Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-09-19
MURPHY STILL LEADER
QUIGG AND ODELL WERE COM
PLETELY ROUTED.

Primary elections for both political par
ties were held yesterday in New York and
all the principal cities of the state.
Summarizing the situation the New York
Herald says:
In Manhattan and the Bronx Charles r.
Murphy will be able to continue as leader
fered defeats in several quarters, and won
In others only by such a marrow margin
that his retirement is probably only a
question of time.
The mayor made creditable showing
His most notable victories were in the
nineteenth district, where John H. OBrien,
fire commissioner, will go as delegate,
and in the thirtieth, where P E. Nagle
defeated j. F. Cowan, Murphy's candidate.
and in the seventeenth where Ross Will
liams overcame Matthew Donovan.
At least forty-eight votes will not fol-
low Mr.. Murphy in Buffalo into the Hearst
column. Instead of delivering 165 votes to
the candidate Of the Independence League
he will probably not be able to deliver
half the membership of the delegat ton. 1t
is known that at least forty-eight votes
Will be cast for Jerome or Sulzer.
The strength of the mayor and Timothy
d. Sullivan in the Tammany executive COM
mittee combined will be at least sixteen
of the thfrty-five assembly districts.
trict. was carried by Patrick H. McCarren.
The county is soidly against Hearst
In the one district where the election of
delegates for Mr.. Hearst was a paramount
issue. the sixteenth, where former Sheriff
Flaherty led the Hearst forces, the Nc
Carren majority is 1,15S.
Queens for Mcclellan.
Queens was also carried for Mayor Nc
Clellan and Jerome. Borough President
Bermel routed Joseph Cassidy. carrying all
three of the city districts, thus insuring
twelve votes for true democracy.
At the republican primaries in Manhat-
tan the electromagnetic machine was
simply obliterated. An administration tidal
wave swept the opposition to President
Roosevelt and Gov. Higgins out of political
existence. Herbert Parsons reelection as
president of the county committee is as
sured, and the executive committee will be
controlled by Mr.. Parsons.
A large majority of the delegates from
will be controlled by the friends
of Gov. Higgins, and having beaten those
opposed to him he can now organize the
Saratoga convention and decide upon his
program.
In Kings county most of the Dady-Quigg-
Odell candidates were generally in the
"also ram class Woodruff swept the
county for Higgins. He carried nineteen
districts easily. Dady carried but one that
will not be contested. He claims three
others, but these delegates Will be unSeated
at Saratoga.
Kings county, allowing Dady these con-
tested delegates, will vote 11S for higgins
and 20 against him.
Results Needs No Comment
Gov. Higgins got the news of the pri-
maries in this city and Kings county over
the long distance telephone in Albany. He
expressed himself as pleased.
Have, Inu-any statement to maker he
was asked.
No he replied Enthusiastically. 1.-The
result needs no comment from me-"
President Roosevelt received the news Of
the New York county primaries from Her.
bert Parsons. The President rendered to
Mr.. Parsons his personal congratulations.
Work Of the President.
Lemuel e. Quigg and B. B. Odell, jr..
were completely routed at the republican
primaries In this county yesterday.
Herbert Parsons will be reelected presi-
dent Of the republican county committee
on Saturday night, when the committee re-
organizes, by a large majority.
So decisive was the Parsons victory that
there seems to be no chance for the success
of the Quigg-Odell plan to win over Par
sons delegates to the county committee in
numbers sufficient to give Mr.. Quigg ma
jority. Many Of the assembly districts
Mr.. Parsons did not expect to get, elected
Parsons delegates.
Mr.. Parsons will have a safe majority in
the republican county executive committee
as well as in the county committee. The
executive committee has been under the
control Of Mr.. Odell ever since Mr.. Par
sons was elected president of the county
last fall and since Mr.. Quigg
deserted him for Mr.. Odell q majority in
the county committee itself has been OPP
posed to him.
Incidental to the Parsons victory the
Odell faction loses several members of the
republican state committee, of which Mr..
Odel is chairman, thus breaking his hold
upon that body.
Mr.. Parsons victory was ascribed in a
large measure to the influence of President
who declared for him in unmis-
taxable terms and whose name was freely
used in the primary fight. His reelection
means the completion of the reorganization
of the republican machine, which was be-
gun last fall.
Mr.. Quigg was defeated in his own as
sembly district, the fifteenth, where he
made desperate efforts to save himself He
lost his own election district, the thir-
teenth, by four votes. Complete returns
from the district give Henry w. Mack 1 O13
votes for leader. and Theodore P. Gilman,
the Quigg candidate S76. Mr.. Mack's ma
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