The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-11-02
BROOKLYN JUDICIARY FIGHT.
~ NAMES FROM WHICH TO
CHOOSE THE EIGHT JUDGES.
Great Interest In the Contest The Three
Democrats ON the Republican Ticket
Regarded rs Sure winners Hearst Can
dtdaIes Ignored -staplct 0n'S anc

of eight Supreme Court Justices in the
Second district, in which Is comprised, in
addition to the county Of Kings, Rich
mond, Queens, Suffolk and Nassau. The
big ballot sheet which will be placed in
the hands Of the voters On Tuesday next
will contain a most varied assortment oil
Judiciary candidates, and never before
since the present system Of voting has
been in operation viii there have heen
such a fine opportunity offered Of exer-
cising the privilege Of cutting.
All told there are forty -four candidates,
including those on the Socialist and So
~cialistic Labor tickets, for the eight places.
The names on the Republican ticket are
Judge Edward B. Thomas Of the United
States Circuit Court, Justice Walter W.
Jaycox, Judge Joseph Asphalt, Judge
Fred. f.. Crane and Lester W. Clark, Re-
publicans, and George b. Abbott, William
J. Carr and Townsend Scudder, Demo
Gratis. This ticket is identical with that
of the Citizens committee, except as TO
the names of Asphalt and Carr, which
were substituted by the Republicans for
those Of Abel r. Blackmar and William ID.
Hurd, Jr.
The Democratic ticket is made up, in
addition to Abbott, Carr and Scudder.
who are on the Republican ticket, Of James
d. Bell, William Hughes, Isaac VI Kapper,
Luke ID. Stapleton and Samuel S. White
house.
These are the candidates on the Inde-
pendence League ticket: James c. Church.
Charles Frederick Adams, Robert Stewart,
James p. Nieman, Alexander 5. Bacon:
Denis 0,Leary, Edward Kaufman and
Thomas T. Magner.
The Prohipitionists have been very inn
partial in making up their ticket. Six of
their candidates-lhomas, Adams, Crane,
Bacon. Hurd and Scudder being IN the
other tickets, leaving only the two remain
ing places to their own Representatives.
WHAT is called the Pure judiciary party
has also a place on the ballot. bat lis ticket
has only the names of Charles Fred Adams
and Luke u. Stapletou.
There il also a Barley j. Wright single
nomination, with Adams a. the candidate.
Frank A. Acer is running all aloue on
the ticket of the United Workinsmen's
League.
All political experts agree hat the de-
feat Of Abbott and ScuddeT II absolutely
Republican, Democratic and Citizens
tickets; and also that Carr, who Is on the
Republican and Democratic tickets. Il sure
Of election. Among the five other winners
the names of Thomas, Jaycox, I rane and
Clark, who are on both the Republican
and Citizens tickets. will according TO the
experts he included, thus leaving the
eighth winner in some doubt. Judge
Joseph Aslinall, who was known in the
senate as Fighting Joe Aspinall, Is running
on the Republican ticket alone. be ~ one
of the most popular Republicans in the
county and, it is admitted, is sure TO make
a fine race for the judicial prize.
That il IL an open race for at least one
or two of the places is evident from the
vigorous canvasses being made by the
friends of Bell, Stapleton, kapper, Hughes
and Whitehouse, whose names are ON
the Democratic ticket only. bile these
candidates themselves are abstain ing from
any active electioneering organized efforts
are being made for each of them, particu-
larry in the case of Mr.. Stapleton, who
was long regarded as the favorite son OF
the Kings county Den ocracy. Lawyers,
doctors, men Of other professions. business
men and labor men have formed them
selves into committees and by endless
chains and other campaign methods have
been working W it'll great yea in the Intert st
of Mr.. Stapleton. The work of Mr., stag To-
ton is not confined 10 Brooklyn, but extends
20 the four outside rom ties. ard his friends
have strong hope that II will land him q
winner next Tue -day. Mr.. Hughes, who
il laid up with app endicitis at st. Peters
Hosr ital has also strong Influences WORK ing
in his behalf and the friends of Bell, kapr er
and WhitshoUse are pulling all the wires
possible for their ia voTite.
Yesterday the politicians were discussing
InP cUii1kt iildtt III lIt DIhflIlR ~ hlt
houses name or the official ballot by the
Board OF Elections in "A different place from
that forwarded bv the Secretary of State,
and some Republican statesmen were Of
the opinion that tn" change was made
20 that he might profit by the expected
cutting. n Democratic manager, how
ever. said that there had been no intention
to discriminate in Mr.. Nhltehouse'S in
terest and that in fact il did not matter
particularly what place a candidate occu-
fnipH on rho ticket o
Chairman Edward y. Fisher Of the Citi-
zenS' Nominating Committee has issued
this advice in regard TO the safest way
10 vote for the Supreme Court judges:
Vote eight nameS-no more and no less
bv putting a cross in front of EACH Candi-
date Of your CHI ice and your ballot will be
valid"
The bunch Of Independence League
judiciary candidates has attracted very
little attention during the campaign and
no one. not even should Mr.. Hearst carry
Brooklyn. which il regarded generally az
highly improbable. supposes that "A single
one Of them stands the slightest chance of
ever sitting on the Supreme Court bench.
Three of the Independence League candi-
dates, adams, Bacon and Stewart. ignoring
the time honored rule that judicial and
dates should refrain from taking the stump. .
have been appearing night after night at
the Hearst mass meetings and outrivalling
the Gubernatorial candidate himself in their
appeal to their auditors. II IL the first time
brooklyn has witnessed such notion on the
part Of candidates for high judicial Office.
That the Hearst judicial ticket which was
put up by the Gilsey House people, even
without regard to the wishes Of the In
dependence League managers in Brooklyn.
will be a bad third in the race il the gener
belief Of all impartial observers OF the
situation.
Thomas T.. Magner and Robert Stewart
appeared before Supreme Court Justice
Keogh in Brooklyn Yesterday and secured
a peremptory writ Of mlndamus command
ing the Board Of Elections to print the official
ballots so far as the judiciary nominal
ions were concerned in conformity with the
,ist prepares py me secretary oi STATE
belief that The Board Of Elections was to
print the ballots, so far AZ the Independence
League nominations for judiciary officers
were concerned. in a di.-erent order from
that prepared bv the Secretary Of State.