New-York tribune., 1909-11-02
TIGERS KNIFE OUT
READY TO TRADE
G4TNOR TOTES.
Tommany's Real Fight To Be
for "Christie' Sull'Uan
and Joseph Haag.

Tammany is ont to knife Judge GAY
nor if the election district captains can
get away with it" They showed every
disposition last night 20 try II. anyway.
President Parsons of the Republican
County Committee and Representative
William s. Bennett, who is managing
Mr. Bannard's campaign. received the
tip that the Tammany men below
14th street were ready to deliver votes
to Mr.. Rannard in return for votes for
Christie" Sullivan, Tammanys Candi-
date for Sheriff and Joseph Haag. can
didate for President of the Borough Of
Manhattan.
These are the two offices most useful
To Tammany Hall and the two offices
dearest to the hearts of the sullivan
men There is a long string of deputy
sheriffs, nearly all of whom live in the
Sullivan districts who want to stay in
office. and the Borough President has
whole lot of fat things in the way of
corporation inspectorships and small
contracts, all of which the Sullivdns
want.
The Sullivan men have lost all in
terest in Gaynor. They are convinced
that if elected he would be hard to deal
with. and they would as soon sell him
out as not if they could insure the cleo
ton of Sullivan and Faag
President Parsons has warned Repub-
lican district leaders against trading
with Tammany men. no matter what the
inducement The only way the trading
can be done is ION honor"-that is, by
word of mouth. 1t would be exceedingly
difficult. if not impossible. for either
party to a deal of this sort to enforce
compliance with the terms of the bar
gain. In some of the Sullivan districts
however, the captains have gone into
deals of this sort before. and have de-
iivered the goods. There is no doubt
whatever that friends of Sullivan and
Haag will try to trade to-day at the
expense of Gaynor.
Asked yesterday about the probable
result of the election, Charles F. Murphy
said:
Il have been saying for the last two
weeks that GaynOr and the entire city,
county and borough ticket would win,
and | have not changed my opinion. The
figures that the district leaders have
given me in times past have never varied
more than from to per cent of the
vote cast. We can lose the per cent
and elect the ticket"
Who will run third in the race for
Mayor"
Il think Barnard will run third, said
Mr. Murphy. but he and Hearst will get
Just about the same sized vote"
The consensus of opinion is that there
will be 10000 votes polled for the three
leading candidates. That figure may be
a trifle high but not much. The regis
tration is 644,545, substantially the same
as four years ago. when $4,000 votes
were cast for Mcclellan. Hearst and
Wins. In the election for Governor last
year Hughes poled in this city 26l 900.
Chanler $4,000 and Shcarn $4,000.
Hearst is much stronger this year than
Shearn was last year. but it is doubtful
if he is as strong as he was four years
ago. when he polled $4,000 votes.
The Republicans are confident that
Barnard will hold the Republican vote
together. and they think that if they al
low shrinkage of about 80, 600 from the
Hughes vote of last year they are on
safe ground. This would leave Barnard
93O,000 votes. and the Republican lead
ers are confident that the candidate who
gets that many votes will win The Re
publicans concede Gaynor somewhere
around 200 1000