New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-09-01
MURPHY BALKS
AT ENDORSING
JUSTICE FINCH
Judge Swami for District
Attorney, big Bill" for
Sheriff, Tammany Slate.
TWO PLACES OPEN
ON JUDICIARY TICKET
Wigwam Hears Secretary Nc.
Adoo Is After Nomination
for Governor Next Year.

1Or Governor Next year.
Tammauy meets at noon to-day 10
/ decide on its ticket for the coming
/ election. That is 20 say. Charles F.
/ Murphy, having practically made up
/ his mind what the slate ought 10 be,
has called a formal meeting Of the OK
ecutive committee. composed Of the
district leaders, to go X" his selec-
tions
Mr. Murphy spent the greater part
Of the day talking with the more in
I fuential leaders at Tammany Hall. At
ter IL was all over he was evasive,
even tsciturn. In the evening, as has
been his custom for years, prior to
the public Selection" Of a ticket, he
foregathered with those Of the inner
circle in the upper room at Del
monico's. OF course, the leader
Of Tsmmany Hall always retains the
right TO change his mind at the last
moment, but the slate last night
looked like this;
For justices Of the Supreme Court -
Justices John Proctor Clarke. Samuel
Greenbaum. Edward B. Delehanty and
Clarence J. Shearn. renominated, the
fifth and sixth places being undecided.
Justice Of City Court -Lorenz Zeller,
renominated.
District Attorney Judge Edward
Swami. OF General Sessions
Sheriff William H. big Bill") Ed
wards.
No Endorsement for Finch.
Although the Republican organiza-
ton, in naming Justices Delehanty and
Shearn, Democrats. has practically put
II up 10 the Democrats TO name JUS
tice Edward b. Finch, Republican, if
they wish TO follow out the principle
Of retaining sitting justices, it is un-
derstood Tammany Hall has no such
intention. II is trying 10 evade the
issue that will be raised by the Re-
publicans by asserting that they did
not follow out the principle complete
ly when they failed to indorse Justice
Zeller for reelection to the City
Court.
The Democrats also suggest that
they would want a Republican in
dorsement of their Bronx candidate
for the Supreme Court in return for
an Endorsement for Justice Finch.
The Bronx man TO 90 on the Supreme
Court slate will probably be Surrogate
G. NJ. S. Schulz or Justice John NJ.
Tierney, of the Municipal Court AL
though the man TO run against JUS
tice Finch had not been decided upon
last night, IL was reported that George
J. Gillespie had an excellent chance.
He is closely connected with Catholic
interests, as was Justice John J. De
lany, whose death caused the vacancy.
Hayes After Bench. Too.
Friends of George B. HAYES, an anti
Murphy Democrat in The Bronx, were
trying last night to get the Supreme
Court nomination from that part of
the judicial district for him. 1t has
been his intention to run in the pri-
maries for the regular nomination for
Congress in the 23d District. Ii was
pointed out that if he went on the
Supreme Court ticket il would leave
the Congress field clear for Ellsworth
j. Healy, nephew by marriage Of
Charles f. Murphy. Mr.. Hayes was
an active candidate for appointment to
the Public Service Commission to sue
coed Commissioner Eustis, eighteen
months ago.
Robert. L. Luce. former chairman of
the Tammany Law Committee, was also
brought to the front again. II seemed
10 be definitely settled that neither
Senator Robert F. Wagner nor James
A. Foley had any chance for this sort
Of preferment this year.
Friends Of William J. Lee, Super
visor of Recreation in the Park De-
partmcnt. were working tooth and nail
last night to have him substituted for
big Bill" Edwards on the slate. They
were told the nomination would not
be absolutely foreclosed until the ex
ecutive committee met to-day.
Ii was argued that, as Judge Swami
was Virginan by birth. il would
make an unbalanced ticket to select
Edwards. who acknowledged that one
of his great elements Of strength was
his popularity with Southerners. An
other argument advanced in favor Of
Lee was that he was strong with the
plain people, those among whom he
had worked in the recreation centres.
McAdoo Rumor Fails to Thrill.
One report that drifted into Tam
many Hall while the leaders were dis
cussing local nominations was that
Secretary McAdOo had started cam
paign 10 land the Democratic nOmina-
ton for Governor next year. 1t eX-
cited only mild interest, for Mr.. Nc
Adoo has never been a favorite with
Tammany men.
Part Of the story was that John A.
4 Hennessy, who ran for the Democratic
nomination for Governor at the pri-
maries last year on the anti-Tammany
ticket. was trying to form syndicate
10 buy a New York paper. As Mr.. Nc
Adoo was responsible for the Hennessy
candidacy last year, the inference was
that he wanted the paper TO assist
the McAdoo plans for 1916.
While the Progressive leaders re-
fused TO commit themselves yesterday,
il seemed fairly certain they would
indorse District Attorney Perkins, the
Republican candidate, in return for in
dorsement of Michael Schaap, their
candidate for the City Court. One
Progressive leader said that if Tam
many should name Magistrate Joseph
r. Corrigan for District Attorney he
would favor his Endorsement by Tam
many. other Moose leaders, however,
fear the effect on the party in other
parts Of the country Of a story that