Johnson Attacks 4th A. D. Leaders: L. I. City Man Resents Their Indorsement of Humphrey for County Judge

Citation: "Johnson Attacks 4th A. D. Leaders: L. I. City Man Resents Their Indorsement of Humphrey for County Judge," The Brooklyn Daily Eagle (Brooklyn, New York), 18 September 1915, p. 3; image, Newspapers.com (clipping by mattjameswade, 5 July 2019).

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JOHNSON ATTACKS 4TH A. D. LEADERS. L. I. City Man Resents Their Indorsement of Humphrey for County Judge. WANTED TO RUN HIMSELF. Knew He'd Go Down to Defeat, But There Would Be a Republican on Ticket.
Just after William H. Wade, chairman of the Republican County Committee of Queens, had finished an introductory speech at a meeting of the county committee at the Richmond Hill Republican Club, last night, on the necessity for harmony in the Republican ranks and an all-pull-together-boys policy, William G. Johnson of Long Island City arose and hurled a verbal bomb straight at the chairman's head by accusing him and the members of the committee from the Fourth Assembly District of disloyalty in indorsing County Judge Burt Jay Humphrey, a Democrat, for re-nomination, after the withdrawal of Thomas F. Doyle from the field. […]
"I withdrew my candidacy in favor of Mr. Doyle, because I did not care who was the Republican candidate for county judge so long as he was a Republican," shouted Johnson. "But, when Doyle withdrew, it seems to me the least the committee might have done was to notify me and give me a chance to be a candidate if I wanted to be."
Chairman Wade retorted that he had been openly in favor of Judge Humphrey's indorsement by the Republicans from the very first, and that he believed party lines should be forgotten so far as the judiciary is concerned. […]