New-York tribune., 1922-09-25
Lellrllan's Aids
Scent Another
CoIlala1l Deal
Supreme Court Justices
Friends Believe Murphy
and Koenig Are Getting
Ready to Displace Him
Has Offended Tammany
Son-in-Law of Straus Was
Nominated First in 1908
Against Leaders, Wishes

friends of Supreme Court Justice
irving Lehman declared last night that
they feared that Charles +. Murphy
and Samuel S. Koenig would try to
shelve him as they put aside Surrogate
John z. Cohalan. Justice Lehman,
who is a son-in-law of Nathan Straus,
mas maintained the same independence
on the bench that Cohalan has, and
this has brought him into disfavor
with the clique at Fourteenth Street
winch dominates the Tammany ma
chine.
One of the steering committee of
lammany Hall is authority for the
statement that it is Murphy's inten-
tion TO deny Justice Lehman renomi-
nation when the judiciary convention
meets on October 8. Justice Lehman
Is Democrat. A year ago he was
elected president of the Jewish Well
fare Board and in 1916 was elected
president of the Young Mems Hebrew
Association. While q student at CO.
lumbia he took the first prize in con-
stitutional law.
: If Murphy should carry out the plan
70 turn down Justice Lehman, Sam
koenig will, in the opinion of some who
know him, follow suit, as he did when
Murphy decided to dispose of Cohalan,
although Koenig had promised to in
dorse the Surrogate regardless of what
Tammany did.
Stoddard Speech Cited
Additional proof tending to show
mat koenig may turn down Justice
Lehman-who, like Cohalan, was unan-
imously Endorsed by the bar associa-
tlons of the city on June 5-was seen
by many in the speech made late Satur-
day night by Francis R. Stoddard, one
of the two leaders of the 10th Assembly
District Republican Club. Stoddard
made his speech after he had his
secretary, Mrs. Charlotte Farrar
elected his co-leader in place of Mrs
Olive Stott Gabriel, whose political
head was demanded Sy koenig because
she denounced the Murphy Koenig deal
to shelve Cohalan.
Stoddard, who is state Superintendent
of Insurance and one of the closest
men in the organization to Sam Koenig
not only denounced the policy of non
partisan judiciary but condemned the
Republicans for nominating Supreme
Court Justice Joseph Newburger three
years ago after Tammany turned him
down for denomination after his four
teen years of service on the bench
The stenographic report of Stoddard' s
speech follows in part:
"You remember we indorsed Judge
Newburger. He got into a fight with
Tammany and then we indorsed him.
And the only effect that any one ever
saw was that after a while he made up
with Tammany and is now back in the
fold. If we indorsed Surrogate Cohalan
the effect of it would be that he would
make up with Tammany if he got
elected and we would be the cause
Of it."
Say He Didn't Make Up
Those familiar with the Newburger
situation know that Justice Newburger
did not go back into the Tammany
fold and that, further, after he was
elected to the bench for the frs time
seventeen years ago he divorced hirn-
self from all active participation i'll
politics.
On October T, 1908, when Justice
Lehman was nominated for the Su-
preme Court, it was over the head of
Charles F. Murphy. The Tammany
chief and "Big Tim" Sullivan wanted
Emanuel Blumenstiel, but The Mublic
sentiment against Blunenstiel &s so
strong that Murphy and Sulliy@ could
not swing the delegates. IAWis said