Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 January 1902 — RICHARD 'CROKER ABDICATES. [ARTICLE]

RICHARD 'CROKER ABDICATES.

The New Leader of Tamftuay Hall la. Lewie Nixon. Richard Croker is no longer the leader <>f the New York Tammany hall. He has retired from the Chairmanship of the Finance Committee and will soon sail for Europe to lie gone for an indefinite period. I>ewl» Nixon, his snceeasor, was elected at a meeting held Saturday night. Mr. Nixon, tbe new bead of the tiger organisation, says he ia not going te be * figurebead. He ia about 40 yean old.