Omaha daily bee., 1909-10-11
TAMMANY TURNS NEW TRICK
Captures the Name and Emblem of
the New Hearst Party.
LATTER IS NOT DISCONNECTED
His Campaign Manager Says Neither
Name Nor Emblem is Material
to His Candidacy for the
MayOraIty.

NEW YORK, Oct. 10-Already enllvened
by two Tammany tickets and the re-
entrance Of William Randolph Hearst as
candidate for mayor, the local political
campaign will be marked with a crescendo
this week which will be maintained until
the grand finale on election day, Novem-
Der 2.
The speechmaking. which began last
week with democratic and republican rati-
fication meetings. will become general to-
morrow night, when Hearst will appear
before mass meeting in Carnegie hall
TO formally accept the nomination of his
new party and to outline the platform upon
which he will make the race.
The latest Issue" of the campaign is
Tammany's kidnapping or attempted alb
duction, at least, of the title. "civic al
lance" and the emblems thereof consti-
tuting the new party designation under
which the Independents had rallied to the
support of Hearst. AS a result of this
move, the democratic ticket may appear
under the emblems of three different
parties on the official ballot, the straight
democratic, the old Independence league,
recently captured at the primaries and
lastly, the new civic alliance. While Hearst
may yet qualify under an altogether new
party name, the coup, If successful, ulti-
mately will give Tammany a 8 to l ad-
vantage in the matter of publicity on the
ballot and will doubtless cause some con-
fusion to voters in the Tigers interest.
The final retention OF the "civic alliance
as a Tammany title, however. is legal
question which must be settled this week.
McCnrren Turns Trick.
For this latest plan to disconcert the
Hearst followers, Charles F. Murphy, the
Tammany leader, has to thank State
Senator Patrick H. McCarren, the demo-
cratic leader of Brooklyn. 1t was while
the promoters of Hearst's candidacy were
getting signatures to put their ticket in
the field under the name of civic al
lance" that the Brooklyn senator, accord
ing to reports. had his lieutenants at work
on a similar document, except that demo-
cratic candidates were substituted for the
Hearst ticket.
Just before 8 o'clock Saturday afternoon
three of McCarren's men rushed into the
office of the president of the board OF
elections in New York and unfolded a
petition by independent voters" who had
adopted the name of civic alliance" but
who named the democratic candidates
Nineteen minutes later a Hearst lieu
tenant also appeared with a petition, name
and emblem Of the civic alliance.
Since neither petition had more than
fifty signatures they were not complete
for the law requires 1000 names. In case
both the McCarrenites and the Hearst fol-
lowers complete the list of names, it Is q
case for the Board OF Elections to decide.
Charles Il. Gehring, who is Hearst's po-
litical manager, said he was not at all put
out by the scheme. He was positive that
Hearst's rights had been fully protected by
the filing Of name and emblem with the
secretary OF state at Albany on Friday.
Hearst's representatives will appear to-
morrow before the Board of Elections tC
protest formally and It is said they will
carry the case to the courts, II necessary
Anyway said Mr.. Gehring, lit won't