Show TAMMANY LEADER BLAMES BAMS SUE PARD WITH DEADLOCK Said Governor Dix Has Concluded Sheehan Cannot Cannot Can Can- not Be Elected NEW YORK Feb Charles 28 Charles Charles F. F Murphy leader of Tammany Hall broke a n precedent last lant ni night ht and issued statement replying re ro ro- ro a n page nine typewritten en plying to and bitterly itterly attacking Edward EdWRrd M. M Shepard who characterized Murphys Murphy's Murphys Mur phys phy's dominance as a H voting trust trustin in his letter lotter of Sunday with withdrawing from the United States fight t. t He hol holds s Mr Shepard Shepard- dire directly to blamo blame for tho the deadlock at Albany and says ho lie is s in inclined to believe e that Mr Shepard and his friends would not have bave been 60 so quick to criticize Tammany Tammany Tam Tam- many Hall Han had it if supported Shepard To clinch this assertion ho he says that She Shepard's Shepards ards ard's friends begged his Mur Mur- s 's s EI support Murphy Murph recalls his statement that immediately preceding tho the senatorial caucus Sheehan offered offeree to withdraw if it Shepard would do lik likewise wie but he was informed tho the latter had refused Ho He continues Places Blame Blamo on Shepard I HI now assert again that if harm I has haR come come as a consequence of the futile effort to elect a 8 senator it has been directly caused in the tho first place by br Mr Shepard and accentuated since by his bis friends of the minority in their work of preventing tho the majority from electing its Mr Mr Shepard now talks of o Tammany Hall hail as a voting oUng trust trust- His long familiarity familiarity fa fa- fa with corporation work has made him a master of technical terms and his great r t ability developed through such work enables him to use such language as will be in his opinion most niost effective for his purposes But I hes hesitate tate greatly to believe that Mr Shepard or any of his bis friends would have found any fault with th the support of or Tammany Hall if they had succeeded in their efforts effort to secure secure such support for him as senator any anymore anymore more moro than the they would have been put putout putout putout out with it it if Mr Shepard had bad succeeded suc sue i in ZI nominated for governor at nt RO Rochester st r instead of Mr Dix The Threatening Factor The Tammany ani any leader says he a agrees with Mr that tho the integrity of the tho party party 1 TB Th at stake but that tho the threatening factor is an au attempt to overrule o the to majority He Ho Headds adds The Tho Democrats of New Jerse Jersey Ohio Indiana Missouri Nebraska and and other western states havo have elected their senators and elected them by the caucus caucus cau cau- cus methods and tho the Dem Democrats of these states are proceeding in the work t of the party preparatory to the tho campaign of 1912 h Mr Shepard and his friends are then char charged Cd with trying to defeat efforts efforts ef ef- ef- ef forts t to strengthen tho the party in the state and Mr Murphy concludes that if they succeed J fn In setting aside aside- Democratic usage and principle and preventing pre pro venting the tho overwhelming majority of the thc party from governing then it is ia upon their shoulders that the responsibility for ensuing disaster must rest |