Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-10-30
HARD BLOW FOR
HEARST TICKET
NEW YORK SUPREME COURT
KNOCKS OUT 70 lNDEPEN-
DENT CANDIDATES
Did Not Follow the Requirements Of
the statutes-IIIegal Nominating Pc
titions Are Rejected-Bls Ballot
Will be Nearly Blank.

New York, Oct 27.-By a sweeping
decision handed down yesterday after
noon the appellate division, of the SUI,
preme court knocked out seyenty-three
candidates-almost 80 per cent-of
Hearst's local ticket of the Independ-
ence league.
The ruling of the appellate division
will come before a special session OF
the court of appeals on Monday or
Tuesday. and if it is upheld the en-
blem of the scales will head a ticket
which, save for the state and judi
ciary candidates, will be practically
blank.
The Hearst lawyers and candidates
were at first furious, then disheart-
ened over the body blow administered
to their ticket, but later, as they re-
covered their wind, they asserted that
the courts decision would have a
boomerang effect on thousands of men
who were not going to vote for Hearst
and his candidates, but would do 81
now to indicate their protest against
the almost insurmountable difficulties
which confront the Independent state
party.
Republican lawyers and candidates,
who were anxfously awaiting the re,
suit, we're oyerjoyed at the ruling OF
the court, while Temmany men looked
on in comparative Indifference.
Mr., Hearst himself, in a speach al
4 Albany, made no attempt to conceal
j his anger at the courts des:sion.
i eff the criminal trusts and corpora
i tions,'' he said, "can control the ma
chinery of both old parties and Sttfle
any independent movement, what re
lief can you hope to secure?"
What the Law Provides.
The flaw found by the Justices Of the
appellate division in the dependence
League nominations lies In the petl
lions, which the law prescribe;s mus
be filed to entitle an Independent can
didate to have his name on the ballot
, This petition must be signed by III,
prescribed number of voters resillin!
in the district in which the candldat
: is running for Office. A petition for
. candidate for the assembly must hav
at least 500 such signatures, Will
that for a congressional candidat
l needs 1000.
: To facilitate the gathering of sue
: petitions the leaguers evolved tn
scheme of heading the petition wit
: the names of the candidates for til
= assembly, the senate, and congress
and then gathering signatures iu eac
Il assembly district to the requisite nun
Y Der or more. In this way the petition
t showed that the signers approved til
0 independent nomination, under tn
t league emblem, of three candidates
t and as there are several assembly diI
f tricts in each congressional distdo
V the more than one in each senatori;
f district, the collected petitions ha
o more than the necessary number fc
e senator and representative.
Republicans File Objections.
: Many Of the Tammany candidate
: for these local offices who were e
!. dorsed by the independence leagr
= gathered their petitions in this way
: al. of them, in fact. save five.
;. When these petitions were filed wit
= the board of electors, objections
them were fled by the republican ca
,, didates through Lawyer A. S. Gilbe1
: Gilbert argued that the law require
= separate petition for every individu