The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-11-03
CROPSBY STAYS AS
KINGS PROSECUTOR
Brooklyn Gets Out Early Vote
and Unveils Some
Surprises.
RESULT PLEASES McCOOEY

| more smoothly and exredit!ouSly prob
ably thar any other In the city's history.
The fine weather brought out the voters
early and before ~ O'Clock more than
half the registered vote Of 247,Soo Was
recorded. In spite Of the innovation OF
F., three separate baflpts and the placing
Of fr>m fourteen to sixteen cross marks
on the ballots the voting proceeded as
! quickly AZ usual. fcw voters remaining
In the booths more than two minutes
No trouble of any consequence &C.
CURED at any of tho 113 polling places,
anil there were only a few challenges.
only one of which was aired In court
The thirty sever students In st. Johns
College who had registered from the
college and whose right to vote was
legally questioned decided not to go to
the polls. no us 10 escape the humiliation
of being challenged. The fourteen
priests. however, who were also regis
tere'l from the college, all voted In the
sixth Assembly district without any oh.
~jertion being iuterposed BY any of the
! party watchers.
Both The Republican and Democratic
headquarters were thronged with the
party workers soon after the closing of
the polls until after midnight to hear the
election returns.
The first fgurcs received were on the
contest for the Supreme Court Justice
| anil they furnished much ela,ion to th.
Republican indicating that
callaghan. their candidate, had carried
Kings county over Fitzgerald. Democrat,
by from 1000 TO 10000. IL was estimated
that IL his majority In Kings county
shouLl reach 1000 or 5000 C~allaghan
would prove a winner in spite of the
conceded adverse majority OF 5000 OF
5000 for Fitzgerald In the counties OF
Queens. Richmond. Suffolk and Nassau.
The returns in the fight for District
Attorney left no doubt Of a sweeping
| victory for Cropsey, Republican. over
Nash. Democrat, by "A majority OF more
than 10000.
The citation at Republican ~headausr-
ters got d. sudden check when the re-
turns for the other candidates on the
! county ticket began to. come In. They
showed that the three Democratic candi-
dates Cor County Judges. Mitchell May.
John r. iIylan and Robert H.. Roy. had
run ahead of George Freifeld. Marcus Il.
Campbell and Harry L. Lewis. Republi-
can.
The gloom ~ Republican h~eadquar-
tcrs was intensified when II became APP
parent from the returns nat Riegelinan n,
Democrat, had won over Schni,zpan.
Republican. for Sheriff Kelly. Demo
GRAFT. over Dewey. Republican. for
County Clerk and OIsoughlin. Democrat.
over MacCrate. Republicai. for Regis
ter
The defeat OF Dewey by Kelly for
County Clerk was the greatest surprise
of the election as Dewey has been re-
garded as a sure winner. even betting
men placing him a . TO I favorite.
Commissioner of Jurors Jacob Bren-
ner. who has officiated as .tatisticlan at
Republican headquarters each election
night for several years, conceded at
midnighs the defeat of the entire ticket
with tho exception of Cropsey and prob
ably Fitzgerald.
Mr.. Bremen and his Republican as
Sociates were relieved somewhat over
their depression when they found that
~Schombery. the only Progressive candi-
date on the county ticket. who ran for
Sheriff. got only A vote o! between 1000
and 5000.
John II. McCooey. the county leader
would not concede the defeat OF Fttz-
gerald for Supreme Court bench, holding
that the result would depend on the
vote IN the four outlying counties.
He was much gra;ifed over the gen.
erai results In Kings county.
Where would we have been Mr..
McCooey said. "if we had not annexed
the Independence League and broken
up the fusion plans of the Republicans.
The results are n direct reflection on
the state and city administration and
the defeat of the constitutional amend
msn,s puts 4 decided dent in Mr.. Roots
Presidential boom. The heavy vote
against woman suffrage shows that tho
sentiment in Brooklyn is not ripe for
a"
II was generally conceded a. midnight
that Lucien :. Bayliss. Republican. de-
fcated James W. Redmond. Democrat,
Toy Justice OF the Municipal Court, Sixth
district.