The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-10-23
HEARST OWNS THE SCALES
EVERY MAN UNDER THAT EN-
BLEM WILL BE BIS CHOICE
Unless the Courts Say Otherwise or He
Fails on q technical Point Charges
or Fraud I'm League Petitions The
Board'n Day Lasts Far Past Midnight.


Board's Day Lasts Far Past Midnight.
The Board Of Elections decided yester-
day that the Independence League, moor
porated by William r.. Hearst, owns the
emblem Of the scales and that only those
candidates who have been nominated with
the sanction Of Mr.. Hearst's board Of d.
rectors at the Gilsey House can get their
names under that emblem on the ballot.
This decision was rendered on a protest
filed by the league against the petition Of
Francis Burton Harrison, who was nomi-
mated by Tamma ny Hall for Congress in
the Sixteenth district, and who also Gled a
petition nominating him as a league candi-
date. he got in this petition Def ore Harry
B.. Davien got one in with the sanction Of the
Incorporated league. A some thirty or
forty cases hinged on this decision 1t was
agreed by counsel that the decision should
cover them all.
IL was understood, too, hat whichever
side lost should take the matter to the
courts, ana it will be brought into the Su-
preme Court this afternoon on a motion by
the Tammany lawyers. The case will be
argued and the decision will be taken to
the Appellate Division on Thursday. As
it stands the league corporation elects in
nearly every Congress, Senate and Assem-
bly, district in his county. whether 1t is for
the Tammany candidate or for the man
who thought he was the league candidate.
The board. having rendered this decision
and a few others, set TO work To hear and
decide protests According to the law all
such decisions on protests had to be made
yesterday. 1t was found necessary to
prolong the official day by stopping the
clock before midnight All decisions will
be ready before the courts open his
morning, however, and many disputed
cases viii be Ia en- there.
Late yesterday afternoon the Judiciary
Nominators we're heard Lawyer Charles
s. Jones showed how three sets OF tnde-
pendent petitions had been filed on October
II, the last day for filing such petitions.
At s:4S in the afternoon there was one pc
tition for all the Democratic canIidates
EXCEPT Brady and McAvoy. FOR whom Green
and Rosalsky were substituted. THIS pc
titon had been declared regular. At I:tl
p. NJ. the declination OF breen YVES HE'D
This was followed later 10y a petition for
lrady and then ny another petition Tor
all the Democratic nominees. All these
petitions wers in the name OF the INDIE
pendence League. Mr.. JONES argued that
as Breen had withdrawn after the regular
petition had been filed the only way to
All the vacancy was for the committee to
substitute a name. Brady's name could
not be substituted under the scales by a
new petition. A petition made him an indie
pendent candidate.
Melvin q. Palliser said that the league
had found out that it had done Brady. who
has Haffen's votes in The Bronx, an in
Justice and that after the withdrawal OF
Breen's name, rather than have the com.
mittee I'LL the vacancy. another petition had
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to show that Mr. Brady was the choice OF
the directors OF the Independence League
Decision was reserved.
One Of the amusing scenes OF the day
was the protest Of Senator Thomas +.
Grady, the Tammany nominee in the Four
tenth district against Thomas Rock, the
Republican and Independence League
nominee. Senator Grady also had filed an
Independence League nomination. He pre-
sented his own case and was allowed 20
ak t~hree-quarters Of an hour. In other
cases the limit was three TO FIVE minutes.
In a very melodra matte way the Senator
who seated the Cassidy delegates at Buffalo
and made it possible for Hearst TO capture
the Democratic convention protested
said that he intended to have the Rock
petitions brought to the attention OF the
Grand jury. as they were on
their face.
There had been lots Of protests and
| COUnLcT OTOIeEUH Ill LHC OAAJCOAlNlA NOAA No
Twentieth Senate and Twenty-sixth As
sembly districts, and yesterday afternoon
there was almost a fight In which the Frawley
followers and he league men were mixed
up. Senator Frawley has protested against
the petitions Of Harry B. Davies in the Six
teenth Congress. James A.. Lyon in the
Twentieth Senate and samuel Greenberg
in the Twenty-sixth Assembly. and Counsel
Cohalan handed in several hundred afr
davits to support his contentious. Inc
board allowed the league men until 0 O'Clock
last night to examine these affldavits and
file others. and President Voorhis left the
Tammany afidavits in the care OF Harry
B. Davies. Davies and his friends left the
building carrying the documents away
with them, but they were met in the street
by the Frawley men. who insisted that thu
afidavits be taken back. Il looked like
trouble and Davies wisely returned. All
hands went before the board and tried Il
talk at once. President Yoorhis said h
had never heard Of documents being taker
out Of the building and ordered the dispu-
tants to go to the clerks ONCE and examine
them together. Two more policemen were
sent for to keep order in the room.
WilIett, Jr., the Tammany nominee in thu
Fourteenth Congress district. against tbs
petition of Charles r. Shober. the leagN
nominee. ID. n. Carvalho made affidavit
that 834 o u Of the I $50 signatures on Thu
petition had been written by five men.
ID. J. Riordan protested against the
petition of Franklyn Quinby in the Eight
Congress district. The protest said thai
Ouinby had only 918 names on the petition
Quinby in reply said that he had flee
ffty-three sheets, but that six Of these hac
been taken out of the petition and wer'
missing. Similar charges were made by
Gloster in the Eleventh Assembly district
and by Benjamin Berger in the Twenty
second Assembly district about theii
EtteT the Hearst meeting was over anc
the theatres had let out a crowd OF nearly
200 persons hocked to the board offices anC
piled into the little reception room. Presi'
dent Voorhis sent for six more policemen.
RorEsTs DISMISSED. >
As mons rivals for the Hearst nonina
ton these protests were dismissed:
Against ]. J. Eagan. Tammany, Twenty third
Against +. !. McMsnus. Tammsny. Fifteenth
Against william Sohmer. Tsmmany. Twelfth
Against Cornelius HUH. Tsmmany Tenth As
sembly.
Against James r.. Brown. who Is opposing Fox
TammAnN, Nine tenth senate.
Against James Jackson. who opposes Loewen
stein, TammAny Twenty ninth Assembly.
Against James II. DoTney, who opposes Tomp
Ltns TamuauN- Twenty NTH Assembly.