The sun., 1903-10-22
REVOLT AGAINST LlTTAUER.
FCLTON-HAMILTON MAI ELECT
DEMOCRATIC ASSEMSLYMAN.
I.ittauer's Methods Arouse the Peep'e
without Regard TO Party--Aaeemet
to Have the Courts Take Demserst'c
Candidates Name or the Ballet FAILS.

to Have the Courts Take Demscsatic
Candidates Name On the Ballet Fails.
ALBANY, Oct. ?l.--The attempts OF Con-
gressman Lucius n. Littauer OF GioVeFs-
vile and his political friends in the Fulton
Hamilton Assembly district to use me
Judiciary as an aid to the election OF mr..
Littausr's candidate for the Assembly
have - aroused the people OF those TWO
counties, without regard to party, that inc
result of the contest there il likely TO lead
to the election Of Erastur-4sarling, the
regular Democratic candidate. Mr.. llt-
tauers candidate Is Frnk II. WCod Oh
Goversville, the present Republican As
se,nbIyman. .
Ex-County Judge Clarence W. Smith OF
Johnstown had majority OF the delegates
to the Republican convention which noMi-
mated Wood short time ago. Jnoge
Smith, however, Is an Gnti-Liftauer man,
and MIR. Lit,auer, through the inhuence oi
the National Administration, the Post oh,ce
Depart ment and other worldly means. sue
ceeded in stealing away enough delegates
from Judge Smith TO force Mr.. Wood r
nomination. The best element Of the he
publican party In the district Is with Judge
Smith apparently. and It induced him 70
agree to run al an independent Republican
candidate, and petition containing the sig
natures Of Loo Republican voters was
secured.
This action on the part Of the enti-lh-
tauer Republicans was unlocked lor ny
Littauer. Seeing defeat staring him in the
face, he formed coalition with the Jldsch
Democrats in the district, who have been
lined up with Richard Croker and Smith
NJ. Wee In their fight against the DONNA
tion of David B. Hill in the Democratic
State organization. Last fall Mr. Hill
Democratic State convention throw OUT
the Judson delegates from Fulton and HAM
ilton counties and the Smith Nj. Weed dele
gates from Clinton county.
The sinews Of war were furnished the
Judson faction by Littsuer to contest the
control Of the Democratic Assembly con-
vention, but the Judson forces were oaoiy
beaten at the primaries. Then the regular
Democratic convention nominated Erastus
Darling OF Gloversville for the Assembly,
and the Judson people bolted and nominated
John T. Morrison. Mr. Darling is not HILL
but an anti -Judson, Democrat.
Realizing the strength Of Mr.. Dariings
combination, although expecting that the
Judson Democrats would vote for WOOD
.o,hsr ,har ,hs;r own candidate, Morrison,
Littauer and his Republican friends and
Democratic allies set out 10 prevent Darling
or Smith from getting his name on the
ofF;ci., ha,,ot
o. 49, ,,,,;o. s,.noor handsd
a lew Gays aso 'us'oe o :...;.''.sS
down decision IN q proceeding ihstituteu
by the Iittauer people, ruling Judge Smiths
name off the official ba lot a. an independent
candidate on the ground that he was run.
ming as . candidate OF tine independent
Republican party holding, that the word
Republican could not be used IN such title.
Meanwhile Representative Llttauer had
the Juds0n Democrats apply to Supreme
Court Justice Henry 7. kellogg OF Platts-
burg for an order to declare that their
candidate Morrison, and not Erastus
Darling, was the regular Democratic
nominee. and, therefore, entitled to the