The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1912-03-28
NO GENERAL REMEDY
FOR PRIMARY FAILURE
Parties Can Call Unofficial Prima-
ries for Specific
Districts.
EAST SIDE COLD TO T. Il.
He Carried "De Ate" but II Did Him
No GoOd-COunty Vote
BILL TO 15,262.
EAST SIDE COLD TO T. r.

II was the general opinion Of lawyers,
politicians and ell,tion officials yester-
day that there was no legal machinery
which could be invoked for a new city
wide primary. After thinking it over
for day the party leaders have not been
able to devise any general remedy for
the voters who were disfranchisad on
Tuesday.
But there are specific cases in which
remedies will be sought by candidates
for election. For instance, no Republi-
can ballots at all were delivered before
the polls closed in the entire Twentieth
Assembly district Of Kings county, where
Harrison c. Glore was running against
District Leader William Schnitzpan. II
was finally decided TO use unofficial
ballots, and altogether :s4 Of these were
voted. 1888 for Schnitzpan and ioi for
Glore, while the other $500 enrolled
Republicans Of the district did not vote
Glore has sent protest to the Secretary
Of State against the acceptance OF the
result and says he will bring mandamus
proceedings against the Board of Elec-
tions. Schnitzpan says he would like
to have another primary
The Republican organization leaders
! in the county say that II the ballots had
been delivered on time the defeat Of the
| Roosevelt candidates would have been
even more impressive. To this Chairman
Dnell of the Roosevelt committee replied
by telegraphing to Gov. Dix asking for
another primary. Chairman koenig of
the Republican county committee laughed
and said that II the Roosevelt followers
really believed there would be another
primary they would collapse from fright.
He said however. that il there is any
evidence by Friday night, when the Re-
publican county committee meets to
organize that enough voters have been
disfranchised in this county To have
any bearing on Tues1,y's result tn
| organization would issie cali for an
unofficial party primary in the dsfran-
| chiscd districts.
The party leaders and lawyers busted
/ themselves yesterday in an aifort to find
out If there was any legal way OF bringing
about another general primary. The CON
sens,is last night WAS that there was
/ nothing that the Governor or the I.egsa-
ture could do TO upset the general result :
: Of the elction. II was conceded that
where fraud could Ike shown the Supreme
Court could review the proceedings and
order new primary in the district
affected. But this would affect only
individual candidates.
No complaint OF any sort was filled with
, the Board OF Elections in Manhattan
| yesterday. The board must canvass the
| vote within five days. Chairman Due'l
Of the Roosevelt committee sent n repre-
sentative to Chairman Britt Of the board
with request that the Roosevelt men he
represented when the vote is counted
| Mr. Britt said they would have every
opportunity to see that there was an
honest canvass.
| About the first thing that came on: o,
the Roosevelt headquarters yesterday
morning was the announcement that
| Chairman Dueli had asked the Governor
TO do whatever he could TO have anothei
primary. Mr.. Duel informed the Cover
nor that the primary election in the city
and the State was -farcical break dow
of the election law" adding:
In the interest Of honest politics we ash
YOU az Governor OF the whole people OF the
state of New York TO give this ma tier
that by proper recommendation to IN,
Legislature now in session and with its co
| operation proper steps may be taken fol
the vindicat ion of the law now on the stat ut.
books. and what We deem even more i'm
portant the vindicstion of the civil right,
OF the citizens OF the state undcrl yiug tn,
statute.
So. Mr.. Duell told the Governor. "an
other primary should he held at once
abate the public outrage and TO solve al
intolerable situation" When the at
tention of Chairman Koenig was callet
to this. he said:
This il the same howl that the Roose
welt people are putting up all over the
country. First We We're going to beat
them with guerillss. Now we have fixec
it 30 that the ballots were delayed How
ridiculous. II our men had got the ballot
in time the organization would hav,
polled much larger vote. There is NJ
question about that. We would hav,
beaten Roosevelt by at least three to one
Saying that this was not preferential
presidential primary is all a mistake
There are $1,000 enrolled Republican
voters in this county. Under norma
conditions at least 10000 would not vote
Now in this county the vote was at leas
$1,000. We have any number Of instance
Z where men who wanted to vote had to b
turned away from the polls because ther
were no ballots. But we contend tina
enough votes were cast to show the peo
ple's preference.
J so far as we have been able to lear
there were three election districts in thi
county where no ballots were delivered
a The First and Second of the Third cleo
tion district and the Fifty-fifth of tn
Thirty second north. which is City Islanc
II we find. when the county committe q
meets on Friday night, that there is
. demand in the election districts where n
committee will issue a call for primar
: in these districts"
In reply to this Mr., Duell said last eve
n ming,