“Whereas, the experiment of the Committee of Three having proved the desirability of individual responsibility in leadership,
“Resolved, That the powers and duties heretofore exercised and performed by the Committee of Three be hereafter exercised and performed by Charles F. Murphy.”
Nine Tammany district leaders, headed by John F. Carroll, who evidently aimed at power himself, opposed the resolution, but twenty-seven other district leaders voted it through. One of the leaders immediately sent a cablegram to Mr. Croker announcing the result. Now that Mr. Murphy was chosen leader, he also became the treasurer of Tammany Hall.
FOOTNOTES
[1] Facts for New York Parents, etc., Published for the Women’s Municipal League by the City Club of New York, October, 1901.
[2] Ibid.
[3] From 1895 to 1900 Mr. Amory was connected in an official capacity with the Third Avenue Railway Company.
[4] Report of speech in the New York Herald, October 27, 1901.
[5] This speech was published in the New York Sun and other newspapers on the following day.