The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-09-18
GREATEST OF PRIMARY DAYS.
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Mcclellan forces, said yesterday that he
had NO doubt what the outcome o be.
with a fair count and we mean to getit''
said he. Il am confident that we will carry
every contested district In the primaries
The outlook to-day is better than at any
time during the fight"
Charles r. Murphy wouldn't make any
predictions. wait he said, until Wednes-
day. That will be time enough to talk
about results"
As to the sentiment in Tammany Hall Tor
Gubernatorial candidates Murphy gave IL
as his opinion that Hearst would be first,
Sulzer second and Jerome last. Ihere
was absolutely no sentiment In the organi-
zation as far as he knew for Justice Gaynor.
1T is all in Brooklyn he said. Mr.. dur
ply denied q report that he had sent out
an appeal to the leaders to stand by the
organization.
at is not true he said. There IL no
need OF such ar appeal"
The fighting this year on both sides seems
to be confined almost exclusively to the dig
! Assembly districts uptown, leaving the
! Sullivans and others to a peaceful primary
dav below Fourteenth street. Probably
the hottest contest OF all on the Democratic
side is in the old Thirty-ffth district Of The
Bronx, where Borough President Haffen has
held absolute sway on the Democratic side
for years. The district has now been cut
up into three districts, and in each OF them
the supremacy Of Haffen is being fought
tooth and nail. Hafsn himself Is not run-
ming, nj he has put up candidates for
Leadership in all three districts. In h new
Thirty-ffth former Coroner Berry leads the
opposition ticket, and here the fight has
been the l~iveIiest, there being two Haffen
candidates against him.. The first official
4 act Of the Mayor on his recent return from
his vacation abroad was the removal OF
Park Commissioner Walgrove, a Hafen
man. who was accused Of using his Office
for political purposes, and the appointment
Of Berry In his place, Since then the strug-
gle has been more bitter than ever, and In
some cases has led to physical violence.
The taking away Of the park department Of
the borough from the Haffen men was a
serious blow TO them, as its patronage was
one Of the strongest that could be used in
a primary fight.
Further down, in the new T~wenty-first,
there is also a bitter contest between the
Murphy and Mcclellan forces. Here Joseph
W. Savage, secretary Of the dock board,
il making the fight for the Mayor against
Magistrate Walsh, the Murphyite who was
chosen leader at q snap meeting OF the
district committee. At one stage Of the
game the Magistrate was delivering stump
speeches from the bench.
In the Seventeenth, which is a part Of
the old Twenty-hrst, Matt Donohue is
struggling to keep his leadership against
R.. ID. Williams, the Mcclellan candidate,
and in the Nineteenth, the district just
above, which was also a part Of the old
Twenty-hrst, there is a battle between
James F. Ryan and Charles Hahn, whom
Murphy put up to hold the distsict.
Over ON the East Side in theT wenty-sixth
Senator Frawley is having "A nerce setto
with T. l.. Brennan which has at n time
or another required the services Of the
police.
Then there Is Percy Nagle's fight in the
Thirtieth against j. F. Cowsn, the Murphy
man, which has led TO some pretty serious
charges on both sides. There are also con
tests in the Thirty-frst, where Peter A.
Hendrick, Murphy's personal counsel, and
l.. A. Abrams are the gladiators, and in the
Twenty-fourth, where j. L. Burke and j. L.
Dietz are fighting it out.
The contests on the Republican side are
much more numerous than on the Demo-
CTdLlC, anu fTctlUcuL EdTbOub ulI1eCA has
taken a very active part in the campaign,
making many speeches in the various dis
tricts and ~denouncing Quigg as a lobbyist.
In Quigg's own district a determined effort
he's been made to down his candidate for
leader, Theodore P. Gilman. Another IN
teresting fight is in Mr.. Parsons's district,
the new Twenty-ffth.
Ezra P. Prentice is Mr.. Parsons's candi-
date, and he is opposed by Richard Van
Colt, the son Of the late Cornelius Van Colt,
who was long the leader of the old Eifth.
There is also a contest against William
Halpin in the Seventh, where a young law
yer named Oscar Ehrhorn is opposing him.
Some Of Mr.. Parsons's friends were say
ing yesterday that he would control S57
of the 7l3 members of the county conf
mittee surely. They concede 2O3 delegates
to Quigg and Odell, leaving 1877 delegates
in doubt. 1t was said that even IL Mr..
Parsons did not elect a majority OF the
leaders he would still control the county
committee, as the districts in which he eX-
pected to win are the big ones and send
many more delegates to the county com
mittee than do the districts in which il is
expected that the Quigg-Odell combina-
day were claiming nineteen OF the thirty
five districts. Three weeks ago they
claimed twenty-seven.
The men who are supporting Frederick
DeWitt Wells for Republican header in the
Twenty ninth Assembly district last night
said that Frank A. Hendrick. the Opposition
candidate. has sent out what they call a
trick ticket. They say that on il are the
names Of men who are Oppcs SEQ to Hendrick
such az Otto 7. Barnard, W. o. WeeIks
Nathaniel A. Elsherg and even that OF
Wells him self. These men say they did
not give Hendrick permission to Use their
names.
Addicks Fighting for One County.