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Like many a well-dressed political boss, New York's Carmine De Sapio wears a velvet glove over his hard fist: his public utterances are usually soothing; he rarely shows irritation or displeasure. But last week De Sapio, sore beset by the so-called reform insurgents, who seek to unseat him as New York Democratic national committeeman and leader of Tammany Hall, struck out at his tormentors. In this year's New York City mayoralty campaign, De Sapio promised, his regular Democrats will "oppose and oust these self-styled leaders who seek to rule or ruin the party...
Within weeks after the election, word went out from the Kennedys that De Sapio & Co. must go. To take the teeth out of the Tammany tiger, the Kennedys cut off De Sapio's federal patronage. Run-of-the-mill jobs are now being dispensed through Congressman Eugene Keogh of Brooklyn and Charles Buckley, boss of The Bronx, while applicants for higher jobs must call upon Bobby Kennedy or Brother-in-Law Sargent Shriver. The Washington tactics produced the desired results. New York's Mayor Robert Wagner pushed Old Friend De Sapio to arm's length, last week...
...Bounce fumbling State Chairman Michael Prendergast, replace him and De Sapio with men acceptable to the reformers. (Prendergast had incurred Kennedy's fury during the campaign by publicly snubbing Lehman and Mrs. Roosevelt as they sat on a platform with Kennedy at a massive rally. Recalls a Kennedy aide: "Jack apologized to them on the spot. Unfortunately, Mrs. Roosevelt's hearing aid was turned off at the time. But Lehman explained to her later...
...Dump City Council President Abe Stark, a kindly but ineffectual Brooklyn haberdasher whose main claims to fame are that he 1) sold suits to De Sapio ($75 to $90), and 2) gave a free set of duds to every ballplayer who hit his advertising billboard in the old Ebbets Field. To replace Stark, nominate the clean-up-minded deputy mayor-Felt...
While the tigers of Tammany battled with the lions of reform, Republicans watched the spectacle with unmitigated glee. Said Arizona's Senator Barry Goldwater to a Washington audience: "In a savage civil war now raging in New York State between the forces of Carmine De Sapio and the agrarian reformers of Eleanor Roosevelt, our party believes that it is in America's best interest to remain neutral. We entreat you, therefore, Mr. Kennedy, not to lend-lease or supply either side with enough arms or patronage for a decisive victory either way. If this fight can be kept...