New-York tribune., 1909-10-06
TAMMANY In OPEN NOW
BIG TINS" COUSIN NAMED
FOR SHERIFF.
George Gordon Battle Candidate for
District AttorHey-HGag for
Borough President.
COUNTY TICKET

1ustIee OF the City Courr-G-OHo1 -
District Attornsy-eEoReE GORDON sAT-
TIE
sherfH-cHRIsToPHER D. SULLIVAN.
County Cerk-JAMES J. FIAGAN.
/ Resister-JoHN GOLDwATER
BOROUGH TICKET.
| President Borough Manhattan-JosEPa
/ HAAG-
coronsrs-JULIUs HARBURGER. PETER
AcRITELLI, z. 7. McHRYsTAL, GEORGE z.
/ SHRADT.
After the usual amount OF shutting and
[ changing and keeping the exact slate in the
/ dark until the last half hour before the meet
/ ings the Tammany county and borough con-
ventions named their candidates last night IN
Tammany Hall. to the applause OF the Sullivan
/ henchmen and the fears OF the thoughtful. who
/ are prepared for almost anything the polls IN
! November.
Aside from the roUsing demonstration follow
[ ing the nomination Of Christie Sullivan and
the genuine applause which greeted the placing
in nomination of John ]. Delany by Thomas
F. Smith, the county convention was duh and
commonplace.
/ The Sullivans saved it from uediocrity. They
were there with long fish horns and other noiss
making instruments. and when the magic mans
/ of Sullivan was sprung on the delegates BY the
peerless exponent OF Democracy. Thomas r.
/ Grady. the Sullivan clan cut loose with a,
racket that showed anew the hold that Big
Tim" has on the organization
Christopher D. Sullivan's nomination was tbs
feature Of the night. Grady loaded his name
with eulogies and held him Up TO the admira-
ton Of the vote muItipliers from the lower East
Side. who jammed the gallery from rail TO back
wall All in ALL the ticket was admitted 20 ba
| the weakest ever presented in an important
| election
/ REMINDER OF OLD DAYS
Leaving out the nominees for the suprsrs
| Court bench. Messrs. Truax. Delany and Pendle-
/ ton the ticket is a reminder OF the times when
/ Tamuany was the pride OF the hoaters and re-
/ peaters and the despair Of the plain people who
love law and order and low tax rate
/ II contains Big Tim" SuIIivan's cousin
whose nomination means that every hoater and
repeater in the East and West Side dives will
/ be called on to do double duty on Election Day,
whether they 60 70 state prison for it or not
! George F. Roesch. nominated for City Court
| justice, figured in the Lexow investigating COM
mittee's work
James J. Hagan; candidate for County CLERK.
is the leader of the 18th District. which con
tains guerilla" population that regularly does
on the upper West Side what the SuIIivans do
below 14th street.
/ The ticket was made up by Charles F. MUIR
/ ply and his colleagues. not with the idea Of
| increasing the Tammany pluraIities so much as
I S4udf4L5 dCCpuuLS WIN In6 QlSLrlCL leaders.
| who think that long as Ciaynor heads the
city ticket and Hearst does not run Tammauy
/ is going 10 have a walkover. II Hearst should
nominate himself for Mayor. it is admitted by
/ the district leaders that their cttx ticket IS
/ doomed and that it will be a desperate strug-
/ gle 10 save their county and borough nominees
MURPHY's SHIFTS DIsAPPOINT
/ Charles F. Murphy was an interested specta-
/ tor at tn convention last Night. At late hour
+ he made shifts in the slate that provoked NUT
/ terings and threatenings from the disappointed.
/ County Clerk Dooling expected a renomina-
/ ton The SuIIivans and Hagan snuTed DooIing
\ out. The SUlIivans demanded the nomination
| for Sheriff for Christie" Sullivan Jimmie
Hagan said that II the Sullivans got the SheriTs
once he must have county office and de-
manded that OF County Clerk
The need of putting Jew on the ticket was
recognized. and John GoIdvater, Bronx drug
gist and brother OF the superintendent OF the
Mount Sinai Hospital. put up as the can
didate for Register in place OF Frank Gass.
one of Louis F, HaTen's friends who expected
a denomination
The Ahearn men demanded the Borough Presi-
dents Office. Their arguments We're Of no avail
A wrangle ensued over it, and Thomas F. Nc
Avoy chairman OF the Tammany executive
committee at the last hour sprung the name OF
Joseph Haag, who lives next door TO him, for
John F. Ahearn's place. This eliminated John
Cloughen. Commissioner Of Public Works under
Mr.. Ahearn, who was on the slate until yester-
day noon.
Because James J. Hagan was named for
County Clerk a denomination was denied Cor
oner Peter Dooley. who comes from the same
district
Thomas F. McAvoy called the county conven-
tion TO order. named Benjamin F. Holman. JUS
tice OF the Municipal District Court. as tempor-
airy chairman and then proceeded 10 call the rOlI.
This took half an hour, and provoked jeers from
the back OF the hail. as Mr.. McAvOy did not try
70 make himself heard
Mr.. Hoffman was nervous and had some din.
Guilty in getting started Patrick A Whitney
Deputy Fire COMMISSIONS. WAS elected secrs.
tary.
GRADY PRESENTS PLATFORM
Senator Grady, chairman OF the committee on
resolutions. read the platform. which said:
The Democracy Of New York County in con-
ventiOn assembled, heartily ratifies and af7rms
the platform adopted by the Democratic CITY
Convention IN Carnes.e l,al on the evening Of
September 80 last.
We believe that therein it clearly presented
the democratic position. and that the pledges
offered 10 the people deal with important public
questions which, If correctly solved will ma
Jerially advance the interests of the people OF
the metropolis
We most heartily indOrse the action of such
convention in selecting as its standard bearer
In this municipal contest Hon. William j. Cav
nor as the candidate for Mayor We RECOGNIZES
in Justice Gaynor q citizen impressed with COR
rect notions OF municipal government. a iurisr
learned in the law and impartial in its applica.-
ton and a patriot whose efforts and time have
ever been at the command OF the huunbiesr cffY-
zen whose rights have Unjustly been invaded
or whose legitimate privileges have been cur
tailed. We hope from his administration OF the
anairs of Greater New York that our beloved
city VIII be placed IN even a prOUder position
than she now enjoys among the candid who have