Show I 1 RAY MAY RUIN T TAMMANY any I 1 SHEEHAN ipp FEUD UD IS 18 LIKELY TO PEND END organization its it FoU political influence by the Pact lonai quarrel ambition of the former to no be grand sachem causes cane great trouble new york letter HE recent split in tammany hall ball rna may prove to be ther beginning of the end of that organization as a political factor in this city the tammany society will go on as before for it should be remembered that it Is not in politics and never was A little digression from the purpose of this article just at the outset will be useful in getting straight the popular conception of this tar far famed organization the society of tammany or colt columbian order was formed in 1789 and was the result of a popular movement in new york which sought to counteract the so called aristocratic society of the cincinnati it was anti federal in its character its founder was william mooney an upholsterer of irish descent jut aut born in america the society took its name from a noted chief of the Dela delaware waxe tribe of indians who had been canonized by the soldiers of the revolution as the american america patron saint the first meeting of the society was held on may 12 1789 and it was incorporated in 1805 the society Is now as it always has been a charitable and social organization it is governed by a grand sachem who is assisted by thirteen sachems sac hems suggested by the thirteen original states of the union the general committee which constitutes utes the political organization of the tammany society is permitted to occupy the batters lat rooms in its building on FO fourteenth street but is really in no other way associated with it it Is in this general committee that all the political evils real and imaginary of the recent past but already historic have been hatched and nurtured it I 1 Is 3 in this committee that the purroy sheehan feud has at last reached a crisis and promises to wreck that once all powerful political body henry D purroy is county clerk HP he Is ambitious to reach the position in the general committee once occupied by the great croker all powerful he was there for it is only by the aid of the authority and influence of such a position that he can hope for in ift thia the future politically john C sheehan occupies this coveted position now As the organization has not been at all successful since sheehan was placed at the head purroy has conceived ibe idea that it would not be difficult to overthrow him and step into his shoes so he has been intriguing and working for a long time to this end open warfare was declared the other day when purroy and his followers rejected the plans of the executive committee for the primaries in the thirty fourth and thirty fifth assembly districts the me hostility between purroy and sheehan has been growing for a year and a naif half it began to take tangible form soon after the chicago convention purroy went to the convention as a sound money man but he switched over to the silver men and WAS one of the ardent supporters of arm after the convention when he rem returned ned from chicago he did not wait for tammany to declare itself but tried to take the local compa campaign ign out of the hands of sheehan by organizing the bryan and sewall central association he sent broadcast marked h ked copies of papers containing copies of his speeches especially to bryan he confidently expected that hat bryan would be elected and he wanted to make sure that the control of patronage in this vicinity would be placed in his hands failing in this direction purroy and his followers took steps which led up to the formal withdrawal from tammany they claimed that sheehan invaded the th thirty fourth and thirty fifth dla dis 0 I 1 S 1 I 1 I 1 HENRY D PU bwy tracts with schemes to destroy the principle of home rule these districts are loyal to purroy and are controlled by him sheehan purroy says sam caus caused ed the defeat of the regular democratic nominees for the assembly in these districts and fomented opposition to the regular organization in the them the antl purroy leaders in these districts recommended open primaries lea lasting seven hours although they were restricted to two hours in 19 the atie other A districts the object being it was said to 0 i glye everybody whatever I 1 hla his politics IL a to vote vate provided hei he was a friend the av aun baay 7 executive ex ive approved oia phlip asilla as did the committee on or fg 0 P protests io kieft were felled billed a against COT 1 uee P aze 7 0 airty au fad sagnes e S 1 bya aib a RA raza ih damo iala I 1 I 1 N nf f A vo 1 I 1 11 11 1 1 R 2 91 lw M W 4 f q 1 V 1 iessi I 1 r V sr za V d I 1 W A v t arl I 1 I 1 the members of the regular committees of these districts i under der the lead enship of purroy then met at st at their da ato brict headquarters and defied the tim tiger the meeting in the thirty fifth district at which purroy spoke was by tar the livelier of the two purroy there threw off the mask and paid his compliments to sheehan one of his bis lieutenants moved the appoint appointment appointee me nt of john P reilly henry hairy trott and chas as inspectors of the district primary and the motion was carried by a vote of to 3 the designation design Won of these inspectors had been the bone bona of contention at the afternoon meeting in tammany hall the purroy men an were convinced that the tammany a executive oo 00 committee cittee acting on the advice of mr sheehan would take the selection out of their hands and they resolved to forestall the wigwam leader this resolution is proper said purroy but it will not avail in fourteenth street where the putative leader john C sheaban Shee She faan eban has determined you DWI be franchised disfranchised dis in the primaries he intends to use the methods of a highwayman and your resolution w will be buried when it reaches the men he be controls in tammany sheehan started in to wreck the tammany organization in this district the voters who are in the democratic party in this city will not tolerate a defaulter at the head of tammany hall Shee hans knowledge of thefts in buffalo which caused him to flee that city may point poin t him the way to steal primaries here but while he be can win here by might in setting up a so called leadership of his own making it Is our duty to resist his every step until no one in tammany hall will own the dishonored leadership of a discredited man these pointed remarks of the fighting county clerk seemed to strike a responsive spon sive chord in the hearts of those present and mr purroy then went into some matters of tammany history he e M I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 1 I 1 I 1 JOHN C SHEEHAN told of a conference with richard croker C in saratoga before sheehan was selected as leader by the former tammany boss 1 I then told him said purroy that he would snake make the greatest mistake of blis hl life if he named sheehan my warning came true at the famous savoy dinner we all recall the disgraceful scene when registrar reilly and other leaders interrupted their guest mr croker and told him they would have none of sheehan do any of you here believe the people of new york will their local government to tammany hall while that organization has at its head a man who was notoriously corrupt in public office everybody present agreed with the speaker in this very plain talk and a resolution was w passed unanimously providing fr for the appointment of election inspectors Inspect ort independently of the action of the wigwam leaders thus the defied the to do their worst the conc conclusion lustan came when the committee on organization met in tammany hall to ratify the decision of the subcommittee committee sub in the matter of open primaries in the two districts named this teas ims promptly done when the Purroy ites fled filed out of the building and gathered at the morton morion house where they began to plan for the extension of the new tammany tamma ny hall into every district in the city As to the personal careers of the two men now so conspicuous in local polities politics henry D purroy was born in fordham westchester county on aug 27 1848 he became a citizen of new york city by annexation in 1874 he was educated at st SL johns college fordham Fordi Ford ham bam and was admitted to the bar in new york city in 1869 he was a schoolmate at st johns of Turn tammany many boss john kellys son and was on friendly frIen dIr terms with that leader before the annexation made him necessary to tammany as a leader in the new district at a congressional convention he broke the jaw of a man who assailed kelly the kelly influence made him president of the board of aldermen when he entered that body at the age of 26 and he has never been out of office since john C sheehan was born in buffalo forty one years ago he came to new york city in 1883 2893 and now lives at west twenty third street he was educated in the buffalo public schools and entered political life when his brother william P F was lieutenant governor through his brothers influence he was given the democratic D nomination for city comptroller in buffalo he Is said to havo have been a candidate for the nomination when grover cleveland was nominated for mayor and that mr cleveland Clev elands refusal to run on the dihe same ticket with sheehan causee the batters lat withdrawal mr jar sheehan 1 1 became ece almost immediately on his arrival here secretary of the crotto I 1 aqueduct and formed i valuable friendship irlen ap with john OI 01 obrien the contractor on the aque I 1 I 1 duit ilace 1 it I 1 OEr 1 leils iii id co t S aliis ariis not a bli e I 1 10 IO egl W W and a wa 4 M i i i U d r fir s two A k I 1 11 A X 5 7 gaas t S ma 5 i r A wt 1 I fr I 1 I 1 |