Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-04-29
'MURPHY'S DEATH TO LOOSEN
TAMMANY'S GRIP, LAWRENCE
SAYS; SMITH BOOM SHAKEN
New Yorker Furnished Main
Obstacle for MCAdoo at
Convention, Writer Says,
Situation Changed Now
BY DAVID LAWRENCE
Especial Leased Wire TO The Journal.)
(CoDvright, 1924


WASHINGTON, April 26,-The
sensation of the hour Is the effect
that the death of Charles r. Muir
ply, leader of Tammany Hall, will
! have upon the next Democratic ma,
| tional convention in New York this
June, and the subsequent campaign.
Most of the conversation here re.
lates only to the influence of the
incident on Governor AL Smith S
chances for the Democratic nomina-
ton. But the sudden elimination
Of Charlie Murphy means more
than that 1t means the loss of a
great influence inside the party and
perhaps the most important factor
in the convention strategy of every
campaign manager.
Nearly every Democratic conven-
ton of recent years has depended
to no small extent on what Charlie
Murphy would say and what he
would do. Other leaders We're inflE-
enced not merely by the fact that
he controlled New York states 80
votes in the convention but by his
astuteness and vision. If Murphy
thought a certain obstacle was in
surmountable politically, others un"
der his influence were likely to
think the same thing. He, more
than any other man in the party,
was its leader until the Democratic
convention of 1912. After that it
was Woodrow Wilson VS.. Charlie
Murphy, or the type of organization
politics which he represented. The
effort of William Gibbs McAdoo and
his followers TO win the presiden-
tial nomination is simply a continu-
alton of the old fight against Muir
ply, against Tammany.
Remains Powerful
Tammany, however, is as strong
in a convention. Its spokesman,
George Brennan, of Illinois, who
succeeded quickly to the toga of
leadership on the death of Roger
Sullivan, in Illinois, is likely to take
charge of the Al Smith boom and
the general Organization" strategy
at the coming convention but it is
not probable that anyone in llli-
nois will permanently take Charlie
Murphy's place in the Democratic
party. The position of democracy
leader in the Empire State almost
always gives him a place of vantage
in the party, as a whole.
Tammany hall is compact Or
SANITATION but it can not overnight
furnish leader Of national influence:
1t may develop that the absence OIL
Charlie Murphy will have quite the
opposite effect from that when IS
supposed at first glance. Had ne
lived, AL Smith would have been nail
ed as the tool of Charlie Murphy S
maneuvers. The delegates from oth'
err parts of the country would have
come steeled TO resist the Tammany
Influence The objection would nave
been made that the Democratic con-
vention meeting in New YORK coulo
not afford to appear to be yielding to
the dictation of Charlie Murphy.
Now all is changed; Tammany's pow
er will not be any more Of a FAC
to, than the same number Of votes
from other states.
Tactics Will Be Missed
But in the tactics Of the convention
will Charlie Murphy be missed. lie
knew lust when to throw his 1nt1u-
ence to a candidate. He knew now
to persuade others to break IN his dl-
rection. He was powerful because
he had political sagacity And ne
also ruled New York states politics
on the Democratic side. NO anu
Tammany movement ever mas peeh
sufficiently strong to overthrow nm
He has controlled the nomination OIL
state. county and New York city ottl-
Gals. Tammany is in greater DAN
ger of defeat by fate than it ever has
been. Unless it can find at once a
man of convincing personality to
dominate the affairs Of the Democrat
ic party in New York state, 1T may
find itself in the same situation as
the Republican organization dld IN
PENNSYLVANIA when Senator PenroSe
died A number of leaders arose ana
no one became dominant.
An era of confusion III party coun-
sells and friction resulted and I'm
chot. an anti-Penrose man, Decaihe
governor. In the next republican
national convention there Will pc no
penrose. SO in the Democratic ma
tional convention this year, ana may
he for years to come, there Will pc
no Charlie Murphy,
NOIIRNERS FILE. PAST BIER
OF TAAIMANY'S CHIEFTAlN
NEW YORK, April "a steady
stream of mourners, .tncluolnS pouL-
ical associates and women and Gull
dren he had befriended and aided,
TODAY filed past the bier of Charles
r. Murphy, Tammany chieftain, who
died Yesterday, in the parlor OF the
Murphy home on East seventeenth
street.
Mrs. Murphy, suffering from nerv-
Gus collapse, lay abed on the second
floor of the house, attended by TWO
nurses. DR.. Herrity, family physl-
clan. who attended the dying chief
tain, said, however, her condition
was not serious.
Policemen kept the line CT visitors
moving. Automobile traffic was
regulated within radius of several
| blocks.
Secretary Daniel F. Ryan, of Tam
many Hall, announced that the fu-
neral procession would leave the
| Murphy home at 10 a. m. Monday
and proceed up Fifth avenue to st.
Patrick's cathedral Auxiliary Bish-
op Dunn will officiate at tie solemn
high mass of requiem at 1880 in the
absence of Cardinal Hayes, who is
expected to arrive from Europe Tues
| day on the LeViathan. The process
sion will then proceed 10 Calvary
cemetery. There will be 70 parade.
| Mounted police will escort the cor
| teGe, however, and I 900 policemen
! will be stationed along the route.
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