The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-10-29
DO YOU WANT THESE JUDGES?
JUDICIARY NOMINATORS RAKE
HEARST-MURPHY TICKET.
Say Ihat Never In Recent Wears Has Such
q Bunch OF Political Hacks Been Put
Forward as Candidates for the supreme
Court Bench by Any Combination.

Iate0 Dy laInIhany HiHl unu Lie 4huo
~pendence League for judicial Office in this
county, under the terms OF the deal be-
tween Charles +. Murphy and William r.
Hearst, the Judiciary NominatOrs gave
out a statement yesterday in which they
declared that never in recent years has any
combination Of political or commercial
interests put forth such a collection OF UNIT
candidates for the bench.
When the deal was made Murphy named
Fix Of the Supreme Court candidates and
Hearst four, one Of the Murphy six being
Justice Giegerich, who has been nominated
by all parties TO succeed himself. Since
then the Hearst crowd has gone back on
Brady, one of Murphy's candidates. and
that place Is vacant on the Independence
lea que ticket, Magistrate Matthew p.
lSreen declining to he substituted. The
Murphy nominees remaining are M. Marley
platzek, Mitchell l.. Erlanger, John J.
Brady, Peter Hendriok and Charles l..
Guy. The Hearst nominees are John W.
GoH, John Ford, Samuel Seabury and
Charles w. Dayton.
According to the statement Of the Nomi-
majors these candidates for high judicial
honors, with terms Of Office of fourteen
years each and a salary Of ST., 800 annually.
are a choice aggregation OF political hacks
who secured their nominations through
yeoman service 10 the political bcsses they
followed. The same, they say, applies to
the nominees for General Sessions. In
view Of Mr.. Hcgrst's many Mt erances
againSi corporation lawyers and the blight
" corporation influences upon the judiciary
IL in interesting ~ note. the NominaJors say,
that nearlJ every one Ot the nominees Tor
the supreme Court on the Murphy Hearst
ticket il either a director in or counsel for
one or more corporations.
As a rcsult Of investigating the "qualifi-
cations Of each of the nlurph"-hearst
candidates the NJm'n1tors sum them up
in part as follows:
II. wtRtrY PLATZEE.
Counsel for che United Ciya- Stores Com
pany. which has driven small cigar dealers
out Of business all over the city and out of
other cities az well. Also counsel Cor the
Dnitol Merchants Realty Company.
Also appeared as counsel for the Chwarz-
schil1 4 SglIhsr re- company. one OF the
packing firms forming the beef trust. Mr..
Ilataek appeared for this firm last verr in
the criminal indictment proceedings hrou Qht
in Chicago. The company finally entered
n plea Of guilty to tho Indictment and four
Officers Of the company were fined s25. NO.
by Judge J. otis Humphrey in the United
States District Coart IN Chicago in Scptcm-
Der. 1905.
In addition II Appearing a. nttornpy for
corporations. Mr.. Fiatzfii is himself president
and director Of the Fidelity Coal and Iron
Company OF Tenuej see. lie is Mufphy's
man.
MICHAEL l. EELASGER.
Counsel for the theatrical trust. of which
his brother. Abraham J.. Erlanger. of the firm
Of Klaw h ErlAncer. ia the head. Also appears
as attorney of record for the New York Thea
VI Company. owned by Klaw & ErlanRer.
and Of the klaw 4 ErlanGer Building and
Construction Company. of which Abraham L..
Erlanger is president.
Also was a friend of the malodorous David
Rothschlld. who now is serving a term in
Sing Sing for the wrecking o. the Federal
Dank and the Globe Security Company,
which cost 100 East Side residents their
lifetime savings.
Erlsnger haslong been the chum Of the Sulli-
vans. both Big Tim and Little Tim, and il was
owing to the Sullivan influence that he got the
nomination for Sheriff three years ago and
for the supreme Court this year. lie is Sulli-
vans man.
JoHN j. BRADY
Known exclusively as a real estate specu-
Iator. and never has been known az a lawyer,
although It appears he once was admitted TO
the bar. He is a director OF the Geiszler-
Haas Realty Company. which is the -%oficial"
company of The Bronx; also a director in
the Manhattan Mortgage Company, In the
Bronx Borough Bank and in the Sound
Realty Company. He long has been the
right hand man OF Louis +. Haffen, the political
boss Of The Bronx. and has figured in many
interesting real estate transactions.
One OF the post interesting Of these was
the Clason's Point deal. put through by the
Sound Realty Company. which purchased
. big tract OF swamp land. utterly unim-
proved and apparently worthless. The price
was ridiculously small, but as soon as the
company made the purchase Brady had
che Borough President lay out streets and
sewers right through the heart OF the section,
so as to increase the value OF the land many
times. Assessments have been held up on
this property, and IL Brady is elected he will
have the pow to appoint one Of the assess
ment commissioners for this property, while
his friend, the Borough President, Hafen,
will have the appointment OF the second
commissioner. out Of a total OF three.
Another deal in which Brady was Interested
was the passa ge Of the bill for the extension
OF Bronx Park by adding some two hundred
acres, Ostensibly to prevent the pollution Of
the Bronx River. Prior to the passage Of
this bill Brady and his friends bought up
the land the city will ha We to take over. Brady
also has been largely Interested. directly and
indirectly. in sales Of school sites. IRE house
sites and park property to the city. He 10
Hahen's man.
JoHN ". corr.
An Recorder OF the city Of New York he has
demonstrated to the bar that he Possesses
no judicial temperament but has every sort
Of temper. He has the record OF being re-
versed oftsner by the Court Of Appeals than
any other man who ever sat in the Court Of
General Sessions. Before he had served a
year on the bench he gained a reputation
as a jurist whose opinions on law and evil
denca differed almost invariably from those
OF the higher courts.
Sc often we're his decisions reversed that
Il became the fashion to picture him standing
on his head. The Court Of Appeals took oc-
caslon 10 score Recorder Coz numerically
as a trial Judge when II set aside the cOnyic-
ton in the case Of Maria Barberi. charged
with the murder Of her lover and sentenced
10 death by the Recorder. Judge O'Brien.
who wrote the opinion Of the Court OF Ap-
peals reversing Recorder Goa. rebuked the
trial Judge in n manner which lawyers be-
lieve never has been equalled in this State.
John FORD.
Best known as 4 Republican, who for the
Last two years has been one OF the leading
spirits in the Independence League. In
~corpOrated.
Three years ago Ford organized the En-
ployees' Mutual Protective Association, which,
for a Zee OF g. a year from . labor union man
agreed 10 furnish him with an attorney In
any trouble in which he should become in