The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-09-19
And Boss Murphy WAS JOItsd
m Hard In the Primary
Al Battle.
BOTH PROFESS CONTENT.
Parsons Won Every Doubtful Dis
trict, Executive Committee
and All.

CATION 10 BunaIO Over to Hearst
Mo lellan Men Say He al Do 10
Hearst Element smashed In Kings
and Queens -Tammany boss stu Holds
Majority Of Executive Committee
Primary bay Resemble Ell n General
Election I'm Interest and Excitement.
Even the tattered and dishevelled and
soiled shreds OF Benjamin B. 0dell, Jr.'s.
boss-Ship we're wrenched from his pudgy
first last night when President Herbert E.
Parsons won all along the line in the New
York county primaries. Repre- sentative
Parsons had practically a clean sweep, for
Of the 719 members Of the New York county
committee he has more than $50, not count
ing Gruber Of the Seventeenth district. with
% votes in the committee. But of course
Gruber row. according to- CUSTOM will
flock with the winner.
The fact that neither President Parsons
nor any of his orators during this primary
contest in New York county, the severest
in years, mentioned the name of Gov. Hig-
gins or referred in any way to Gov Hig-
gins's administration; made Parsons's VIC
tory, in the estimation OF Republicans at
the Fifth Avenue Hotel. essentially and
entirely a Roosevelt victory.
Mr.. OdeIl received the returns at the
Fifth Avenue Hotel with Mr.. Quigg and
said: The returns We have received from
up State; combined with those received
from Greater New York, assure US Of within
twenty or thirty votes Of a majority in the
State convention. There is now no question
that the State convention will be opposed
to Gov. Higgins. ] make this remark with
out any personal feeling against the Govs
but simply because I believe a stronger
man can and will be chosen.
'As for the result in Greater New York
there is nothing discouraging from my
point OF view. The organization with
which l am connected made a fight against
great odds and won a victory. What 10
has lost In New York county il has mad up
in Kings, and in the two districts lost in New
York county, those OF Straussberger and
Alexander, the State delegates were saved.
The best information at hand shows that
We have 1888 delegates in Greater New York
to 1853 of the opposition. l repeat that il
was a fight against great odds and l believe
they will admit we gave them a fight"
When Mr.. Odell spoke about a victory
everybody smiled. Mr.. Quigg did not care
to say anything out his defeat in his dis
trict.
A majority OF the Republicans at the
hotel said that the result in New York
county was due Ito the magic name Oh
Roosevelt" There were the usual grins
also when Mr.. Odell said that he had de-
feated Gov. Higgins for denomination.
The Governors own friends at the hotel
said hat if anybody had defeated th9
Governor for renomination it was Gov.
Higgins himself when he refused to heed
the advice Of President Roosevelt and
other Republicans to follow up his political
victories last winter by turning out Odell as
Republican State chairman. The Governor
turned out William Halpin, Odell's president
of the county committee, and defeated Mer-
rift, Odell's candidate for Speaker, and then
permitted Odell to remain in his place as
State chairman and in doing so, in the
estimation of Gov. Higgins's warmest
friends, brought about his own political
retirement.
In Brooklyn Timothy L.. Woodruff car
ried seventeen Of the twenty-one districts;
Michael J. Dady winning in the First this
own, Third, Seventh and Thirteenth.
Mr.. Woodruff told his friends last night
that there would be a conference in Sara
toga on Saturday night with the friends
Of President Roosevelt and Gov. Higgins
for the purpose OF going over the availa-
bility Of Republican candidates for Gov.
ernor.
The result OF the Tammany primaries
was that Charles +. Murphy will have 1904
members OF the county committee, Mayor
Mcclellan 2,l67 and the Sullivans 1929,
which, according to these returns, shows that
Mr. Murphy has beaten both the Mcclellan
and the Sullivan forces for the reason that
the combined vote OF the Mcclellan and
Sullivan people in the county committee
10 but $3.50.
In Brooklyn. Senator McCarren carried
~ out Of the % districts. The Second district
is In doubtI but it, will probably be for
McCarren.
Early in the day the Hearst managers
sent out word from the Gilsey House TO all
Of their people TO support Mr.. Murphy.
Mr.. Murphy's vote came from the dis
tricts which voted 20 heavily for Hearst
for Mayor last fall Mr.. Murphy's friends
at Tammany Hall said last night that 40
cording to custom he would now vote the
iOS Tammany delegates to the Democratic
State convention as a unit for Hearst, and
they had no hesitation in saying that Mr..
Hearst's Endorsement by the regular Demo-
cratic State convention at Buffalo on Sep
TENDER rs was now assured.
The Mcclellan people v~ehemently dis
puted the statement that Mr.. Murphy
would be powerful enough 10 turn over
the los delegates 10 Hearst and they vent