New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-08-02
DALTON WINS WITH A MOB.
DELANEY MEN BEATEN BY DIsGRAcEFUL
TACTICS.

,rs,1rs OF THE PRIMARIES OF TAMMANY HELD
LAST NIGHr-THE DISTRICT LEAD
Frs CHOSEN.
r.uomanv held her annual primaries. postponed
from, January in all the Assembly disuicts oi 'he
,. ,a., evenng and wherever there were contests
49, "a leaders won by tricks and violence that
ought to have brough. the blush OF shd"e eve"
m the ex-convicts and semi-crihhas o' 49,.
sou,e of the bosses relied for saving their pon'cai
icon Last nights primaries were no less farce
10, tbev have always been with this o'sa"iA@-
.,, ~ no,tical pirates and brigands. wnich makes
~. ridiculous boast that It's claim 70 represent
Tho naonle of New-York City rests upon '"e "ee
and untrammelled suffrage of its voters 10 maze u
innossble that the opposition 10 any "a VIZ .s".
ars slated by the Croker Steering committee
800, 80 a ghost OF a show at the polls last
,h, Tho Tammany Executive Committee nan mn
,ted the time for voting to measre ""'' '
utes-from 1880 to p. m.-and al eiior'S W ''0'
q reasonable period for polling the vote "e'e 10.
r,orselv stranged by the representatives, Vi ni''u
ecker who retains his old-time Gluten upon the
Wigwam machine
LEADERS, SEEKING FRESH ENDORSEMENT
The change in the district boundaries c@usea W
tho new apportonment increasing the hu'hper VI
.ao,,h,, dts,ricts from thirty to thirty-nVe COM
,.,lsd tho leaders to seek what was caiei LES"
Endorsement from the rank ana HE anu sum" "a
them were driven 10 desperate means u oo'a'' w.
ona y, the most outrageous and disgracefui ex-
bibitons OF Tammany methods last hsh' o..ui,ei
,n tho KIN Assembly District Gormery the AN'h)'
.. ,ha un,onularlty of ex Excise Commissioner
,v,uor, Dalton invited an attack from the oppoS-
ING clan led by ex-Assistant Corporation oounse'
rohn J. Delaney. The headquarters OF 'nls us
,rct are at Thirty third-st and fgh'h-a'e' "a'e'
over a iiquor-shop. The preliminary shir"'''i,ns
ha,wean the antagonlstic factions has been gong
nd he blood
. -" rraved on both sides has long been at q
fighting temperature
Dalton who. az the leader Of the old XVIII had
nossessior. OF the headquarters, packed MS he"'n-
men in the upper floors of the building on "eu''es,
a., ,,gh, and there they remained. at least u"
~ them until noon YESTERDAY wnen Daltoh or
dered them down to take their places IN nhe' me
s,owaways were joined by several huhdreu o'"ef
ruffians and aided by ex-Alderman Scn''''se''
"Pue' Casey, skates" McCort ana o'her ao'e-
bodied aldes-de-camp. the ex-Excise 'onih'ss'o"er
mn, them into line When Mr.. Delaney, with sew
a,,veve comparatively respectable looking persons
appeared at 80 p. m. six hours before 'ne '0'"s
was TO begin he found as tough LOOKING "'oo
surrounding the polls as Dalton couid p''ns 10
gether from the scum Of the river front anu tns
abat,oirs OF New-Jersey. More men Joined De
lanev from TIE Jefferson Club. No fsi Eighth-a'e''
and Dalton also had reinforcements, ana soon mo
lines formed contained alleged voters enough u
have suffced for a ten hours primary ihsteau VI
patry ninety minutes.
DALTONS MOB IN POSSESSION.
The mob held possession Of the neighbornood an
afternoon and until the polls closed at $50 p III
order was preserved by detachment OF seventy
notice handed by Inspector Brooks. captain
Aualre and four sergeants. The police prevented
actual smuggling and brusing. and caiied ina. pro
serving order they took notice OF the Violeht
methods by which Delaney men were sho'eu oa'
OF the line and Dalton men showed INTO '"e'r
nlaces skates" McCort. son-in-law OF Dalton
amused himself by running up and down the line
and snatching Delaney tickets from the hands OF
voters The police officers had ther a''th'on
constantly called 10 the presence OF ex-Ja''o'f's
in the line who had been disfranchised ps con-
vction. sentence and imprisonment for crime ous
the ex-convicts were not driven away no ~" -
laney demanded.
An ,hs evening a lot OF street arabs. carrying
flake" extras ran through the crowd crying Az
about the suicide OF Tammany' Inc urcn'"s' ~
vas safe to say. were not employed by Datoh' wno
wa, much annoyed by their performance INC
Delaney side made no real attempt TO vote al an
Whom the vote had been counted II was louna
thar the ticket headed by former Excise Coniins-
sloner William Dalton had received hihey pa
votes while the opposition ticket. headed o' jon"
J. Delaney. had only six votes These were 'n'
votes OF the five Delaney inspectors. VINO "ei'
allowed at the polls by law, and OF one man IA
line The Dalton men challenged his vote. but no
swore II in.
"Of course | am beaten on the face OF the re-
turns" said Mr. Delaney last night, but when my
friends get through with the contest OF the siec.
ton think II will have altogether dinetens
senect I had more than TWO hundred frlenos he's
tonight who did not get vote
DELANEY MEN MAKE AFFIDAVlTs
A soon as the polls were closed at , p. m mo
no.,nsv men gathered at a room that had been en'
gased for the purpose directly across the street
from the voting place and also at the JEFFERSON
-lub and began making afidavits that they had no
onportunity to vote. These afiidavts VIII 10
nlaced before the Tammany Committee on contests
and a hard fight is promised to unseat the Dalton
xxv,,,A ,ssa,,bl,, district
raroh seabold the old leader. trlckei MS oppoens
bv a decoy line ranged up In front OF one OF ne
an nces TO the hail where the polls Mere AT 20.
sii Fast one hundred-and- twenty -fourtn-st. ing
onrs,si,lon led by John j. Hart, made rush 10 ~
mo the line and thought they were az rit.,. ~" -
a, signal another door was opened IA iroh' o,
Ssaholi's real line and Seabolds men got IN anu
bsId nossess!on Hart and mis- friends sehounVse' 10
,rck hut we're numerically guyed Tor theF s"'
pTho.s are the new leaders OF the NHNNth Ns;;
,., % ind,ca ell by the composition or Inc r'hcse
IA 'District committees elected last night;
Dist. - 90 - ssx,on
Michael c. Murphy ~ yonn ID Nea,,,s
Nicholas T. Brown. :, sa'',rS s,',,nar
3-John Purcell - v. airy
edward T. Fitzpatrick" - ta"S'' sui'nSs
s-rernard +. Martin =, w K nnai,,v
ID.