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    "ocrText": "ODJECT or ascertaining whether\nhe approved or condemned a policy which had such\nan effect at Albany.\n\"Well,\" he replied, \"I have no hesitation in saying\nthat I have condemned the action of Mr. Kelly's four\nAldermen ever since it became evident that any\ndemocratic member of the Board outside their own\nnumber could with their votes be elected. But you\nknow, as everybody knows, how obstinately Kelly\nadheres to a determination, and I don't believe that\nhe desires. the Board to organize at all. Indeed, I\nfeel confident that if there were a chance of Alder-\nman Sauer's election to-day Kelly would do his best\nto prevent it if he could.\"\n\"On what grounds do you base this belief? It has\nbeen supposed that Kelly's sole object in forcing\nMr. Sauer for the presidency of the Board was to\nsecure a position in the Board of Apportionment for\na person he could entirely control.\"\nNO INTENTION TO ORGANIZE.\n\"Doubtless Kelly did desire and does still desire to\nget reliable partisan on the Board of Apportion-\nment, but that object has become merged in one of\nstill greater importance. Senator Strahan is correct\nin his idea of the effect the disorganized condition\nof the Common Council is likely to have at Albany.\nKelly is in accord and in active co-operation with the\nSenator McCarthy, and he desires to keep up\npresent discordance and rowdyism in the Common\nCouncil Kelly's organs give the\nin order to play into the Senator's hand.\nhighest kind of coloring to the scenes in the\nYou may have observed that Board\nat every meeting. These exaggerated pictures are\nsent to Albany and shown by McCarthy and his\nfriends among the country members.in order to im-\nthe latter with the idea that immediate legis-\npress lation is needed to save the city government from\nchaos. McCarthy's charter is dead, and T don't be-\nlieve it can be brought to life again. Still, if any-\nthing in the world could resuscitate it, it would be\nthe condition of the Board of Aldermen. Kelly would\nnot hesitate at anything that would put Mayor\nmissioner\nGrace, Thompson and others out of office, and he\nComptroller Campbell, Public Works Com-\nfilled with republicans if by that means alone\nwould willingly. see every.one of the departments his\nenmity toward the present democratic officials could\nbe gratified. There is, besides, another reason why\nhe holds his four Aldermen up to the rack and com- His\nquarrel with Mayor Grace is now to the death, and\npeis the continuance of the disorganization.\nhe is resolved to obstruct the confirmation of snch\nheads of departments as the Mayor will be called\nupon to nominate in the future. if the democratic\nAldermen should harmonize now on the organiza-\ntion it would be very difficult, if not impossible, to\ncompel them to break with the Mayor hereafter by\nrefusing to confirm his appointees. Again, Kelly\nsioner is Thompson, and while the Board of Al-\na personal and bitter hater of Commis-\ndermen is disorganized the principal work in the\nPublic Works Department is blocked and the people\nwho do not understand the cause are likely to blame\nthe Commissioner and think he is in fault. In fact\nKelly is in the same position with regard to Mayor\nGrace and theother city office-holders as he occupied\ntoward Governor Robinson. His object is to kill and\ndestroy, and anything he can do to embarrass or\nwork ruin upon the present city administration will\nassuredly be done.'\n\"Do you then think that he is indifferent about\ngetting one of his reliable adherents on the Board of\nApportionment? \"By no means. A grave reason for his desire to\nelect Alderman Sauer was in order that he might\nhave some one in that Board who would carry out\nhis instructions, and the success with which his four\nAldermen have obstructed the choice of a president\nin the Aldermanic body proves how completely one\nof them might block the Board of Apportionment, in\nwhich a concurrent vote of the four members is some-\ntimes necessary. But other objects have developed\nthemselves since the Board of Aldermen first met,\nand Kelly now supposes he sees a more important\nadvantage in keeping the Board disorganized than\nlie would gain even by Mr. Sauer's election as Presi-\ndent.\"\nKELLY'S POLICY CONDEMNED BY TAMMANY\n\"As a Tammany man do you approve of Mr.\nKelly's course?\"\n\"Idonot. I think it is a mistake. It will do\nadditional harm to Tammany in the public estima-\ntion, and will not succeed in accomplishing what\nwith me in this opinion. Why, we have other Tam-\nKelly desires. A great many Tammany men agree\nmany Aldermen in the Board besiges the four ob-\nstructionists, and we see no good reason why we\nshould not be just as well satisfied with the election\nof any one of them as with the election of Alderman\nSauer. Two or three days ago the four A:dermen\nhad a long interview with Mr. Kelly, and he flew\ninto a passion with one of them who hinted at\na\ncompromise. He grew very much excited, and told\nthe Aldermen that if one of them flinched he would\nnever be forgiven. One of the four, whose name it\nwould not be fair to give, subsequently in my pres-\nence expressed much dissatisfaction, and hinted\nthat he was fast becoming disgusted with a policy\nthat isolated him iron his fellow democrats in the\nBoard and set him in antagonism to a Mayor whom\nTammany helped to elect.\n\"WHY SHOULD WE QUARREL WITH GRACE?\"\n\"How do the Tammany people at large, and espe-\ncially the members of the new General Committee,\nlook at the matter?\"\n\"They are reluctant to talk about it, but the feel-\ning is one of regret and dissatisfaction. They do\nnot like to be led into opposition to Mayor Grace at\nsense in such a policy. After a recent meeting of\nthe very outset of his term of office, and see no\nthe Tammany Committee sometwenty of us chanced\nto get together in a friendly way, and the subject ot\nthe Aldermanic muddle came up. A member from\nDick Morrison's old district, the Fifteenth, spoke\nrather freely. He declared that he could see no\nsense in Kelly's guarrelling with Mayor Grace and\ndragging the whole organization with him into the\nfight. He said that when Grace sent for Kelly\nand asked him to resign the Comptrollership before\nMayor Cooper's deal with the last Board of Aidermen\nhe had done SO for the good of the party. Grace had\ntold Kelly that it was only a question between his\nresignation and his supersedure; that if he resigned\nall the other existing vacancies would be saved for\nthe democrats, while if he was superseded all the\nother vacancies would be fi.led by a aivision be-\ntween democrats and republicans. Kelly refused to\nretire, and the result proved that Mayorn Grace is\nanother piece of policy foreshadowed in Kelly's\nhad only spoken the truth. But there\ncourse which the rank and file oi Tan.many\ndo not relish. It is whispered around that\ncans and that he is willing to pledge them the will\nKelly is looking for another trade with the republi- Dis-\nlegislate Mayor Grace, Comptroller Campbell,\ntrict Attorney next election, provided they Com-\nmissioner Thompson and Corporation Counsel\nWhitney out of office. Tammany does not care\nfor Campbell, Thompson or Whitney; but we to\nMaror Grace and claim"
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