The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-09-19
VICTORY FOR N'CARRBE.
THE SENATOR CARRIES THE
BROOkLYN PRIMARIES EASILY.


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Are surely for Hlm. ami Probably Al
Of ThenI-sherin FIaheriS, His ChIeI
Opponent. LOses IIS Own District
A continuance Of the leadership OF senator
Patrick Henry McCarren was directly in
volved in the Democratic primary fights
in Brooklyn, and for the purpose Of up
Getting II Sheriff Michael J. Flaherty, who
was elected on the M. o. L. ticket last year
joined banda with James Shevlin. the chief
representative, Of the Wlloughby street
element in the organization. and all the
other Democratic m~alcontents who have
come 10 the front sknce Senator McCarren's
sensational deposition Of the late Hugh
Mclaughlin in the closing days OF the
municipal campaign Of 1903.
Although Hearst's political fortunes were
not sur 5-sd TO I've mixed up In the Demo-
cratic ~upheaval in Brooklyn. most Of the
Independence League forces were lined
up against McCarren The snti-McCarren-
ties yesterday put up opposition tickets
in nearly all the districts, but the really
sharp conflicts were in the Second, Sixth,
Seventh, Eighth. Fifteenth, Sixteenth, Sew
enteenth, Nineteenth and Twenty-third,
and all along the Flaherty-Shevlin combine
had been banking on carrying the majority
Of theee districte. a fact which II was adj
mitted would tend to seriously impair the
stability Of the McCarren regime.
Never before In the history OF Brooklyn
politics has the regular Democratic or
ganization been confronted with a fiercer or
more carefully planned attack. and inn
partial observers nave been surprised hat
Senator McCarren emerged from his latest
political battle with so few scars ant that
For another year as least he will be In SUI
preme command Of the Kings county
Democracy.
The net result OF the primaries leaves
him in control OF twenty-three Assembly
He received the returns at the Kings
County Club, in -Scher1nerhorn street, sur
rounded by Comptroller Metz, Luke D.
Stapleton and other stanch political friends.
The first figures came in from the Second
Assembly district, which Judge John w.
Walsh had succeeded in keeping from
under McCarren's control in the two pre-
cedinG primaries. and where he again put
up a strong fight against the Senator this
year.
the Fifth Election district, in which Judge
Walsh resides. Thu vote was 50 for Walsh
and 1872 for Edward J.. Meany, the McCarren
leader. The next were from the Seventh
Election district and gave Meany I0s and
Walsh only SO and it was estimated from
VIZ AN'AA AA - WV ~ wv hhtN $50
would wiz out handsomely
Az this and the Seventeenth district
we're the only districts which Senator
McCarren regarded as doubtful, and as the
indications from the result in the Second
pointed TO a sweeping victory for the or
ganiZation all along the line the Senator
was overwhelmed with con CALCULATIONS
over a complete overthrow Of his foes and
as establishing himself the unquestioned
leader OF the Democratic hosts nf Kings
county.
Following returns continued to point to
the success Of Meany in the Second. but the
figures from the Seventeenth district showed
hat the rae between Judge John Manner,
the McCarren representative and Joseph p.
Donnelly. his opponent. was very close. and
that Donnelly was likely to win by a slender
majority.
Later returns showed an increase in
Welsh's vote in the Second district and a
falling of In those for McCarren. At mid
night Welsh claimed to rave won by a
majority OF over 20, but Senator McCarren
would not concede that he was ahead,
claiming that the result was so close as to
be in doubt.
There was great rejoicing at the Demo-
cratic Club when the figures from the
Seventeenth Assembly district had been
footed up. They gave Manner 800 and
Donnelly Se4, a majority for the McCarren
side OF 20.
sheriff Flaherty got a stunning defeat
by Judge VOORHEES, in the Sixteenth district,
losing by 1883.
In all the other districts except the Second
and Seventeenth Senator McCarren's repre-
sentatives had almost n walkover. In the
Seventh Wogan heat Martin by two to one
Mcguire in the Sixth polled 1911 to sos for
Wright, in the Eleventh, Byrnes had 1851
to 52S for Bausch: in the Twentieth Delaney
had l.I07 to 427 for Hermann. Hesterberg
carried the Eighteenth by a vote OF I,I8s
TO l06 for his opponent and the maiorities
for the McCarren men in all the other dis
tricts varied from $50 to Ion.
Butler, the McCarren leader in the Twelfth
district, had no opponent, but he received
the extraordinary big vote OF 2,OS7 az a
personal tribute to his popularity.
The new democratic executive com
mittee will be composed as follows: