Evening star., 1925-09-17
TH|RD-T|CKET TALK
ALIVE IN NEW YORK
La Guardia and Copeland
Mentioned After HyIan Drops
Mayoralty Fight.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, September 17.-While
Mayor Hylan, defeated in the pri-
maries. has announced ne will retire
to private life, some discussion con-
tinues of the possibility of an indie
pendent ticket against James j.
Walker, who beat Hylan for the Demo-
cratic nomination, and against Frank
d. Waterman, the Republican nom-
inee.
The victory of Walker. backed by
Tammany Hall and Gov. Smith, over
Hylan. supported by w. r. Hearst
has caused much qualification to fol-
lowers of Gov. Smith, especially in
view of much comment to the effect
that the result has enhanced his ma
tfonal prestige. We have a Demo
cratic candidate for President in 1925"
said Senator Borah in Washington.
Conferred With Hearst Men.
The mayors announcement came
after conference with Arthur Brisbane
and Joseph a. Moore, Hearst news
paper executives. and after Hearst
evening paper had said there would be
a third ticket
The announcement said: Il will re-
turn to private life with my seIf-re-
spect unimpaired. my conscience clear
and with the satisfaction of having
scrupulously lived up to my oath of
Office
Today's issue of the New York
American, owned by MIR. Hearst, ac-
cepts Mr.. Hylan's retirement as "a
sad blow to the vast majority of
decent men and women of this city,"
The paper goes on to say that
whether Walker or Waterman is sue
cessful at the polls November 8, "the
traction interests win"
The mayor prefaced his formal
statement with the remark that he
had unmasked the big ham-and-egg
man from Albany" and had forced
the traction and underworld interest
to spend $1,200,0 900 to beat him.
Asked whether his formal statement
meant that there would be no third
party, he made no reply
Mr.. Moore, after the conference with
the mayor, said in answer to a ques-
ton: 1--WE know Of no third party"
La Guardia Is Mentioned.
While Tammany now shows no per-
turbation over an Independent move
ment, Representative F. H. LIE Guardia
is being mentioned in this connection
., l..
La Guardia said:
AS things stand now everybody is
happy but the people. There is no i'm
portant division. We need a ticket
which will make such a division.
There is also some mention of Senator
Copeland in third party discussion.
The three borough leaders who sup
ported the mayor have pledged sup
port to Walker, whose majority over
Hylan was 95,543.
Republicans are united behind Frank
ID. Waterman, who defeated John j.
Lyons and William NJ. Bennett by
majority of 80, $40 Some Republicans
as greater without an Independent Hy-
Ian ticket in the field than with one.
The theory is that with Hylan still in
the field there would be a stampede of
Republicans to Walker to make sure
the mayor would not be reelected.
Friends who called upon the wife of
the Tammany candidate to congratu-
late noted particularly upon her piano
copy of a song written by her hus-
band and dedicated to her: will you
love me in December as in May?"
They have been married 13 years.
Mrs. Walker was formerly a Chicago
girl by the name of Allen, and her
father is a Hearst editor in Chicago.
Mason o. Smedley, Democratic lead
er in Queens, announced that if Mayor
Hylan desired a Supreme Court judge
ship "the county organization would
get behind the movement" There are
three bench vacancies to be filled from
second district this Fall.