The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-09-14
PRIMARY DAY TOMORROW.
M voc RATS AND REPIBLICANS
UiIE SIN fights APIECE.
Results VIII Not Anect Control Of the
Count, Organizations lphiiI Road for
never, To Tra,el-I3ittercst Republic
ran right Is In HAWKES. District.

leadership. and in six districts the present
Repuhlican leaders will be fought by men
who want their places. These contests
are interesting only for themselves. since
none of them will affect the control Of
Tammany Hall or Of the Republican County
Committee and none of them will exercise
any influence on the nominating conven-
tions of either party.
Taking up the Tammany contests, the
first is going on in the First district where
Daniel +. Finn, known as Battery Dan. is
the leader, having defeated Col. Michael
G. Murphy there year ago. Alderman
Michael Kennedy is contesting the ground
with Judge Finn. He has spent lot of
money and given lot of time to the fight.
On one night he strung fifty-six of his ban
nerS through the district. Although the
contest is conceded to he close the leaders
M at Tammany believe that Battery Dan
will be returned.
Of the fight in the Ninth district the pub
lie has been kept fully informed. Devery
won last year in three -cornered contest
and was thrown out of Tamman y by Charles
F. Murphy This year John e. Sheehan
has disappeared from the canvass. but
his place has been taken by Alderman
Frank bowling. who was elected two years
ago as the fusion candidate for Alderman,
but afterward turned in with Tammany
to get control of the board. Alderman
bowling processes to have friendly relations
with Mr.. Murphy and says that he will be
recognized as leader if he can carry the
primaries. Mr.. Murphy's preference. be-
vond a doubt, is Frank Goodwin, the old
Tammany leader who displaced John e.
Sheehan. Efforts to bring the Bowling
and Goodwin forces together have resulted
in consolidated ticket. each side naming
half Of the delegates. The names are to
he so arranged on the ticket that it will
be possible to figure which faction polled
the larger number There is verbal agree
Inent that the winning faction shall name
the leader.
Devery elected his Assemblyman last
year and has good organization working
through the Ninth. With some straight-out
Tammany men. who supported him ear
ago he has weakened his campaign by
the declaration that in any event he intends
to run Independently for Mayor. year
ago he had the active support and financial
help of Frank Farrell, the horseman, and
Bob Nelson, the one-time Tenderloin bonds
man. Farrell is not so much in evidence
this year. Nelson will support Devery
in the primaries, but will not be with him
in his campaign for Mayor which he re-
CARDS as hopeless and i'll judged,
Interest in the contest has not been
heightened by the new rules which Mr..
Murphy caused Tammany to adopt. A
gear ago people were specializing as to
what Devery would do il he got into the
Wigwam, and whether he might not be able
to exercise large control over the destinies
of the organization Now it is admitted
that Mr.. Murphy will not have him in. no
matter what vote he gets, and that the
rules put it in Mr.. Murphy power legally to
throw out Devery or any other obnoxious
person who may be chosen an executive
member.
sioner and friend and follower of John F.
Carroll. is the leader in the Nineteenth
where ex-Warden John j. Hagan of the
TombS has been making a lively campaign
against him Mr.. Murphy isn't anxious
TO have Mr.. Sexton returned. even if he
hasn't shown open frien dship for his OPP
ponent Mr.. Sexton is confident of his
reelection, and it appears to be the belief
al Tammany that he will win.
BY spectacular and musical campaign
in the Twenty-third John }. Dooley has
kept himself in the limelight during his
spector of Police, whom Richard Croker
made leader there. Harlem seems to ex-
pect that Dooley will down McAvoy. Mr.
Murphy has taken no hand in the fight
there.
The fight for leadership of the Twenty
ninth dist riot is between Joseph F. Null
queen. the candidate of the regular Democ-
racy of the dist riot and Thomas f.. Rush
This is John F. Carroll's old bailiwck
Mr., Carroll resigned last spring before
going to Europe, and the general committee
of the dist riot elected Mr. Mulqueen leader
by vote of 129 to |, Mr.. Rrshs friends
have caused it to be st ated that Leader
Charles F. Murphy rather favored he candi-
dacy of Mr. Rush, and This story became
30 prevalent in the dist riot that Mr.. Murphy
mad" the announcement that he was not
interfering in the district in any way.
up-and-down one bet ween Mr. Mulqrleen
and Mr. Rush. Mr. MuIqueen is a College
uf III" City of New York boy, and was a
teacher in that college until he resigned t o
become a lawyer, In June, 1900, he was
appointed trustee Of the college by Mayor
member of the Tammany Society since 1883
and il a member of he Democratic Man
haitian, Catholic, New York Athletic and
jackson clubs. His friends said yesterday
that he would beat Rush by 3 to /.
Mr.; Murphy said about the contest in
'
IN This fight, and right here | wish TO have
il distinctly understood, once and for all, !
that | am in no sens, interfering in any |
Of the district fights. either against Mr.. |
Nuluuepn or any one else, except in the |
Ninth district, where we are against Dev- !
cry. In all other districts / am keeping |
my hands OF, and intend to do so until |
the end Every man must fight his own |
battles. and let the best man win The |
lame of the recognized leader in each dis
rict will depend entirely on the vote at
the various primaries next Tuesday"
Isaac A, Hopper. the wealthy contractor
who leads the Thirt y-frst. was not favor
tie with Croker, but he has held the friend
ship Of Mr., Murphy Daniel O'Connell has
made bitter and personal fight against
Mr. Hopper, but the signs point to Hop
pers reelection.
In the FIRST district there is a Republican
contest as well Martin II, Healy, the
pre1er leader, is opposed by Charles +.
Merwln Healy is expected to win.
The contest in the Twelfth district be-
tween Jacob A Newstead and John Stieb-
ling the present leader, promises to be
exciting There are 400 names on the
Republican enrolment lists of voters who
have died or moved out of the district since
last election and Newstead issued "A state
ment yesterday to the effect that he WAS
Informed that Tammany men from the
Bowery will Try and vote on these names.
N"wstead rec nifty ried TO have the names
stricken from the list, but Justice Clarke Of
the Supreme Court decided hat he had no
power to order that done Newsstand ~ y