Evening star., 1925-09-16
HyLAN, DEFEATED
BY 100000, MAY co
ON THIRD TICKET
Mayor Silent on Issue.
Hearst Paper Says Race
Is Assured Fact.
TAMMANY ACCLAIMS
VICTORY OF WALKER
Chances of Waterman, G. o. p,
Should Be Aided by Injection
of Independent.

, By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, September 16.-State
Senator James j. Walker, backed by
Tammany Hall and Gov. Smith, has
won a decisive victory over Mayor
John r. Hylan, supported by w. r.
Hearst, for the Democratic mayoralty
nomination.
Repudiated as inefficient and as a
''puppet" by Tammany, which had
elected him twice for four-year terms,
Hylan went down by about 100000
votes in the primary yesterday.
Frank D. Waterman, fountain pen
manufacturer and organization can
didate. captured the Republican nomi-
nation for mayor with ease over two
insurgent rivals, John j. Lyons and
William NJ. Bennett.
Leads by 8S.73i.
Senator Walkers lead over Mayor
Hylan was SS,734 at 9 o'clock today
with 125 districts to be heard from
out of 1858.
The vote was: Walker. 267. AIS; Hy-
Ian, 1874.
Waterman was leading his nearest
competitor, Lyons, by 193.s42 votes.
The vote was: Waterman, 121, ,941 :;
Lyons, 1S,099: William NJ Bennett.
4,S16. There were 1873 districts miss
ing in this contest
Tammany's jubilance this morning
was tempered with concern as to
whether Hylan would run independ.
emily. The mayor, who has ignored
demands of Walker that he agree to
support the winner, was cheerful
when he arrived at the city hall this
morning.
Il am please with two things" he
said. First. that 1 pulled the mask
off the big ham and egg man from
Albany, and, second, that l made the
traction and underworld interests
spend an average of s400 an election
district to defeat me-
The mayor was shown a copy of an
evening paper predicting he would
head a third ticket, but hef deciined'to to
discuss that matter.
Hearst Promises Third Ticket.
A statement printed today in the
New York Evening Journal, owned by
Hearst, made 1t known that a third
ticket would be placed in the field and
that 1t could be taken for granted
that Mayor Hylan will head the indie.
pendent ticket"
The statement in the Evening Jour
nal. printed in the editorial columns,
read:
"As has been said in the Evening
Journal more than once, Tammany's
voters and all those they could influ-
ence were well organized for primary
work.
But the primary does not elect the
mayor OF New York. That will be
done in November.
1T is hardly necessary to say that
the people of New York will refuse to
accept representatives of the street
car trust or turn their city over to
them.
There will be ticket Independent
of the Tammany Hall street-car owned
Albany crowd, of course.
1T may also be taken for granted
that Mayor Hylan will head the inde-
pendent ticket and give the people
whom he has faithfully served a
chance to vote for him at the real
election.
Not Quitter, He Says.
Mayor Hylan is not a gutter
What he has said about Gov. Smith
and Mr.. Walker he has said because
he believed it and knew 1t to be true.
And Mayor Hylan to back up what
he has said and prove his devotion to
the city will, of course, accept an in
dependent nomination.
And, of course, he will be elected
by a bigger ma jority than last time"
The New York Times today quotes
Mayor Hylan as having told a close
friend:
Il am getting out of politics with a
clean record. I have done my best
His daughter, Mrs. John +. Sinnott,
said that he had not indicated whether
or not he would run independently,
and had no statement to make on the
returns.
The Democratic vote was 67 per
cent of the total registered.
Hylan's opponents charged in the
primary campaign that the question
of his running independently for the
election November 3 would be deter
mined by the margin of his defeat.
Goes Over to Walker.
The New York World says that
Hylan, with the publishers backing,
will seek reelection at the head of
an independent ticket. The remainder
of the Hylan city ticket, the news
paper says, will be new. John NJ
McCooey, Brooklyn leader, one of the
three county leaders who supported
the mayor, said today that his or
ganization would support Walker
With an independent Democratic
ticket in the field, Republicans would
hold hopes of electing Waterman.
Both Lyons and Bennett congratu-
lated the manufacturer and promised
whole-hearted support. Charles
Evans Hughes. Representative Ogden
L. Mills and other national party
leaders have supported Waterman
The whole Tammany Hall ticket
scored a clean sweep. The mayor
lost even his home borough of
Brooklyn, where McCooey supported
him He carried the borough of
Richmond Staten Island) and the
vote in Queens Nong Island munich
pal territory outside of Brooklyn) was
close. Walker ran up big leads in
Manhattan and the Bronx.
Smith Hearst Fight.
Democrats and Republicans alike
said in speeches that the Democratic
primary was really a fight between
Gov. Smith and Mr.. Hearst with
potentialities as to the next Demo
cratic national convention. Mr..
Hearst, in caustic long distance ex-
changes with Gov. Smith, said he
could not be a Democrat in a city
where political malta" like Tam