Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1906-09-19
,uder by Harry W. Mack, the Parsons

CEhuidubSs
On the democratic side, Charles +.
Murphy, the Tsmmspy Hsll leader,
Won by a small margin The early re-
turns indicated his defeat, and the re-
suit was in doubt until late hour.
Murphy's candidates suffered two not
able defeats In the Nineteenth and Thlr-
t;eth districts. In the former, which
is Fire Commissioner John II. o. Brien's
home district, James Ahern, the McClel-
Ian candidate, Won, and in the Thirtieth
Percy Nagle won over j. F. Cowan after
memorable contest marked with sew
sral bloody riots. 10 one OF the tree
for all fights Maggie himself were terribly
cut and beaten, aud was also arrested.
Murphy scored two signal successes III the
election of his personal counsel, Peter
A. Hendrick, in the 7 hirty-irst district,
and that of ]. J. Walsh in the Twenty
first. Murphy's candidates for leader
ship were elected in Is Of the 30 dis.
tricts.
Almost from the very hour the poll:
opened up to the closing at 9 O'Clock
last night riotous scenes we're enacted 10
many Of the election districts snd many
arrests we're made.
New York, Sept. l9.-Yesterday' 5
New York primaries were decisive 10 the
republican party, but leave the political
confusion in the local democratic party
worse than ever. Lemuel Ely Quigg,
the New York lieutenant OF Benjamin
B. Odell, admits that he was showed
under by Parsons, the Roosevelt admin
istration leader. The exact figures in
dictate that Parsons will have, 500 out OF
1923 votes 10 the county convention.
Ouigg lost bis own district, the 10Th.
10 the Tamlnany primaries Mayor
Mcclellan carried four aud Charles +.
Murphy seven Of the eleven contested
districts. The New York World esti-
mates that 10 the executive committee
Murphy will have Is l-2 votes, the Sui
livans s; and Mayor Mcclellan 8 IL.
Ia addition Frank j. Goodwin, James
j. Martin, and John V. Coggey, whose
allegiance Ia doubtful, together will COO
troll 2 IL votes.
In the matter of democratic control
most everything will depend upon the
attitude of the Suiliysns. Mcclellan
partissns claim they will be independent
aud use their influence for Sulzer for
Governor. Murphy, on the other hand,
claims the Sullivans are with him, and
that together they will control the delegs-
tion to Buffalo and enforce the unit rule.
Hearst leaders are today banking on
the unit rule going through and on
Murphy's swinging the Manhattan dele
Cation to Hearst. 1t is stated on the
other hand that there ia resolution Of
the recent state convention that the unit
rule applies TO assembly districts. Ii
the assembly district rule holds, the
Manhattan delegation will be divi led.
10 all the districts yesterday Tammany
men who have come out for Hearst were
active for the Aurphy ticket.
This mornings New York World in a
double column, double loaded editorial,
makes final appeal to New York State
democrats to have nothing to do with
Hearst. The title of the editorial ID
'Shall the Democratic Party Die ~
What follows declares at length that
Hearst is not democrat, but a semi
socialist, who urges the masses to seize
the government, not merely to maintain
better order, not merely to ad.
minister more evenhsnded justice but to
make themselves shorter hours of work,
more leisure, cheaper food, better houses,
lower rents, and cheaper transportation.
Hearst is compared to the csrpetbagger
politicians in the South after the war
who promised every negro forty acres
and a mule If the democracy OF New
York is now to be delivered over to the
independence league, and the advocates
of semi socialism, what is to become OF
the democracy Of the nation?"