The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1904-09-06
MINOR TICKETS IN BROOKLYN.
REPUBLICANS HOPE TO RECOVER
FROM THE ODELL SLUMP.
Parties Likely 10 Split Even on Congress-
men-There May He o Fight Against
Me(arren's Reelection 10 Senate-Eight
Assembly Districts Are I'm Doubt.

Metuffenb hetieCtlOnt " StHut
Assembly Districts Are I'm Doubt
SO far the rival party managers in Brook
lyn have paid little attention to the selec-
ton OF the Congress- Senate and Assembly
candidates. The interest of the Republic an
statesmen all along has been centred in
the political fortunes Of the Hon. Timothy
l.. Woodruff, the leader of the County or
ganization, now probably more solid and
! united than in any stage OF its history
for the last twenty years.
There has been a practical agreement
| between the twenty-one Assembly dis
trict Republican chieftains that all other
questions, including the choice Of Congress
and Legislative nominees, should be sub
ordinated to the ambitions OF Mr. Wood
ruff to be placed at the head of the State
ticket.
| On the Democratic side the fractional
| fight between Senator P. H. McCarre n
and his implacable foes. which was not
ended by the primaries Of Tuesday last,
has had the effect OF RELOCATING the other
| political questions to the background,
and like the Republicans the Demo-
Gratis will leave the matter OF selecting
candidates for Congress, Senate and
Assembly in the close districts open until
the State convention has passed into history y.
There is no doubt, however, that the
| Congress, Senate and Assembly district
| contests will be hotter than for several
! years and that each side will aim to
| strengthen its Presidential and State tickets
| by placing the strongest possible candidates
| in the field. Two years ago the repudia-
| ton of Odell by an adverse plurality of
| over 5000 in Kings county resulted in the
| capture of five of the six Congress districts
by the Democrats, c. T. Dunwell in the
Third district being the only Republican
elected. The Odell slump was directly re-
| sponsible for the loss of two districts by the
Republicans Fifth, in which f. NJ
Bassett. Democrat beat II. A. Hamburg
by only 833, and the Sixth, in which Robert
Baker, the representative Of the radical
Democracy, won out over Congressman
H. Bristow to the establishment Of the
political observers, by the slender plurality
Of 48e.
This year the Republicans are confident
of holding the Third district, in which Con-
gresham Dunwell Is to be renominated
without opposition. and they are also rea-
sonably certain to regain their ascendancy
in the Fifth and Sixth districts. Congress
man +. M. Bassett, the Democratic repre-
sentative from the Fifth district. will be
renominated, il he is willing to make
another fight, but his friends say that he is
not overanxious to return to Washington
and that Senator McCarren is looking out
for some popular and influential resident
Of the Eighteenth Assembly district to
make the race. There are likely to be five
or six Republican aspirants for Congress
sional honors in the Fifth district.
In the Six tn district Robert Baker, with
his Bryan heresies unrepented OF and with
no desire apparently to surrender one iota
Of his radical views, will probably be re-
nominated. although Thomas R. Farrell
and Matthew ]. Dooley, the anti McCarren
bly, districts, will be able to control the
convention. Unless the situation undergoes
g radical change between now and the time
for holding the conventions, William NJ.
Calder, who served ser as Building Commis-
will be the Republican candidate. The
Twelfth Assembly district from which Mr..
Calder halls, is the controlling factor in
the Sixth Congress district, and at the prima-
to the Congress convention by an over
whelming vote over that for W j. Maxwell,
his opponent for the nomination. 1t seems
to he admitted even in some influential
Democratic circles that Mr.: Calder will
score an easy victory over Mr.. Baker or
any other Democrat who can be named,
largely owing to the bitter Democratic
faetional dissensions prevailing there.
In the Fourth district the Democrats
will renominate pr; F. +: Wilson. who two
lican candidate, by a plurality of 2.72o.
This year Mr. Schnitzpan regards the situa
ton as much more favorable than two +,
years ago, when the Odel handicap pre- !!
vailed and is willing to make another run. !
So far he seems to be the only Republican
aSDirant in evidence.
The two remaining Congress districts !
to be considered the Second and Seventh |
are overwhelmingly Democratic and as !
they are absolutely under tho control of ,
Lindsay and Congressman j. j.. Fitzgerald,
who have been lined up with him all
through the factional strife, are to be re-
nominated. No Republican has so far
make the uphill race In either of these dis
tricts, but Col, Michael j. Dady says that
a promising candidate will be forthcoming |
in each district.
casting the prospects in the six Congress
districts in Brooklyn this year are of the
opinion that, even conceding a plurality
OF from $4,000 to 1900 for Parker the
the Democrats carrying the Second, Fourth
and Seventh districts, and the Republicans
the Third. Fifth and Sixth Should the
rival Democrats continue their animosi-
ties right up to election day, there If strong
hope on the part of the Republicans Of
capturing the Fourth district as well,
Two years ago the Republican candi-
dates for the Senate, like the Congress
candidates, were slaughtered in the Odel
slump Henry Marshall. who luckily had
an impregnable party majority behind
him in the Eighth district, being the solitary
victor out OF the bunch of seven. Mar
shall had plurality of only S 600 although
he normal plurality in the district is nearly
0 OOo This year there is n determined
fight in progress to terminate Senator
legislative career, which has ex-
tended through his terms either in the
upper or lower house at Albany over period
OF fourteen years. The other chief aspirants
for the Senate nomination are Assembly
man Edward c. Downing, who has substan-
TALLY the solid backing Of the Seventeenth
Assembly district behind him; l.. J.. Fawcet,
chairman OF the county committee, and
Charles Cooper. The contest, which prom
ises to be red hot one will probably be
finally between Marshall and Cooper.
In the Third district, with good Demo-
cratic plurality Of from S, 900 to 600, Thomas
II. Callen will be reno,ninated. and so far
there is no opponent in the field against
Senator T. c. Whitlock, the Representatives
from the Fourth, which il also regarded