The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-08-22
ROLLS UP
POLITICAL SLEEVES
FALL Campaign VIII Begin in
Earnest This Week All
Along the Line.
MANY CONTESTS COMING

.s,rm.r politics" Is over. The fall
-noien In Sew York city will begin
Isrnest This week. With Tammany
s.s,Ine TO regain the District Attor-
w.. and Shcr,n's offices and control
enc Assembly, and with six Supreme
,,,urt Justices to be elected for this
.o,nty and The Bronx, to say nothing OF
new Board Of Aldermen, plenty of ex-
lament - promised in the way OF
,y,lry. Also the voters OF the whole
s,sts will say on November 2 thumbs
an ar down 20 the proposed new Constl.
,r,ion and suffrage. Moreover.
J ,aso-tan' amendments to the primary
"a election law are to have their frst
tet
,.nary call by midnight OF Tuesday.
or Thursday the period OF filing desig-
ling petitions with the Board OF E,lec-
IONS beg. ms TO end On September z.
is.gnated candidates who do not want
n enter the primaries must file
.Yna;ions on or before September 10.
,sd on the next day their places mus;
b filed. Primary day is September 2S.
me DAYS OF registration for voters. in
'-sased from four to six this year, are
| fOm OGtOutl 4 ~ " INCLUSIVE.
The District Attorney to be elected on
November > viii serve two years from
snuary the unexplred term OF Gov.
whitman. The Republicans will nomi-
,,ie Charles A. Perkins, now in that
eHce by appointment from the Gov
amor, and the Progressive executive
committee is likely TO indorse Frank
yloss this week. The Tammany insiders
80 ..,lgl.. L. -
Gays.
The leading asplrants are Judge Ed
ward Swami OF General Sessions, Magis-
rate Jos phi Il. C%orrigan. Assistant DIS
trct Attorney James a. Delehanty and
Thomas W. Churchill, president of the
Board Of Education. II Judge Swami is
nominated and elected. he will leave a
1880 judgeship to be filled by a Re-
publican appointee of Gov. whitman's
and will receive $4,000 a ear as Dis
tr.ct Attorney.
None Of the party organizations has
made a hnal choice for Sheriff. whose
office pays about 100000 a year in fees
a. we'll as "A salary of $4,000. The
lane OF Senator Christie ID. sullivan is
mentioned frequently at Tammany Hail
In this relation. There is also strong
sentiment for Congressman Peter j.
pooling, Tammany leader In the Ninth
district. County Clerk William +. Schnei-
Ger and his Cleveland Democracy are
working for the nomination Of William
J Lee, superintendent of recreation in
ne PARK Department. william II. I'D.
ward, eN-Street Cleaning Commissioner.
Is being doomed by IA group of Demo
crais, mostly independents. William Sui
ier. who threatened some time ago to
rn Independently for Sheriff or District
Atiorney-wherever he thought he could
do Tammany the greater harm-has kept
his own counsel of iate. and his inten-
tons are not definitely known.
The Lee shouters will open headquar-
at the Hotel Wa.lick tomorrow
ght, and AT the same time at the Bilt-
Hore a salutatory dinner will be given
0F Big Bill Edwards.
The SIX supreme court Justices to
,r elected will serve for fourteen years.
.ach receiving Sl7,500 a year. There
: still a possibility OF Democratic and
2epuhllCan fusion on IA majority of the
* candidates AT least.
The u~Ju-paItisan committee OF law
Tss, of which Edgar VI. Cullen is
nlirmln, organized Il advocate the re-
e"tCn Of Justices Clarke and Green
has opened campaign headquar-
at - Celt" street.. IN the Old