The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-06-04

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calling fof eiaht Htlsiit ional supfcfpc Conft
Ius,lc~s fof Nov York e,uuty, flr-t district.
and seven frf Kings county the hes aecond
district lawyers. Judges and politicians ~
all PARTIES and factions hegsn yesterday ~
talk about candidates The term ~ uflrs
is fourteen years. 80 siT, 500 n year.
White tho lawyers shd Judges and their
friends In the Manhattan club, The Union
League CItb and the Republican club dls-
GUESSED specifically the names ~ available
candidates by tho rcore II wna observed that
tho politicians had very little 10 say IN that
direct line. They preferred TO await tho
result ~ the September primari ea they said;
they didn't believe much In june candidates
for these important place., thy added, and
they wanted to know many things which
only the September primaries can deter
mine - principally u ~Ilertert v Parsons and
Charles ,. Murphy are TO remain the heads
respectively Of the Republican and Demo-
cratic organizations Of New York county and
" tnl1HS are tp run fTnDOtnly Win ilIlOtny
Lester Woodruff and Senator Patrick Henry
McCarren as the respective heads OF the
Republican and Democratic organizations
In Kings county.
The regular political organizations. IL
was said. in a Gubernatorial year will have
very much TO do with naming the success
full candidates for the Supreme Court, but
the Bar Association and the Citizens Union,
two very expert organizations in political
matters, must be reckoned with, and so wise
politicians said Il was a time for aspirants
to he still, very still, candidates.
Some OF the cleverest politicians in the
county, it was admitted, are screened by
the staid green baize doors Of the Bar Asso-
citation, and as for the politicians of the
Citizens Union, we'll, it was asserted that
they are up to snuff every hour in the day
when pltms Of the present magnitude
appear on the political horizon. As a
matter of fact, certain Of the
Bar Association, as well as several m smbers
without stint that before the slate is finally
mad up. they'd have one, two, three and
four and perhaps a dozen fingers, joined
to knobby thumbs, do wn deep in the judicial
pie.
Meantime the ~workaday politicians Of the
two camps, Republicans and Democrats,
said they would re main in the background
until the Septomoe Der primaries determined
whether they were to live or die, but they
saw no harm, they averred, in Watching
NV VI NAt bti Zlo6oSibNloh dbNi
the Citizens Union join the the scramble
for these judicial places.
The Citizens Union sent out last night
announcing that it will appoint a com
another in Kings to select the new Judges, |
as well az Judges to fill vacan es-seven
teen in all in these parts. The address
says:
THE importance of securing the election
to these offices of honest men, free alike
from M rty or nrivata nhNpatinns tran
scends, 20 far as the citizen Of New York
is concerned, the issues involved in the
election of the Governor and other State
officers"
Of its committees the union says:
These committees must be composed
of men representing every shade of national
political belief, every calling and every
reputable interest in the city, and whose
standing viii! insure an honest determine
ton to propose nominations untainted by
political deals and personal ambitions.
Our expectation is that these COM
mittees will, when appointed, consider
themselves in no way subject TO the Citizens
Union and that they will act in cooperation
with and not in a~ntagonism to any repre-
sentative committees of the bar or other
organizations that may he striving to attain
the same object, namely, the independent
nomination Of the best possible judges.
There liz no logical reason why judicial
tickets made up by such bodies of men
should not be adopted by every political
party in this city with the result that the
candidates would be unanimously chosen.
The Citizens Union expects such action
from these committees as will make the
union quite willing to accept their candi-
dates and to take IN active part in the cam
paign for a free and independent judiciary"
1t was said last night that the executive
committee of the organization has been at
work for a week or more on a list Of names
Of persons for the proposed committees.
A well informed member of the Tammany
organization said that it was hardly like
that Tammany would abandon it's usual
custom Of nominating its own candidates.
AT the same time he pointed out that should
Tammany have a judicial ticket and the
Citizens Union combine with all other
political organizations save the Hearst
organization, that would virtually mean a
division OF the anti Hearst vote and victory
for a Hearst judicial ticket. II is pretty
much Of a certainty that the Hearst people
will have their w ticket. They have al
ready virtually turned down the Citizens
Unions overtures.
This is going to be a most unusual year
and you can't tell what will happen, " said
some OF the Tammany men last night.
Bryan and Price Held in 81 600 Hail.