The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-09-14
BENNETT DEFEATS OLCOTT
~. 20. M.Ek re- RETIRE RE.
THE STATE COMMITTEE.

oTu"r" Neaa"s hseAnrfauap % tnr Eu-
IeenIh District and WIN Probably Ne
Named Tor Congress Beaaett's Dts
Iriei Plurality Is Ise Vote Vas 2, IOa
ConEr s-man } Van vechten Olcoit
lost his fight against AsHemblyman Will
lam VI Bennett IN yesterdays primaries.
Mr. Bennett retains his leadership Of the
Fifteenth Assembly district. captures the
districts SIXTY nine votes "a the Con gress
convention 10 be- held on next Tuesday
and will send 10 the Saratoga convention
delegates unInstructsd m the matter
Of direct primaries or the Roosevelt
sherman nEhi for temporary chairman.
Congressman Olcotts figures an the rs-
suit Of the contest in the Fifteenth As
semlly district showed that Assembly
man Bennett had beaten John n. Taylor
by iSs votes for executive member 81 the
county committee. MIR Bennett claimed
one more vote IN his plurality. putting the
total At 100 There were IOi votes cast
A. the result OF their success nc the
primaries Mr. Bennetts friends were
asserting last night that Mr.. Bennett
will he nominated for Congress next
Tuesday. retiring Congressman Olcott
He needs twelve votes in addition to the
siKty-nins Of the Fifteenth Assembly
district and he expects to get theuf from
the parts Of the Eleventh. Thir tenth.
Seventeenth and Twenty ninth Assembly
districts which will he represented in the
Congressional convention. The Eleventh
will send = delegates. the Thirteent h. =:
the Seventeenth. IS. and the Twenty
ninth. II
Asssmblyman Bennett's victory means
the retirement Of Harry W Mack from
the state committee Mr. Mack voted
against President James Sherman
when the State committee met to name
a temporary chairman for the Saratoga
convention The outcome will result also
in the sending Of a divided delegation TO
the State convention from Manhattan.
In the other Republican contests the
old leaders were generally successful
In the Twenty sixth Assembly district
Samuel krtIlew itch defeated Philip Sill
verman easily. receiving SIS votes 10
ShvermAns go
/ In the Fihh Assembly district James
! T Hackest beai Albert Piercy by 1872 TO
/ IeO
In the FouVth Assembly dist riot Alex
ander Wolf vas reelected leader by 2TS.
/ getting 35I votes to Nathaniel Green
baum 10
There vas q turnover IN the First As
sembly district William q Rose loAinR
his leadership To the contestant. Hugo
Sowak Rose got sea votes. while Nowak
rscsiSed sTs.
In the Eighteenth Assembly district
the Old leader. Joseph Nejediey. defeated
tie contestant. David Ste-kler. getting
res to Sieckler's 2i7
Edward Healy. IN the Twenty third
Assembly dist riot. retained his leadership
He received 40 votes to Albert Slmonds's
10
There we're six cont este for TammAny
leader~hlp~. AL ~ the old leaders were
reelected except Francis La1try IN
the sixteenth Assembly district The
Veteran I.antry ~aS OPPOSED by Leader
Murphy Mr. Murphy sent into the
district . young man. Edward y Boyle.
aid ran HIM against Iantry Boyle won
! hands down He got H. $50 votes to Ian
try- sss
Charles " CulkIn retained the laad-T
ship - the Firth Assembly distric' Wy
heating John 7 Eagl~'on. ? us 20 ~
In the ThIrte-nth Assembly district
John = Carry had htIl. trouble defeating
Francis p. Coughlin. lie received / ast
votes. Coughlin a11
Michael J Cruise go, about s,N votes
to Edward T Grady's one in the Four
ies-nth Assembly dtS'ric+ Tn. vOr was
Cruise. 2.I2s. Grady ysS
James Ahsan remain leader Of the
Nin-,-enth Assembly district He re-
c-ived OF VOTES. the contestant John
J Hines 80
William v Morris was r,-eiect"d i.ad.'r
of the Thirty Af'h Assembly district after
n lively contest with Edward Y Handy
MnrriSs vut. was ?.ssI: HANDY Rs1
"Details 81 IN" primaries m Broo1lvn
Whrre Woodruff wss successfIl and ~
those IN Queens here Cassidy defeated
hls opponent. will h- found on the second