The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-09-05
ASSEMBLY FUSION
ALMOST A FAILURE
Republicans and ProgrcSsivcS
Get Together in Only Six
City Districts.
APART ON ALDERMEN TOO

The passage Of the $4,000, 600 dlrcc,
tax bill by the Republican Legislature
has resulted In virtual failure Of tina
Republican organization In this county
to effect fusion with the Prorrcsslvcs on
Assembly IND Aldcrmanic candidates
In only six OF the thirty-one districts
have the two parties Joined forces
Not long after the tax was levied the
Progressive executive committee adopted
a resolution bidding the district leaders
TO avoid fusion except In special cases
for which permission had to be obtained
from the committee. The resolution
said that the Republicans had forfeited
claim to Progressive support. The Head.
ers generally have obeyed this iulunc.
ton.
The fusion districts are the Eighth.
Nineteenth, Twcnty-second. Twenty.
fourth, Twenty-sixth and Thirty.nrs'
In the Twenty-fourth and Thirty-hrst
the Progressives have endorsed RapublI.
Fan candidates for the Assembly and
the Republicans have accepted Progress.
sive candidates for Aldermen. In the
four other districts the arrangement il
reversed. Thanks to combination, Leo
Wolfsohn, Progressive leader In the
Eighth district. viii run for the As.
sembly. and the Republican leader. Louis
Jacobs. will stand for reelection as Al.
derman, each with the others party
O. X.
Similarly william D.. Brush. Repub-
lican leader in the Nineteenth district.
will have Progressive support in his
effort TO be reelected az Alderman. and
James Walsh. Progressive has Repnb.
lican backing for the Assembly. This
Is normally a Republican district, but
the Progressives and q. q. l.. being
divided last ear. Patrick Cotter. Demo
crat, went to the Assembly.
Three OF the eight Republican As
semblymen are out Of the running FOR
reelection. one of them, Francis r.
%Stoddard, Jr., Of the TNenty-hth dis
t'tct. has been made Deputy SuperIn-
tendent OF Insurance. As a candidate
for the Assembly in his place the OF.
ganization will designate Robert G.. Nc.
Marsh, president OF the Young Repub-
llcan Club. In another Republican dis
trict." the Twenty-seventh. Hoffman
Nickersun has been designated In ,he
place OF Charles +. Rice. Jr.. who Will
give his whole time to privlte bus
ness. Assemblyman Howard Corki.r
OF the Twenty-ninth, is kept out o.
politics by W health. In his stead 81.
fred u. Bell Will be nominated 10y t.-
Republicans.
The i've Republican AssomU.yr
who will try 10 ret back to Albany
Nathan u. Per.m1n Of tie Si\rh .
trict. Abram EllcnbuGen. Fr'rr'.r
Martin Bourkc, Seventeenth Harold
Mitchell, Tweuty-Grst, ard NIro'
T%elnhorr. Thirty-nrst There n
pna Ib.trrasatya ...rtNt'sfra fY.H. -
York county. Joseph S'ciuhcrs OF ,
TNeuty-siNth district, whom the r..
llcIus have iudors,d
As ia the Ali'rnr.. New York ,r'0'
has fourteen Republicans an' 60. g.
one not standing for rec. t.N a-
ORGANIZATION caua ,t,, D.tr.r
Srnmel2"i Of tn, T~,uiy.sn,,r,
Against the wishes uf Joseph ". 81,
Ger, leader Of tac district, he 80. pu;
the BOARD of Aldermen a few nu
when Spencer became "a ;-t.
tax appraiser Now jae or1nH a,' .
candidate for ScNme,zc.s post U.s. I...
Card<ni, 4 caterer.
In ,-'cral districts whore bls o.. IS
not been patched up RyuuAl can 90. -
dates for the Assembly and ;hc Hpt..
Aldermen viii enter the ProgIt.s.,.
mary As well az their own, hop.r. 4,
capture both nominations. In the ~.E'.
district Suffers American party h. say,
posed to be strong and an attempt o.
get that, AZ well as the Ronuh'icl. I.
Progressive nominations, vii! De w. 200
by ~Assemhlyman pcr!mau ana Alu .
mar Frank potzler.
An Republican designating petitions
will be filed with the Board OF Elr.',.s
by tomorrow night. The time limit -
Tuesday nizht.