New-York tribune., 1906-10-24
LEAGUE MEN SOLD OUT.
HEARST PLOT REVEALED.
Board of Elections Completes Killing
of Little Candidates.

law committee. yesterday afternoon told the
Tammany executive committee that the execu-
tive committee of the Independence League had
all along been opposed to the nomination of can
didates against the regular Tammany candi-
dates.
He reported that the Board of Elections had
thrown out the nominating petitions of nearly
all the Hearst men. leaving the field free to the
Tammany men and doing away with the last
obstacle to a successful fusion between the
Hearst and Tammany
This report immensely pleased the members
of the Tammany executive committee. but when
the news of Cohalan's statement got around last
night among the aspiring Hearst statesmen who
had been tricked by their own people there
were howls of rage and cries for vengeance
The developments yesterday prove beyond the
shadow of doubt that the Hearst managers
were fighting a sham battle for their candidates
when they allowed them TO be nominated
against the Tammany candidates. The little
victims themselves did not know it until last
night
Charles F. Murphy knew 1t last week. Last
Friday, when asked If 1t was not In bad faith
for the Hearst managers to nominate candidates
against Tammany men in nearly all the districts
he said that the Objectionable nominations
would be thrown out by the Board of Elections
He seems to have had foreknowledge of the
fact that the nominating petitions were pur-
posely faulty. and of a kind to warrant the
Board of Elections in throwing them out.
1t is generally considered one OF the most out
rageous exhibitions of duplicity practised on
ambitious little candidates that any party ever
took hand in.
BLOW FOR THOMAS ROCK
AS net result of the Inside work which Mr.
Cohalan gays had the sympathy and support OF
the managers of the Independence League,
Thomas Rock. who seemed sure of beating
Thomas F. Grady for the Senate, having the Re-
publican nomination and the Hearst indorse-
ment. now will have to fight hard for election.
The Hearst men made a great hue and cry
about Rock and what they were doing for the
labor unions when they Endorsed" Rock. They
said he was the father of the Eight-Hour law.
IND that they were going to elect him The
Central Labor Union thought the same thing.
Now Grady grins.
Down in the Sth Congress District the Hearst
managers nominated Franklyn Quinby as a rep
resentatfve of labor against Daniel ]. Riordan.
one of the "gas Senators" Mr. Hearst referred
to the nomination of Quinby as an earnest of
the way he was standing by labor, Quinby was
lost in the shuttle" yesterday, and Mr. Cohalan
said to the Tammany men that the executive
committee of the Independence League actively
sympathized with Tammany IN putting such men
as Quinby out of the race.
Over on the lower West Side the Tammany
men objected to James A Allen. the Hearst
nominee, running against Charles V. Fornes in
the 11th Congress District Mr.. Allen. too, was
dropped overheard with scores of others who
thought that the league was backing them
Down in the Bowery the Hearst men made a
brave show of running Thomas F. Long against
Christie" Sullivan. Long is a great labor
man. Hearst also pointed to him as shining
example of how he was standing by the card"
men. Long walked the plank yesterday
Senator James ]. Frawley. in the Goth District
had troublesome opponent in James A Lyons
a Hearst candidate nominated by petition
When Mr.. Lyons's petition was examined yes
terday there were defects in it. and he was
thrown out of the race.
Thirty-fve members of the executive COM
mittee attended the meeting yesterday after
noon at Tammany Hall Ohe of the first things
was a report from Mr.. Cohalan in behalf OF
the Tammany law committee, which has been
fighting In the interest of the Tammany nom
inees before the Board of Elections. Mr.. Cohalan
went over the list of contests and reported that
generally speaking nearly all the Independence
League nominations had been thrown out aSf
the instance of Tammany. He said that the Ell
ecutive committee of the Independence League
had been in active sympathy with the Tam
many law committee in having these nominal
tions thrown out.
W. Bourke Cochran made brief speech urg-
ing hard work by all hands. Senator Grady
followed. in the vein.
MURPHY MAKES A SPEECH
Charles F. Murphy. who rarely tries to make
a speech. addressed the committee as follows:
t{ck he
every district We are almost the eve OF
Election Day. and the time remaining should
be devoted TO using the best energies that each
of you leaders can command Now is the time
to put your shoulders to the wheel and aid in
rolling up the biggest Democratic vote In the
history of the organization The ticket l am
confident, will win. and the victory Will be all
the greater with Tammany working in every
district
After the committee adjourned the newspaper
men asked Mr.. Murphy for the
See Tom Smith. He will give you every
thing" said Mr.. Murphy.
Standing within four feet Of Mr.. Murphy. Mr.
Smith made the following statement:
Daniel F. CohaIan reporting for the Tam
many law committee. told the executive COM
mittee what had happened before the Board
OF Elections. He said that the executive COM
mittee of the Independence Lea que had been
in sympathy with the Tammany law commit
tee in having the leagues nomination thrown
out He said that the managers Of the lea que
had not at any time Favored running Cdndi-
dates against the regular Tammany can
didates He said that the managers had tried
to dissuade these candidates from circulating
nominating petitions, but that the district lead
ers had been headstrong and had gone ahead
against the advice of the managers and made
scores Of nominations.
Mr Murphy was listening to Mr. Smith as he
made this statement and seemed 10 assent to IT,
Mr. Smith rarely makes mistake in telling Of
what happens in Tammany Hall Apparently
he was acting in harmony with Mr Murphy's
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