The sun., 1917-08-31
HEARST MUST MAKE
CHOICE BY MIDNIGHT
To-day His Last Under the
Law for Withdrawal
From Primaries.
MANY THINK HE'LL RUN
Fifty Democratic Politicians
and Business Men Meet
Hylan at Luncheon. =.

Thanks to the election law. william
r. Hearst must lay his cards on the
table by midnight tonight and either
withdraw from the Democratic primaries
as . candidate for Mayor or serve notice
by his failure to do so that he will en-
deavor to defeat Judge Hylan tor the
nomination. His stubborn silence for
the past two weeks has given . number
Of the leaders Of the Democratic party
a bad casa ct nerves"
Sone Of Mr.. Bearst's friends still IN
sist he will run and there are many
Tar,rnany leaders who ara angrily be-
ginning to think the sams thing. One
thing Is certain, u he does run. Chief
Murphy and several Of his close advisers
win have been treated to Q generous
dose Of bunk" according to gossip now
floating around Fourteenth street. The
tory goes that Judge Hylan was taken
sS T1rnnany Mayoralty candidate only
because some one--who II is not quite
c!naT--coaveyed assurances to the can
didatc makers At Delmonico's that Hylan
would receive the support Of the Hearst
publications II IL also said that James
A. DoneGan. Hearst man. was put on
the Tammany ticket for Register on
the theory that he would make II all the
moro easy for Tammany to capture the
Hearst support.
No Premise ~ Hearst Ferces.
It now appears that the Hearst forces
at no time promised to support Judge
Hylan and that the Tammany leaders
we're sadly misled In naming tho Brook
lyn Judge with that idea in mind Some
blame John Il McCooey Of Brooklyn for
steering the wIgwam leaders wrong.
while others declare that II was tho
Amazing stupidity Of Murphy and his
advisers that did the trick.
However. II will all be over by mid
night tonight. Tho open statements OF
many Tammany leaders that under no
would they support Hearst
against Hylan and Murphys own indig-
nant denial that Hearst would get the
organization support and that Hylan was
merely put up to be knocked down have
served In a large measure to dispel the
strong impression that hrst existed that
a deal was on between the publisher and
the Tammany chieftains.
Judge Hylan. Sheriff Smith and
Charles l. Craig. the TammAny tAn-
didate for Comptroller. were the guests
Of Nathan Hirsch at luncheon at the
National Democratic Club yesterday.
About nifty business men and Demo
cratic politicians were also present to
meet Judge Hylan and Mr.. Craig. who
were comparative strangers to organisa-
tion men before their nominations.
Hylan IN Hands Of Businsss Men.
Later Judge Hylan went to his, head
quarters at the Business Mems League,
so East Forty-second street. He would
not talk for publication, but Joseph
Yeska, head Of the league. said:
we saw the Judge hrst and were the
nrst to recommend his nomination to
the Democratic fusion committee Judge
Hylan will conduct his personal cam
paign from here and the Business Mems
League will devote itself to running his
II there is a nght In the
primaries and he Is defeated he will
to be a Judge and we will go
right along being business men. But
we believe he will be nominated and
elected"
The muddled Democratic situat ton In
Brooklyn was further complicated yes
terday when 1t was reliably reported
that United States Marshal James NJ.
Power would withdraw as an inde-
pendent candidate In the primaries
against Edward Reigelmann. the Nc
Cooey designee for Borough President.
and that Bird S. Coler will be substi-
tuted in his place. Register Edward
OLoughlin Is also going to run In the
election against Reigelmann, and so Is
Frank Prial, thus making It a four
fight.