The sun., 1917-08-15
HYLAN NAMED.
BY TAMMANY
Nomination Splits wigwam-
Gal" Smith for President
Of Aldermen.

Voting unanimously in favor of the
recommendation of the committee on
candidates and the executive committee,
the Tammany Democratic Fusion Com
mittee OF ITO last night nominated John
F. Hylan, County Judge, OF Brooklyn, as
itA candidate for Mayor, and Sheriff
Alfred r. Smith as Its candidate for
President Of the Board Of Aldermen. At
the same time. however, the Tammany
organization split from the Battery to
The Bronx over the above ticket, the
majority OF the Tammany leaders be-
lieving that Sheriff Smith would have
made the best candidate and should have
been nominated.
The committee will take UP to-day
the nomination Of q Comptroller, and
the report last night was that either
Jesse Straus, head of r. H. Macy & Co.,
or Nathan Hirsch, wealthy cotton
goods manufacturer, would be nomi-
mated. with q possibility that William
Harmon Black. Assistant District At
torney and former chairman of the
the place. Frank L. Dowling, President
Of the Board OF Aldermen. will be Tam
many's candidate for President of Man
haitian.
The nomination of Judge Hylan was
decided upon early yesterday afternoon
by the executive committee Of the Demo-
cratic Fusion Committee, despite the
fact that many OF the Tammany leaders
have insisted all along that the logical
ever. the cards were played in favor OF
Judge Hylan and he went over at last
nights meeting.
smith Knocked Out by Hearst.
At the meeting Of the executive COM
rnittee earlier in the day the balioting
at the close OF the session stood as fol-
lows: For Hylan, IL; Hearst, i;
Churchill, I. and Smith /. The collapse
OF the Smith support was brought about,
1t was said by his close friends, by the
refusal of William r. Hearst to support
him IL he headed the ticket. Mr.. Hearst,
support Judge Hylan.
Nevertheless the Democratic organiza-
. tion, as a result OF the nomination OF
Judge Hylan, is up in arms and many OF
the strongest district leaders Of Man
haitian, where the most of the Tammany
votes are, made no secret OF the fact
that they were dissatisfied and could
not arouse the enthusiasm of their fol-
lowers with a candidate like Judge
HylRn.
At the same time some of the Demo-
cratic leaders favorable to Judge Hylan
pointed out that the great majority of
the Republican vote is in Brooklyn. and
that the County Judge has large fol-
lowing in that borough. not only among
the Democrats, but the independents and
the Republicans.
Statement by HyIan.
Judge Hyian. speaking over the tele-
phone last night from Saratoga made
the following statement to the Business
Mems League, an adjunct Of Tammany
Hall. which foreshadowed his nomina-
ton by Tammany by nominating him
Monday night:
II am honored at my nomination by
the Business Mems League. / am with
you heart and soul in this fight to return
! our city government to the hands Of the
people. AS l conceive the issue In this
| campaign, It is the moneyed interests
versus the people. arm entering this
night with the pledge that when elected
Will otflVC 10 give NcW iofh tHt beSt
business administration 1t has ever had.
l accept the nomination of the league
with the greatest satisfaction because
II will enable me to help remove the
menace Of foundation autocracy which
now threatens New York"
Judge Hyian vas born In Greene
county. New York, April 20. 1858. AS soon
as he was old enough he began his ca
reer as errand boy for the village
grocery store. Leaving the grocery
store. he worked as a conductor on the
Catskill Mountain Railway Coming to
New York at the age of 2l, he got en-
ployment as a track layer for the Brook
lyn Rapi6 Transit Company. Later ne
became a fireman and then an engineer.
and between times took up the study Of
law