The sun., 1913-10-26

! ton based their prediction upon the know.
edge that the Democratic State organization
. Is not conducting n canvass upstate. all
Democratic eyes being turned toward the
election of a Mayor in New York city.
! Judge Willard Bartlett is the Democratic
candidate for Chief Judge and Abram !.
Glkus the Democratic candidat" for Associ.
ate Judge of the Court of Appeals and If
they are elected it will bc due to Il larger
Progressive vote throughout the State
than is anticipated by the Republican State
camLNign managers who have canvassed
the State undSy the direction of Chairman
william Barnes in his usually thorough
manner. The Republicans do not think the
} Progressive vote viii exceed 10000, al
though Straus for Governor last fall pollod
$4,000 votes under the Progressive emblem
and about 50.oU votes under the lndepend.
ence League column this year, which, IL is
expected. will give him an advantage of
from $1,000 to 5000 votes. There are OBJ
| servant Democrats who assert that the
! Progressive sentiment in the State is as
active as ever and that the Progressive
vote this year should exceed 100 900 which
they insist would mean the election of the
Democratic candidates as Court of Appeals
Judges.
Real Test In New York city.
III We" loTk 'lt! Juugt bhTtItll VIII get
every Democratic vote cast for his party
candidates and the Independence League
vote. whereas there is n strong feeling that
the fusion managers have not treated the
local Republican organization decontly
which is taken to indicate small vote in
the Republican column in the greater city
Judge Werner's name only appears in the
Republican column in the Ave horoughs.
and as the Progressives have dominated the
fusion movement there the Progressive
candidates for Court of Appeals Judges
may get thousands Of votes which would
ordinarily 20 to the Republican candidates
Then too william u. Hearst has announc cd
that he intends to vote under the Inde-
pendence League emblem and has asked his
followers 10 do likewise II would seem
that the distribution Of tho vote in New
York city between the different party col
umns not only is TO determine the election
Of the Judges Of the Court of Appeals hut
the control of the next State Assembly as
well
Before II was known that William SulAcr
was to be impeached and convicted the
Democrats and Progressivcs and those who
favor direct nominations fused on the candi-
date for Assembly in about twenty-five up
State doubtful districts and the Democrats
feel that they have an almost certain chance
of slectinR thirty Assemblymen outside of
the Ave boroughs of New York city and II
possible chance of electing Assen,blymen
in fourteen other upstate districts.
Not II Republican Assemblynmn was
elected in the twenty three districts of Kings
or in the thirty-fve districts of Manhattan
and the Bronx last year or ia the five dis
tricts in Queens and Richmond, The Kings
Democratic organization does not expect to
lose more than seven of the twenty three
Assemblyme there this year and of the
A. "A
The Bronx tho Democrats expect to lose
but eight this year at the worst calculation
and but one Of the fve districts in Queens
and Richmond,
Tho present Democratic State Assembly
which goes out Of Office at the end of the
year has 1903 Democratic members, forty
three Republicans and four Progressives,
The Democrats say they could lose twent,
4 nSfiNued Eccand D1oA