The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-10-05
CASSIDY'S EYES ON The CANAL
AFTER PATRONAGE THROUGH
SKENE As ENGINEER.

Queens County Man Named Candidate and
Followers Hope for Jobs Another War
ON Cassidy People Asking VINO ls
Hauser, Named for state Treasurer.
When William r. Hearst was running for
Mayor last fall he succeeded in polling
enough votes in Queens county TO beat
Mcclellan by about 500 plurality. Investi-
cation now shows that thousands Of citizens
Of Queens who voted for Hearst last year
are going to cast their ballots this year for
Hughes.
The real fight in Queens last year was not
for Hearst or Mcclellan, but against Cassidy.
The people rose up in their wrath against
his government az Borough President and
they buried him under a ountai Of votes.
He was said to be the most overbearing OF
all the bosses against whom the voters
turned. A large number of Democrats
who voted against him voted for Hearst. in
fact. the Municipal Ownership League in
dorsed the ticket upon which his successful
rival, Joseph Bermel, was the leading candi-
date.
Since the Democratic State convention at
Buffalo there has been a change in the senti-
ment Of these Democrats. Many are greatly
disgruntled because Of the manner in which
their regularly elected delegates, who had
beaten the Cassidy GRO wd by more than
5000 majority, were unseated at the con-
v~ention, but their chief grievance IL the
Murphy-Hearst recognition of Cassidy.
The people in Queens dread lest Cassidy be
put back into power in spite of their verdict
against him al the polls last fall.
Through the unSeatinG OF the regular
L. 90 a. NAaaalW -.a~
made a member Of the State committee
and already he is planning through the
aid of Murphy and Hearst to regain his
supremacy in he borough.
The people of Queens say they are deter
mined to have no more Of Cassidy, no matter
extreme they may have to resort
to to keep him out OF power. For this
reason thousands of them will vote the
Republican State ticket. II was Cassidy
h suggested the name OF Frank Skene
for State Engineer on the Democratic ticket.
The nomination was the greatest surprise
the Democrats Of the borough rave had
politically in years and everybody over
there has been wondering what it means
Skene is an engineer in the Public Works
Department and he had long worked under
Cassidy. IL il said that Cassidy has no less
a scheme than to control the patronage Of
he barge canal through his nominee for
State Engineer.
why. Joe could give every district
worker in his crowd who is now out Of a
job a place at s. a day on the canal il his
man won, said a Democratic politician in
Long Island City yesterday. 1T would be
a cinch to take care of the boys that way.
Why, they wouldn't have TO do a stroke
of work from one end of the year to the
other. just draw their pay, and look out
for Cassidy's interests"
Regular delegates who were unseated
are beginning to tell their friends Just what
happened to them when the committee on
contested seats was In session at Buffalo.
The committee had been in session all OF
Tuesday night and the case of Queens had
not been reached when an adjournment
was taken. At 0 o'clock on Wednesday
morning John J. Murphy, brother of the
Tammany leader, who employed his time
at the convention in conveying about the
messages Of the big chief, called on the
Queens delegates. and to one OF them,
James Hicks Of Long Island City, said:
Il will give you just thirty minutes in
which to decide whether you will pledge
your votes TO Hearst. If you don't, out
you 60"
Mr.. Hicks refused to make any pledges.
He said he couldn't, even il he wished to,
as the delegates had been uninstructed and
were purposely left free to do as they
pleased. A short while afterward the case
Of Queens was called by the committee and
the regulars were fired out. This was done,
in spite Of the fact that no one disputed the
legal election Of the Bermel delegates by
morethan 3 600 and in spite of thef fact that no
one, not even Cassidy, dreamed Of making
a contest until he got his orders from Murphy
at Buffalo. He had not ever gone through
the form Of holding Assembly district SON
v~entions to select delegates. and the men
who were seated had, in some instances,
been pressed into service by telegraph.
, People in Queens andfuTther out are very
much interested in another Long Island
candidate on the Democratic ticket.
"Hauser? Hauser? Who the DEVILS Hauser?"
is heard on all sides. II may be explained
that Julius Hauser il the Democratic oandi-
date for State Treasurer. He is a baker
at Sayville in Suffolk county, but there
is no record that he ever ook part in any
of the great financial undertakings of the
country. There is one thing sure and that
is that he is a German by birth. Mr.. Hauser
did not attend the convention and he ia
said TO have been the most surprised man
in Suffolk when the announcement OF his
nomination was brought to him.
The nomination is generally credited to
ex-senator Bailey ol Suffolk. Murphy's
summer home il in that county and the
Senator and the Tammany leader are good
friends. The nominations for some OF the
minor places on the ticket went begging,
il is said, and there was some difficulty
in filling them. When il came to State
Treasu rer, Murphy, the story goes, asked
Senator Bailey to name the man.. He
must be a German" the Tammany leader
il said TO have remarked, mo matter what
his other qualifications may be. The Repub-
licans have nominated a German and we
must have a German, too"