New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-08-28
READY FOR PRIMARIES.
Some LiUety Contests on Both Sides
To Be Decided.

| The primary contests 20 be decided Tuesday
| begin 20 overshadow the work OF the national and
| STATE committees On the Republican side Interest
centres IN two hsh.s-in the 1IXth and XVIII
| districts
| In the xIxth District Theodore ?. Gilman. Lem
uel E. Quiyg and others trying to demonstrate
that they can continue TO control the district Con-
gressmsn ". II. Douglas and John = wise are
! their chief opponents. The contest is eXceeonSIy
bitter Personalities have been INDUCED IN; ana
while the State and national tickets may not suf-
fer Republicans outside the district fear that AFTER
the battle Tuesday the victorious faction VIII
have difficulty IN naming candidate Ter Assem-
blymsn that will be elected. IL the CinaE-(uIss
men win. they may be able 10 prevent the renon-
ination Of Congressman Douglas, at presen: me
only Republican Representative from this county
The contest the XSvth District IS hardly less
spirited. E1-Alderman Herbert Parsons is the dis
trict leader He is being fought by Howard Cohh-
ling, Charles A Hess. Henry BirreIl and others
Mr.. Parsons has the support of Cornelius y. Bliss
Bronson winthrop. ex-Dock Commissioner NC
DougaH Hawkes. and other prominent Repuniicans'
II the coDkling- Birrell men win AssemoiSihah
Prentice will not be renominated
In the hid Assembly District the leader. Louis
J. HoennIser. is opposed by Henry Atmeier.
In the IXth District William Halpin. chairman Of
the executive committee of tho Republican County
Committee has fight that he says is not causing
him 20 worry. AIr. Clarke. his opponent says that
Mr.. Halpin's management Of affairs in the district
Is entirely unsatisfactory 10 the majority OF the
to run things right
George ". Wanraaker in tho XVIII District, is
certain thst the newest aspirant for leadership in
that district. George II. Reynolds. viii not make
showing that win "jaI' things.
In the xAXIst District Tax Commissioner Strss-
bourger is being kept busy by William Henry
PAYNE, who has been At odds with Nr. Strasbour-
for the last two years. Mr.. Paynes friends say
that he had promise a year Of being nomi-
mated for the Assembly and that Mr. Strasbourger
sent Ernest H. Wallace there instead.
Edward H. Healy, the Republican leader Of the
XXXVth District. is opposed this year by Matthew
J. Harrington. Dir. Healy IS likely carry the pri-
maries with customary ease.
The Democratic primaries viii furnish the
tomary amount OF political music. One OF the
prises OF The year is the vigorous battle that As
semblyman John Curry is giving the Tammsny
veteran Daniel F. McMahon. The judge" as he is
fsmlarly called has anassed large fortune his
opponents say. and OF late years there has been
lot of fault finding because the workers in the
XVIIth District have not shared In the leaders
prosperity. Curry has the assistance OF the Cana
vans prouilent contractors, and Of the Sheehan
who two years ago made Mcmahon consider
able trouble there. Mcmahon may win but he will
In the Isl Tisyict Dan Finn i ooo iIsI'' ~
Michael Hart. u saloonkeeper, who says that Finn
The !GoodWin-Devery fight in the 1xth Is on
the only Smon-pure Parker leader IN the district
TO throw of the Goodwin MURPHY yoke Dev-
cry has not been invited visit Mr.. Parker
at Esopus, and the Goodwin are asking when
he is going to make his pilgrimage up the Hudson.
Tommy Smith says that Goodwin will beat Dew
cry two TO
Joseph ". Cody is making fight against Matt
Donohue Promising Matty." and intimates that il
is time for the gold brick factory 10 shut down
for good He says that If he is made leader he viii
get more patronage for the real workers Of the
district than Donohue ever got.
Assemblyman Louis A. Abrams is trying 20 relieve
Isaac a Hopper. Superintendent OF Buildings of
the leadership in the XXXIst- Mr.. Hopper SAYS
regularly every year that he Is tired the lead
ershp. but when aspiring Tammany man steps
up and offers TO relieve him. he changes his mind
and hangs on 10 the district for another twelve
months. Hoppers friends say that Abrams never
would have been heard OF II II had not been for
Hopper, and that Abrams is base migrate
Eugene J. MCGUIRE. OF the North Side % the
XXXIVth District. and John T. Cowan. leader OF
the south side. are fighting 20 retain control Of
August Moebus IS giving MCGUIRE a tussle IN the
northern district and Percy Magic former Street
Cleaning Commissioner. IS trying 10 wrest control
from Cowan. Charles 7. Murphy has taken a hand
in the fight. and says that Mcclure and Cowan
must continue in control The McCiuire-Cowan men
say that II Ma gle wins the gamblers VIII the
victory proof that the Murphy Mcclellan admin
istration is unpopular, and demand an open town
thereafter.
In the XXXth District Harry c. Hart who
through Charles F. Murphy's influence. got the
contract 10 cover the Public Library fence with
whiskey and corset advertisements: Is lighting TO
retain the leadership of hts district His OPP
ponent IS ez-Alderman George BurrelL