The New York herald., 1921-08-15
LEADERS JOIN Hines
IN FIGHT ON MURPHY
Democratic Candidate for BOr-
Ough President to Make Tam
many Boss Sole Issue.
PLANS COMPLETE TICKET
Overtures Made to Talley and
Schneider-Slate Will Rep
resent the Party.
PLANS COMPLETE TICKET

The announcement of James j.
Hines, anti-Tammany Democratic
leader of the Eleventh Assembly dis
trict, Manhattan, that he will go to the
voters with his fight to GUST Charles
F. Murphy from control Of Tammany
Hall, met a response yesterday which
kept Hines's clubhouse in Harlem
crowded all day and late into the night
with leaders and other prominent
Democrats WHO assured him of their
support.
Mr.. Hines made 1t clear to them that
he has announced himself for the
borough presidency Of Manhattan
solely for the purpose of making Muir
ply, the issue. 1t will be the first time
the enrolled Democrats Of the city
have had an opportunity to say
whether they wish Murphy to remain
as boss Of Tammany, or for him to
step down and out to make way for a
leader whose mind is more amenable
to the wishes and judgment Of ad-
visers.
There will be complete city anti
Tammany ticket" Mr.. Hines said
though I wish to make It clear that
am not making out that ticket. The
slate, so far as am concerned. will be
made out according to the wishes OF the
enrolled voters. We have had enough
Of the other kind OF slate. The dicta-
tion Of tickets, without regard to the
wishes OF the voters. has brought about
this fight
MANY district leaders have called
upon me to-day and assured me OF their
support to end the high handed methods
Of Murphy. Rest assured that Murphy
will be the issue. Leaders have told me
that they simply could not go to their
following and recommend to them some
of the men Murphy has selected for the
Tammany ticket. for the reason that not
only are they men whose service to the
party has amounted to little or nothing.
but some of them are absolutely un-
known--never heard of until Murphy
heralded them to the city as candidates
for office on his hand picked ticket"
Joseph Shalleck. Mr.. Illness manager
was equally optimistic over the outlooi
for support for the insurgent movement
Everything Is going along in grea,
shape and getting stronger every min
ute," he said District leaders have
been seeing me all day and telling me
that they are with Mr.. Hines agains,
Murphy. A vote for Hines Is going to
mean a vote against the sort of thinp
that Murphy stands for and Is doing
and that is gong TO be a great drawing
card. Illness campaign will afford the
enrolled Democrats OF New York thelr
first opportunity to go 10 the polls and
register with their own votes their ver-
dict as to whether Murphy shall stay
or CO."
Overtures have been made to sucf
men as william Schneider, Clerk oi
New York county: Judge Alfred Talley
of General Sessions and City Magistrate
Joseph e. Corrigan, who have felt the
weight OF Murphy's dispieasure. FOL
places on the Hines ticket Conferences
will be held to-day for the purpose OF
getting the formulation Of ticket un.
der way. Mr.. Snalleck said that only
men whose worth to the Democrats,
party and 10 the public has been proved
by service will be considered. and tina,
personal preferences and log rolling will
not govern their selection. I'VE want
and propose to have a ticket which shall
be representative of the party and tho
city," he said.