New-York tribune., 1908-04-01


District. where Senator SAKE, Theodors p. Gill
man and L. E. Ouigg tried to beat Harry w.
Mack and William n. Douglas. The Parsons
Mack Douglas combination won by a margin OF
80 votes and will control the district convention.
The attempt to oust Senator MoCsrren frora
the Democratic Iesdershir Of Kings County re-
ceiVed bad setback.
Senator McCarren's man carried Borough
President coier's election district by vots
of 43 to IS.
It vas A. drawn battle in the New York
County primaries yesterday between Congress
man Parsons and ex-t35vernor OdeU
President Parsons and his friends held al
their districts. E.x-GoV eruor OGelI. who tried TO
wrest two or three state committeeman from
the Congressman. failed to make any headOay-
All things considered. the Parsons men had rea-
son for rejoicing last night.
The Parsons men carried every Assembly Dis
trict in Congressman Parsonss district. and ths
Congressman's election district. the 19th OF the
27th. gave him vote Of 10J 20 . f1r the opposi-
ton
The bittcrcst fight was in the 18th -,ssembly
District where senator SAKE assisted by l. z
Quigg. tried 10 capture control of the 10Th Con-
gress District and retire William Harris Douglas
from the state cou9mittcc. Senator SAKE wanted
to go TO the Chicago convention The uncor-
Mack Douglas men the Assembly District by -
majority. and the delegates TO The district con-
venton stand: Mack-9S. SAKE. -.
In the 10Th Assembly District Jhs friends of
John Henry Hammond beat the Iauterbach-
Hendrick men by about > 10 /. Lauterbach lost
his election district 50 70 70.
BROWN BEAT FRoOKFTELD
Alderman b. W. p Brown. leader Of the 9th
Assembly District. won over Frank Brookfeld
by g vote Of 1.196 to 465. BrookfeId contested
the leadership with Brown. and carried three
out of the twenty-five districts. the vote being
tied in one district. Brookfield carrying the I'd.
4th and 14th election districts.
The OdelI men carried all the districts they
controlled before the battle. 3Ir Hapn defeat
ed Ehrhorn in tie 9Th, SEQ to 209. William Hahn
beat Elections Commissioner Page by a narrow
margin in the 18th. and Frank Raymond de-
feated the Parsons candidate easily In the 26th
The OdeIi men put up a hard fight in the
9th District against Morris Levy, the Parsons
leader. President Parsons worked there nearly
all day aad succeeded in preventing lot Oc
suspicious looking from getting in votes.
The Levy men challenged some Of them and
frightened the rest of them away. The dis
trict gave Levy a majority of only 16j. In
the 9th Assembly District Joseph T. Hackett
I'D I-rge trouble in winning against A. H
ScobIe. the OdfH candidate. the vote being
than , TO l.
KOENIG BY BIG MAJORITY
Samuel s Koenig scored an overwhelming
victory against Max Hahn in the 9Th District.
Koenig had 1864 votes Hahn's -.
Ferdinand Eidman. the Parsons leader, car
rfed his district-the 1Oth-against James r.
Pegnam by 792 to 29S-
Collin H. Woodward. the Parsons leader in the
23d. beat James J. Keyes, the Odeu candidate.
by 1.512 to S16
Ezra P Prentice defeated George r Man
chester by .692 to 7;Ss votes in the 18th Dis
trict The anti-Parsons ticket was headed by
Professor Nicholas Murray Butler.
In the 26th District Samuel krulewitch beat
Felix Prince. the OdeI candidate. by 99S to 90
PARSONS SAYS FINE VICTORY"
'I consider that we won a fine victory ssit
Congressman Parsons last night. The friends
of Mr. OdeII tried TO win two or three state
committeeman. They kept US busy. but they did
not win district We held ali that we had
and are in better shape for a bruisins contest
than ever. As result of the contest to-day
the local situation IS unchanged We had
hard time keeping down the guerilla vote in
the 24th District. where spent the greater
part OF the day We have had some OF the
workers there under detective espionage To-
day the cath was full Of guerillss At the old
Independence League headquarters. at 194th
street and Park avenue. they gathered in force
I was present when man gave his name and
attempted TO get in vote. He was challenged
when Morris Levy declared that he was rot
qualified voter. When arraigned before Magts-
trate Crane he admitted that his right name
was Joseph Hilton and that he lived in Newark.
He was held in $1,000 bail If the inspectors had
not valiantly stood their ground in the gath tbs
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thing
Collin II. woodward and his men had lively
time with a lot Of strangers at the Keyes head
quarters. 145th. street and Amsterdam avenue.
The visitors were IunChing when Woodward
and his friends arrived Then there was a
quick clearing ont. Woodward IN an autono-
bile. chased about a hundred into Eighth
avenue and warned all the ChaIlengers in the
neighborhoOd OF the presence of suspicious
characters None OF the visitors got in any
votes
Ex-Governor Odeu spent the evening in ths
Fifth Avenue Hotel listening to the returns
wi William Halpin and other supporters.
There was never any pronounce cheerfulness
after $50 O'Clock. and when the returns from
the 5th. 11th and 10Th Assembly districts showed
that there would be change IN the compost
ton OF the state committee the party broke up
in deep gloom Mr.. Odell said he thought the
results could speak for themselves. and added
nothing TO this. except the statement, An |
can do Is 10 express my thanks To my friends
and wish them better luck next time
only five prisoners were brought before Mag
istrate Walsh. in the West Side court, and OF
these thSes were discharged The magistrate
held court open till $50 O'Clock. No prisoners
were brought In tii after J.
William Morris negro. Of No. 2o1 West 6ist