Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-10-06
.TAMMANY MAN NAMED
Battle Is Democrats Choice
for District Attorney.
TRIANGULAR FIGHT is ON
Haag Nominated for President of
Manhattan Borough.
HEARST SAYS HE WON'T RUN
But Independence League and other
Advocates Would Force His
Candidacy for Mayor.
TRIANGULAR FIGHT is ON
HEARST SAYS HE WON'T RUN

NEW YORK, October 6.-The fight for
the office of district attorney of New
York county became triangular one
last night when the democratic county
convention nominated George Gordon
Battle, an organization Tammany man,
and former assistant district attorney.
for the place.
William Travers Jerome is running in
dependently for reelection. The republic
can nomination fell to Charles S. Whit
man.
Resolutions which were adopted regard
ing Tammany opposition to the proposed
restriction of registration and halloting
by the last state legislature declared that
''in common with all other honest voters,
we uphold the purity of the ballot and
the integrity of the franchise
The resolutions continued:
ANY opposition which our representa-
tives have at any time offered to laws
dealing with the registration or suffrage
of the voter has been specifically based
upon the fact that in all such attempted
legislation New York city has been sin
gled out from among the thousands OF
political divisions within the state and
subjected to special laws evidently in
tended to harass, browbeat. annoy and.
II possible, lntlnludle our CillLeuS AZ
their undoubted right of exercising the
elective franchise.
No law can be made too rigid to re-
ceive our support provided that In its APP
pication it be made general throughout
the state and all it's political subdivisions
and not applied alone to the great demo-
cratic city of New York
Battle Is a Tarheel.
George Gordon Battle, the new nominee
for district attorney is forty years old
ten years younger than District Attorney
Jerome-and is a sOutherner, native OF
North Carolina. From 1892 until 1897 he
was assistant district attorney of New
York county by Tammany appointment.
and he has always been closely identified
with the organization.
He is member of the law firm Of Bat
tie & Marshall. and was one of counsel
who defended Roland 3. MolineuX during
his trial for the alleged poisoning Of Mrs.
Kate Adams.
Joseph Haag. who in 1870 at the age of
fifteen years entered the employ of the
city of New York as an errand boy in
the finance department., and advanced to
the seCretaryship Of the board of esti-
mate and apportiOnment. was nominated
last night by the democrats for president
of the borough of Manhattan.
Hearst Says He Will Not Run.
William Randolph Hearst whose atti-
tude toward the fall municipal elections
has been in doubt, came out last night
with statement, in which he said posi-
lively that he would not be a candidate
for mayor. but would support the candi-
dacy of Justice Gaynor, the Tammany
nominee.
OF Otto T. Barnard, the republican
nominee, he said:
Il think Mr.. Barnard is an amiable
gentleman, personally. But he is better
fitted by nature and experience to get
campaign contributions from the trusts
rather than ballots from the people.
Justice Gaynor.' he continued, lis a
good man and will make a good mayor.
But l am sorry that Tarnmany is to be
allowed TO use his good name as cloak
for another raid upon this piilaged city.
The few dollars that he will save will
cost this city many million
Notwithstanding Hearst's announcement,
what is left of the so-called Independence
League has as yet announced no decision
Of agreeing with his views. On the other
hand there is talk of the league putting
third ticket into the field, while ardent
advocates of Hearst have been planning
a mass meeting to urge him again to run
Tor mayor.