New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-10-18
3 CONGRESS SEATS
REPUBLICAN GOAL
Victories Predicted in The
Bronx and New York
County Fights.

Republican leaders expect thty VIII
be able to elect at least three members
OF Congress from New York and Bronx
counties at the coming election. At
present not one of the fourteen Con-
gress districts in this territory is rep
resented by a Republican. The Demo-
Gratis hold thirteen and the Progress
sives one.
The districts the Republicans believe
they should carry are the 18th, 2Oth
and 2lst. and they have fighting
chance in the 18th, 18th and 22d
II it had not been that fusion ar
rangement with the Progressive leaders
in the 14th and 23d districts was UNI
successful and Democrats stepped IN
and got the Progressive nomination IN
these districts, they would have Deeh
carried by the Republicans.
Progressive leaders in The Bronx
charge that fusion with the Repuoh-
cans in the 23d District went wrong
because Steven b. Ayres, Democrat,
who got enough signatures on petl-
ton TO put himself in the running IN
the Progressive primaries, suIreptl-
tiously secured some Progressive inter-
ature. He sent this around the Gis
trict. causing the voters 70 pelleVe that
he had the support OF the rrogressiSe
Leaders The vote of Peter Wynne, the
Republican candidate in 1912, was 6,i5S'
wbile that of the Progressive candidate
was 13I50. a total of 2l,929, as com,
nared with 1920, which was received
bv Representative Joseph A. Goulden'
tho Democrat, running to succeed MN
self. -, po.,biiooc
candidate this year, who might nave
been elected had he got the Progress
sive nomination, as the leaders lntenoeu'
Avres defeated Niles in the Progressive
primaries by 229 to loo.
To offset the miscarriage OF fusion
in these two districts the Republican
candidate in the 2lst, Martin I. An
sorge. secured the Progressive nomlna-
tion in spite of the Progressive lead
ors There John w. Batdorf, the Pro-
qressive leader OF the 21st Assembly
district. insisted upon running Tor
Congress. Mr.. Ansorge defeated MIN
no 289 10 243. The combined kepuoH-
can and Progressive vote IN this dis
trict tvo wears ago was 1859, as COM
JARED with 1889, by which Represent
tative Henry George, ir., was elected.
In the Goth, one Of the other dis
tricts that the Republicans expect TO
corrv. their vote and the Progressive
vote for Congress candidates equalled
& 1877. Representative Jacob A. Cantor,
tho Democrat. who was elected to I'LL
ont the uneXpired term of Francis Bur
TON Harrison, got only 5,337 votes.
Isaac Siegel, Republican, also has
the Progressive nomination this year.
Albert Ottinger. the Republican can
didate in the 10Th District, which the
Republicans also expect to win, has
not got the Progressive nomination.
REPRESENTATIVE Walter VI. Chandler,
Progressive, who now represents the
district. is running 20 succeed him-
self. Two years ago he got 1887
votes. while the Democratic candidate
got 1854. and the Republican only
71O4. This would look like a hard
proposition for the Republican on the
face of these figures, but the leaders
believe that enough Progressives have
returned to the Republican party to in
sure Ottinger's election.
There is fusion between the Repub-
lcans and Progressives in the 18th,
18th. 18th, 18th and ODD districts. In
the 18th the combined Republican and
Progressive vote two years ago was
3.44I. as compared with 1852 Demo-
cratic.
In the 18th District the Democratic
vote was 5,945, as compared with
combined Republican and Progressive
vote of 4,54l.
The Democratic vote was I2350 in
the 18th. The combined Republican
and Progressive vote was l0,407.
In the 18th the Democratic vote was
1904 and the combined Republican
and Progressive vote was 1857.
In the 22d the combined vote was
$50; the Democratic was 1886.