The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-09-17
READY FOR PRIMARY BATTLES
wOODRUFF AND RCARREN CONFI-
DENT or WINNING IN BROOKLYN.

ghersr raherty and His HustlSrs Busy
Yesterday &C COney Island Asking for
Votea-He VIII Have q Special
Deputies at the Fol 10 Te-mSrrew.
The political leaders in Brooklyn spent
Yesterday making the final preparations for
the primaries tomorrow. Sheriff Michael
J. Fiaherty, who Ii leading the anti-McCar-
ran hxht, wa busy in tho Coney Island
district hustling with his lieutenants In
Waiting Democratic voters and p~etitioning
them 10 break away from tho regular Demo-
cratic leaders and join the new party, the
Independence League. with William Ran
dolpb Hearst an the leader.
Scattered around In many OF the dis
tricts were circulars which had been .
out BY the True Democracy, the organiSa-
ton which Sheriff Flaherty 10 interested
IN. These were headed standard OILS
Hired Man Works for. Other Trusts Tho
circular contained a TRADE against Senator
Pntrick H. McCarren and an interview with
Thomas ". Lawson in July, 1904. IN which
no alleged that McCsrren was in the employ
Of the standard Oil Company.
Senator McCarren's friends were not in
the least disturbed by the circular and said
n would prove q boomerang. Senator
NcCarren me his l~ieutenants are oon
4dent Of the result Of to-morrow's primaries.
In fact, it is said the Senator expects to
receive a greater vote { han be did last year.
Former Li~eutenant-Go Governor Timothy l..
Woodruff, after his conferences with Presi-
dent Roosevelt at Oyster Bay on Saturday,
feels confident OF taking almost q united
delegation to the Saratoga State convention.
He and his lieutenants believe that Field
Marshal Mike Dady will not be able to
control more than one Assembly district
besides his own, the First, and it is also the
general opinion hal when the delegates
arrive in Saratoga only Dady's own district
will be in opposition to MIR. Woodruff.
In the Seventeenth Assembly district, in
which Walter B. Atterbury has come out
against the organization ticket, the
weatherwise figure out that Atterbury
tire district. Atterbury says he is max
ing the fight of his life to regain control
of the district. He is working hard in the
interests OF Odell and Dady to keep Lewis
". swasey from being returned as q State
sheriff Michael j. Flaherty intends to
appoint about 500 special deputy sheriffs to
man the polls tomorrow, as he says, for
the purpose Of preserving peace. Many Of
these men will be sent to Coney Island
where Kenneth Sutherland is leading the
eight against Flaherty. Sheriff Flaherty
says that his reason for appointing specia
deputies is that requests have been made tC
him to do 80 in order to prevent llegaI
voting. He said he had selected men whC
could not be b~rowbeaten and has assigned
them to duty at voting places which hav'
been threatened by an invasion OF ilega
voters.
The Sheriff said that politicians skilled
IN crooked political work had declared tina
any man they might sen to a voting plac'
would vote regardless of the law. In in
structing these special deputies Sheriff
Flaherty aid:
Special deputy sheriffs are appointec
TO assist in the preservation Of the peac
and the enforcement Of the law. They ar
peace officers simply. Those special deput.
sheriffs who may be assigned to duty at tn
primary voting places are to act as peac
officers. not as lpartisans. They must no
e~lectioneer, and they must not interfer
with any citizen in entering voting places
nor while he is in one.
If requested to make an arrest OF a maj
or men Tor n violation Of the law, and tn
. person making the request will agree +
make a complaint, IL will be the duty o
special deputy sheriffs 30 requested 4
ma e the arrests and bring their prisoner
TO the nearet police station. II any specia
deputy sheriff neglects his duty or over
stepe his authority his war; ant will b
revoked at once, and il the facts shout
justify it he will be arrested and prose
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