New-York tribune., 1912-02-06
President Is Reelected by a
Vote of 24 to % Over 7. W. =
Churchill, Mayors
Candidate.
GREENE VICE-PRESIDENT
Churchills Motion to Have Vic-
torious Rivals Election Made
Unanimous Beaten by
Objection of One
Member.

tloi yesterday, ueltdliiS ihVhi"o We
Churchill, the candidate of whom Mayor
Gaynor wrote to board members that
mis- election would please the Mayor"
After the storm Of pre- election activity,
i'm which the Mayors candidate and tho
Mayors activity played prominent parS
the election itself went off as quietly
as a Quaker meeting, but the intensity
of the struggle that ended so quietly
was marked in the vote tellers' an
nouncement that Winthrop had received
twenty-four votes, which was exactly
! the number required for choice.
/ Churchill received twenty-five, and twa
members, DR.. Norris Loeb and James
| l.. Sullivan, were absent.
! Mr.. Churchill himself was the first on
his feet after the tellers announcement.
with a motion that the election Of MIR.
/ Winthrop be made unanimous. Robert
/ L. Harrison who presided during the
election, put the motion quietly. There
was a storm of ayes no response when
he called for noes" and he was In the
| act Of declaring the motion carried, when
John r. Thompson who was to have
been the candidate for vice-presidenS
! had Churchill been elected, made loud
/ protest.
You must call for the noes" Mr..
Thompson shouted.
Il did call for the noes Mr. Harri-
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Vote Stands as First Cast.
We'll, 1 didn't hear you then, and T
want to be recorded as voting no TO thae
notion" said Thompson. The other sup
porters of Churchill wanted to have ir
recorded that the board had voted 10
have Mr. Winthrops election stand as
forty-t three for and one against, but Pat
rick F. McGowan pointed out that ie
there was one objection TO the motion -
change the vote 10 a unanimous one :.
must then stand as recorded by the ball
lots.
On the call for vice. presidential nomi-
nations no one was nominated eHcepc
John Greene, the present vice president
of the board. MIR. MCGOWAN moved that
the secretary be instructed TO east u
white ballot for Mr.. Greene, but Isadore
NJ. Levy objected, saying that while ha
knew there was no opposition and foc
| his own part he meant TO vote for Mr..
Greene he thought it was a bad prece-
/ dent to establish any system Of voting
for officers of the board except by secret
IA. T.
tion, therefore, and when the ballocs
were counted it was announced that Mir.
Levy had received one vote. Amid tho
laughter created by this announcement
Mr.. Levy got up TO offer an affidavit
that that one vote had not been cast
by him.
Before that. while the nominations 70:
president were in progress. came lit
tie incident which seemed TO lend color
to the contentious of Mr.. Wnthrops
supporters that the opposition TO him
would not be seen when IL came time
for the election. Mr. Greene had nomi-
mated Mr.. Winthrop, and the nomination
had been seconded by Abraham Stern.
Mr.. Harrison in the chair, waited for
the nomination of Mr.. Churchill, but n1
one appeared to be prepared TO make it.
Jeremiah T. Mahoney. i'm a front seat,
fidgeted neryously and looked around.
Others Of the Churchill faction seemed
10 be looking for some one There was
silence for over a minute.
Then Churchill Is Nominated.
Then Herman A. Metz jumped to the
conclusion that something had gone
wrong with the opposition, and after an
inquiring glance around moved that the
nominations be closed. Half a dozen OF
the winthrop faction were about to Sec
ond the Metz motion, when George j.
Gillespie arose slowly and put Mr..
Churchilrs name i'm as "A candidate.
Mr.. Greene and Mr.. Stern. in speaking
for Mr.. Winthrop, had emphasized the
fact that he had served for years as
president of the board and that he was
pre-eminently fitted to serve again, espe-
cialy as the board was about to enter
into new relations with the Board of
relations which would
require an experienced hand at the head
Of the Board of Education.
Mr.. Gillespie, In nominating Mr..
Churchill, admitted that Mr.. winthrop
was we'll fitted by his experience 10 serve
again. but pointed to Mr.. Churchilrs
service as a teacher in the evening high
schools as preparatory experience
which. he said. would make him fully as
valuable an official as Mr. Winthrop.
Mr. Churchilrs nomination was src-
Onded, without remarks. by John r.
Thompson. Frank ID. Wiisey aud Rupert
b. Thomas The breyity OF his second
Ing and the delay in his nomination led
many to believe that the Churchill boom
had collapsed. so there was evident sur.
prise when the announcement OF the tell
rrs disclosed that had Winthrop lost ono
more vote ne would not have been elect
ed yesterday. Mr.. Churchill seemed less
over the outcome than his
supporters. He stopped Mr.. Winthrop
On his way to the chair to congratulate
him and to shake his hand cordially. then
made his unsuccessful motion 10 have
-he election made unanimous.
Mr.. Thompson, who blocked ChurchlIs
said afterward that his rea-
sons were absolutely personal. and not
10 be discussed with any one" He was
by Mayor Mcclellan In 1909
Tor the term beginning January l. 1910.