Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-03-07
NEW FACTOR IN FIGHT
THE HEARST LEAGUE DISTURBS
GOTHAM DEMOCRACY.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

NEW YORK, March 1.-The statement
of w. R. Hearst at Albany two days ago
made to delegation of members of his
Independence League to the effect that his
organization would not enter into any
combination with any other political party
this year has convinced local political
leaders Of both parties that there will be
three-cornered fight in this county next
fall and they will lose no time in making
preparation for the fray. The Independence
League has been recognized as a political
party, entitled to nominate candidates in
convention and entitled to column on
the official ballot.
The election in this county in November
will be for one justice Of the supreme
court, q sheriff, members of the assembly
and members of the board Of aldermen. A
justice Of the supreme court will be elected
to succeed M. Linn Bruce, who is serving
by appointment in place Of Morgan j.
O'Brien, resigned. The election will be for
fun term Of fourteen The
nate Justice Bruce. The leading Tammany
candidate for the nomination at the present
time is former Corporation Counsel John ].
DeIany, who was side-tracked last year
because of the Hearst-Murphy deal on
judicial nominations. Thomas F. Gilleran,
who was on the Hearst slate at one time
last fall, will expect the nomination of the
independence League.
Tammany will make a hard fight to elect
the justice Of the supreme court and the
sheriff. The Sullivans are also anxious to
retain control of the board Of aldermen,
but they realizes that they have a hard
struggle ahead on that line unless they can
make peace between Tammany and Senator
McCarren of Kings. If Charles F. Murphy
retains the Tammany leadership at the pri-
maries there will be no peace across the
rtxy To- mat ole ,Dh al
men in New York county to control the
board. They must have the support of the
democratic members from Kings, Queens
and Richmond.
Follow Little Tins Leadership.
At the present time, in spite of the row
between Murphy and McCarren the demo-
cratic aldermen from all the boroughs fol-
low the Tammany members under the lead
ership Of Little Tim Sullivan.
The republican leaders in this county say
that if the Independence League puts full
ticket in the field it will help the republican
candidates. They are confident that the
bulk Of the league vote will be drawn from
Tammany, which might give the republic
ans fighting chance to elect the justice
of the supreme court and the sheriff, as
we'll as a working majority in the board Of
aldermen. This year the republicans in this
county are not likely to engage in any
such bitter factional struggle at the pri-
mary as will take place in the Tammany
organization.
In Kings county there is at least a truce
between ex-Leut Gov Woodruff and Col.
Mike Dady. The remnants Of the Odell fac
ton in the two counties may make show
of fight at the primary, but at present
their Sre no Indications of a struggle. The
republicans of the present board Of alder
men will have nothing more to do with any
of the M. o. L. members, but in the future
will act together and alone on all questions
of a political character.
Little Tim Sullivan, the boss Of the pres
ent board, is now In Hot Springs Ark, on
his annual spring vacation. When he re-
turns in April he will take personal charge
of the Tammany fight to retain control of
the board.