The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-10-19
RIVAL CLAIMS TO SCALES"
HEARST MANAGERS SIDE WITH
TANYANY CANDIDATE
In the Case OF r. Burton Harrison Indie
pendence League Corporations Right
90 the Emblem Denied by Counsel for
Brooklyn Men WhOm Ihnsen opposes.

II took the clerks in the Board of Elec-
lions all day yesterday to get the rival
Hearst" petitions into something like
shape, and it was afternoon before the
board sat to listen to argument. All argu-
ments must be in before Tuesday. IL has
been minated that as the same argument
applies in nearly every case these duplicate
nominations will be settled, as far as the
board ia concerned, with its first decision,
and after that it will be a matter for the
courts il anybody disputes the boards
finding.
Four cases in this borough we're called
first yesterday but allowed to go over
until tomorrow, when counsel for each
side will he heard. These cases we're:
Francis Burton Harrison and Harry b,
Davies, both named on Hearst petitions
for Congress in the Sixteenth district,
F. B. Harrison being the Tammany nom-
inee; j. j. Frawley, Tammany, and James
A. Lyon, in the Twentieth Senatorial
district; j. Vincent Ganley, Tammany,
in the Twenty-fourth Assembly district,
and Leopold Prince, Tammany, and Samuel
Greenberg, in the T~wenty-sixth Assembly
district.
/, The first case argued was that Of Francis
p. Bent, who has been nominated by Pc
tition in the Twentieth Assembly district
Of Kings. The Gilsey House managers
supported Arthur S. Colborne in this dis
trict.
Herbert R. Limburg appeared for the
Gilsey House managers Of the Independence
League and protested against the petition
Of Bent. He submitted affida Wits Of Max
+. Ihmaen and others that Rent and his
petitioners Were not members of the league.
He argued that only the directors of the
league had the right to say what names
should go on the ballot under that cor
poration's emblem. Mr.. Limburg said the
point was an important one and that a
hundred other candidates would be af-
fected by the decision.
Counsel for r. p. Bent said that the indie
pendence League az incorporated was illegal
and unconstitutional and that the Gilsey
House managers had no right to dictate
who were regular and who not. The indie
pendence League was Incorporated under
the membership provision Of the corpora
| ton law and that was passed before the
present election law was in force. 1t was
never meant, he said, to apply to a political
party. The emblem OF the balanced scales
did not belong to the Independence League
but to the Municipal Ownership League,
and the Gilsey House mana gers had no right
to il. Bent's petition was regular and had
been filed prior to that for Coloorne.
A similar argument followed in the case
of Edward Halloran, who has been nomi-
mated by petition IN the Fourth Assembly
district of Kings. Ernest p. Seelman APP
peared for Halloran. He said the board
could not recognize a politial corporation
and that the statement by Max Ihmsen
and others Of the ilsey House crowd that
the nominators Of Halloran were not mem
bers Of the Independence League should
not be accepted by the board. Let him
produce the list Of membership" said Mr..
Seelman. There Is nothing TO show here
that We are not members Of the Indepen-
dence League and it is their duty to prove
we are not. The say so of Max Ihmsen
is not evidence here. There is no Lfoof
that the Independence League cast 10000
votes last fall. To argue that two OF three
men in the Gilsey House can prevent any
one using the name is an absurdity and
priority in filing should determine the
action of the board"
The board settled the claims Of the lyle
Cowan factions in the Thirtieth Assembly
district and the decision was mailed last
night. President Voorhis declined 10 say
what II Vas. but it is understood that
Louis A. Cuvillier, who was nominated by
the Nagleites. has won. - A similar decision
has been rendered in the Twenty-hrst
Senate district, where James Owens was
nominated by the n agleites and Joseph +.
Ahearn by the Cowanites.
Daniel J. Riordan has been nominated
for Congress by the Democrats in the Eighth
district and Frank Frugone by the Republi-
cans. They were also nominated az the
same conventions to fill the unexpired term
OF Timothy d.. Sullivan. Charles Sullivan
of ew Dorp protested against the nomi-
nation OF Riordan for the unexpired term.
He maintained thai the convention was
called simply to make nominations for the
I Sixtieth Congress and that special primaries
/: and a special convention shOuldlhave beer
held to nominate for the unexpired term.
d. F. Callahan for Riordan said that the
call Of the Secretary Of State was for a con.
vention TO select a candidate for Congress
5 and to fill vacancies. ~
; Early yesterday morning a bundle oil
envelopes. six in all. wa found in the hal
outside the Offices Of the Bureau Of Elec