The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1916-03-16
PRIMARY FIGHTS IN
SEVERAL DISTRICTS
More Contests for County
committees in Manhat-
tan and Kings.
EACH PARTY HAS TROl BILE

This is not a season for intraparty
primary scraps. according to the des'x-
nation returns posted yesterday for pub
lie inspection In the Board OF Elections
The number OF contests is comparatively
small, although there are to he seVera'
fights: for membership in the county
committees for which the basis is the
election district. April 4 Is pr'marE
day.
throughout Manhattan and The Bronx
there are only three contests as d'str'''
delegate to a national convention. each
Of the three major parties having one
! contest. Ezra y. Prentice. former cnalr-
man Of the Republican state committee
has filed a petition for one OF the places
to which the organization designated
otto r. Barnard and Herbert Parsons
IN the Fourteenth district.
John r. Calvin and Samuel Marx, the
| organization Democratic candidates Tor
delegates from the Nineteenth Congress
district. will be opposed by Robert r..
| Wagner and Charles H.. ALEXANDER
Charles W. Fetheroff will contest Tor one
Oh the places III ZIG tWNhNs
rress district. where George W. Per-
| kirs and william j. Willard have been
designated by the Bull Moose.
There are two contests in Manhattan
for membership In the Democratic state
committee. Harry PER-! is opposing
| Patrick ~. Sullivan In the Third Assem-
I bly, district and Solomon Goldenkranz
and Joseph Frooks have filed pe'ltiohs
In the Tenth Assembly district.
Tl.ra ~ siy contrasts Tor state COM
| mitteemen among Manhattan Republic
cans. Frank VI. Callahan is opposing
James T.. March, Sr.. IN the Third As
s.mbly district. Henry c. Clarke - y
candidate against Albert kats, organ
ization candidate IN the FIfth. In the
Eighth the contestants are Herman q
Kabinowitz and Louis jacobson. In the
Seventeenth Daniel NJ Bedell IL oppos-
ing William NJ. X. Olcott. who was
chosen az the successor OF tn" late
Abra ham Gruber. In the Twenty-siNth
the opponents are Samuel krul"wltch
and Morris Tolmach and ~ the Th!itI
third they are Alfred II. Simonds and
julius +. Fiegel
In tn. Third Assembly district. Man
haitian. there are TWO sets of candidates
both IN the Democratic and Repub-
lean parties. In the Fifth there are
contests ia all twenty-three districts and
in tn. Fifteenth Election district there
are three Democratic candidate. There
are Republican contests in the EIghth,
Twenty-siXti and Thirtieth Assembly
districts ami Democratic contests In the
seventeenth. Thirtieth and Thirty sec
ond Assembly districts All the>. con
,es,e are for Memberships IA III" Ne"
York count committees
There will be four Republican ana
seven Democratic contests for district
leaiershin I'm HrOpklNu.
The Republican fights are IN the First
Fourth. Fifth and Twcnty-thira Assem-
hly districts. la the First district th'
chief fight is between col VI y Dad
tn. veteran leader. and A Nj Waite 10
a place on tn" d"l-ettiun I" 90" national
convention iium TN" seventh toit-Ic-'
district.
In the Fourth there j. a hot contest
between \. 7. Hohley and j :, ';aNnoi
I for State conNnitl."mau and di>tfIc
leader. and a similar contest iu the Fra
district etw-e o,eorsc Marshall au'
T. d. L.inehurgh.
? H. the Twenty -,uild district y l.
t Haskell and IL i.Nu>'-r dIe ,"uteudin.
+, for ,he place or the state committee.
F.! The Democrat, contests are in IN,
: second. SiNth. Eleventh. Thirtesutl. tif
. tcenth. sixteenth and T~wrpt!-third A.
, sembly districts.
n There j. oult one i-hf in the Pro
grsssiy. fuld-iha' hetwseU l.. e. Mo-
$ seugcr and Siesmuud j Traiaui IA ,h
TW.utN-SeCuud district.