The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-10-03
BROOKLYN CONGRESS NOMINEES
All the Candidates Except One Named
No I ass Baker Among Them.

No I ass Baker Among Them.
Conventions for the nomination Of the
six candidates for Congress from Brooklyn
we're held by both parties last night. h
Republicans nominated congressman
Charles T Dunwell. Charles B. Law, George
f. Waldo and William NJ. Calder in the
Third, Fourth. Fifth and Sixth districts
respectively. zach Of them without any
opposition. That all Of them will he re-
elected. although two Of the districts are
close on party lines, il the opinion Of good
judges Of the political situation. in view OF
the confusion in the Democratic lines
Samuel II. Peese, a young lawyer, who
has been active in Republican politics but
has never before run for any office. was
nominated in the Second district, which is
a Democratic stronghold and has long been
represente ed at Washington by George H.
Lindsay.
The convention in the Seventh district,
another Democratic stron ghoid, was adj
journed until tomorrow night.
The Democratic nominees are:
Second distr ict-"George ~. Lindsey.
Third district-walter B. Raymond.
Fourth district-HermaD ~, Torborg
Fifth district John !. Roche.
Sixth district-Rob Baker.
Seventh dist~rict-sJOhn J. Fitzgerald.
denominations.
The conventions were all harmonious
with the exception Of that in the Sixth
district in which NO Pass Baker was nom
mated after o bitter struggle. The Demo-
cratic Assembly district leaders at a con-
ference with Senator McCarren in the after
noon had decided to let the Independent
League people fight 1t out among them
selves in this hopelessly Republican dis
trict and declined to pronounce in favor OF
/ either NO Pass" Baker or Charles j. Hack
EFT, who is also included among the Demo-
cratic radicals, his rival for the omina-
ton
At the close Of the conference Senator
MCCarren said that If Mr.. Baker should be
nominated It would not indicate that there
had been any understanding reached with
the Independence League, but merely that
the district leaders had made a selection
which seemed wise to them.
II was supposed that Bakers nomination
would be allowed to go through smoothly,
but the delegates from the Seventh and
Eleventh Assembly districts, under the
leadership Of William A. Doyle and Thomas
+. Byrnes, respectively, went to the con-
%vention to put up a stubborn fight against
Baker, and determined to support the can
didacy of Hackett. Thomas +. Farrell. the
leader in the Tenth district. and Michael j.
Butler, the leader in the Twelfth, threw
their support to Baker and after a two hour
wrangle. during which Bakers political
career got a savage succeeded
in having him nominated by a vote OF rs
to %. There were oud protests when an
attempt was made 10 make the nomination
unanimous and many delegates left the hall
before Baker was escorted TO the platform.
In his speech Beker confined himself to ma
-tional Affairs, ignoring Heerst and his out
At. That Mr.. Calder, his Republican COM
petitor, will have virtually a walkover on
election day is the opinion OF impartial
Observer.
With the exception Of Baker all the Demo-
cratic Congress nominees are stalwart
Democrats who have no Rfiliation with
Hearst and his Independence League and
are firm supporters OF Senator McCarren's
leadership.
In the Seventh district convention Con-
gresham Fitzgerald appeared on the plat
form after his nomination and made a
brief address in which he eulogized Presi-
dent Roosevelt for adopting DcmOcra attic
policies and Democratic principles. His
remarks on this head we're loudly ap =
plauded.