New-York tribune., 1922-09-20
Regular Democrats All
for Ten Eyck, With A!
Smith as Second Choice;
Conner's District Silent
Editor Is Believed
Beaten Everywhere
Murphy Men to Win in
Contests Here; No Fight
by Republican Delegates

William Randolph Hearst's heavily
financed campaign for delegates for his
Governorship boom was given a smash
ing blow last night in Albany County,
where his entire ticket was overwhclm-
ingly defeated.
For some unaccountable reason not
word had been heard from Erie County
up to 1880 A. NJ, where William J.
C'Fingy" Corners was making a SINH
lar fight for delegates to that waged
in Albany.
Before leaving for upstate a week
ago, Conners predicted that Hearst
would make a clean sweep of Albany
and do almost equally well in Erie.
The news of the defeat of the Hearst
delegates was received with joy by the
followers of Ex-Governor Alfred T.
Smith, who declared that the only way
that the Hearst faction could get the
nomination away from Smith in view
of the primary results would be by
using money lavlshly
The Albany delegation, which is
pledged to Congressman Peter G. Ten
Eyck as first choice, is for Smith as its
second choice, and is unalterably op-
posed to Hearst.
In the Republican primary in Albany
the insurgents who have been opposing
William Barnes met with decided set
back. The same porved true of the
independent movement against william
L. Ward in Westchester County.
William J. ("Fingy") Connors re-
peatedly predicted that Albany would
be carried by Hearst by an overwhelm-
ing majority and that the Hearst dele
gates to the Democratic State Conven-
tion would rout the nominees OF the
organization, who are outspokenly
anti-Hearst men. Patrick f. ("Packy')
McCabe, the Hearst leader IN Albany
County, who had a huge wad of the
Hearst roll for campaign expenses, was
even more enthusiastic than Conners
as to the outcome.
Local Hearst managers kept out Of
sight last night, so comment from
them as to the effect of the Albany
defeat on Hearst's drive for the Gov
ernorship, and, incidentally, the Pres-
dency two years hence, could not be.
obtained.
Returns from Steuben and Sara
toga counties, where Hearst also
made highly financed drives for dele
gates had not come in, but the pre-
diction of local followers of Al Smith
was that Hearst would be defeated
everywhere he submitted his candidacy
to the electors.
Charles F. Murphy did not put in an
appearance at Tammany Hall last
night, which was dark, but his aides
throughout the city declared that the
local organization candidates would
win in every instance.
Brogan Running Third
This was indicated by the returns in
the one big contest in Manhattan,
where Edward S. Brogan, a Tammany
man, who ran in the Tammany primary
against Morris Koenig, Republican, as
a protest against the Murphy -Koenig
deal which resulted in the turning
down of Surrogate John P. Cohalan,
was running third in the three
cornered race. His vote, however, was
considered remarkable in view of tho
fact that he is comparatively unknown,
and also because orders were issued
yesterday by Tammany that Brogan
be given the gaff.
Reports 10 various parts of Man
haitian showed that thousands of in
dependents in both the Republi-
can and Democratic primaries had
written in the name of Cohalan
for Surrogate. This was done spon-
taneously and without any concerted
movement by the anti-boss element
who are invariably q minority in a
primary contest.
The first few scattering returns from
the 35th Senatorial District showed
Senator Theodore Doug'as Robinson,
nephew Of the late Colonel Roosevelt,
running behind his opponent, Daniel
F. Strobel, who is seeking to succeed
Robinson in the Senate
Numerous Local Contests
While the statewide interest of other
years was taken out of the primaries
by the absence of aspirarts for the
nomination for Governor and other
places on the state ticket--a fact due to
the restoration of the convention sys-
tenn of naming candidates for these
ofices-yet there had not in years been
so many local contests in the primaries
as were submitted to the enrolled
voters yesterday. A significant fact
was that there was not single contest
for delegates to the Republican State
Committee showing a unanimous de-
mand Of the party for Governor Miller's
denomination.
1t was estimated that there were al
most 200 primary contests throughout
the state decided yesterday, Of which
twenty-five were for Congressional
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