New-York tribune., 1921-09-14
lalnmany Candidate for
Borough President Gets
~, 100 to ii, ITO Bal
lots Given Opponent
Tally i'm End Dist.
Declared Outrage
4 Have Rightfully Won
Nomination; Will Not Be
Counted Out, Says Hines

Charles F. Murphy, in the judgmen,
of his leutenants in Tammany Hall
immensely strengthened his grip or
the organization in the primaries yes.
terday by his decisive defeat of James
j.. Hines, the insurgent anti-Murphy
leader, for the nomination for Borough
President Of Manhattan.
The Hines-Tammany fight furnished
the only disorder of the day. Joseph
Shallek, Illness manager, reported
that he had been blackjacked and shot
while attempting to prevent fraud in
Boss Murphy's home district
Miller Far in Lead
AT o'clock this morning the returns
showed Miller 22,160 and Hines 14,l76,
majority of 1884 for Miller, with 248
election districts missing.
The Hines men are exceedingly in
dignant over the returns announced
from the I'd District, where the leaders
are Judge "Maxey" Levine and Chris
topher D. Sullivan. Seventeen election
districts in the I'd District gave Miller,
the Murphy candidate, 854 to 9 for
Hines. The Hines men declare that
such vote is preposterous, and de-
mand an investigation. They assert
that there are hundreds of Hines men
in the district, and that it is absurd to
assume that only two Hines men voted
at the primary.
Early this morning Hines, after
hearing reports from his watchers who
worked in the 18th Assembly District
(Boss Murphy's), said that he would
ask District Attorney Swami to-day to
proceed against election officials in
most Of the election districts in the
district He added:
II have affidavits from ten different
men who voted for me in the 18th AS
sembly District, and in the face of
these facts the returns from these va
rlous election districts make it appear
that no votes were cast for me- From
evidence that we have accumulated it is
perfectly apparent that gross frauds
were perpetrated yesterday at the in
stigation of the Murphy men and that
literally thousands of Democrats have
been cheated out of their votes"
Judge Levine whirled up to Tam
many Hall at 1880 o'clock last night
IN company with some Of the Murphy
men and received a warm welcome from
Congressman Thomas F. Smith.
When he was asked about the sus-
picious vote in the I'd Assembly Dis
trict he said:
"The vote is not suspicious when the
circumstances are understood. The
seventeen districts of which Chris
topher Sullivan is leader, and where l
used to be leader, are very heavily Jew
ish. The Democrats there yesterday
had jew to vote for, and that is the
answer. They were not asked to vote
for any one else Mr.. Hines got credit
him in the I'd district, and an inquiry
will show that the count is entirely
| regular"
Miller Vote Surprise
Another surprising vote for Miller
was turned in by big Tom" Foley, the
veteran Tammany leader, who rolled up
for Hines. The Hines men anticipated
something of the kind and sent watch
ers all through the 1st district. 1t is
expected that the reports from some of
these watchers will be lurid in char
acter.
Former Congressman Thomas F.
Smith, who presided" at Tammany
Hall last night, in commenting on the
result of the battle between the organ
ization and Mr.. Hines, said:
"The result shows that the rank and
have confidence in the judgment of the
leadership. The district leaders did
not make a special effort to roll up a
big vote.
"They could have made it larger If
they had tried. The count shows that
it was ample to demonstrate the stabil-
ity of Tammany as q Democratic or
ganization."
The 44th Election District Of the 18th
Assembly District gave Miller, organ
ization candidate. 1l3; Hines, IL.
The 33d Election District of the same
assembly district gave Miller. Al;
The Sd Election District of the 18th
| Assembly District gave Miller, 81;
| Hines, none.
The Murphy men early in the nigh!
estimated about $4,000 votes would be
polled and that the organization nomi-
nees would get at least three-ffths OF
the total.
The Tammany leaders at Tammany
Hall last night conceded the 11th Dis
trict, the home of Mr.. Hines, to him b,
sweeping plurality. They also con
ceded to him a large vote in the Sd Dis
trict, where Culkin, Goodwin and Dal
ton are the leaders and where the
Irish racial feeling is still very strong
among the older set of Tammany men
but elsewhere, they said, the Hine.
vote would be light.
Mr.. Hines issued statement oi
defiance shortly before midnight.
81 have won this election" he said
"and | will not let them count me out
In certain election districts where
Murphy put in his fine work and where
it was said that / had no votes at al
] the polling stations were closed at Il