The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-10-25
ONE CAMPAIGNING JUSTICE.
CANDIDATE SEABURY AN ACTIVE
AGENT OF HEARST.

In HIs Home District He Has Got Into q
Political squabbIe In which the Local
Hearst Men Accuse Him OF Forcing
Young Friend OF HIS own In as Leader.
City Court Justice Samuel Seabury, who Is
one of the Hearst nominees for the Supreme
Court on tho Murphy-Hearst ticket, is hav-
ing troubles Of his own these days, accord
ing to some OF the political observers in the
Seventh Assembly district. where Justice
Seabury resides. Justice Seabury Is ad-
mitted to be a man Of talent and intelligence,
but he has been criticised for the very
active part he hAs taken in partisan politics
while on the bench. He is regarded as one
Of the most violent OF Hearst's partisans,
is one Of the incorporators Of the only politi-
cal corporation In America, the Independ-
once League, and IL q member OF the ex-
ecutive committee which controls the
organization and dictates it's policy. This
committee is made up Of paid employees
or close followers of Mr.. Hearst, whose word
10 final on all matters with which the league
has TO do.
Justice Seabury is credited with devoting
recently a great deal of time to h business
and political affairs Of the Independence
League. He is one Of the most active Of
all the members Of the executive committee
and has spent many hours at the Gilsey
House headquarters comforting and adj
vising with Max r. Ihmsen and other paid
employees OF Mr.. Hearst.
The Seventh district, which Is the home
of Justice Seabury. used to be the Ninth.
and in it reside many politicians: Among
Smith, secretary OF the general committee
of Tammany Hall: william Halpin, the
Republican leader, and ex-Chief William
8. Devery. Fully two score OF the Did
Municipal Ownership League Of the district
are now out campaigning against Justice
Seabury, asserting that he has broken faith
with the Hearst men and has over their
heads submitted the affairs OF the district
to the Gilsey House managers for control.
II is charged by them that when the
pendence League was formed there Sea-
bury promised hat a district leader agree
able to he Hearst men there would be
eelected. As a matter OF fact Seabury
recommended to theG ilsey House managers
that John Low, Jrp a young lawyer and a
personal friend of the Justices, should be
made leader. What followed was described
yesterday at the headquarters Of the judi
ciary Nominators as follows:
Feeling ran high in the Seventh over
his selection and IN the night OF August
II some forty angry Hearst men met in the
rooms OF the Tonawana Social Club, at
Ninth avenue and Twenty-ninth street,
to protest against the selection Of Low.
The speakers handled Judge Seabury with
out gloves and served notice on the Gilsey
House crowd that the Hearst ticket must
not expect the support Of the old Hearst
element in the Seventh district unless the
Independence League people OF the district
were consulted o their own Affairs.
They declared that Low did not even vote
In the district last year.
Arthur W. Madden, who was chairman
OF the indignation meeting. was especially
severe on Justice Seabury. w e charge
thai he broke faith with the men who put
him on the committee" said Mr.. Madden.
HE was in honor bound to report the name
to US. A meeting was held a week ago at
the home OF ex-Assemblyman Allen-a
recruit from the Republcans-at which
Lows candidacy was Endorsed by those
so-called Independence League men. Low
has no moral, legal or political right to the
leadership, n We want EeaTst's men
to know that We can't have the district
candidates imperilled by putting Low up
TO compete with men like Sheehan, Good
win, Smith and Halpin.
Il saw Judge Seabury about the matter
and asked why he had not picked out some
body who was thoroughly familiar with the
district and was prominent here In talk
ing 10 me Seabury said: All my friends
In the district are conservative. They
would not vote for a radical like Hearst
under any circumstances.
Resolutions were passed asking the In
~dependence League TO revoke he appoint
ment Of Low, but as no atten ton was paid
TO them by the Gilsey House managers
a large NUMBER of Hearst men in the district.
led by Mr.. Madden. are out working against