The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-09-30
CLOSE RESULTS IN
+. KINGS PRIMARIES
Due to Republican and Demo
cratic Drives i'm Progress
Siyc Fields.
CROPSEl BARELY WINS

Some ciosc results In Brooklyn were
turns OF Tuesdays primaries. This was
due to the invasion of the Progressive
primaries by the Republican and Demo
cratic candidates for county offices.
The closest fight OF the primary con-
test--thc second under the new primary
law-turns out to have been between
James G. Cropsey n Robert Elder for
the Progressive nomination for Dis
trict Attorney Of Kings county. Com
plete returns showed that Cropsey. who
was unopposed in the Republican pri-
maries. defeated Elder, designated by
the Progressive organization. in the
Progressive primaries by the narrow
margin of 216 votes. The figures were
1895 for Cropsey and LEO for Elder.
The latter carried only hve out of the
twenty-three Assembly districts.
Another invasion of the progressive
primaries by n Republican resulted In
Stephen %Callaghan, Republican, getting
away with the Progressive nomination
for Supreme Court Justice from John
X. Taylor by i57 votes. Callaghan will
now run on both the Republican and
Progressive tickets against Representa-
tive John j. Fitzgerald. the Democratic
nominee. Charles :. Dewey. the l,epub-
lican nominee for County Clerk. in the
same manner captured the Progressive
nomination from f. ;. Tomlin, Pro-
gressive.
Register T.. 7. ~O'Loughlin. renomi-
mated by the Democrats. entered the
Progressive primary against his Re
publican opponent. John MacCrate, and
Won by Jl3 votes.
In Brooklyn eleven Republicans and
Ave Democrats were successful la cap
turing Progressive nominations Tor the
Assembly through their invasion OF
hat party's primaries.
None of the contests in Manhattan or
The Bronx was close enough to be af-
fected by the revised returns ~ycster-
day. Ellsworth Healey, backed by
Charles T.. Murphy in his night for the
Democratic nomination for Congress In
the Twenty-third district. defeated
George =. Hayes, the indep ndent cam
didatc, by a safe margin, 1886 out OF the
14c districts giving him $3.50. against
4.4S9 for Hayes.
In the Twenty-nrst Assembly dis
trict. Manhattan, the complete returns
showed that Thomas 7. Reilly had
beaten Adolph J. Kohn for the Assem-
Oily fOUlIlttlbnt anu III Tue iulftN
fourth Raphael Murphy turns out to
have beaten VI. VI. Furtig. Leader Nu-
gents candidate for the Democratic As
sembly nomination.
In general the interest taken in this
years primaries was not as great as
that syinced last year, as shown by
the proportion which the vote cast bears
to the enrolment. In New York county
the Republican vote WAS about 81 per
cent. OF the enrolment. against about
3S per cent last year. wh.le the Demo-
Gratis cast about "a per cent. of their
enrolment, against Sc per cent. last
year.
In Brooklyn, on accoun of the
C~ropsey-Elder fight, the Progressives
appear to have turned out In greater
numbers in proportion to their enroll
ment than they did last year, about
36 per cent. OF those enrolled going
70 the polls. The Republican vote In
Brooklyn was about 20 per cent. OF
the enrolment and the Democratic vote
about % per cent, both less than last
year.