The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-08-02

WILD TINE AT THE PRIMARIES IN
NEW YORK LAST NIGHT.
Reorganization Ticket Planned by
the Old .Machine" Leaders
Went Through Generally.

NEW YORK. Aug. 1.-The Tammany
primary elections for members of the gen.
eral and district committees and incidental
ly TO elect leaders in all the thirty-three
assembly districts of the city were held
tonight. Reorganization tickets as planned
by the old machine leaders in a majority
OF cases went through without a murmur
and reorganized Tammany promises to be
the Tammany Of yore. In two districts
there was bitter fight, and in one. the
new Eleventh, there was detail of police
on hand to see that there was no rioting
while the votes were being cast In the
latter district Excise Commissioner Dalton,
who 1t is openly charged tonight will be
recognized as one of the thirty-fve re-
form leaders. won by a vote of 90 to g.
The followers of John ]. Delaney, who op-
posed Dalton, declare, however, that the
primary was not fairly conducted. and they
will appeal to the executive committee of
Tammany Hall for redress. The Delaney
faction had five watchers, and five of the
six votes cast for Delaney were cast by
these men. 1t is claimed that some of the
voters challenged were excluded. but the
votes OF others were sworn in. The Delaney
faction asserted that some of those who
voted were likely to ''get up the river" on
the new Thirty-fourth Assembly district
wnere jacob Seabold Is slated for leader
ship.
mere was the most exciting kind of a
time. When the voting commenced there
were more than two thousand men on hand,
and squad of twelve policemen to some
extent maintained order. The greater por-
ton of the district is north of the Harlem
river. The opposition, led by John j. Hart.
contended that the leader of the district
should be chosen from that portion of the
district below the bridge. Seabold tricked
MS opponent at the very outset. He had a
decoy line of men range themselves up in
1ront OF one OF the entrances. AS they did
so the Hart men made a rush to get into
line After a long line had been formed the
Seacold voters, like flash, formed another
line at the other entrance and the Hart
men In the other line we're informed that
they were waiting at the exit instead of
entrance A very few Hart men got a
chance to vote and Hart admitted that he
was beaten He says, however, that he Will
appeal against the result as illegal
In the Twenty-first district 1t is almost
certain that the Gilroy candidate for lead
er, r. V. Skinner, has defeated the Grant
Croker aspirant j. e. Kelly. There was
considerable excitement and eight police
men were on hand. Shortly after the vot-
ing began in the Tenth district back
slider from the Tammany Hall faction. ex-
Alderman Henry Flegaheimer. in response
to call for speech, said the stupidity
and fanaticism of the reform administrati ton
caused him to return to the Tammany fold.
He promised to work as hard for Tam
many as he had worked against the organ
iZatiOn for the last three years.
The political interest OF the day was
added TO by the action of several members
of good government clubs of the Sixteenth
district who sent in their designations that
they might join Tammany Hall, giving as
their reasons 1.-The six months exhibition
of fanatical reform government of this
city,"