New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-09-20
Bacon Is Beaten by
1,2O0 I'm Senate
rial Race.
BENNETT BURIED
BY LANDSLIDE
McCOmbs Has Easy Time
Defeating His Demo
cratic Rival.

The victor in the contest for the
Republican nomination for Unitcl
States Senator in the statewide prl
mary remained in doubt at 2:30
o'clock this morning. At that hour
with 4.l24 districts heard from out
of total of 5.719 in the state. Will
lam VI. Calder was leading Robert
Bacon by about l,200. The figures
were: Calder. l09. 9.55l; Bacon, l0S.-
364.
Early this morning incomplete
returns indicated that Governor
Whitman would capture the Progress
sive nomination. but with close
margin. He was running about 3,l00
ahead Of eX-Judge Seabury in New
York City, and very close second
in the upstate count II looked as If
his city majority might pull him
through.
Outside Of the city, 76l election
districts out of 3,640 gave Seabury
l,545 and Whitman l,i59. With re-
turns from 1910 election districts
out of 2,079 in the city the Governor
had 5.O3l and his opponent 2,5iO.
McCombs Gains Big LesS.
William +. McCombs. the Demo
cratic candidate for United States
Senator. maintained an extravagant
lead over his opponent. Thomas f.
Conway, in the city. In 1880 of the
2.079 election districts in this city he
had 46.511 and Conway 1880. This
would indicate . majority in greater
New York OF about 36.2OO
Governor Whitman had a majority
Of 200 in 3.l92 election districts out
Of the total Of 5.7l9. The vote at that
time stood: Whitman, 1855, Sea
bury, 5.63S.
The Whitman vote against Senator
William ". Bennett buried the aspir-
ing legislator 70 suifocatIng depth.
Upstate. where the Bennett strength
was considered strongest, tho vote
against the Senator stood about siX
to one.
Controller Eugene NJ. Travis romped
in with big majority over James +.
Hooker, Of Schenectady. who opposed
him on the issue Of the Travis neglect
in making an accounting for the Whit
man and other state official trips 70 the
Panama Pacific Exposition Outside the
city the later returns indicated that
Travis led by about three and half
votes TO one.
Caldcr-Baco Fight Interests.
The Bacon Calder hight eclpsed the
V Whitman-Seabury struggle m the Bull
Moose primaries IN intc.es. 10 the poll
t:cians throughout the ctate. The indi-
cations that Bacon had fair lead on
the homestretch Of the returns gave
the leaders a jolt, particularly the close
crganiZatiOn men. The were all ex-
ttemely confident that Caldd', with the
organization back of him. would brush
his opponent aside without much cere-
mony. In most of the counties where
the bosses ae not much in evidence
Mr. Bacon topped his rival with large
msjorities.
The exception in that situation came
in Albany County, where William
Barnes, ax-state chairman, took off his
coat for Bacon and counted votes to
the tune Of about ten TO one against
the Brooklyn man. While Barnes has
not been much in evidence as a real
boss in the last year or two, he clear
ly showed his power IN his home dis
trict By the Bacon vote. Governor
Whitman and all the other candidates
on the Republican state ticket ran con
siderably behind Mr.. Bacon there. The
Barnes forces had evidently centred
their attention on the Senatorial scrap.
Mr.. Bacon made an exceptionally
good showing in many other upstate
counties, notably in Rockland. Cort-
land. Delaware, Nassau. Columbia,
Livingston, Chenango, Schenectady.
Saratoga. Greene, 0tsego. Yates and
Washington.
George W. Aldrich, IN Monroe Coua-
~, did almost as we'll for Mr.. Calder
as Barnes did for Bacon in Albany
County. Calder polled a vote in the
Aldrich county of about five TO one
against his opponent.
Returns from 1850 election districts
outside OF New York gave McCombs
majority of 10000.
The Republican vote for Governor
Whitman in this city indicated that he
would lead Bennett by about 10000.
Eight hundred and sixty election dis
tricts out of the 2,07s. gave Whitman
2i.O03 and Bennett 4,0s6. Bennett re-
ceived a much larger proportion OF
votes in some Of the upstate counties
where a strong anti-Whitman senti-
mcnt had developed, but the gain over
the Governor made no material show
ing.
Three hours after the polls closed
the returns from all over the state
indicated that the old line parties had
poled an unusually large primary vote.
while the Progressive vote would fall