcheSter Boss" Has
Taken Many RebuffS and
Smiled at Fate.
BY SAMUEL ]. FISHER.

Well, now, what about Michael j.
Walsh?
The Democratic boss Of Westchester
County. friend Of Charles f. Murphy,
sponsor Of Thomas J. Mccormick, for
mer warden of Sing Sing, champion
Joiner" Of New York State, seems 20
have hit the last Of the political high
spots. and politicians in and out of his
county have been spending the time
since the Big Wind of last Tuesday to
ask each other:
Whats Mike Walsh going to do
now"
81 dunno" say the men questioned.
"What can he do"
There was a report around Yonkers
yesterday that Murphy and Walsh do
rot speak now as they pass by, and that
Murphy charges the defeat of the
Glynn ticket to Walsh's selection of
Mccormick, who found q poor bank
president in prison and sympathetically
tried 10 make 8 good chauffeur out OF
him.
Yet nobody intimate with Murphy
ard Walsh believes that the loss Of
Just one election would move the Tam
many dictator 10 real anger.
"Murphy's getting too accustomed 70
wallopings 70 throw Walsh over for
this one blow" said Walsh man yes
terday. "And, too. Walsh is probably
closer 70 Murphy politically and per
sonally than any one save Daniel +.
Cohalan."
walsh's Sad, Sad Vigil.
Friends Of the Westchester leader
have not had extended talks with him
since the night before the election.
. Tuesday night when he and a few
chums gathered in the Park Hill Inn,
Yonkers. to sit out the tragedy, he
was about as cheerful and talkative as
q man on an operating table. Often he
spoke so low that il was impossible fol
the last juror TO hear him.
His sleep since Monday night, he
complained 10 intimates. has been fit
ful. His health is good, but when he
goes TO bed and slips off into slumber
he dreams OF automobiles and Whit
man ballots.
He isn't out OF a job. The dusty lit
tie printing Office at 20 Main St, Yon-
kers, still bears his name, and though
he hasn't been around there much IN
the last ten years he isn't too old TO
jump back into the business. He is
forty-four Persons supposed TO know
say he is worth not more than $4,000.
His home, at 81 Livingston St, Yon-
kers, is described as Comfortable and
pretty" There he lives with his wife,
son George. nineteen; his daughter
Rosetta, sixteen, and ar unmarried
sister
Walsh was born in a hamlet, then
called Schaghticook twelve miles from
Troy. y. Y. The name has since been
changed TO Harris Falls. He had one
brother, George, who died about three
years ago, and two sisters. The mar
ried sister is the wife Of John J. Nc
Csrthy, a retired police lieutenant OF
New York City, who lives in Riverdale
Walsh's mother was widowed early
in his youth. He gave up school to
help support her, and. realizing at the
age Of sixteen, that Schaghticook was
no metropolis for the development Of
genius, mike" brought his mother TO
Yonkers on arranging for employment
in a Yonkers carpet factory.
You have him now at the age OF
seventeen, at an age when the ma
jority Of boys new to growing city
and to another job think they have
little time or opportunity for social
expansion. But in a few months
Mike" belonged 10 all of the junior
social organizations whose unwritten
rules did not insist on the possession
of wealth or indigo blood, and he was
so skilled in what the advertisements
call the art Of terpsichOre than he
could have danced on q 10-cent piece.
/ Soon NJ. J. Walsh was one OF the best
known working young men in Yonkers.
He was good looking, rosy-cheeked and