Salt Lake Telegram | 1934-04-21 | Page 2 | Tammany Hall Heads Nervous

TAMMANY HALLS HAll HEADS NERVOUS I S Ousters of Curry F Fear Ir They roo I oo May Fall From FromI Good Graces I I I NEW YORK April 21 UP Some of the Tammany chieftains who com to oust John F F. Curry n a lead cad cader er r of the Hall will have to fight 2 to avoid being ousted themselves the United Press teamed learned today while the revamped looked anxiously toward Washington and Alban Albany wondering if cleansing At the top wouldn't qualify it for just justa a little bit of patronage The he Curr Curry uncompromisIng uncompromising promisIng and ff fighting to the ast was hardly deprived of his powers be bc fore Influential Democrats ts were talkIng talk Ing of oC i a complete reform of Tammany from rom top to bottom A list ot of district district dis- dis leaders marked for tIon was discussed by some This list Included William F. F Keneally leader of the insurgents who scalped Curry Those close to the Hall were quick to admit that Currys Curry's removal as leader lead lead- er was in no sense a reform It was described rather as a matter ot of expediency ex ex- by which Tammany hopes to win itself back into the good graces ot of Postmaster General James A. A Farle Parley dispenser ot of federal pat and Governor Herbert H. H Lehman Some talked of oC a great ct cleansing ansing that would result in some leader eader of unquestionable integrity such uch as forner for lor mcl ner Governor Alfred E. E Smith belag be- be lag placed in Smith has been unsympathetic to the Curry leadership leadership lead lead- from the moment Curr Curry was wa leader live five years ago Post mortem adepts adepts' found two contributing con can causes for Currys Curry's downfall First he became a symbol for everything every every- thing the idealist in in the political machine Second he be had the bad fortune of oC making a number of oC po l' l guesses which cul- cul lii In the organization losing the thc sinews of public life jobs for lor the theta ta faithfUl l. l the Seabury investigation was under way and before Mayor James J. J Walker resigned while the then Governor Franklin D. D Roosevelt Was was hearing charges against him the word was coined to de the Halls Hall's alleged sinister JUes Then Curry opposed the nomination oC f President Roosevelt at the Chicago convention Later he opposed the nomination of Governor Lehman sUll till later he insisted that the unpopular un un- popular John P. P OBrien O'Brien should be bethe bethe the Halls Hall's candidate for lor mayor OBrien O'Brien was defeated by the fusion fusion- reformer Fiorello LaGuardia