New-York tribune., 1912-03-10
MANY DISTRICT FIGHTS
Election Board Swamped with
Petitions for Primary.
TIME UP AT MIDNIGHT
Game of the Independents Are
Among Republicans and Are
Out for Roosevelt.

aims within which independent nomi-
-. ,or candidates 10 be voted for on
.r,narv ballot on March b could be
u' .vnirsd at midnight last night. The
n,. -,,s az the Board of Elections will be
s,,,v all day to-day tabulstinS the petit
.,.ns with which they we're swamped yes
terday r.,. 49,.
- ~ the City OF New York filed indie
M, hl''. nstitions for candidates for dele
and slternates 10 the Republican ma
80 convention In each Of the twelve Con-
srsss districts.
-u,o dscIinations 10 serve as candidates
-, poosevelt delegates were filed They
..,.-. nv Lindell T. Bates. in the nth and
- rbonnas c. Chalmers. in the 18th. Henry
,.n..ashav is 10 he named 10 succeed Chal-
mers ,.,..
.,.a,,.tes 10 the national convention was
s,.s from one Congress district in Kings
,..n,,v-the 9th This petition under the
soosever emblem had the names Of j.
phrIin BerK and Rhinehardt Pforr for del
,sa,es and George A. Morrison and Morris
Eossnfeldt as alternates.
A,,de from the Roosevelt petitions for ma
.,or.l delegates. most Of the petitions filed
r.-A for Assembly district leader and
-,sn,hsrs Of the county committee in oppo-
.i,lon 10 the designations made by the regu-
lar organizations
Most Of these fights are in the Republican
,erks In the 7th District John Glass
wants 10 be elected leader over William
Hs,nin. the present leader. redesignated for
that place. Mr. Halpn is the only district
leader who is for Roosevelt.
The Republicans in the 18th District are
all snpt up over the leadership, they
have been repeatedly in the past. There is
M question OF Rooseveltism entering into
fbs fight. which is entirely between the
old factions as realigned. John Taylor is
the man who is running as the regular or
ssnization candidate for leader 10 succeed
Albert Ottinger, the present leader. Pc
t,tion in favor Of Alderman Niles R. Becker
MAS filed IN opposition to Mr.. TAYLOR last
night
.. The situation ss described by member
of the district last night was like this
Ex.ConEressmsn William II. Douglas, head
NJ one Of the factions tried TO make an
agreement with the old Conservative club
crowd prior 10 the organization meeting Tor
designation Of q candidate for leader. Fail
i1g in that, he made an agreement with the
Harry ". Mack faction whereby Albert
ottineer was. to be renominated for leader.
and the Mack crowd was to receive good
representation on the county committee.
When the meeting WAS held Mr.. Douglas
attacked Ottinger and made bid for sup
port Of the Conservative Club faction. The
latter. however. turned in with Mack and
succeeded in naming John Taylor as the or
sanization candidate. Immediately there
after. however. the Conservatives decided
not 10 support Taylor and got together with
Douglas and Ottinger to run an opposition
candidate in the person OF Alderman
Becker. Mr.. Mack is managing the fight
for Mr. TAYLOR, and has with him eX-Con-
gresham William Van Vechten Olcott.
willis B. Davis fled petition under the
emblem as a candidate for leader
Of the 18th District in opposition 10 Abraham
Grubsr.
Peter F. Gatens also used the Roosevelt
emblem in fling q petition for leader OF
the 18th District in opposition to Joseph
Z Needy.
Another Roosevelt man, Robert b. Lewis.
fled a petition for leader Of the 18th Dis
trict. in opposition 70, Alexander. Brough'
ths organization candidate TO succeed him
self r "a 80
William voetzel .died a petition for the
leadership Of the north side of the od Dis
trict against John ]. Knewitz, the organi-
5ation candidate.
There were two independent petitions
fled for leader Of the S3d District, in oppo-
stlon 70 Alfred Simonds. the regular can
didate. The first one filed was that of
Owen r. Haley and the second that OF
Edward H. Healy, who has taken up the
cause in an attempt to get back
his leadership. which he lost at the pm
maries IN September.
Philip slverman filed an independent pc
tition under the Roosevelt emblem against
Samuel Krulewitch, leader Of the 18th Dis
tTtct
Roosevelt candidates for leader were also
put I'D in the 1st and 26th districts.
Other Republican contests for district
lsaderships were filed in the 9th. 10th and
81 ulSliiIla.
The Roosevelt men put UP August
schwsrzler as candidate for leader in the
S4th District. in opposition TO Ernest X
Bradbury, the organization candidate. HE'D
ley NJ. Greene, the present leader. who was
defeated for redesignation, Is 10 support
SchwarZler.
Nathan Greenbsum filed a petition under
the Roosevelt emblem in the Attn District
against Alexander Wolf, the orGhnizatich
candidate.
In the 10Th Leon Bleecker filed a petition
for leadership against Or. Frederick J..
Marshall
Coming 10 the Democrats, there is the
usual fisht in the 18th District %nich has
got TO be as common as the Republican
contest in the 18th. James J. Hines has
fled an independent petition for leader
against James Ahearn.
In the Slst District Samuel Marx, former
alderman, IS going to make another at