Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-11
CLUB DUES UNPAID,
MURPHY DROPPED
Tammany Leader and Friends
Forced Out of National DEM
ocratic Club.

NEW YORK, March 11.-Charles +.
Murphy was thrown overheard by the
governors of the National Democratic
Club last night
With him went Thomas +. Foley,
who, next to Murphy. is the ruling
power in Tammany Hall; George w.
Plunkitt, an old-time Tammany
leader; James f. Gaffney, the con-
tractor, whose name has appeared in
many stories from the district attor-
ney's office, and DR.. Thomas Darling
ton. who was the Tammany candi-
date for borough president last fall,
and served the city for many years
as health officer.
The pretext upon which the five
Tammany men were thrown out was
that they had not paid their dues.
Under the rules of the club q member
is automatically retired two months
after the dues are payable. Mr. Muir
ply and his four companions should
have paid up on January l. They had
not paid on March l. Therefore their
membership ceased.
But that was a decision which the
seventeen governors reached only after
a bitter struggle. The original inten-
ton of Justice Edward L. O'Dwyer,
president of the club, was to pass
through the board u resolution re-
firing Mr. Murphy and the four
others. Thomas f. Smith, secretary
of Tammany Hall, raised the point
that their membership had ceased al
ready, thereby beating the judge to it.
So the real point to the evenings
proceedings was assumed to be that
Mr.. Murphy. Tom Foley and the rest
had been thrown out bodily.
Il took this action, said Judge
O'Dwyer later. because Mr. Murphy
and the others are detrimental to the
interests of the party and to the Ma
tional Democratic Club, and are in
opposition to the principles of pro-
gressive democracy
The Judge spoke with rising in
Election, showing that he was still hot
from the events which had transpired
in the governors room upstairs.
Yes" said Thomas f. Smith, who
split sentences with the Judge in tell
ing the story of the meeting to the
newspaper men, and it's the first
time in the history of the club that
any special resolution of this charac-
ter has been put through"
will they get back again if they
pay their dues?" somebody asked.
They won't il I have my say about
it," said Judge O'Dwyer.
AS an extra slap at Tammany Hail.
the governors-the O'Dwyer faction
was easily in control from the begin
ning-elected to membership in the
club Governor Glynn, Dudley Field
Malone, who has been busy rejecting
President Wilson's attitude against
Tammany Hall; Fire Commissioner
Robert Adamson, who conducted the
fusion campaign which resulted in the
defeat of Judge Mccall in the last
election; Henry p. Velte. an anti
Tammany Democratic Senator from
williamsburg, and Joseph p. Tumul-
ty, President Wilson'S secretary.
In the heat of the meeting Tom
Smith offered resolution that all
other members of the club who were
back in their dues should be retired
with Murphy. Foley. Gaffney and the
others. He offered to withdraw ii on
second thought, but 1t was pointed
out that all the rest are out auto
matically. just as Murphy was.
Judge O'Dwyer could not say last
night how many of the 725 members
of the club are out. 1t was suggested
that 100 of them. perhaps 200, have
been, retired overnight.